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"Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes..."

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 09:16:58 +0100

“Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later”

- Mona Simpson on Steve Jobs sense of aesthetics A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs - NYTimes.com

"And don’t forget—the value of a long pause is difficult to overstate.” - Seth..."

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:36:35 +0200

““And don’t forget—the value of a long pause is difficult to overstate.” - Seth Godin”

- Difficult conversations at work

Apple Revenues by product line

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 07:52:39 +0200

Apple Revenues by product line:

Via DaringFireball

The Sneaky Psychology Of Advertising

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:07:33 +0200

The Sneaky Psychology Of Advertising

"the right price for a product is the highest price you can ask for, but with one condition: that..."

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 07:53:07 +0200

““the right price for a product is the highest price you can ask for, but with one condition: that your customers remain happy after they buy it.””

- Information Architects – iA Writer: On Prices and Features

Infact, Apple is winning in Smartphones, not Android.

Thu, 12 May 2011 07:50:02 +0200

Have a look at this chart (via John Gruber).

Check the share of all smartphones (green bars). If I read the data correctly, this all story of Android crushing iPhone in market share is just plain wrong. At least what it implies (that consumers are showing any preference for Android) is wrong.

Apple is indeed constantly GAINING market share on smartphones.

What’s happening is that the industry is CONVERTING the rest of the smartphone business from old proprietary OSs or Symbian/Windows to Android, trying to keep up with Apple.

The (highly publicized) net effect is a higher market share of Android vs iPhone. But contrary to what Android fans seem to believe, this does not reflect any consumer trend.

Why does the industry want to keep people from getting the iPhone they long? They have a million reasons (I hear stories of carriers willingly going out of stock of iPhones in their stores/websites for weeks to try to force people to get a different phone). The biggest cost these days for carriers is subsidizing your new phone. All non Apple smartphone producers are willing to compromise on discounts and payment terms (and it shows if you check their profits) while Apple, having clearly the most coveted device in the market, is not.

Usually I prefer to stay out of the fanboy battles, but I thought these data are worth commenting on.
As of today, Android is not winning the smartphone battle. iPhone is.

Google Account Security Best Practices

Sun, 01 May 2011 20:04:21 +0200

Google Account Security Best Practices:

My Google account is probably the login that’s most valuable to me, together with the one of my bank account. Here’s a very useful roundup of quick measures you can take to make sure your Google account is secure.

Especially since I got an iPhone I gave authorization to access my Google account data to way too many applications, so this advice was particularly useful to me:

Check to see what applications/services you’ve authorized to have access to your Google Account.

Go here and see what websites/applications are listed - these are services who you previously granted access to your Google Account. If there are any there you no longer use, or sites you didn’t intend to authorize, click revoke.

Hope this helps!

(via Ric Elias: 3 things I learned while my plane crashed |...

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 23:40:39 +0200

(via Ric Elias: 3 things I learned while my plane crashed | Video on TED.com)

How to fix any computer - The Oatmeal

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 06:51:06 +0200

How to fix any computer - The Oatmeal:

Corporate America explained by Calvin & Hobbes

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 13:24:05 +0200

Corporate America explained by Calvin & Hobbes

Happiness Engineering

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 11:02:18 +0200

Happiness Engineering:

Adam’s a smart guy, he’s always been. I guess everybody has his own way of “engineering” happiness but you may want to read his advice.

My favorite part (since I experienced something very similar):

Positivity - The self-help gurus will tell you it’s important to have an ongoing positive dialog with yourself. Lots of books have been written on this topic. All I will add is that you might be completely unaware of how negative you are. Many people make the mistake of incorporating negativity in their humor and thinking the outcome is a net positive. That takes the form of reflexively commenting on what’s wrong with, well, everything. I used to be that guy. It was a habit I picked up from my mother. I thought I was being funny. An ex did me the favor of pointing out that I was actually just being an asshole. All the time.

RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates...

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:14:58 +0100

RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us (via theRSAorg)

"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field."

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:30:15 +0100

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”

- Niels Bohr, Danish physicist and Nobel Prize winner

Santana ft Chris Cornell - Whole Lotta Love ’ DT ‘...

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:41:18 +0100

Santana ft Chris Cornell - Whole Lotta Love ’ DT ‘ (via DoddyTanjung)

Lanterne Rosse (Taken with Instagram at Caffé Dei Binari)

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:37:40 +0100

Lanterne Rosse (Taken with Instagram at Caffé Dei Binari)

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Sat, 12 Feb 2011 19:54:00 +0100

Coca Cola (Taken with Instagram at Trattoria Dal Pescatore)

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 15:12:30 +0100

Coca Cola (Taken with Instagram at Trattoria Dal Pescatore)

How to transfer a domain name from Godaddy to Namecheap

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 23:07:09 +0100

I’m in the process of transferring a few domains from Godaddy.com to the acclaimed Namecheap.com registrar. Why? Because it’s cheaper, does not send me newsletters and doesn’t waste money in stupid ads.

Whatever your reason, you need a code (EPP, or Extensible Provisioning Protocol) to actually transfer a domain from one registrar to another, and Godaddy does its best to make it hard for you to get it (it also uses it a different name for it: “authorization code”).

Anyway it’s 2011, and there are very few things that you cannot do with a simple search on Google (or my favorite search engine these days, Twitter search).
So here’s what you have to do:

Go to godaddy.com
login to your account
click on “Domain Manager” and select the domain you want to transfer
under “Domain Information” (the section on the left) you’ll find “Authorization Code“. Click on “Send by email”. That’s it (should look something like this).

I thought this might be useful.

Peppe e Scott (Taken with Instagram at Tearose Cafè)

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:15:21 +0100

Peppe e Scott (Taken with Instagram at Tearose Cafè)

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Sat, 29 Jan 2011 12:12:18 +0100

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