November 2009
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Star Wars Original Trilogy on You Tube →
Motorola have to pay for the use of the word “Droids” to Lucas Films for their new Android phone when someone else can publish all the original Star Wars trilogy on YouTube without any problem.
I don’t understand how someone can go without any copy infringement for more than a year, but the pleasure is mine to know I can have some good souvenir watching Darth Vader strangles...
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Keep Your OS X Menu Bar Nice And Clean
After reading how Amit likes to keep his OS X Menubar clean of the things that doesn’t provided him value, I’ve decided to do the exercise on my own:
I removed all the native Mac OS X menu bar items I didn’t want their by selecting them (holding the Command key) and dropping them away.
I also placed the icons in the order I want by holding the Command key and move them...
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How I Hire (Programmers) →
Aaron Swartz:
“There are three questions you have when you’re hiring a programmer (or anyone, for that matter): Are they smart? Can they get stuff done? Can you work with them? Someone who’s smart but doesn’t get stuff done should be your friend, not your employee. You can talk your problems over with them while they procrastinate on their actual job. Someone who gets stuff done but isn’t smart...
“Elle: Vous dormez souvent comme ça à la belle étoile?
Lui: Ça dépend de...”
– Gérard Lanvin en parlant d’elle dans Erreur de la banque en votre faveur.
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“The message is not the product, the product is the message.”
– Please learn from this.
After Effects Tutorials & Post Production Tools →
Video Copilot has close to 100 video tutorials to learn tips and tricks in Adobe After Effects.
Andrew Kramer really makes it easier to enter into the VFX world.
(thx Mart)
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“If work was stressless they wouldn’t have to pay you to keep showing up.”
– From The Old Man - A Guide to Living
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Basecamp and Email Notifications →
As much as I like 37Signals and their webapps, I cannot stand Basecamp for a single reason: the lack of an easy way to manage your project email notifications.
In order to stop being spam by the system, you need:
to advise all participants in the project to stop notify you, or
individually go into each messages removing yourself from the thread of notifications, or
change your email address...
Flesh of Your Flesh →
Should you eat meat?
No, this is not what you think. Read it!
(via Instapaper)
Queue
JiPé: Fred? Tu as lu cet article?
Fred: *Qui semble même pas avoir rien entendu* ;-x
JiPé: Criss, Fred y'é débile... Il entend absolument rien!
Step: Non, mais tu es dans le queue.
Sucker!
JiPé: Yé tu encore la?
Steph: Non je pense pas, il est retrouné aux études
JiPé: En quoi? En études médiévales?
Steph: Non, en comment moins sucker.
Flesh of Your Flesh →
Should you eat meat?
No, this is not what you think. Read it!
(via Instapaper)
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Adobe Pre-Release of Flash Player 10.1 →
Is it possible that Adobe have fixed the lagging problem in video playback with the pre-release of Adobe Flash 10.1?
I took the same Office clip I’d been using for all of the other tests and ran it on my Mac Pro at full screen (2560 x 1600). Using Activity Monitor I looked at the CPU utilization of the Flash Player plug-in. I compared both versions of Flash and saw a significant drop in...
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WatchBattle For Hearts And Minds - A documentary on the war in Afghanistan
Independent filmmaker Danfung Dennis was embedded with Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Company, as they were dropped 18 km behind enemy lines to seize a key bridge. Within a few hours of landing, fierce fighting erupted and continued for the next three days, during which Lance Corporal Charles Sharp, from...
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Steve Jobs, CEO of The Decade →
The past decade in business belongs to Jobs. What makes that simple statement even more remarkable is that barely a year ago it seemed likely that any review of his accomplishments would be valedictory. But by deeds and accounts, Jobs is back.
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In all instances, and many more like them, these entrepreneurs turned captains of industry defined a single market that had previously not been...
About Change and Adventure
Marie-Eve:
Mike and I have been toying with the idea of making some sort of big life change for a while now. I think it dawned on us that we had this amazing freedom that we might not have in a few years.
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We’ve been fortunate to spend the last 3 years working for some amazing people who have supported us and taught us more than we could have ever dreamed but we both felt like it...
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WatchOnitsuka Tiger Consumer Website
I just heard today that we have won a gold Digital Marketing Award for Onitsuka Tiger in the category best consumer site.
I’m very happy of the outcome. It is always great when someone else, as prestigious as the DMA, recognize your good work (specially when more than a thousand pieces have been submitted).
A small team of 6 worked at conceiving, creating,...
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How Mr. Q Manufactured Emotion →
“The last thing I would have guessed was that this wrinkly 81-year-old played an instrumental role in the development of the modern theme park. Mr. Q was Disney’s audio experience engineer, and he designed the original ambient music system for Disney World in 1968. We started discussing his career, and I was struck by the intense passion he still has for his former occupation. He felt it necessary...
The Power of Irrational →
“Mark Kandarski is terrified. Sweat is dripping down his face. Both of his hands are clenched tightly to the arm rests. If I didn’t know better, I’d think he was having a heart attack. As the airplane’s engines slowly rev up, his hands turn white. The plane takes off. A few minutes later, he looks over at me. I smile slightly. “I kind of hate flying,” he says.”
A good post by Dustin...
Instapaper Updates
Instapaper:
Modified the container-selection algorithm to increase accuracy, especially to reduce the chances of stripping legitimate content. A bit more extraneous content may now be permitted on certain sites. Still optimizing.
Fixed minor bugs.
Added multipage detection to more popular sites.
Fixed character-encoding issue that would show up as missing apostrophes or dashes on pages such...
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Dear Every Site That Paginates Articles
marco:
I’m sure you split stories like this into two pages for a good reason: to save my bandwidth. After all, the remaining 3,126 characters of the story’s body (1,530 bytes as transferred with gzip compression) would have increased the page’s total size by 0.32%.
No, I’m just yanking your chain. I know you’re double-charging your advertisers for the same story by artificially inflating your...
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Alexi Murdoch - All My Days
I just finish...
“Still fumbling toward extasy”
– Our company next year goal.