Category: Mostly Everything
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A Coffee How To: Making the Starbucks Undertow ‘Secret Drink
There’s a secret drink in Starbucks called the Undertow. The Undertow is composed of vanilla syrup with a shot of milk poured first on a double shot glass. A shot of espresso is then poured on top of the milk using the back end of a spoon so that the hot espresso stays on top…
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Videocaps from my underwater adventures
With good lighting and a steady hand, you can take great “photos” straight from your video camera. These are video caps taken from all my RAW video archive of underwater flora and fauna. It’s really simple — all you need to do is make sure that you have very still shots of your subject with…
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First Impressions: Ping
Have you tried Ping? After fiddling with the service for a couple of hours, I have concluded the following: The business model seems to make sense: over 120,000,000 iOS devices sold and over 275 million iPods as well. That puts Apple in pretty good shape to manage it’s clout into a social network for music.…
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New iPods: shuffle, nano, touch
These are screen cap from Apple’s livestream. Pretty good eh? This is Steve showing off the new iPod line: it’s completely revamped, leaving out the iPod classic. The revamped design for the shuffle is really a marriage of the button-style layout with the voice commands. And they made it smaller. The new nano is essentially…
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The New Monopoly
If you’re a fanboy like me, you’re probably still awake waiting for the live stream. Have you read the fine print at the bottom of the announcement? You need to be running on Safari or using iOS to view the stream. WTF! Sure, they’re doing a stress test of their new datacenters but they just…
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MacBook Pro: How to fix audio problems running Windows 7 via BootCamp
I had recently bought the latest 13 inch MacBook Pro and installed both Snow Leopard and WIndows 7 Ultimate via BootCamp. Everything went well save for an annoying problem with the audio not being able to work. Puzzling. After several unsuccessful tries I found out that this was a problem with BootCamp 3.0, and not…
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Justice for Alexis and Nika: The September ’10 Issue
Text from an editorial note I made after sifting through our Afterburner section to upload online: I remembered Eggy today after looking through the archives of our Afterburner section for the magazine. Unlike most, I was introduced to Alexis outside his career in film, as we went to the same college, he being a batch…
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Contest: I’m giving away an original copy of Windows 7 Ultimate Edition
With Microsoft Philippines as sponsor I am raffling off a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate Ed., perhaps the pinnacle of all Microsoft platforms for 2010. The contest may look difficult as there’s a lot of text, but it’s actually very simple. All you need to do is capture your surroundings and turn it into a…
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Saving Sally: Now this is something I’d love to see
This movie stars Rhian Ramos. Can’t wait. Thanks to Luis Katigbak for the tip.
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Sink the Bismarck: Unboxing a case from Brewdog
This post is dedicated to Helga, Fritz, Peter, Ade, Anne, Marco S., Rico, Marco P., Bim, Lauren and the rest of The Man Blog. It is also dedicated to all the friends and clients I have drank with in the past several years especially to you, Mark P., Brad and Markku!
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