99 Design’s iPad giveaway
Apr 22, 2010 Freebies
They’re feeling uber generous, these fellas over at 99 designs.com, but that’s good news for us mortals, who stand a chance to be on the receiving end of this:
Yes, that sexy, sleek, touchy touchy thingy.
No, not the uber exotic gal (you wankers!). No, not the endangered Panda (you animal w*nkers!).
The Apple iPad is being given away by 99 Designs.com — actually, 3 Apple iPads are being given away.
How to?
1. Sign up with them.
2. Use their Portfolio Widget to display your 99designs portfolio on your own website or blog.
That’s it, and the more unique websites that you display this, the more chances you get.
Now, don’t tell me you don’t want an iPad?
The ‘Maybe someone should file a class action suit against Apple’ thread.
Apr 16, 2010 Me, Myself & I
I don’t code in Lingo anymore and neither do I indulge in lines and lines of Actionscripts, but somehow the blue and yellow forums of Flashkit.com never fail to keep me away.
Occasionally browsing over the photography section, the arena (where plenty of brilliant photoshop tennis takes place) and most notably hanging out in its coffee lounge, a place where we deliberate on anything and everything, Flashkit or FK has been a constant haunt for me.
The quirky minds and scandalous witty retards retorts that resides among its pages are what keeps me glued after all these years.
So how many forums can you claim to be a part of, of which you’ve spent nearly a decade lingering around? After a certain period of time, it feels like home.
And threads like “Can we file a class action against Apple?” entices the professional thinkers to come out and present their arguments onto the table, and without Bush in the White house, it’s topics like these that gets the Flashkit’s wandering minds into focus and a pretty slick debate.
Flashkit were the place to be if you were gonna be a flash developer back then, but the site’s well past its glory days, although the forums are still alive and kicking. It’s like the threads have taken a life of its own and there’s just no stopping.
And that’s all that I’m there for, to nibble on the breadcrumbs of these professional’s minds and also the antics of the misdemeanours, and to perhaps learn a few graceful thing or two.
So can we start with the lawsuit already?
Wait a minute, but why should I?
If I would, is it because I’m a programmer who only knows how to use Adobe’s Flash CS5 to make apps for the AppStore?
And now that it’s taken away from me, that I have a valid reason to do so?
Baseless.
That’s how I see it really, whenever someone claims at how unjust Apple’s move is.?
The way I see, Apple owns the hardware, the software, the online store and I just don’t get the part where it’s not right for them to decide what’s best when they’re playing on their own turf with their own game?
It’s like your mom decides that no boys who listens to Justin Bieber should date her child, and then some random fella cries outrage and contemplates filing a suit against your mom, just because.
And you, the child, is a BIG FAN of that tiny prodigal singer, so do you date someone else or lock yourself in the room and cry for 13 nights straight?
Seriously, I may get or feel the outrage that Adobe has against Apple’s latest move, but I don’t quite understand the level that it’s reached. Seems to me that Adobe is seriously in a bad mood because Apple refuses to go out on a date.
Relax, just sit back and relax.
That’s right Adobe, calm down, and instead of throwing a tantrum, tolerate and abide by it. No point venting your frustrations if you don’t try to find a solution.
In fact solution abounds, ‘cos Adobe can now focus and redirect their energy towards companies that do want to adopt application development with CS5.
Apple has just given them one less platform to think about, and possibly narrowed their marketing budget, and everybody knows that when you have to many options, you get spoilt for choice.
So instead of fighting fire with fire, that energy is better redirected and channelled it into other ares, like maybe a new technological development or a smart marketing campaign.
Fan not, the flames of the problem.
In life, problems are the best thing that can happen to anyone, because only they give us the opportunity to learn to cope, endure and solve.
And when something can’t be solved, well, we live around it.
Now, now Adobe, just chill it.
Periodic Table ebook for Apple iPad – visually stunning.
Apr 8, 2010 Tech
You may think that I’m an Apple Fanboy with the amount of Apple related stuffs going on within these pages.
Well I guess I am.
With that vid of the ebook, quite a visually compelling reason, imho, to ditch Kindles over iPads.
And with that, who’s to say electronic inks on the kindle will rule the ebooks world?
Not that I’ll get myself an iPad anyway.
Yet.
Tags: Apple, Ebook, iPad, Periodic Table
Long Time Coming
Feb 2, 2010 Tech
No thanks to a hectic week of exhibitions and the usual changes of adverts, I’d like to visit Hell for a little bit of R&RÂ now.
And have I shared my BBQ pics yet? Of course not.
But I’m sharing these gems:
As if punching the keys on a 17inch Macbook Pro isn’t enough, I’d like that 32inch monster please.
Actually, for about a little bit more than an iPhone, you’re getting more than twice the processing power, about quadruple the screen estate, and an endless barrage of jealous onlookers, because they cannot swipe their netbooks and laptop while browsing websites/photos, while you can.
Okay, so the iPad can’t make calls or take photos, but it’s essentially an iPod touch on steriods.
And it’s thinner and lighter than your netbook.
It lasts longer than your netbook.
It loads and shutsdown faster than your netbook.
And best of all, to all those complaining it can’t run conventional OS and apps, it doesn’t have viruses and malware like your netbooks.
Period. (No puns intended.)
My A geek’s dream come true.
