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Market Unlocker Makes Location Restricted Market and Amazon Apps Available to Users in Any Country

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:45:57 +0530

Market Unlocker Makes Location Restricted Market and Amazon Apps Available to Users in Any Country

Apple’s Cash (via Apple’s Cash | MBA Online)

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:29:45 +0530

Apple’s Cash

(via Apple’s Cash | MBA Online)

I Heart Chaos: Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a surprising result

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:56:43 +0530

I Heart Chaos: Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a surprising result:

iheartchaos:

There’s all sorts of magic to be had with numbers, and many mathematicians have made entire careers in finding these little tricks that are mostly useless, but fun anyway. Unfortunately, a lot of calculators are going to truncate the results of this trick, but if you manage to get a hold of…

"Tip relating to freshness of eggs: If you aren’t sure how fresh your eggs are, place them in about..."

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:04:39 +0530

“

Tip relating to freshness of eggs:

If you aren’t sure how fresh your eggs are, place them in about four inches of water. Eggs that stay on the bottom are fresh. If only one end tips up, the egg is less fresh and should be used soon. If it floats, it’s past the fresh stage.

”

- 50 Amazingly Helpful Time-Tested Tips for the Kitchen | Life Hackery

yongfook: Design is Horseshit!

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:11:03 +0530

yongfook: Design is Horseshit!:

yongfook:

In direct response to: http://designerfund.com/infographic

I’ve created products / services in the past that have garnered praise for their design. I love good design in all forms - copywriting in particular fascinates me. I’ve never called myself a designer.

Here’s my pitch. This…

Map for the Game of Thrones (via Study a Painstakingly Detailed...

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:41:45 +0530

Map for the Game of Thrones

(via Study a Painstakingly Detailed Game of Thrones Map — Vulture)

"I needed a password with eight characters so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves."

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:15:11 +0530

““I needed a password with eight characters so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.””

- https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-1109.html#5 (via skoop)

An iOS Developer Takes on Android

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:25:31 +0530

nfarina:

Recently, we released the Android version of Meridian, our platform for building location-based apps.

We didn’t use one of these “Cross Platform!” tools like Titanium. We wrote it, from scratch, in Java, like you do in Android.

We decided it was important to keep the native stuff native, and to respect each platform’s conventions as much as possible. Some conventions are easy to follow, like putting our tabs on the top. Other conventions go deep into the Android Way, like handling Intents, closing old Activities, implementing Search Providers, and being strict about references to help the garbage collector.

Now, our platform leverages HTML5 (buzzword, sorry) in many places for branding and content display, so we got a fair amount of UI for free. But there was much platform code written in Objective-C that needed translation into Java, such as map navigation, directions, and location switching.

So, we rolled up our sleeves, downloaded the Android SDK, and got to work.

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Getting refunds on open-source projects

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:50:39 +0530

Getting refunds on open-source projects

Clients From Hell: Client: I love the headline but can’t you make it more….punchy. Me: I...

Sat, 06 Aug 2011 07:50:21 +0530

Clients From Hell: Client: I love the headline but can’t you make it more….punchy. Me: I...:

clientsfromhell:

Client: I love the headline but can’t you make it more….punchy.

Me: I don’t think it’s going to get more punchy than ‘We Buy Gold’.

Client: I want more with less!

Me: ‘Sell Gold’

Client: No, I absolutely hate that. The last one was better, just make it punchy. I want it to pop off the…

Has happened to me more than once!

Sat, 06 Aug 2011 07:40:42 +0530

clientsfromhell:

Me: Would you like to have the meeting at 3 PM today or tomorrow morning?

Client: Yes.

So you’re MAD about something on the Internet (via Rosscott,...

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 07:50:51 +0530

So you’re MAD about something on the Internet

(via Rosscott, Inc. » Archive » So you’re MAD about something on the Internet…)

Salman Khan talk at TED 2011 (from ted.com) (via...

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 20:13:54 +0530

Salman Khan talk at TED 2011 (from ted.com) (via ‪khanacademy’s Channel‬‏ - YouTube)

Agavi: Agavi 1.0.6 RC1 released!

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:47:22 +0530

Agavi: Agavi 1.0.6 RC1 released!:

agavi:

We’re happy to announce that the first release candidate for version 1.0.6 is now available for download at agavi.org and through the PEAR channel.

This release adds a database adapter for Doctrine 2, a renderer for the Twig template engine, a native session storage for ext/sqlsrv and various…

Frequent flyer racks up 10 million air miles - Telegraph

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:26:06 +0530

Frequent flyer racks up 10 million air miles - Telegraph

WikiLeaks’ Brilliant MasterCard Commercial Parody (by...

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 19:39:45 +0530

WikiLeaks’ Brilliant MasterCard Commercial Parody (by TheDailyConversation)

"MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server which catches any message sent to it to display in a web..."

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 04:53:39 +0530

“MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server which catches any message sent to it to display in a web interface”

- MailCatcher

(via Home | President Barack Obama Impersonator)

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:01:32 +0530

(via Home | President Barack Obama Impersonator)

alanvanroemburg: Apple iCloud icon golden ratio Alan van...

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:26:54 +0530

alanvanroemburg:

Apple iCloud icon golden ratio

Alan van Roemburg thanks to Takamasa!

10 classic Indianisms: 'Doing the needful' and more | CNNGo.com

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:19:53 +0530

10 classic Indianisms: 'Doing the needful' and more | CNNGo.com