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Free Expo Hall Pass to Macworld Conference & Expo 2009

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The Moscone Cen­ter, San Fran­cisco, CA
Jan­u­ary 5–9, 2009 (Expo: Jan­u­ary 6–9, 2009)
macworldexpo.com

Whether it’s a pro­fes­sion or a hobby, Mac­world is the place to learn the lat­est edit­ing, print­ing and shar­ing tech­niques for dig­i­tal pho­tog­ra­phy and shoot­ing video. Sev­eral ses­sions are spread through­out our con­fer­ence pro­grams, high­light­ing the lat­est edit­ing tech­niques. Whether you are a begin­ner or advanced, the Cre­ative Safari con­fer­ence pro­gram offers a hands-on approach to mas­ter­ing your pho­tog­ra­phy and video mak­ing skills. Vis­it­ing the expo floor you can even learn from sea­soned pho­tog­ra­phers in the Dig­i­tal Pho­tog­ra­phy Experience.

Spe­cial Offer
Reg­is­ter using pri­or­ity code MKA31884 before Sep­tem­ber 26, 2008 and receive a FREE Expo Hall Pass.

Do Work Son! — Motivational iPhone Wallpapers

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One day, I just woke up feel­ing tired. I recall that it was in the mid­dle of the week—Wednesday, aka. Hump Day. I had to force myself just to go out of the house for work. I was so close to call in sick; call it a day, and just rest it out in bed. But alas, a luke­warm shower helped me enough to get myself to go to the City and work.

As the day pro­gressed and reached the early evening, I remem­bered that there was so much stuff I need to get done after work. One of them was to pro­ceed w/ Hal Higdon’s train­ing and SET class @ 24. Feel­ing so damn lazy and tired, I mus­tered enough deter­mi­na­tion to get myself to go over that 50/50 mark. I was stuck at the mid­way point for a while and was lean­ing to just not go; and instead, chill at home.

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Urban Outfitters — LSTN #1

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Urban Out­fit­ters presents 21 free, down­load­able tracks. The artists/songs con­sists of the following:

  1. Throw Me The Statue / Lolita
  2. Black Kids / I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You
  3. Archi­tec­ture In Helsinki / Like It Or Not (Ver­sion 2)
  4. Miles Ben­jamin Anthony Robin­son / Woodfriend
  5. Bro­ken Social Scene Presents Bren­dan Can­ning / Hit The Wall
  6. War On Drugs / Tak­ing The Farm
  7. Blitzen Trap­per / Furr
  8. The Dodos / Red And Purple
  9. Dr. Dog / The Old Days
  10. Los Campesinos! / Death To Los Campesinos!
  11. Annu­als / Sore
  12. Son Ambu­lance / Horizons
  13. Music Go Music / Light Of Love
  14. The Explor­ers Club / Do You Love Me?
  15. The Walk­men / The Blue Route
  16. Albert Ham­mond, Jr. / GfC
  17. Lykke Li / Lit­tle Bit
  18. The Notwist / Boneless
  19. The Dutchess And The Duke / Reser­voir Park
  20. King Khan & The Shrines / Outta Harms Way
  21. Chad Van­Gaalen / Wil­low Tree

You may lis­ten to each track indi­vid­u­ally by going to this page, or click here to down­load all 21 tracks.

Enjoy.

Cannon Challenge — An Addictive iPhone Game App

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This thing is addic­tive. Dis­cov­ery Chan­nel orig­i­nally had this game devel­oped to help mar­ket and drive traf­fic to its Future Weapons show.1 It was then ported over to the iPhone just a cou­ple of days ago.

I myself down­loaded it right before tak­ing the bus home from work. I usu­ally take a nap on the short-ride home but I just couldn’t put this down. I would def­i­nitely rec­om­mend this game as its free from the App Store. Here’s the direct link to the Can­non Challenge’s App Store prod­uct page.2

The only down­side to the game was prob­a­bly its easy learn­ing curve (lit­er­ally). I fin­ished it in less than an hour…

I’ll see if I can post up some tip(s)/screenshots of my strat­egy and tech­nique later =)

  1. You may see the web-based ver­sion here. [↩]
  2. This will open up iTunes. [↩]

Web 2.0 and the Super Bowl

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Oh the things you find while Blingo–ing. Since it’s that time of year again for the Super Bowl, with it comes: the backyard-BBQ par­ties, the trash-talking between teams, the millions-of-dollars-worth of bets, funny & cre­ative com­mer­cials and last but not least, the office Super Bowl Pool. A cou­ple of friends and I have been doing this for the past cou­ple of years now. Too bad, no one wanted to do it this year. Don’t know why?

Mean­while, hav­ing the feel­ing of just try­ing to get into the spirit of the Super Bowl (even though the teams weren’t my pick from the start of the sea­son), I asked around MA to see if we are doing one this year. Turns out there wasn’t even one for last year’s. So, I just vol­un­teered not remem­ber­ing how John-John facil­i­tated it.

Any­ways, with a call to J2 and some Blingo-ing, I found some tem­plates. The best one I found was through:

Num Sum. Easy, Sharable Web Spread­sheets. Keep your records, lists and spread­sheets in one place online. Eas­ily slice, dice and share with others.

It’s FREE. You have the abil­ity to share with friends and fam­ily that don’t even have an account but with they just won’t be able to update the sheet directly and save it. You may also inter­act with a group or team, and share a sheet for col­lab­o­ra­tion. It’s a nice, FREE and great web app.

Other obser­va­tions that I found while study­ing and using Num Sum was it’s home­page lay­out. It strikes sim­plis­tic sim­i­lar­i­ties with the very-outstanding Base­camp in its early days. Why not, right? Why not fol­low some­thing that has done very well in performance.

So, after spend­ing some time to get every­one to join in on the fun, I man­aged to get a 10x10 (100 squares) Pool filled out . The pot is big—$500. It’s $5 per square and you get $75 for the First, Second/Half and the Third. Then a humon­gous sum of $275 for the Fourth/Final, no OT. I was get­ting wor­ried Wednes­day night (after send­ing the email on Mon­day morn­ing about the Pool), that only half of the Pool was taken. But alas, every­one came through to chip in for a cou­ple of squares and com­plete it eventually.

After hav­ing indi­vid­u­als pick from a som­brero (lit­er­ally, the one from Chevy’s), I got the fol­low­ing num­bers (Steelers/Seahawks): 5/1, 3/5, 5/4 and 4/7. The 5s might be hard to get but there is very great hope on the jewel “4/7″ combo: 14 & 7, 24 & 7 and 24 & 17 to name a few. I can’t wait. This should be a fun way for MA to do some­thing together. Good times.

Update
Here’s the com­plete Pool. Ain’t it col­or­ful? Damn skippy, it took a while try­ing to get the same background-color when some­one wanted to add a square. I hope Num Sum adds the fea­ture to do some kind of eye­drop­per tool to just pick the same color, font-style, size or what have you.

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