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March 13th, 2011 by yuitAnother beautiful song…
May 6th, 2010 by yuitDo you still remember
How we used to be
Feeling together, believe in whatever
My love has said to me
Both of us were dreamers
Young love in the sun
Felt like my saviour, my spirit I gave ya
We’d only just begunHasta Manana,
Always be mineViva forever, I’ll be waiting
Everlasting, like the sun
Live forever,
For the moment
Ever searching for the oneYes I still remember,
Every whispered word
The touch of your skin, giving life from within
Like a love song that I’d heard
Slipping through our fingers,
Like the sands of time
Promises made, every memory saved
Has reflections in my mindHasta Manana,
Always be mineBack where I belong now,
Was it just a dream
Feelings unfold, they will never be sold
And the secret’s safe with meHasta Manana,
Always be mine
Beautiful Song…
May 5th, 2010 by yuitI’m gonna live my life
like every days’ the last
without a simple goodbye it all goes by so fastand now that you’re gone I can’t cry heard enough
I can’t cry hard enough
for you to hear me nowgonna open my eyes and see for the first time
I’ve let go of you like
a child letting go of his kiteThere it goes up in the sky
there it goes beyond the clouds
for no reason why
I can’t cry hard enough
No, I can’t cry hard enough for you to hear me nowgonna look back in vain and see you standing there
when all that remains is just an empty chair
and now that you’re gone
I can’t cry hard enough, I can’t cry hard enough
for you to hear me nowThere it goes, up in the sky
there it goes beyond the clouds
for no reason why
I can’t cry hard enough, no I can’t cry hard enough
for you to hear me now
Tablet User Interface Design
February 13th, 2010 by yuitThis is a rather good article about the state of user interfaces for tablets.
http://gizmodo.com/5461767/the-two-wrong-ways-to-make-a-tablet
The summary is that in the market currently, there are 2 main ways of building a tablet interface:
- Taking a desktop interface and shrinking it to a tablet interface (Windows Tablets)
- Taking a mobile device (phone) interface, and blowing it up to the size of a tablet (iPad and Android tablets)
Both cases are suboptimal. What is needed is a radically different way of doing a tablet interface.
Introducing the Microsoft Courier Tablet.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/181487/microsoft_courier_a_feature_breakdown.html
I have never been a fan of Microsoft, but I must say that I would definitely be interested to lay my hands on one of this tablet if it were available!
Amazing Battery life on my Palm Pre
February 4th, 2010 by yuitBattery life on my Palm Pre has never been that great, maybe because smartphones, in general, encourage you to really use them. 3g, surfing, calls, sms… everything is so easy and fast and usable.
In the last 4 days that I’ve been in china, I realised something - the Palm Pre has amazing standby life!
Ok, some disclaimers here. I think over here, my connection is limited to 2G/EDGE connection. That, from what i’ve read, helps. My usage has been really low, a few sms’s a day, checking calendar and contact information, and a few phone calls, and even wireless surfing a bit.
But it has been on *all* the time, no recharges, no airplane mode, always on.
But still, I’ve been absolutely amazed. It has lasted me absolutely 4 days. Full 4 days!
This is something I should investigate more….
Rotating screen in Thinkpad x61T Tablet with Ubuntu Karmic
February 2nd, 2010 by yuitIf you read my comments on my own post on screen rotation on my thinkpad tablet you’ll read that I was having problems rotating my screen on my X61T tablet (1400×1050 resolution). I didn’t have any luck with that until this week, when I had some time to do some research again.
Thanks to this site, I am now able to do it:
http://www.shrapnull.com/v1/node/22
Basically, the scripts here are much simpler and cleaner.
Below is the code to rotate the screen :
#!/bin/sh
#/etc/acpi/x200tsdown.sh
echo ‘Rotating screen…’
if [ "`/usr/bin/xrandr -o right -v | grep -i 'randr' | wc -l`" -ne "1" ]
then
echo ‘!! Something went wrong…’
export DISPLAY=”:0.0″
export XAUTHORITY=/var/lib/gdm/\:0.Xauth
/bin/xset -display $DISPLAY dpms
echo ‘Trying to rotate again…’
/usr/bin/xrandr -o right
fi
echo ‘Rotating stylus…’
/usr/bin/xsetwacom set stylus rotate cw
echo ‘Starting keyboard…’
/usr/bin/onboard&
Now, this code doesn’t *quite* work 100%. Somehow on the x61t, the wacom digitiser is not listed as “stylus”. Instead, running the command
xsetwacom list
shows me that it is listed as “eraser”. So the script works perfectly when you replace “/usr/bin/xsetwacom set stylus rotate cw” with “/usr/bin/xsetwacom set eraser rotate cw”
What I couldn’t get working was the acpi events. It basically means that I can’t get the tablet to rotate automatically when I flipped it to tablet mode, and revert to normal orientation when I flipped it back to laptop mode.
Instead, I used Gnome’s System-> Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts to map the tablet rotation key to launch the rotation script, and the Thinkvantage key to launch the back-to-normal script.
I couldn’t find a way to override the Tablet “Toolbox” key NOT to go into screensaver mode… something for me to do in future I guess.
Oh yes, and the instructions here http://liken.otsoa.net/blog/index.php?entry=entry080617-120522 on Keyboard in GDM and Screen Lock
GDM
In /etc/gdm/Init/Default, before exit 0, add:
/usr/bin/cellwriter –keyboard-only –read-only –window-y=600 –window-x=200 &
In /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default, add:
killall -u root cellwriter &
In /etc/gdm/PostSession/Default, before exit 0, add:
sudo killall -u $USER cellwriter
SCREEN LOCK
Edit Gnome Registry with gconf-editor. In apps/gnome-screensaver
embedded_keyboard_command cellwriter –keyboard-only –xid
embedded_keyboard_enabled [TRUE]
works very well.
I am happy. 
Interesting stuff about Google
December 26th, 2009 by yuitWas reading an article complaining about supposed search engine spamming by Target on Google (http://www.goodroi.com/why-google-allows-target-com-to-spam-results/)
While its still not clear if it is an intentional spamming attempt by Target (general consensus is that it is not), there are 2 things that you learn about how Google operates from reading through the comments:
a. Google datamines from the Google Toolbar. Based on what and where you visit, Google gets that information from its installed Search Toolbar, and uses it as references to crawl and index.
b. Google is looking into submitting forms and indexing the results too (http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/crawling-through-html-forms.html)
The 2nd thing is pretty interesting… anyone noticed this behaviour of Googlebot in the wild?
Guidelines when building a consumer-facing website
October 8th, 2009 by yuitThis is a pretty good post by Kevin Rose on how to take your website to a million users.
http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/10/6/10-ways-to-take-your-site-from-one-to-one-million-users-by-k.html
To sum it up:
- It should feed the user’s ego. Top scores, Twitter Follows (how many followers do you have?)
- Focus on 2-3 items that your site should do well
- Release often. This means that your operations/process has to support immediate feedback and release
- Leverage on your user base
- Provide value to 3rd party sites and leverage on their traffic
- Market through unique techniques like Invite Only signups (eg: Gmail in the early days)
CRM Systems
August 9th, 2009 by yuitChecking out SugarCRM in terms of features and capabilities:
Helps when you are running Ubuntu on your laptop:
http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-sugarcrm-community-edition-on-ubuntu-8.10