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No iPhone today

After a year long waiting, still no iPhone today. Pretty unhappy. Damn you, Rogers!

Anyway, take a minute updated my blog to have a better view on iPhone/iPod Touch.

Welcome to visit http://blog.libinpan.com on your iPhone/iPod Touch! :)

Want to do it too?

Start from here: http://iwphone.contentrobot.com/

Coda 1.5 entering limited private beta

One of my favorite editor on Mac is Coda, the most important part for me is in their tagline:

Compare with my another favorite editor, TextMate, every time I open it, I will open three more windows at the same time:

  • Terminal for running application
  • Terminal for mysql
  • Browser for view my pages and documents

Coda has all of these and even more:

Text editor + Transmit + CSS editor + Terminal + Books + More = Whoah.

But, on another side, leaking of version control and no powerful bundles as TextMate keep a lot of Ruby developers out of it.

Things may change:

After a lot of work, we’re finally ready to work with some people to test Coda 1.5 — the next major release of Coda — and prepare it for the general public.

To enter Coda 1.5 limited private beta, go to:
http://www.panic.com/hive/
If registration is still available, the registration link will be in the upper-right corner of the page. (If there’s no link, we’re full.)

So what’s new in Coda 1.5?

  • Better Search and Replace?
  • Source Control Support (SVN or Git)?
  • Custom Books? Add more Ruby Document in it?
  • Better Support for more than one languages mix together in one file?

Stay tuned. :)

* Unless you want to use more than one window. Which is totally cool.

Apple, disgusted with Rogers Wireless for dumping egregious service plans on would-be iPhone 3G buyers, has decided that its Canadian retail stores will have no part in helping the carrier market the new handset to customers. As a result, Canadian Apple Retail stores won’t be selling the new 3G touch-screen phones come Friday.

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  • Filed under: Apple, English
  • We’ve just launched a new feature on LearnHub.com: Question Bank.

    Over 1,500 members use this innovative social interface to practice for exams, which includes tools to allow members to time themselves, debate solutions and strategy with each other, and to track their improvement over time. The question banks grow daily as members and staff add new questions. As one of the only alternatives to expensive books and courses, LearnHub’s free SAT and GMAT communities are catching on quickly, averaging 50 new members every day since their launch.

    PRWeb

    Here is one thing makes our question bank so unique:

    After you answer the questions, you will not only see the correct answers, but also the comments from other people who have answered the same question! And you can share your thoughts with us too.

    Simple, but useful.

    Should I say: it’s time for Community Practicing?!

    More on news:

    LearnHub.com Launches World’s Largest Free SAT and GMAT Question Banks , PRWeb

    Learnhub.com Introduces Free SAT and GMAT Question Banks, WATBlog

    LearnHub launches world’s largest free SAT & GMAT question banks, Chalo Campus

    LearnHub.com Launches World’s Largest Free SAT and GMAT Question Banks, StartupNorth

    LearnHub.com launches SAT & GMAT question banks, MeriNews

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  • Filed under: English, Toronto
  • Outsourcing 2.0

    Working with web developers in India: why, whom, and how

    Outsourcing or not?

    Win-win or win-lose?

    Be sure to read the comments.

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  • Filed under: Agile, English, Software
  • iftop: display bandwidth usage on an interface

    How to install?

    • Download and install the Universal Binary from here
    • Or if you already have MacPort installed

    sudo port install iftop

    How to use it?

    • run “ifconfig -l” or “/Applications/Utilities/Network\ Utility.app” to get your network interface id.

    • In my case is ‘en1′, so I just type into Terminal:

    sudo iftop -i en1

    Enjoy!
    Tales From The Command Line: Where Has My Bandwidth Gone?

    FireFox did it!

    Don’t forget to download your very own certificate for helping set a Guinness World Record.

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  • Filed under: English, Software
  • Trading Places with Indian Outsourcers

    This is the best show I’ve seen on this topic, besides the movie Outsourced. Definitely worth watching!

    Roger Spurlock (from the Supersize Me movie) explores what the the US job outsourcing experience is like on the other side.

    Outsourcing has changed our planet.

    This was done on the “30 Days” series on FX hosted by Morgan Spurlock. It was very entertaining and thought-provoking for the guy who went to India, the Indians themselves and, of course, those of us watching.

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  • Filed under: English, Software
  • Keyboard navigation for TextMate stacktraces

    Put this script at the end of /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/script/webpreview.js.

    document.addEventListener('keypress', function(e){
        var key = e.keyCode
        if (key != 63233 && key != 63232) return
        links = document.getElementsByTagName('a')
        for (var i = 1; i < links.length; i++)
            if (links[i].title == 'focused') break
        if (i == links.length) i = 0
        links[i].title = null
        if (key == 63233){
            if (i == (links.length - 1)) i = 1
            else i += 1
        }
        if (key == 63232){
            if (i <= 1) i = links.length - 1
            else i -= 1
        }
        links[i].title = 'focused'
        links[i].focus()
    })
    

    Incredibly useful when I am running my tests!

    Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts on Mac

    Top Ten Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts

    1. ⌘ + l = focus address bar
    2. ⌘ + d = bookmark current page
    3. ⌘ + k = focus google search bar
    4. ⌘ + f = find
    5. ⌘ + g = find next
    6. ⌘ + t = new tab
    7. ⌘ + w = close current tab
    8. ⌘ + shift + t = reopen accidentally closed tab (Best one ever!)
    9. crtl + tab = tab through tabs
    10. crtl + shift + tab = tab backwards through tabs

    Bonus for Delicious Extension users:

    ⌘ + Shift + . = pulls delicious page if you have delicious firefox extension installed

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