A quickpress for me.
by Lance on August 6, 2010
Prune your decisions to favor what you love most.
Paul Graham on Work, Startup and Getting Rich.
by Lance on July 12, 2010
In most people’s minds, spending money on luxuries sets off alarms that making investments doesn’t. Luxuries seem self-indulgent. And unless you got the money by inheriting it or winning a lottery, you’ve already been thoroughly trained that self-indulgence leads to trouble.
If you’re like me who likes risk, you should read this entry. In the end, success boils down to our attitude and on how we perceive things.
Going PRO with Samsung 2494HS
by Lance on June 6, 2010
It’s been a year and a half and I’m definitely impressed by Samsung LCD Monitors. So just last week, I said goodbye to my old friend SyncMaster T220 and got me a brand new SyncMaster 2494HS.
At first I was reluctant to buy it, I was actually going for the P2370G but the lack of stock on the local stores made me consider the 2494HS. Searching for reviews all over the net made me sweat a bit, I actually got only a handful of it and this one from the whirlpool forum being the most helpful, thankfully this model is of professional grade and with that combined with the positive feedback of users on the forum nailed my decision to get it.
Here’s the specs of the unit:
Diagonal Size : 23.6 " Distinction : 1920 x 1080 Brightness : 300 cd / m² Contrast ratio : 50.000:1 (1.000:1) Response Time : 5 ms Viewing angle : 170 ° / 160 ° (horizontal / vertical) Colors : 16.7 million Video signal : D-sub, DVI, HDMI Sync signal : Separately, composite, SOG Connector : D-sub, DVI-D, HDMI
Image Gallery:
Being used to Apple Machines, from the old PPC iMac, to the 24″ 2009 Model and the new 27″, I have to admit that this one is really at par in terms of performance and a sure deal! I got it only for $260 (around 12kPhp).
Python Imaging Library for Win x64
by Lance on June 3, 2010
So I’ve been playing around with Python and the Django Framework and found that the official binaries provided on the PIL site are incompatible with the 64bit editions of Windows. In case you don’t know what PIL is all about:
The Python Imaging Library (PIL) adds image processing capabilities to your Python interpreter. This library supports many file formats, and provides powerful image processing and graphics capabilities.
After a couple of minutes sniffing into StackOverflow I’ve found this custom compiled binary and it just works perfectly! Special thanks to Bill Mummert for providing it.
PS. If the download link doesn’t work, Download it here Directly.
Google Font and the Web
by Lance on May 20, 2010
Introducing Google Font.
The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and served by Google servers
Now that’s a nice little gift for us Web Designers and Developers. The next time you’re looking for fonts for the web but don’t want to spend a dollar or lurk into technical stuffs, be sure to checkout Google Fonts (They have a sleek preview tool too).
Also worth mentioning, TypeKit and Google recently announced some sort of partnership regarding this matter, you can read it on TypeKit’s official blog entry here.
Macbook Pro now with i7/i5
by Lance on April 14, 2010
Apple finally released the long awaited refresh to the Macbook Pro line. The i7 2.66Ghz is available only for the high-end 15″ and 17″ models, according to Apple marketing for this configuration battery power should be around 8-9hrs (wow!). The rest of the 15″ got the i5 series ranging from 2.4 to 2.53Ghz, also it is interesting that the 13″ still feature a slightly bumped Core2Duos from 2.4 to 2.66Ghz and feature a 10hrs batter life.
Head on and read about the rest of the new features.
Update: A few months later, Apple added the 2.8Ghz i7 to the 15″ variants 
As for me, I think the 2.66Ghz is still rocking!
Tweetie is now Twitter App
by Lance on April 10, 2010
In just a few days before Chirp, Twitter just made a bold move to finally acquire a client and brand it as its own. Today both Atebits and Twitter formally announced the acquisition of Tweetie on their respective blogs. Some tension on its developer community (Seesmic, TweetDeck and etc) is to be expected, lets just hope Twitter founder Matt Evans can address this and clear things up in the upcoming conference.
Congrats both to Atebits and Twitter!
This is insane.
by Lance on April 7, 2010
Photoshop product manager Bryan O’neil Hughes give a sneak peek on “Content Aware Fill” feature for Adobe CS5 (launching this Apr 12) and just like the iPad, CS5 will change our work-flow definitely (and some people are just not happy about it).
Things out there in the wild
by Lance on April 7, 2010
Hey its been a while! Here’s some interesting links:
- Byebye Bebo? AOL must be in a tight situation
- Cassandra for Dummies Oh yeah, NoSQL is hot this days.
- The Kids are Fine indeed Kids do love the iPad, kudos to Gruber!
- Git for the Faint Hearted let’s move on to distributed version control.
- Obox Redesign A writeup about the design process.
- Django Advent A bit late but sure enough to excite a budding django developer.
Coffee. No more.
Internet Explorer 9
by Lance on March 17, 2010
Is exited about Microsoft’s newest bet on the ongoing Browser Wars. HTML5, WinVista+, SVG?, CSS3 Goodness, and etc. Hopefully I could install the developer preview on our test machines and see how it really performs. More info IEBlog or Download the preview
Will do some post about later this week.