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However, there are others who feel differently about it, like Colin who wonders if itrsquo;s worth supporting the service now seeing as how Yahoo! is tanking. Itrsquo;s an interesting argument for sure, and hersquo;s asking for feedback via a video:

What do you think?

FAIL.

There are no words to describe the awesomeness of this music video. With over 3000 pictures taken to make it work, it really is a damn well-executed concept.

I donrsquo;t usually try out Firefox themes. For ever i have used takebacktheweb.orgrsquo;s mac theme, but for some reason i decided to try out Personas. Perhaps because they arenrsquo;t themes as much as they are skinshellip; this extension really customizes Firefoxrsquo;s chrome, mostly by adding a background image to it, but im pretty happy with what it does, it goes well with my menubar.
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the quot;personaquot; yoursquo;re looking at now is called Firefox Pipes.
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Also, the website I have open is one of my latest designs.

Thankfully there is a very promising solution which already lets me do much of what I want, Boxee. A fork of what originally was XMBC (Xbox Media Center) has turned out to be pretty amazing. Itrsquo;s a cross platform full screen interface for your computer (or tv via apple tv) which not only hooks up to the media stored in your hard drives but it connects to the cloud and letrsquo;s you access streaming video from torrents and television networks, music from last.fm, pictures from Flickr and basically anything you can find a feed for. It doesnrsquo;t do web browsing just yet, but Irsquo;m sure it will, soon enough.

The software is free, therersquo;s a great community around it and it keeps getting better every day. Therersquo;s not much else to say about it, it works great and is a dream come true for me and Irsquo;m sure many others.

Itrsquo;s always hard knowing how to interact with people you donrsquo;t know but share common interests. I find itrsquo;s hard to really make long lasting impressions, which makes having memorable and useful business cards at hand really important.

I keep meeting people but itrsquo;s always so hard to stay in touch afterwards (except for when people are on twitter, which really should simply be a rule if you really want to build relationships and stay in touch).

Irsquo;m working on improving the way I handle myself amongst geeks like me, mostly because I really love it. The Toronto Twestival canrsquo;t come soon enough.

Putting up wall decals in our loft:

Some clutter in our place:

Our wedding day:

Downtown Toronto:

Biking in august:

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Rocks, lake amp; volcano:

Funny face:

Easter in Antigua:

Panama city from Casco Viejo:

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This all makes me want to get an actual Polaroid camera. nbsp;nbsp;

The earthquake took place near the Poas volcano and therersquo;s an impressive Youtube video from one of the tv stations that really captures what happened (and is still happening).

Therersquo;s a lot of coverage from ticos on Twitter reporting live, which is amazing. Technology has come such a long way for this to be a reality (getting reports live from people experiencing it). Irsquo;m in the loop even though Irsquo;m nowhere close to Costa Rica right now.

The highways are collapsing with traffic making it impossible to get around the capital. Therersquo;s reports of casualties already, people are being sent home by employers and there are still smaller earthquakes happening three hours after the first one. Newspapers websites and local internet is saturated, the biggest newspaper in the country set up a live chat on their home page for people to report on and others to stay in the loop.

Irsquo;ll be keeping an eye on twitter for more reports and information.

We are looking for something more interesting though, rather than just playful cute desings.
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We experienced issues with the last set we got (which werenrsquo;t from the magic pony), they would not really stick to the walls and actually started falling off the day we put them up.

Donrsquo;t do this at home kids. It may result in your laptop dying. That glass of wine sitting on the edge of the case and the laptop is on top of a few books. All because i wanted to document my odd placement of wine glasses while working on my computer

A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to get tickets for telefon tel aviv and matthew dear and it was great. Two bands which Irsquo;ve followed for a good while, stuff I love, obviously I was very excited to see them. The venue was pretty hot, itrsquo;s apparently a new spot in t.o. (wrongbar), and it worked.

Telefon tel aviv have been doing some really interesting things with their music, mixing lots of influences and ideas to create really compelling sounds.

Matthew was only playing his old songs (which were great for me). Hersquo;s such a class act. I love the guy.

• It doesnrsquo;t seem to use the Keychain for password storage. I had to retype my twitter.com credentials, it should have pulled them from keychain.


• Irsquo;d love to have a stop/reload button instead of two separate ones.


• There is no Import bookmarks feature, so you canrsquo;t easily transfer them from safari/firefox.


• I love the thumbnails it adds to google search, but they load very slowly.


• I wish it would open new tabs to the right of the current one, right next to it. This isnrsquo;t a feature in any other browser I know of, but you can do it in safari through saft and in firefox through tab mix plus.


• It seems to read cookies from safari. I didnrsquo;t have to login to flickr, nice!.


• The make text bigger feature is kind of a letdown coming from firefox and itrsquo;s kickass zoom feature (it zooms images too).


• I want to double click on a dmg file in the downloads window and have it open the image file, like safari does.


• It comes with Google Gears. This is great!


• Full screen browsing is awesome (although it crashes when going into it if therersquo;s browsa plugins open).


• It seems like url history doesnrsquo;t work. I visit a URL, and when i type it in the address bar again, it doesnrsquo;t remember Irsquo;ve been there and wonrsquo;t show it to me in the pop up.

In general it feels really good. Having more than one site open takes some getting used to, but it works really well for reading feeds specially, it opens links on the main window, so I can keep scrolling down without worrying about switching no tabs.

The other noticeable feature in it is the CoverFlow view of links on a page (in the screenshot in the bottom center), which is cool but actually not that useful for me.

All in all, I really like it.

thatrsquo;s shot in toronto, canada, where irsquo;m living at the moment.

in the morning i was working, i was on the computer.. as you can see

around 3pm we drove out to goodwill, which is far out

beautiful surprise to see the first snow of the season, it got cold

my friend got a ladder, lol

lisa drove both ways

my night/dinner was not recorded

i shot everything. all the music is what i was listening to

Poorleno mixtape link!!!!

made in costa rica my site!

quot;Yesterday, in video. Shot throughout the day, put together and uploaded today. You should do the same. And when you do, put it in the My Day, Yesterday group. Donrsquo;t add any music or anything, only whatrsquo;s recorded via the camera.quot;

That right there was done in about 20 seconds with a new feature Adobersquo;s Photoshop CS4 will have. Check out the screencast made by one of Adobersquo;s engineers. It feels to me so logical to be able to do it, yet we have never been able to do this. It makes me excited for the future of software development, considering the powerful computers we use.

Yo siempre he sido un mae muy involucrado con la tecnología y siempre he estado metido en internet. Tengo muchas amistades ldquo;virtualesrdquo; (que son más reales que muchas otras, pero me imagino que esto le pasa a más de uno), en fín, yo he escrito bastante sobre servicios en internet para varios blogs en ldquo;mis tiemposrdquo;, me acuerdo de servicios que ya ni existen, me acuerdo cuando otros estaban comenzando, y he visto otros crecer y crecer (vamos al punto).

Uno de esos es el famoso Twitter, que en este momento pasa por unos tiempos no tan buenos pero necesarios para seguir expandiendose. Nació hace como 2 años y resto, en su momento era algo así como un experimento, los tipos que lo hicieron fueron los mismos detras de Odeo (que si no se acuerdan, fue uno de los pioneros en el campo del podcasting, hasta que Apple incluyó la funcionalidad de podcasts en iTunes y les mató el negocio), ni se llamaba Twitter en ese entonces, era twittr, o algo así. En fín, apenas escuché del servicio me fui a probarlo.

En ese tiempo nadie estaba acostumbrado al concepto de microblogging, ese de publicar ideas en pocas palabras (forzadamente), los blogs eran todo, las personalidades de la web 2.0 (ese grupito, ya saben) atraían gente a sus blogs y eso era todo. Ahora todo esto ha cambiado, Twitter empezó a atraer a más y más gente y se convirtió en un medio de comunicación muy importante, tanto que muchos lo que hacen es tratar de tener bastantes seguidores, más gente esuchando, y en este medio eso ha probado ser hasta más valioso que lectores en un blog, en fín, los tipos que lo hacían le fueron dedicando más esfuerzo (hasta que ahora es una compañía aparte), me acuerdo el primer SXSW en el que twitter fue usado (creo que el año pasado), sus números se dispararon, y de ahi así siguió.

Personalmente lo que me llamó la atención fue esa facilidad de publicar tonteras, de comunicarme fácilmente con tanta gente, y ver lo que todos hacen. La verdad, no fue hasta este año que encontré a algún tico en Twitter, siempre estuve viendo como muchos en Twitter eran del mismo lugar y compartían más cosas, en general relacionadas a que estaban en el mismo país (discutiendo noticias locales, etc), lo que fuera. En especifico, amigos chilenos tomaron Twitter y lo hicieron suyo hace tiempo, la comunidad chilena es grande, y tienen muy buenas conversaciones, siempre estuve celoso, porque hablaban en español, porque estaban sacandole el jugo a Twitter.

Como sabemos todo ha cambiado y la comunidad Tica en Twitter crece cada día. Por eso escribo esto, porqué me denominaron pionero de Twitter en ticolandia, la verdad en el sentido de que fui el primer tico en usarlo, puede ser, pero nunca he hecho mucho por hablar de Twitter, y cuando lo he hecho y logro que abran cuentas, nunca lo terminan usando, nunca lo entienden.

En fín, al mejor estilo me despido en 140 letras, encantado con Twitter, igual que hace dos años. Y me imagino que se va a poner mucho mejor.

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Using Safari 3, with cookies obviously enabled. But the truth is they should have tested their video solution on all platforms and browsers, putting the functionality on the site only to have it fail on users simply pisses them off, like it did to me.

It blows my mind that the guys running this site couldnrsquo;t get video right. I mean, video online in 2008 is not a difficult thing to do. Not at all. By any means. Wersquo;ll see if they get it right.

grupo folklorico de panama, originally uploaded by josue salazar.

I went to Panama a couple of weeks ago, planning to stay for a month, but now that Irsquo;m here I know I have to stay longer. Like a few months more. Irsquo;m having a great time, and would love to meet some people (if yoursquo;re in panama city, contact me!).

I have to look up a friend here, Zanzaban from the 9rules IRC room, but I have no idea how, so please help me out if you know him.

Anyway, I actually moved before coming here (meved in Costa Rica), finally left the small apartment for a huge house one street away. So Irsquo;m excited to go back, in a while of course.

I would say something about the lack of activity on the site, but I donrsquo;t know what. Irsquo;m a slacker.