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10 Jul

Week In Review: July 8

Posted by Omar in Week In Review. 4 Comments

Thanks and welcome back to the Week In Review. I’m happy for the positive feedback on my first issue. Thanks everyone! This week, I try to keep it rolling.

iPhone Craziness

This week, the 3G version of the Apple iPhone is coming out. Some fanboys started making the lines hours, days before July 11, 8:00AM. It is a damn phone!

It is a bad ass phone, I have to admit. The “iPhone 2.0″, “iPhone 3G”, however you want to call this miniature Jesus, has some really attractive updates. Support of 3G network, Exchange, and some other shit that I don’t know or don’t care. This also launches the iPhone App Store. Apple opened up the doors for developers for them to develop some useful and useless but entertaining apps.

The ones that I was able to witness in use today were pretty cool. The iTunes remote was pretty kick ass. You can control your iTunes library. Super Donkey Monkey Balls is pretty cool, in combination with the iPhone. It feels like playing the game on the Nintendo Wii. The lightsaber app, was pretty cool, still you cannot find another nerd with it, maybe with version 2.0 of the app.

I have to say, that I hate and love Apple. Their first version of the phone was amazing, but everyone that has it, they know that it can do better. A year later, they do a few upgrades, and a big percentage of those early adopters are going to buy a new iPhone.

Yet, everyone knows that the iPhone can get better, put a camera on front, for example; but you know Apple knows that they can do better! They are aware of their audience, of their dedication and passion towards the brand, they know that the brand followers are going to upgrade their phone hardware, so they release little by little new features. That’s way they don’t make the replacement of the battery easy. Like the iPods, I can safely bet, the battery will die after 18 months. That way they make more profit! Brilliant! This pattern has been seen before with their MacBooks and iPods.

I may get an iPhone. I like the you can listen to music where you make phone calls kinda deal. At the end, is a phone, which may be the least thing you will use.

Music Of The Week

This week, it’s all young and upcoming Hip-Hop talents. If you didn’t knew about them already, now you will know who they are.
Blu

This dude can rap, and the beats he raps to are good. Check him out on Blu & Exile - Below the Heavens and C.R.A.C. Knuckles. If you like Outkast, you will like Blu.

Blu & Exile - Dancing In the Rain

The Cool Kids

The Cool Kids are just…literally Cool. Their beats have an old school feeling with a modern feel to it. Their lyrics are about random shit, but they are fun to listen. They have 2 EPs out, Totally Flossed Out and The Bake Sale, their full album When Fish Ride Bicycles is coming soon.

The Cool Kids - Stove Top Oven Fresh Baked Goods

Wale

Wale may be my favorite rapper right now. He understands the current state of the game. You can get all his mixtapes for free, and he clearly has talent. He is also on Mark Ronson’s good side, which is amazing when these 2 get together.

Wale - Please Listen

Wale - W.A.L.E.D.A.N.C.E.

If you really enjoyed the music from this week, I highly recommend you to attend Rock The Bells. Nas, A Tribe Called Quest, Dead Prez, The Cool Kids, Wale and many others are going to be present. Check their schedule if its coming to your town.

Girl of the Week

Keeley Hazell

Hazell was born in London, England in 1986. A troubled student, she often times was ejected from class, most likely by female teachers. At 16 she left school to work as a hairdresser but the absolutely ridiculous level of hotness she possessed was brought to her attention by her co-workers, who told her to take a shot at modeling.

- Source

Oh my, oh my, I wish I was her future newborn child. Don’t know if she is funny, don’t know if she is smart, but I know this, seeing her pictures, makes me happy, and yes, those are natural boobs. In Europe, she is popular because of obvious reasons. There is a sex tape of her circling around the net.

Rapidfire Thoughts

So simple, yet so useful, but I love like some image lightboxes and in Facebook Photo galleries, the keyboard functions. You press left arrow, goes to the previous photo, you press right arrow, goes to the next photo. Too bad flickr does not have it.
To win friends and the confidence of people, you have to go to them, not wait for them to come to you.
It has been really hot at the office lately, I wish I could take my pants off.
Professional Sports Players have the best profession. They get paid millions to do something that they love. I get paid $3.25 an hour to do something that I love. I know that is something that not everyone can say.

Quote Of The Week

“Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.”

2 Jul

Week In Review: July 1

Posted by Omar in Week In Review. 5 Comments

Welcome to the first edition of the Week In Review. Since I don’t like to deeply expand on a subject, but I like to talk about a lot of subjects, from now on (and hopefully in a consistent manner) I will do a Week In Review.

Facebook Applications are No Different Than MySpace’s Glitter

Yeah, I can hear what you are saying, MySpace sucks, Facebook rules, its applications are amazing. But when you give power to the user to customize their profile, hell breaks loose. The user experience goes to shit, and becomes unpleasant. The lack of control of how many applications a user can have on their profile is not strongly enforced. I just wanted to say hi to an old buddy, but I find 5 different walls, in which one should I leave my message?! DOES HE FUCKING NEED ALL THOSE WALLS?!!

I don’t totally blame him, I blame how easy and pretty the application do the job of spamming and encouraging its users to spread their application to all of its friends. I stopped installing application about 4 months ago, and I have received since then, approximately 100 invites to install applications, all of them which have been declined. They are no different than the Hot Girl On the webcam XXX spam that I get (outside of the possible boobies on the webcam one). It is tempting to click, but you know its no good.

And by the way, MySpace is doing a hard, but good job cleaning up its act. Redesigning its site, reducing incredibly the amount of spam received, and controling phishers. What I am saying is, once you give the user power to control, you will start seeing a lot of non-user friendly. And that was a rant!