By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on March 31, 2010
The NewYork times wrote a post about not being able to judge an eBook by it’s cover. The idea is that book covers, advertise. People purchase books, based on who’s reading them. Normally it’s fairly easy to start a conversation with someone on their choice of literature. They have the book out with it’s book [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Life | Tagged book, book covers, book jackets, books, choice, ereader, freedom, ipad, kindle, literature, new york times, social convention, socially acceptable |
By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on January 13, 2010
Facebook added some features, even I’m excited about. Facebook contacts sync with iPhone contacts Now all of my iPhone contacts have photos, woot! My iPhone is also synced with my Gmail contacts; Trifecta! (Facebook, Gmail and iPhone contacts are all synced) Quick link to contacts Facebook page via my contacts list, sweet Reply to comments [...]
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By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on January 10, 2010
I really really really appreciate the way the mail application on the iPhone knows to travel to the next logical email whenever I click delete. It figures out which direction you’re traveling through your emails. Are you reading the latest or the newest? It’s just such an enjoyable experience. It’s the only mail application that [...]
Posted in Gadgets | Tagged email, iphone, ui, user experience |
By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on November 28, 2008
I want an iPhone, no wait I want the Stormмебели. No wait, I want the iPhone on the Verizon Network. I took one big plunge and ended up with a Mac which I am not regretting by any stretch of the imagination. Am I ready to take yet another big step and leave my oh-so-wonderful [...]
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By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on November 21, 2008
Personalized search results are here and the end-users rejoiced. No longer will the validity of a website be assigned solely by fancy-algorithms and clusters of servers in freezing rooms. We humans are now allowed to drastically affect what we deem worthy as a more bona fide result. Who-da-whata? Special attention to markup and links use [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Thoughts | Tagged google, houston, personalized search, web marketing |
By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on November 8, 2008
The Mac Book Pro. My new distraction, why didn’t someone tell me earlier!? Ok. I lie, everyone told me I just didn’t listen. Apparently not listening is something I’ve always done, but it didn’t become obvious to me until just recently. Trust me, I’ve been slapped w/ the obviousness of my short comings all too [...]
Posted in Gadgets | Tagged 37 signals, apple, computer, computers, developer, development, google, mac, mac vs. pc, macbook, macbook pro, pc, software engineer |
By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on July 21, 2008
I want an iPhone! No I don’t, yes I do! Arrgh I’m a pirate. I like my regular old Samsung phone, it has what I need … it’s a phone with text messaging. That’s all I really use. Enter Will. He shows me twitterific, facebook, gmail, gtalk, google maps, google search, the easy voicemail system, [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Thoughts | Tagged att, iphone, verizon |
By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on April 26, 2008
Student from Berkley uses Twitter to save himself from an Egyptian jail. http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/04/25/twitter.buck/index.html All I can say is “amazing.” It’s times like these that make me want to purchase an iPhone, just because the iPhone makes it so easy to use services like Twitter. What is this that you’re saying, you don’t know what Twitter [...]
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By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on April 26, 2008
This shirt is for all the women who have ever had trouble having a man grope them. It’s a subtle, intellectual, trendy, new age way of saying hey “would you like to stroke my breast.” I’m a huge advocate of usability and if this doesn’t slap a guy across the face, you’re probably talking to [...]
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By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on April 16, 2008
Piclens is a nice little plugin that allows you to look at photos in a whole new way. Friends will go whoa, you will go I know and both of you will feel ahh after dragging and scrolling this baby for a couple of seconds. Say farewell to clicking on that obligatory next button that [...]
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