#Sandy

My thoughts and prayers are with the people in the East Coast. Stay calm, for all storms will pass like a night that clears when dawn comes.


-MAC

Penumbra and Robin Sloan

I'm almost done with this magical - big hearted novel of Robin Sloan - Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour bookstore. 

One the book reviewers shared this heartfelt and warming review, which i totally hands-down recommend for you to read the book as well; especially if you're into IT and Literature.

a real tour-de-force, a beautiful fable that is given legs by the author’s bravado use of the real (Google is in there, for instance, the actual campus) to sell us on a shadow world of the unreal and the speculative. Robin Sloan comes across as so bighearted, so in love with the world — the ancient world, the contemporary world — so in love with love, in love with friendship, in love with the idea that our technical abilities can serve as conduits for beauty, that the reader is swept along by his enthusiasm. It’s a lot of fun — but it’s also a powerful reading experience with a wonderful undeniability. (review from Blip Magazine - George Saunders)

 I can't help but to convey that Robin is also promoting the book "House of Leaves" which i'm gonna buy later in the Apple bookstore.

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updates as of May 2024:

Going back to Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore, I'm planning to re-read it, then share to you guys the snips and epigrams lifted from the book.

 

By the way, if you don't read books now, when will you be?

- MAC

Text Expander for iOS6

Back in the days where text expander for iOS5 is kind of limited, i recently noticed this helpful change in the latest version of iOS - it is now allowed to include emoticons.

SETTINGS >
General >
Keyboard >
 Shortcuts >
Click the  + to add your keyboard shortcuts (text expanders)

If you're forehead is still wrinkled on what the heck is text expander, this is a feature where you can type a shortcut keyword and it will automatically expand in to the word or phrase. What are the benefits, it saves time; those frequently used phrases or sentences can be pre-programmed as a text expander, hence , decreasing typo errors and increasing productivity.

A Mom Breastfeeds a Dog

Newser has it that there's a mom who breastfeeds their dog-Spider. It was a pug she breastfeeds, she reasoned out that she never get to breastfeed her children before, and now, to fulfill her maternal desire, it was the pug which closed her circle of search for closure in the art of breastfeeding.

Check out the review from Huffington post after the break.

ALTO Mail

ALTO by AOL, is  this the next big thing for eMail?

Based on the premiere and write ups from TechCrunch, this is an eye candy email organization tool, it's a web based app and i so hope that there'd be an Offline mode feature in to it. It looks promising, as it can cater multiple accounts (Gmail, Yahoo, Aol, etc).

Read here for more details.