9 posts tagged “screenshots”
(Crossposted from www.c4chaos.com)
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When distance is dead yet long distance sucks… Equanimity is virtue.
(Crossposted from www.c4chaos.com)
When distance is dead yet long distance sucks… Skype for Mac is virtue.
After three months of uninterrupted bliss I'm back again to long distance sucks.
Thank God for Skype! But here's my rant:
Skype for Mac crashes whenever the other party starts to video call. This happens everytime if I'm the one who started the video call. My workaround is to have the other party initiate the call. Less application crashes that way. Once the video call is connected everything seems to be fine. Crashing happens only when initiating the video call.
But all in all Skype for Mac is very slick. I'm now seriously contemplating of purchasing SkypeIn and SkypeOut accounts. Thanks to the Skype Team for making the distance a bit bearable! You guys rock!
Serendipitous note: Before I left Ireland, Skype for Mac Beta (with video) was launched. The gods of long distance smooching is still smiling at me. Ah well...
Thanks dawg!
(Crossposted from www.c4chaos.com)
I've finally had some time to play with Flickr's brand new uber spiffy geotagging feature. All I can say is that I'm very impressed. This is an awesome feature which is elegantly implemented. With just a few quick drag and drop from the Flickr Organizr you can geotag your photos in an instant. The Flickr Map interface is very user-friendly. You don't even need to watch a tutorial.
Good thing for me I have a bad case of obsessive-compulsive tagging so all my Flickr photos have geographical tags. That's why it was a piece of cake for me to search my photos by location and instantly drag and drop them all over the Flickr Map. Saweet!
As of this writing the only not-so-cool thing I noticed is that the map (er, Yahoo! Map) has not much details on European countries. But its no big deal for me right now because the paranoid in me doesn't want to pinpoint exactly where I am at any given time anyway. That's the reason why I geotagged my photos (for now) at a very high zoom level (e.g. city-level rather than street-level). I have no doubt that Flickr Geotag would evolve in hyperspeed in the near future, especially now that they've released the Geo API.
With its elegant geotagging feature Flickr remains as the hippest photo-sharing service in particular and Web 2.0 app in general. This makes me proud of staying with Flickr since their humble beginnings. As Flickr grows, my photographic skills and means of sharing grows too. Very fluffy.
NOTE: For some cool Flickr Geotagging exercises, try browsing photos on famous locations such as geotagged "honeymoon" in Paris, France. Or browse all my photos in and around the Seattle area. Or browse those monkeys in California. Or browse all "Starbucks" photos in China. Resistance is partial :)
P.S. Oh, btw, here's my Flickr Map: http://flickr.com/photos/coolmel/map
(Crossposted from ~C4Chaos@Zaadz.com)
What is Enlightenment? is turning 15! And what better way to celebrate this coming of age than by becoming the very first Zaadz partner!
Check out the blending of 21st century spirituality and social networking with a purpose at
Changing the world one partnership at a time…
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I've just seen the movie Lord of War last night. I like it. It's a great movie and a skillful documentary wrapped in a rental DVD. It's about international arms trade, the psychology of the people behind it, the governments who supply and use them, and the people who try to stop them. Different perspectives on the issue of arms trade were presented skillfully to illustrate that this is indeed a global problem worthy of our attention, much like global warming.
Although the movie was sprinkled with black comedy, the message of the film had gotten into me. I still feel depressed knowing that no matter how much “good” we all do, “evil prevails.” The hypocricies of governments and bureaucratic politics depresssed the hell out of me.
However, looking at the character of Nicholas Cage in the movie, I realized that no matter how much we hate him, I think that he is one of those “enlightened” people in the movie. Why? Because he consciously chose his role in the “game.” He understands his place in it. And he knows that he is already in “hell” yet he sees a bigger picture of “reality” that most idealists fail to grasp.
Go see this film. Rent the DVD and see the accompanying documentary. It's a wake up call for all idealists and spiritually-drunk people who think that they can bring “peace” into this world. It may depress you like what it did to me. But, serendipitously, when I opened my email this morning, I got this Rigpa quote. I felt chills running up and down my spine, then the feeling of depression was replaced by a feeling of peace and acceptance, that we're all in this game, covering our eyes with our stupid helms, playing our roles in this samsaric realm.
August 4
For all its dangers, today’s world is also a very exciting one. The modern mind is slowly opening to different visions of reality. Great teachers like the Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa can be seen on television; many masters from the East now visit and teach in the West; and books from all the mystical traditions are winning an increasingly large audience. The desperate situation of the planet is slowly waking people up to the necessity for transformation on a global scale.
Enlightenment is real, and there are enlightened masters still on the earth. When you actually meet one, you will be shaken and moved in the depths of your heart and you will realize that all the words, such as illumination and wisdom, that you thought were only ideas are in fact true.
~C (for C4 and arms trafficking kill more people than global warming and nuclear weapons)
(Crossposted from ~C4Chaos@Zaadz.com)
Your weblog is your playground. Keep it fun for yourself. Pretend that
your audience thinks you are the most fascinating person alive, and use
whatever tools you have to let them know exactly what you think about
current foreign policy, your favorite brand of tofu, or your new
haircut. -- Rebecca Blood
(Note: If you're reading this and you don't have a Zaadz account yet, JOIN US. It's free and fluffy.) Yes my friends, Zaadz Books are here! (and it's really hotter than SJ in a geeky kind of way) :) I'm sure a lot of Zaadzsters out there would love this new feature because Zaadzsters LOVE TO READ! I personally dig this new cool functionality. In fact, I just moved all my BOOKS THAT DON'T SUCK to ~myBookshelf. Check out the stuff I've read, reading, and planning to read. Sweet. Here are some stuff you can do with zBooks: – Search and browse books from within Zaadz or Amazon – Add books to your BookShelf – Rate those books that you've read – Discuss with fellow Zaadzsters those books you've read – Review the books that you've read – Tag your books so you can and others could find them serendipitously – And here's the cool part: Add quotes from your favorite books! And that's only the beginning! There are lots of cool
stuff we're planning with zBooks. More
functionality and improvements to come. In the meantime, start browsing and
adding books to your bookshelf. Charles W. Eliot once
said,
"Books are the quietest and most constant
of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and
the most patient of teachers." ~C (for Compassionate collection of books) 
Source: The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog, Page: 69
(Crossposted from ~C4Chaos@Zaadz.com) Ok. Fine. I confess. I just saw the movie Mulholland Drive.
I've been wanting to watch this film since it was released but I didn't
get the chance. Now five years later I finally got to see it. And man!
this movie is uber-weird! I didn't mind the Naomi Watts experience though. That part was hot! But the entire movie, I mean everything, is just out of the ordinary. That mind of David Lynch is really creepy. No wonder. He's one of the reasons I'm interested in Transcendental Meditation. Check out his speech on Consciousness, Creativity, and the Brain. Now that is consciously cool. About
Mulholland Drive… I'm still figuring out the meaning of that film.
Serendipitously, on the same day I've seen the film, I just blogged
about Imagining the Tenth Dimension. So I have a good idea on what the film is all about. I think. So
if you're reading this and you've already seen the film, feel free to
post your thoughts and interpretations about it and let's see if we
have similar ideas about it. As for those who still haven't seen it,
stop reading the comment section to avoid spoiler. Go out and rent the film and watch it while eating popcorn or something. Silencio!
(Crossposted from ~C4Chaos@Zaadz.com)
Just watched this cool Flash animation on Imagining the Tenth Dimension. This reminded me of Michio Kaku's Hyperspace which I've read years ago. Although I see little to no impact on my personal and social life of being able to imagine stuff beyond the 4th dimension, it's still cool to exercise my limited mental apparatus from time to time.
So check out this animation (click Imagining the Ten Dimensions on the Navigation pane) and let it stretch your mind to infinity and beyond…. the physical plane. Then buy the book.
Props to the Mystical Chef for this cool find.
(Crossposted from www.c4chaos.com)
I finally got an invite to join Vox. I spent a couple of hours exploring this new cool blogging / social networking tool. All I can say is, VOX IS HAWT!!!
Vox is Blogger + LiveJournal and then some! Photo functionality is integrated with Flickr and PhotoBucket; Video functionality is integrated with YouTube; Audio functionality is integrated with, um, nothing yet (i hope they integrate it with Odeo). The Organize feature is kick ass! You have access to all your stuff in a single portal. The Explore Your Neighborhood provides users with a cool navigation to easily explore the Vox network. Design customization is limited but sweet since there are lots of themes to choose from. The tagging feature is neat and I really like the automatic importing of tags from Flickr and YouTube. For now, all I can say are props to the SixApart team for doing a fantastic job of integrating blogging and social networking functionality into one cool package – one blog tool to rule them all. I feel like a kid with a groovy new toy. I hope they open up their API so we can integrate it with Zaadz.
In the meantime, I'll be exploring this Vox Rabbit Hole some more. Check out my my Vox Blog and my Vox Profile. I'm adding this thing to my ~Ubiquitous Nirvana. That is all for now.
