I recently just discovered a site that brings the ease and speed of Quicksilver to web search, so far it seems pretty cool. The question is if it will actually prove useful utility after the novelty wears off. I certainly like how quick it is, in fact because it searches as I type it actually feels quicker than Google.

Check it out: http://keyboardr.com/

I wish you could pay a few bucks a month to make the huge counter disappear and make the data private.

But most importantly: They have real burritos here.

Sadly, everyone at every taco shop I’ve been to so far gives me a really odd look when I mention a California burrito. Seems that it should really be called a San Diego burrito since I haven’t seen one anywhere else.

Taco shops here are quite different from the ones in San Diego

• They have a much wider selection of food (especially more authentic Mexican food like Menudo, beef tongue, brains etc)
• The “gringo” menu consists of 1. Regular Burrito or 2. Super Burrito
• A Regular Burrito has your choice of meat as well as rice, beans and salsa
• A Super Burrito adds guacamole, cheese and sour cream
• The  burritos are more expensive
• Burritos are wrapped in tin foil

I was concerned that if performance was slow on my computer It would be much worse on an older one, so I decided to test the game out on a slower PC (1.7 GHz single core) to make sure it could keep up. I was shocked to discover that it achieved an average of 98fps! Not only that but the game only used about 10-15% of the CPU, where as the game uses close to 60% of BOTH of my MacBook Pro cores.

It seems that Adobe has done one hell of a job optimizing Flash for Windows and is really lagging on the Mac end. I hope that Flash 10 will bring equal performance on each platform. At least for the time being I can rest assured knowing that if the game runs well on my computer it will run damn well on most PCs out there.

FYI, I had the latest developer debug build of Flash installed on each machine.

instantdomainsearch

Bust-A-Name

Read it here

“Cheap people think short term. Frugal people think long term.” 

http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog/cheap-versus-frugal

How NOT to calculate ad revenue

Your ad-supported Web 2.0 site is actually a B2B enterprise in disguise

5 factors that determine your advertising CPM rates

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.

Financial Models for Underachievers: Two Years of the Real Numbers of a Startup

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.