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Incoming Information Workflow

It’s easy to get overwhelmed by the incoming information streams, whether it’s the latest news headlines or tech buzz.  In the past couple of months I’ve been close to pulling the plug all together and disconnecting myself from the many information pipelines.  Unfortunately I enjoy it too much and frankly I’m too addicted to it. [...]

Find and Replace Regular Expression

I find myself creating a fair amount of forms for websites. I normally want to grab the $_POST variables and assign them to local variables. I found a relatively easy way to do this using the power of TextMates Regular Expression Search and Replace. Once the form is created I submit it, dump the $_POST [...]

Top 15 TextMate Shortcuts

TextMate by Macromates is by far the best code writing/development tool I’ve ever used. Not only is it awesome at face value, but the depth of features and extras make it the ultimate productivity booster when developing. What’s equally amazing is how it accomplishes this with no bloat. If you spend any amount of time [...]

New Theme

Did some minor customizations of the most excellent theme ‘The Morning After‘ by The Masterplan. Hope you all like the facelift.

Why I no longer have a FaceBook.com account

From their Privacy Policy Facebook may also collect information about you from other sources, such as newspapers, blogs, instant messaging services, and other users of the Facebook service through the operation of the service (e.g., photo tags) in order to provide you with more useful information and a more personalized experience. By using Facebook, you [...]

I’m an Apple addict

So I’m an Apple addict, well 72% of one but that’s only because of budgetary constraints. I get so excited about new Apple products it’s unbelievable. I really need to buy some Apple stock since I end up dumping so much money into the company in exchange for awesome products. And with the latest products, [...]

Rockstartup.com

I’ve been catching up on the latests episodes at RockStartup.com. I must say the owner sure seems like he’d be a tough person to work with and I’m not sure why anyone would. Though at this point, I’m not sure why anyone would work for anyone… but that’s for an upcoming post. I actually heard [...]

Delicious 2.0 Preview from TechCrunch

Exclusive: Screen Shots And Feature Overview of Delicious 2.0 Preview – TechCrunch.com I have used del.icio.us for along time now and love it. I’m not sure I use it as wisely as I should (since I leave irrelevant bookmarks on there indefinitely and I have about a million tags), but it’s really nice having your [...]

New iPods and iPhone Price Drop

Yesterday was an exciting day for anyone who enjoys Apple’s famed music player. They are refreshing or replacing their entire line of iPods by Christmas and the dropped the price of the iPhone $200 for the 8GB model. The new iPod Touch looks amazing, but for $100 you can get the same memory configuration in [...]

Apple Event Today

Touchscreen iPod? Fat Nano? Find Out ASAP from CrunchGear Tomorrow (now today) – TechCrunch Am I the only one super phsyched about this!? What will it be? The speculations are a’ plenty. All I know is that with ever new Apple announcement I get a little big poorer. Live coverage if anyone is interested can [...]

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