It was about to be a month since my previous blog post. So here is a status update. I was busy building my new life in a new county, with a new job and new friends. Luckily it’s been good so far. I am sharing a rental apartment with a colleague from Microsoft. I’m living in Bellevue, WA ...
Lately, I’ve been reading Joshua Becker’s book Simplify about minimalist lifestyle. It’s a very short book, but hey, it has to be, this is minimalism!
This is an inspiring book about removing clutter and stuff you don’t actually need from your life and enjoy your life –not the things. Here are my key takeaways from the ...
Software as a service is a tremendous market. All online services are transitioning to the era of subscriptions. Even Microsoft’s new Office 2013 is will be available as monthy subscriptions. That’s a radical decision for a box software sold in CDs for last 21 years.
Have you ever made a list of which software services do you pay ...
You’ll go to lots of places. Your path will cross with lots of new people. You will choose adventures to take and people to walk together. You will see people let you down, people steal from you and people hurt you. You will see people enlighten your way on a dark crossroads.
There are things you can’t change ...
Here are a few side project ideas that I dreamed of but decided to not to implement in the near future. Feel free to pick one of them and let me know if you managed to do any of it!
Habit List is a great iPhone app. It is simple, concise and exactly many people ...
iTunes has a nice public music search API which offers 30-second previews and detailed information about music albums and tracks. However I could not play these previews on Android or Chrome browser —but it was playing perfectly in iOS apps and OS X Safari browser. (See sample audio here.)
With the help of a little bit of packet capturing I ...
Yaay! Happy birthday pal. It all started with a handmade blog written in classic ASP.
This weekend I decided to practice my iOS skills with a simple utility app. The TV satellite receiver box in our home Vu+ Duo runs on Linux and it has an API to simulate remote control, change channels, set volume, list channels etc.
After connecting to the device over WiFi local area network, it can be used to “zap” channels ...