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Month: February 2015

  • Constitute

    Constitute Project — The World’s Constitutions to read, search and compare. Additional background story at Quartz.

  • The Power of Minimalism

    The Power of Minimalism: A Story of Redesigning Yelp

  • Acquired: Sunrise, Launchpad Toys, MyFitnessPal and Endomondo

    Lot’s of acquisitions just now: Google bought Launchpad Toys (story telling app maker), Microsoft just had Sunrise (the app calendar, and I’m using it on my iOS devices and Android) for $100 million. Not long ago, Microsoft also acquired Accompli, an email client app. MyFitnessPal and Endomondo just got acquired by Under Armour for $475 million…

  • How come Facebook is able to show me ads for something I was searching on Google?

    How come Facebook is able to show me ads for something I was searching on Google?. I’m also curious about this question. And got a great answer. So, when you log into Facebook, you would be shown an ad from Apple. It does not matter that you were logged out of Facebook when you visited…

  • Delete Old Devices Backup on OS X to Reclaim Disk Storage

    One of the routines relate to my laptop is to keep everything organised. This includes folders management, removing unused files or installing/uninstalling applications, etc. For disk usage checking purpose, I use OmniDiskSweeper. Yes, I also have Macpaw’s CleanMyMac 2, but OmniDiskSweeper will do a simple and specific task as mentioned on its site: OmniDiskSweeper is…

  • Site Resources for Admin and Dashboard Themes

    At work, when admin/dashboard interfaces are needed, rather than building everything from scratch, using available theme options is a good choice — using the free or paid version. Some resources to look: WrapBootstrap, Start Bootstrap, or Theme Forest.

  • uBlock

    µBlock — An efficient blocker for Chromium, Firefox, and Safari. Fast and lean. I’ve been using it to replace existing Adblock Plus.

  • Raspberry Pi 2

    Raspberry Pi 2 is on sale for $35. It has ~6x performance using a 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU compared to the previous product. It’s also said to be supporting ARM GNU/Linux distributions, including Snappy Ubuntu Core, as well as Microsoft Windows 10. (Image source: Hackaday)

  • Math

  • On Telegram

    I’ve been using many messaging app. For now, I’m enjoying using Telegram for some simple reasons: lots of my colleagues and frequent contacts are there. It also supports multiple devices (using a single identity). It’s great since I can switch between devices (MacBook, iPhone, iPad and my Android devices) seamlessly.

  • Jimmy Fallon Blew a Chance to Date Nicole Kidman

  • HTML5 UP

    HTML5 UP — Collection of beautiful templates using HTML5 and CSS3.