March 2008
102 posts
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Film Review > Into The Wild
People who know me will recognise me when I say that I’m a passionated person (for the others at least I unveiled one of the six mysteries behind my tumbleblog name). Generally, I like or don’t and I don’t restraint myself to say it. I don’t play so much in that grey zone…
But when it’s about film, everything is a bit more made of shades of grey. This is...
February 2008
69 posts
Drop.io: Simple Private Exchange →
kopanas:Easy way to send people up to 100MB files for free.
Something that you are not
Experiments are experiences designed to test theories. When we intentionally expose ourselves to new experiences we assume that something will happen, some change will occur. The dream of change is the reward that drives us to repeat the same experiences even when they don’t deliver the expected results. Marketing sells you the promise and the illusion of change. Marketing is pure entertainment. ...
“If you think you’re too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a room with...”
– A great quote about size - (37signals)
“From a friend by email:
Hi guys!
I need ur help! I am trying to get a real XP...”
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New Google Sites: Build Your Own One-Click Wiki →
Google Unveils Tools to Set Up Web Sites With only a few clicks, just about anyone will be able to quickly set up and update a Web site featuring wide an array of material, including pictures, calendars and video from Google Inc.’s YouTube subsidiary, said Dave Girouard, general manager of the division overseeing the new application. “We are literally adding an edit button to the...
The 37 Signals story in Wired Magazine →
The Brash Boys at 37signals Will Tell You: Keep It Simple, Stupid.Basecamp, 37signals’ Rails-powered, easy-to-use online collaboration software, boasts more than 2 million account holders. Signal vs. Noise, the 37signals blog, pulls in 75,000 readers a day. Hansson and 37signals cofounder Jason Fried are “revered,” says business author Seth Godin. “They are as close as we...
The Four-Winged Dinosaur and the Origin of Flight
Tonight I watched The Four-Winged Dinosaur on PBS NOVA. Each time I have the chance to watch NOVA, it’s like watching a mystery movie. It’s so interesting that I cannot stop watching it until the end. Even my girlfriend, got caught and watched it, missing her favorite weekly show. Starting from February 27, the Four-Winged Dinosaur will be available to watch online. —— I...
Les Dieux voulaient cacher le bonheur aux Hommes...
Dieu1: Cachons-le en haut de la plus haute montagne.
Dieux: Ah non, les Hommes grimperont et ils finiront par le trouver
Dieu2: Alors, au fond de la mer, tout au fond, avec les poissons!
Dieux: Non, les Hommes plongeront, nageront et ils le trouveront, là aussi
Dieu3: Alors mettons-le sous terre !
Dieux: Bof, les Hommes creuseront et le trouveront aussi....
Dieu4: Mettons-le en eux, c'est le seul endroit où ils ne penseront jamais à regarder.
Apple New MacBook and MacBook Pro →
They are out and more powerful than ever. With the Multitouch MacBook Air Touch Pad for sure… As planned.
WatchHow To Give CPR Having some problems concentrating while learning something? Having some problems being motivated to learn something? Then try the French Maids How To’s Tutorial Videos. It goes from How to register a domain name to How to find music. Have fun pervert students… ;)
IKEA Complete Bedroom →
You probably remember the site “Matrix” Ikea Dream Kitchen, here’s the one for the Ikea Complete Bedroom. Change the camera angle while the movie continues to play. AWESOME! Via Etienne Brunet
WatchEveryday Normal Guy Rap - Hilarious! Montreal comedian Jonathan Lajoie (aka Jon Lajoie) has made more than 20 funny videos. He’s definitely hilarious. Check all his videos on Funny or Die.com. Don’t miss Everyday Normal Guy 2, the Being Gay Commercial and Pointless Profanity 1 and 2. Via mon chum Etienne Brunet
“Happiness is not the shallow state of feeling pleased and chipper all the time....”
– The Happiness Hypothesis - Jonathan Haidt
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Man dies in cake-eating contest →
Eat desserts, life is short…
WatchDecoy And Roy - Inner Life trance I don’t why, but I cannot stop myself listening to this trance track over and over. The video clip is ultra cheesy, so it’s probably better to listen to it through Songza, the best music search engine ever created.
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Add FeedBurner to Tumblr →
You have all the reason to add FeedBurner to your tumbleblog. First to track the stats on your RSS readers, but also to better promote, obtimize and even monetize (via AdSense) your RSS Feed.
To replace your current Tumblr RSS feed by a FeedBurner RSS feed follow the steps below:
Just get the your original RSS feed URI from your tumbleblog. It can be accessed at yoursite.tumblr.com/rss.
Open or...
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Add comments to Tumblr →
Simply create an account with DisqUs, add the two pieces of code in your Tumblr custom theme (simply enable custom HTML under the Theme tab) and your are good to go.
To access your Theme, just go under Preferences in your Dashboard and click customize your tumbleblog.
DisqUs let anonymous users comment on your site. Something not common to all similar services.
Now, don’t be shy and...
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles →
I’m watching the show for about six weeks now and I must say that I’m kind of impressed by the quality of the show. When I heard about it first I was sure it will be VERY cheesy, but the screenwriters did a good job at respecting the spirit of the movies and novels. At the end of “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” Sarah vanquished the Terminator sent from the future to kill her...
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UX > Nike Jordan Shoes Gallery in PaperVision →
Nicely done. As one of my collegue said, probably the slickest thing done in Flash PaperVision 3D since a while.
The mouse gestures to move around the 3D gallery add to the user-experience. (Don’t forget to desable your Mouse Gestures Firefox Add-on if you have one before using the site).
Sony officially won the war today over the Toshiba... →
Too bad for the ones who falled for the recent HD DVD players price drop.
Memory upgrade on iPod Shuffle, iPod Touch and... →
The iPhone is now available in 8 and 16GB, the iPod Touch in 8GB, 16GB and 32GB and surprisingly the Shuffle in 1GB and now in 2GB. I must say that I have the iPod Shuffle 1GB and the iPod Touch 8 GB. After having used the iPod Touch for a couple of months I went back to the Shuffle. I simply love it. Nothing can beat its size, weight and ease of use (the control being always a digit away).
TV Schedule reinvented →
Very nice user-experience interface that re-new the way we are looking at a tv schedule. Thanks to the jester John Kopanas for the link.
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What Iraq will cost the U.S.? →
I read this very interesting article in the Fortune magazine of last month by the ex-White House economist Lawrence Lindsey on the cost of war in Iraq. I’m against the war, specially because I stongly don’t think the real purpose of Bush administration is to eradicate terrorism, but Lindseay bring an interesting perspective, the question we rarely ask, what was the cost of the...
TwitterFeed.com - Feed your blog and RSS to... →
Last week a friend of mine asked me if I had a Twitter account. I told him yes, but I was not seeing the need to use it unless there was a way to publish my RSS feed to Twitter. So here it comes, the service is call TwitterFeed. You simply need an Open ID (you can now used your Yahoo ID) to open an account, enter the RSS feeds you wish to publish to Twitter and set the frequences of update. Go...
Close or Open Advertising Network →
Very interesting article from Read Write Web on the Close and Open Advertising Network models under the Microsoft-Yahoo possible acquisition.
iShowU - A better alternative to Ambrosia Snapz... →
Yesterday I was looking for a good video capture software for Max OS X. I used for the last year the clumsy, memory and CPU intensive Snapz Pro. I really got tired of it and decide to look for something else. I found in iShowU a versatile, easy to use, not memory and CPU intensive and best of all, with no encoding time necessary - soon as you have finished your video recording, the video is...
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Improve your Firefox Search and Browsing...
Long time ago, at least it sound like it in our Internet Age, I was using Maxthon (also known as MyIE2), a freeware web browser based on Internet Explorer. That browser was amazing, not only because it adds tabs to the current Internet Explorer 5, but also because everything was thought to improve your browsing experience.
It took me a long time before switching to Firefox, at least until all the...
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Free 2 GB Automatic Invisible Online Backup... →
Everybody backup (at least I hope for you that you do). We do it on DVD, on external hard drives and we wish everthing goes well for a eternity. But did you ever wonder if your house went into fire and you loose mostly everything, specially all your souvenirs: photos, documents, etc.
This is why online backup services are so appealing.
I specially like the new feature of SpiderOak, this new...
“[This book] isn’t intended to be a comprehensive guide to quilting, and I...”
– Change the word quilting or quilt with your favorite discipline or something you wish to try and this piece of advice is good for mostly everything. The important thing - (37signals) I like it!
Facebook in Spanish →
How to really turn the power of your users to work for you. By 1500 users in only 4 week,s an entire site big as Facebook has been translated in Spanish free of charge.
Companies Change, So Do their Logos →
Great logos antology.
