short notes on technology by josue salazar

Category: Asides

Networking at events

Having attended interesting networking events recently, I completely agree with Vergel when he brings up the topic of how to properly network and shares some good tips everyone should follow if interested in really taking advantage of such meet ups.
It’s always hard knowing how to interact with people you don’t know but share common interests. [...]

Polaroids

Poladroid is a great application for converting your digital photos into digital “polaroids” applying some filters and producing great results. I’ve fallen in love with the app and have used it on many of my photos, but there’s some which simply stand out because of what’s in the photo or the colours or what they [...]

Slush and ice make for impossible walks

This morning I had a hard time walking to brunch thanks to the layers of ice and slush all over Toronto. What a pain it is to do that when you’re not wearing winter boots.

Wall decals

Lisa and I have been on the look out for great wall decals to decorate our new loft in Toronto. We feel that they add so much to a space it’s worth the time they take to put together.  The best we have found so far are the designer vinyls at the magic pony:

We are [...]

Snow!

There have been a couple of storms in the past few days which have left the city of Toronto covered in snow. It’s everywhere and it brings all kinds of trouble, but it does make for a very pretty sight (without slush):

Laptop Wine

Don’t do this at home kids. It may result in your laptop dying. That glass of wine sitting on the edge of the case and the laptop is on top of a few books. All because i wanted to document my odd placement of wine glasses while working on my computer

A confession

Music is good but it can be annoying. You can’t play the same song over and over; it gets to the point where it’s actually painful to play it anymore, it’s like if the song were to punch you in the face for listening.Not so with MGMT’s “Kids”, thanks to the many remixes of it. [...]

cruz browser

I have been using Cruz (a new web browser) for a day, and here are some of the things that it may have or may be missing that are popping into my head as I use it:

It doesn’t seem to use the Keychain for password storage. I had to retype my twitter.com credentials, it should [...]

content awareness scaling

Take a look at this screenshot:

That right there was done in about 20 seconds with a new feature Adobe’s Photoshop CS4 will have. Check out the screencast made by one of Adobe’s engineers. It feels to me so logical to be able to do it, yet we have never been able to do this. It [...]

immigrating

immigration. it always is so complicated. migrating to costa rica is a pain for nicaraguans, as it is for ticos the other way around. migrating in central america is easier, they’re more open. mexico is hard, which is funny because of the issues they have going up north. i believe the system is broken and [...]