February 2008
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Share Option on iPhone
So I got a couple emails the other day from friends asking me how our mini-vacation went in LA over this past weekend and to me there was no better way to answer that than to show them with the photos I took.
For the most part, I answer and manage my emails through the iPhone and today when I was trying to email the link for my Flickr page, I noticed that ever since I upgraded to 1.1.3...
January 2008
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A blonde woman walks into her local dry cleaners to drop off a sweater. The worker is partially deaf:
Woman: hi, I'm dropping this off.
Worker: I'm sorry, come again.
Woman: no, it's mustard this time.
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Back From Los Angeles
So we got back on Monday morning from Los Angeles after a much needed getaway and it was great visiting a good friend we made back in Paris and we thank him for his welcoming hospitality. Well it goes really without saying, but it’s definately true; you have to go at least once. The city is so much a part of American culture, and yet it is so unique among other American cities.
It is...
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Why I Left Apple. →
Jens Alfke has a very bold and interesting post expressing why he decided to “go indie” and leave Apple.
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On Cloverfield
While in LA, we had some free time to spare before heading out to Magnolia’s for dinner with Paul so we went into Mann’s theatre on Hollywood Blvd to give Cloverfield a whirl and to see what the whole fuss was about.
Let me just say this. Not that I wish for anything like that to happen but I’ve always been fascinated by movies that deal with something inexplicable taking over...
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“Sometimes it’s not who you know but who you blow.”
– Paul on making it in Hollywood
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Greetings from LA
Customary travel initiations this morning to LA were very seamless. I enjoy the fact that you’re no longer confine to waiting on line to check-in and be handed your boarding pass. Self-service by a swipe of your passport is certainly the way to go and relieve the headache. But then again they get back at you in the plane by charging you for food and even the headphones.
To kick off travel...
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Free Tool to Create Custom Webclip Icons →
Ever since Apple released the ability for iPhone users to create their own custom webclip icons, there’s been a slew of helpful resources to get this accomplish even easier. It’s great and interesting to see how close together the Apple community becomes when something like this was much desired as soon as it was announced. WebClipMe also has various icons to choose from.
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“The best thing that Bush and Cheney have ever done for us is to put their party...”
– Barack Obama, Democratic Debate
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3D Face scan with Looxis →
The 3D Facescan is the revolution in photography. Your face is scanned in 3D and then lasered into a high quality glass cube three dimensionally. I came across the product at Queens Center Mall and you can get a better idea of the work here.
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Obsession with Moleskines
My girlfriend would be the first too tell you that whenever we decide to visit our neighborly Borders, I have this keen obsession of working my way from the front of the store, perusing through all the latest book releases, to ultimately finding my way to the journal section and staring endlessly at the array of Moleskine notebooks.
So you’re probably thinking what’s the big deal...
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Soldiers in Uniform
There’s been something on my mind for the past couple of weeks and I’ve failed to make mention about it because of the risk of coming across as a**hole but what the heck.
I’m sure you’ve come across them every now and then and you might have asked yourself the same question too but why is it that we see soldiers who have been fighting abroad for our country, walking...
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“In this white man’s world, I’m similar to a squirrel
Lookin for a...”
– Patiently Waiting, 50 Cent
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It's a MacBook with AT&T wireless built in →
It’s Apple’s much awaited MacWorld today and all faithful Apple fanatics are looking forward to our CEO deliver yet again some more great new pertaining to my personal favorite brand. Wi-fi does suck every now and the but how awesome would it be if we can connect through AT&T.
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The Photographer’s Right →
A downloadable flyer explaining your rights when stopped or confronted for photography. Never really happen to me yet, but it’s some great information to be aware of. I care this very PDF version with me on my iPhone.
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Dahon Bike
Living in New York is relatively expensive and on top of the that the real estate that you pay for may or may not be small depending on your location but one thing is for sure. The closer you live to the city, the more hectic it is to get around in such confine areas. For that reason, the next best thing to do is to get yourself one of these amazing Dahon bikes, which will guarantee on making...
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Texting is the New Hey
I don’t think anyone is predicting the death of e-mails anytime soon but this means of communication has become most associated with school or work. Nowadays we’ve all resorted to a more simplistic version of an e-mail which I consider to be instant and text messaging and to the chatter generated in blogs and even a service that I’ve grown addicted to, Twitter.
Some...
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WatchBack in November, my girlfriend and I had a chance to attend a Walking with Dinosaurs show in New Jersey. I shot a couple videos but didn’t get around to compose a small glimpse of what we experience. Enjoy!
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“The difference between a job and a wife is that after 10 years, the job still...”
– Mel Gibson, What Women Want
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“A boss is like a diaper, they’re always on your ass and full of sh*t.”
– Funny street sign seen at Union Square
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Flickr Export for Adobe Lightroom →
If you’re a photography and Adobe Lightroom fanatic as much as I am, you’ll be excited to know that there’s been a plug-in released that allows you to export your photos directly from within Lightroom. Enjoy!
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Chronicles of Narnia
The Chronicles of Narnia-The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is an excellent movie. Great acting and wonderful production. Perhaps one of the coolest things about the film are some of the effects, and more specifically, the way the creatures are used. This isn’t like Lord of The Rings where you got some elves and orcs - you generally have a mix of hundreds of creatures and animals in...
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Unmasking D.B. Cooper →
D. B. Cooper (aka “Dan Cooper”) is a pseudonym of a aircraft hijacker who, on November 24, 1971, after receiving a ransom payout of US$200,000,[1] jumped from the back of a Boeing 727 as it was flying over the Pacific Northwest of the United States somewhere over the Cascade Mountains, possibly over Woodland, Washington.[
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Angels & Demons
Aside from the turisitic aspect of the trip, one of the main reason why I was so eager to visit Paris was because of The Da Vinci Code book. The sheer mystery and excitement of visiting all these well known locations that were mentioned in the book boost my anticipation.
And now I’m currently really engaged in Angels & Demons which ironically enough is the prequel to The Da Vinci Code.
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100 things we didn't know last year →
The most interesting and unexpected facts can emerge from the daily news stories and the Magazine documents some of them in its weekly feature, 10 things we didn’t know last week. To kick off 2008, here are some of the best of last year.
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6 gadgets I can't live without
1. The iPhone: Absolutely aesthetically pleasing to look and so simple to use. Nothing compares to it regardless of what all those Blackberry users say.
2. Digital camera: For common use, I have with me in the car a Canon A80 and when I want to engage into true photographic mode, I whip out the Nikon D80.
3. Bose Noise-canceling headphones: whether it’s music or a movie that you want to...
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Some Fiction
Not many people know this but in addition to being a graphic designer, I like to think I have an alter ego as a writer. Nothing that I necessarily brag about because to me it’s nothing special but there’s something cathartic about it. Below is a piece from a short story that we had to compose in a creative writing class in college.
The body rested in a fine mahogany coffin fitted...