Apr 5, 2008
Andrew Chen runs an awesome blog about all sorts of useful web/tech entreprenurial stuff. Recently he made two posts that I wish I had read a year ago when doing financial projections for Fantasy Congress. My own limited experience running a web startup for a year can second what Andrew is saying.
While Im at this I should also mention a post made by Guy Kawasaki which outlines the projections vs real costs that Redfin.com incurred during its first two years.
Apr 3, 2008
Cool new trick I just learned:
In iTunes if you want to show only songs with 3 stars or higher simply type *** into the search bar, **** for 4-star or better, you get the point. This can be paired with other things in the search box like “Vampire Weekend ***” which will then show all Vampire Weekend songs with three or more stars. Saves a lot of fuss creating smart playlists just for stars.
The only thing now keeping the search box from becoming perfect in my opinion would be a OR function. It really pisses me off that I can’t type in “Vampire Weekend || MGMT” to show songs from only those two bands. Who the hell uses |’s in their song titles anyways? Even better would be a way to add filters, like the new search in OS X 10.5 Leopard. Maybe one day…
Now that I’ve started complaining about iTunes I might as well mention my biggest gripe, no good way to queue songs! Winamp did this amazingly well. Say Im listening to music and wanted to listen to a particular song next. All I had to do was select that song and push ‘Q’ (or something like that). That song would then have a little ‘1′ next to it indicating that it was next up. I could continue adding songs like that to my heart content. Winamp also had a nice little quick search like Quicksilver, which allowed me to type the name of a song and push some key to queue it, which made the process even faster. iTunes does have queueing in the party shuffle, but it really sucks. It only works if I am listening to the party shuffle playlist, and if not, I have to take the time to pick my current playlist in party shuffle and then re-play the song I am currently listening to so that I can queue the next song… big pain in the ass. Also there is no quick way to search my library although I have a feeling there might be a way to do this in Quicksilver (I dont quite like the built in iTunes plugin).
If any of you know a way around these issues please let me know.
Mar 1, 2008
It turns out you can change the currency Skype uses from Euros to US Dollars. Just login to your account and you will find the option at the bottom of your preferences. I can now save myself from getting depressed by the declining value of the US dollar each time I use Skype.
