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Photoshop CS5 - New Features Video

There looks like some interesting stuff in Adobe's Photoshop CS5.

Friendship & Sickness

Everyday I watch a good friend move farther and father away. I think he is lost.

Revelation

Well today is a revelation day. After 'studying' yesterday and all the stuff that happened on the weekend (pis) Mr. W told me a lot of shit. How do I begin to think about this? It's too much.

Top three things developers should look at to monetize on their apps and skills?

1) Find a hole in the market. It doesn't do any good to create a product that does the same thing that a few other products already do.
2) Figure out what sets you apart, embrace it, and market the crap out of it.
3) The hardest part about monetizing an application or product is getting it noticed by the people who are willing to pay for it. Leverage social networks, get out and talk to everyone to build your personal network, and set aside as much cash as possible for promotional opportunities.

Via: Adobe Devnet

Outlook User Base: 600,000,000+

"There are over 600,000,000 Microsoft Outlook installs in the world (according to our friends on the MS Outlook product team over in Redmond)" - www.gist.com. Wow! I wonder how much it went down before GMail, YMail, etc. arrived?

TopStyler 4 - On Sale: $39.95(US)

TopStyle 4 on sale - 1 day ONLY:

TopStyle contains powerful tools for building standards-compliant web sites.

* Preview CSS while you write it.
* Easily create pleasant color schemes for your site.
* Style Checker validates your CSS syntax against multiple browsers.
* Use Site Reports to see at-a-glance where CSS styles are used in your site.
* Style Upgrade quickly replaces all outdated HTML code with equivalent CSS styling.


Sale $39.95 - 1 day ONLY - 03/01/2010

WallPaper: Endless Vibes

Tried creating a wallpaper/grafix for the, "Endless Vibes" music group.

Google Buzz

Google announces: Google Buzz.

Video here.

Tiger Woods Online Game

Clearly the future of gaming is online. Here's another good example: Tiger Woods Online Golf.

Tinkering - no more

"Once upon a time, Apple made the machines that made me who I am. I became who I am by tinkering. Now it seems they’re doing everything in their power to stop my kids from finding that sense of wonder. Apple has declared war on the tinkerers of the world. With every software update, the previous generation of “jailbreaks” stop working, and people have to find new ways to break into their own computers. There won’t ever be a MacsBug for the iPad. There won’t be a ResEdit, or a Copy ][+ sector editor, or an iPad Peeks & Pokes Chart. And that’s a real loss. Maybe not to you, but to somebody who doesn’t even know it yet." - Interesting observations from the post, 'Tinkerer’s Sunset'.

Zelda Rubinstein dies at 76

Zelda Rubinstein dies at 76. "The 4-foot-3 woman made her film debut in 1981; she later was a regular on the TV show 'Picket Fences.' Rubinstein also was an advocate for little people" - LATimes

J.D. Salinger, author of 'Catcher in the Rye,' dead at age 91

J.D. Salinger, reclusive literary giant who wrote 'Catcher in the Rye,' dead at age 91

Lecture: Craig Kielburger

Just saw Craig Kielburger do a talk. Certainly an inspirational speaker. Clearly he can communicate. To see someone his age be so good at what they do - it's so great.

Craig Kielburger Inspires People to see the Humanity

Sherbrooke Record - Feb-08/2010 Article:

April 1995 a 12 year old boy in Toronto catches the headline, ‘Battled Child Labour, Boy, 12, Murdered’ and suddenly his life is forever changed. Craig Kielburger was reading the paper one morning when he came across the story of a boy his age named Iqbal. Iqbal Masih was born in South Asia and sold into slavery at the age of four. In his short life, he had spent six years chained to a carpet-weaving loom. Iqbal captured the world's attention by speaking out for children's rights. Eventually Iqbal's wide media coverage caught the attention of those who wished to silence him. Iqbal lost his life defending the rights of children. What Craig learned from Iqbal's story was that the bravest voice can live in the smallest body. He also knew he had to help. What followed was a lifelong pursuit of helping free children around the world from exploitation.

At the time Craig was only in grade 7 when he organized his class to continue the fight that Iqbal had brought to his attention. Ever since then through his organization, ‘Free the Children’ Craig has travelled the world helping those in need. Now at the age of 27 Craig is still going strong. uBishop’s as part of its Donald Lecture Series had the privilege of having Craig speak on Jan 26 at the Centennial Theatre. Craig delivered a lecture about the current situation in Haiti. Haiti has seen one of the worst earthquakes in history. With estimates anywhere from 100,000 to 200,000 people feared dead and millions displaced. Craig showed photos of the devastated country. Schools completely destroyed, buildings demolished, people lined up for food. It is chaos.

In typical Craig fashion he talked with such passion and inspiration about the current Haiti situation and gave the audience a brief history of how he begun to get involved. Free the Children has been in Haiti for over 10 years now and the work continues. Craig expressed concern over the temporary media attention that these sorts of events get but will soon dry up. The, ‘media camp’ is strong now but with the emanate Vancouver Winter Olympics around the corner the media attention Craig fears will change. “We have approximately two weeks before things change”. He gave examples before when the media would setup shop only to disappear after two or three months. “We need people for long term development”, said Craig.

After speaking for about 90 minutes Craig headed towards the lobby where his book, “Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World” and others were being sold. Since Free the Child acts as a charity there are certain limitations as to what they can do in other countries. “Me to We” is, “a new kind of social enterprise for people who want to help change the world with their daily choices.” Through this other organization they are able to do much more. Craig stayed to meet many of the hundreds of people who came to the event. People praised his inspiring speech and his way of life and constantly asked how to get involved. “There is no age limit for those who want to be involved. We have people as young as five years old”. Craig encourages parents to get their kids involved. Even it is just means collecting pennies or understanding what they can about world events. “See the humanity”, Craig was told as a child from his mother. When you see someone on the street ask them their name, spend some time with them. Help in any way you can.

The event was by all means a success. Craig inspired and motivated hundreds of people to take action. Michael Goldbloom, Bishop’s University Principal and Vice-Chancellor. “It is proof positive that each of us is capable of effecting social change through our actions, whether large or small.” uBishop’s Leadership series accomplished what it set out to do - showing us that each of us is capable of change. Get involved.

Weekend

Well it was, 'the' weekend to escape. There was so much unplanned stuff going on and this morning there was an unexpected visitor(s). My friend let me use his place but then the other people who live there returned at ~10:30am.

Movie: Avatar

Saw to the 3D Movie, "Avatar". This is clearly a game changer for the industry.

VisualStudio 2010 - Ship Date

According to Rob Caron, "Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 will launch on Monday, 12 April 2010."

Valentine's Day is coming

Valentine's day is coming (Feb-14) and I was in search of some Photoshop brushes. Came across these: Kirsty of 500ml Brushes as well there is Stephanie's brushes. Great stuff.

DVD: Year One

Watched the DVD: Year One. Not bad.

Diner

Some great times with friends eating at Boston PiZZa: It costs $60+ for 2 people and I paid all but it was certainly fair for the amount of food. I guess it was some sort of holiday special. Included: Salad (or soup),main course (Steak),free drink re-fill, dessert and coffee.

After 6 years

After 6 yrs here, Stu decides to k___ the weakest amongst them, Mr. ____, so that the rest can feed on his/her blood & body to survive.

Harvard Lectures

It's great that Harvard has posted some great lectures. It reminds me of University life and as I watch the students I can't help but think if I was there I would get enraptured in what's being said. Unfortunately it being an 'academic' setting one is ultimately tested on points that seem frivolous to what's actually being said.

Caught between generations

I have come to realize that I'm caught between generations. Though there's some good points (eg. music) I'm not sure if overall it's a good thing. There's a strange sense of...

Snow Fall

Though it did snow one little time b4 today [about 6 weeks ago], 2nite was the first snow that lasted.

Friends: Coming and Go - 2

Well today was a day of 'repair' I hope we can fix things. It would be great to fix this.

SilverLight 4: Beta Now Available

The SilverLight 4: Beta is now available. Full description here.

Friends: Coming and Go

Well after 2+ months (See 09/12/09) of having a problem with a good friend he did something today on FaceBook that was so surprising and [again] disappointing. I can't believe he would do something like that. Using a social networking system to say things like this just seems inappropriate.

EOG - Ruby

I always knew this guy would make a good teacher/trainer. Hell I even told him. Looks like he's well on his way...Edward Ocampo-Gooding with his book: Rails in a Nutshell.

Moved

Well another successful move. This is getting tiring. However the new place is cheaper and much better!

Sporepedia

Over 122,048,886 'creatures' on Sporepedia as of now. Wow.

MonoTouch - iPhone Development in C# - Now Avaliable

MonoTouch was recently released. This software from Novell allows for C# development for Apple's iPhone.

Dead: Larry Gelbart

The past few months have been terrible for deaths. The most recent: Larry Gelbart:

'Larry Gelbart, the award-winning comedy writer best known for developing the landmark TV series "MASH," co-writing the book for the hit Broadway musical "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" and co-writing the classic movie comedy "Tootsie," died Friday morning. He was 81.' --- LATimes.com

Best Quote: "Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life."

Lost a friend today

I think today I truly lost a friend. There's now such a loss of trust. It's truly sad and unbelievable. The incident happened on 09/06/09 :-(

Don Hewitt - Dead - Age 86

I was a fan of this show for such a long time. I had stopped watching TV for several years but one of the shows I missed was 60 minutes. Don Hewitt was the creator. He died today at age 86 :-(

Today was

Today was I would say the first day that I really had a csfbl epxm. Discussions with ECY while fuzzed with bud.

Windows 2008 R2 - RTM'd

Windows 2008 R2 - is now RTM'd. This is [I believe] the first OS from Microsoft that is 64-bit only. That's right no 32-bit version.

Windows 7 RTM'd

Windows 7 is RTM'd! Download for developers Aug-06/09, available in stores: Oct-22/09!