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AirMail – Envelope sleeve for the MacBook Air

When Steve Jobs dramatically pulled out the MacBook Air from a manila envelope in the his Macwold 2008 keynote, nobody thought of a manila envelope as a real solution for storing their MacBook Air, except two. Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans actually took the inspiration to the next level. They created a protective sleeve [...]

  • January 17, 2008
  • | Category: Mac
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Web development cheat sheets

I’m working on a project that needs some custom development, and one thing that was important to the client is that the site has nice and SE friendly urls. This being my first time actually manually writing a .htaccess file, I searched around and found a cool mod_rewrite cheat sheet on I Love Jack Daniels.
Looking [...]

  • January 17, 2008
  • | Category: Web
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iTunes movie rental and the 30/24 rule

Apple launched iTunes movie rentals yesterday. Basically, you pay $2.99 or $3.99 per movie and can start watching it within the next 30 days. One you start, you have 24 hours to watch the movie.
I think the 30/24 rule (30 days to start, 24 hours to finish) is a bit off:
First, nobody will rent a [...]

  • January 17, 2008
  • | Category: Mac
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Vista is so bad that people want to save XP

Usually, when software is updated, the newer version is better then the older, call it the evolution of software. Just yesterday, Steve Jobs announced in his keynote that about %20 of the OS X user base has already updated to Leopard within the first 2 months.
Vista is different. Apparently it’s so bad that more and [...]

  • January 17, 2008
  • | Category: Tech
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MacBook Air – The future of laptops

Yesterday, the MacBook Air, an ultra-light laptop was announced at Macworld 2008.
Although it doesn’t yet have all the power you normally find in a full powered laptop, what they did is amazing. They shrunk the size of the Core 2 Duo chip by %60, and were able to slip it into a computer so thin [...]

  • January 16, 2008
  • | Category: Mac
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DesignerLinks.net gets a second life

About 2 years ago, I launched DesignerLinks.net, which is a web directory dedicated to sites and articles about web design. I forst created it as my first attempt at creating anything with a MySQL database, as basic as it is. Basically users can submit links, and those need to be approved my an admin. Everything [...]


Rome: old and older

I recently returned from a visit to rome, and I’d like to share a cool picture I took of some old buildings (every building in that city is old) through an arch of the colosseum.

  • December 2, 2007
  • | Category: General
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Web Design Contest with $1000 Cash prize!

OpenReaction hosting solutions, Inc. is running a design contest through our very own OpenDesigns to get a new design for their site.
The contest will run for one month, ending November 12th.
The winner will be able to choose one of three prizes:
One Year Free Enterprise Hosting With OpenReaction ­ Valued at $3629.87
or a 13” Apple MacBook [...]

  • November 12, 2007
  • | Category: Web
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  • October 18, 2007
  • | Category: Fun
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New WordPress Theme: Faulkner

After a not releasing any new theme for a long time now, I’m proud to present my newest addition to the collection: Faulkner. It is based on an amazing html template by the same name created by DemusDesign and posted at Open Designs. The theme is available for dowload from my WordPress Themes Page.


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