October 2011
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Dear AT&T (you suck)
Dear AT&T:
I haven’t been a fan of yours to say the least. Your DSL speeds are laughable, you phones drop calls and you continually spew marketing crap. But this isn’t about that.
Let me start by telling you a little bit about myself, as I am sure that in the 5 years I have been your customer you have learned nothing about me. I am 21 years old, and am no longer going to...
September 2011
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A Patent Story
Let’s say you decide to open a sandwich shop. You are afraid people will think that you stole your ideas from another sandwich shop, so you decide not to do any market research before starting.
You setup a standard sandwich shop, with an assembly line where the employees ask what kind of bread, meat, cheese etc. the customer wants on their sandwich and then makes their sandwich just in...
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iPhone predictions
These are my predictions for the iPhone
There will be another iPhone
It will be slightly thinner than the current iPhone
It will be faster than the current iPhone
It will have a camera, my sources indicate it will be better than the current one
It will have parts
I will buy it
August 2011
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Say everything you want to say
A cliche is the end and summation of a thought. The problem with a cliche is that people use them to try and pull others up to their level of understanding in order to show them the steps that got them there. Instead, you should use the steps to gently guide others to what you now understand fully.
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First day of not going back to school
A few months ago when I decided not to come back to school this semester, I told people that I was betting that I would be better off devoting myself to my career immediately rather than waiting 6 more years to complete a degree, but that only time would tell if I made the right decision. Sitting here in New York, working at a job I not only enjoy but also get paid well to do, I’m pretty...
July 2011
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Crazy people are from the future
Think with me for just a second
Back to 10 years ago
If you saw someone who talked to themselves
If they told you they had followers
You would think they were crazy
Today you might think differently
With all that has changed since then
You might assume they had bluetooth
And they would of course be referring to Twitter
You might even do this yourself
Crazy people are from the future
Thoughts on Lion
Mac OS Lion is scheduled to release this July and so I thought I might share some of my thoughts about the next operating system by Apple. I haven’t had the chance to use the beta yet, so this is coming from screenshots, videos, programming documents and a general sense of Apple’s style.
What is it?
Mac OS X Lion, or simply Lion, is the next version of the operating system for Macs. The...
June 2011
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Thursdays
I like Thursdays. Not that any day of the week is at all special in and of itself, or identical to any other day of any other week. After all, the days of the week are mostly arbitrary, chosen centuries upon centuries ago maybe only corresponding with natural work cycles by happenstance. I could just as easily have a 6 day week, where I worked 34.2857143 hours and not much would change.
But I...
May 2011
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Made my day
Today I went to deliver some equipment for work to the Siena and was having a little bit of trouble finding my way to the offices. I ran into a very kind cleaning lady, who, while she could barely understand english, could very clearly see that I was lost. Through broken english and a very big smile she guided me right to where I needed to go. She was so kind and so eager to help that she made my...
Face recognition
I am really bad at remembering people’s faces. When I meet someone new, I can remember their hair, their birthday and other minute details about them, but it’s all for not because the next time I see them I will have no way of tying them to all that information. I have even gone so far as to introduce myself to the same person within 1 hour. The result is that I tend to ignore people...
April 2011
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iTunes the juggernaut
iTunes has become a junk drawer for Apple. Things that would normally occupy 10 different pieces of software on the iPad are all thrown together into one big glob. My thoughts on how it should be broken up:
Model syncing off of the current photo syncing. You don’t have all your photo’s managed by iTunes. You either have them organized by iPhoto or sitting willy nilly in folders. iTunes doesn’t...
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Apps I use and some that I love
In order they appear on my iPhone, excluding Apple apps, my own apps, and apps I never use.
Calcbot - A complete and better replacement for the default calculator. If you have ever had a problem or limitation of the default calculator app, this probably fixes it.
Facebook - Only because it is the only option. Why are there no decent third party Facebook apps?
Twitter for iOS - Really great app....
