Hello guys. I haven't written for a while now. The busy schedule keeps away from this blog and from writing.
I have, however, managed to do a mini project on the side. Here is the story.
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Lately, I am having this feeling of wanting to give something back.
To our mother earth, a monthly 500 pesos donation to an organization that aims to put nature in top shape for now, and for the future.
To my current company, 1 to 3 hours of pro-bono work -- almost daily for the past month -- and on-going.
I felt that I also need to give something back to my hometown - the City of Golden Friendship - Cagayan de Oro City.
To the city, I present Cagayan de Oro City's very own classified ads website -- cdeoclassifieds.com.
I know there are already others out there. I don't mean to compete. I don't expect this site to lift off. Again, I just want (maybe even need) to give back, and this is the only way I know how.
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And that's the story behind CdeO Classifieds.
Go now and check it out.
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Boy falls into the subway train tracks while playing with portable game
I don't know if this is the first time that something like this has happened, but nevertheless, this is shocking. Although Engadget says it was while he was playing with this PSP when the boy fell, but from the video, I can't really tell. Maybe because my eyes are bad, if you spot the PSP dead on, please let me know.
Seems like the mobile devices we carry every day are becoming more and more dangerous because it is going to kill us at some point.
We can also get a feel-good moment from this video. Kudos to the guy who rescued the kid. He didn't even have a moment of hesitation, and just jumped right into the tracks and picked the boy up. Nice! :D
Kids! or even the adults who carry their mobile game consoles, please stay behind the yellow line when you are on the platform. Geez!
10 Billion Downloads Reached
Well -- that was fast!
It was 9,943,308,590 downloads 2 days ago at around 9:12 in the evening. And in barely 2 freakin' days, it has reached its mark -- 10 Billion -- with a giant B.Let's look at this by the numbers shall we -- there are over 160 Million iTunes users in 23 countries. Which makes it around 56 ,691,410 downloads in 2 days. That's roughly 35% of users has downloaded at least 1 app.
So, in the last 2 days -- there were 1,181,071 downloads per hour, 19,684 downloads per minute, and 328 downloads per second.
Congratulations to the lucky bastard who won $10,000 worth of iTunes credit. That will probably be enough for a lifetime of Angry Birds even if they would release a new version season after season after season.
14 yr old's app
kids today, they do all the darnest things. apparently, this includes developing iPhone apps and topping the charts as the most downloaded free app in the App Store as of the moment. as an added bonus, it even topped the Angry Birds app.
as an aspiring iPhone app developer, this tells me that 1) anybody can make it in the iPhone app development business. all one needs is an idea. apparently, simple and fun ideas are the ones that are in today. 2) it doesn't matter if you are going against the big boys of the business. as it seems, everybody is on a level playing field.even if the kid's app, Bubble Ball, can be downloaded for free, you can't discard the fact that the potential of the app is very bright. a few updates here and there and eventually add some iAds or Google Adsense. this 14 year old might be able to reach his first million before he reaches puberty.
kids today.
How I fixed my iPhoto '11
I have Bootcamp installed and was on Windows 7 before I decided to go to MAC OSX and open up iPhoto. While in Windows 7 though, I got the dreaded "blue screen of death", and for sure, it restarted. I decided to go straight to OSX and do some iPhoto stuff for my Project 365 pet project.
However when I tried to open iPhoto from the dock, the icon would just bounce for about a minute or so, and then it just stops. No iPhoto window will open -- no nothing. Nada! Right clicking on the icon will tell you what really happened -- the "Application is not responding".
As for the fix, this is what I did:
1. Opened System Preferences
2. Clicked on Spotlight
3. Clicked on Privacy
4. Added my "BOOTCAMP" partition. This would prevent Spotlight from searching this location.
source: Apple - Support
Good thing right? Well, yes, I got my iPhoto running again. I got me thinking though, how is it that in order to fix iPhoto, I need to change some settings in Spotlight? Doesn't make any direct sense, right?
With the given series of events that happened, from the "Blue Screen of Death" in Windows 7 -> Restart to OSX -> Opening iPhoto, it seems that the root cause was that the bootcamp partition was not gracefully released. Sure enough, there were also applications that were still running before the BSOD and those weren't gracefully shutdown as well. And with these conditions, it also seemed that Spotlight had trouble going through the BOOTCAMP partition.
Here are other things you can do if your iPhoto goes gaga: Apple - Support - iPhoto
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