Max Sez

Brilliant logo placing

max — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:09:51 +0000

Passing channels, found this… brilliant!

Microsoft cancelled Seinfeld ads

max — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:31:16 +0000

After only two installments of these ridiculous (and not funny) ads featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates, MS has decided to cancel it! Haha I say, Haha.

Via Valleywag.

First Microsoft Ad with Jerry Seinfeld

max — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:26:01 +0000

Tech crunch released today a video of the first MS ad featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates. (Watch it here). All I can say is: WTF? The actually spent US$300 million doing this (Seinfeld’s cut was $10 million) this is outrageous. Why? Well, first it’s not funny, second it does not transmit anything, third, its not funny, fourth who are they trying to reach and last but not least: I DON’T GET IT. No, they will not change the way I feel about Vista and please don’t treat people as computer illiterate idiots. Kthnxbye.

Colombian iPhone Launch = EPIC FAIL

max — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:50:54 +0000

The iPhone was officially launched in Colombia today. I was very excited about this, and even more they were making a midnight launch, so you could go and get yourself an iPhone. Movistar and Comcel (Colombian cellphone carriers) are both selling the device today.

There were some people in line, waiting for midnight (I’ve been in line for around an hour, I was the 10th person in line, out of about 20). And a couple of really ridiculous fangirls. <- PLEASE click on this link.

Doors opened, I was the first at a counter, horrible, horrible attention BTW. Ok lets sign those papers and get myself a new iPhone, how much is it ma'am? Uhmm that'll be $1'230,000 (about US$660) for the 16GB model and it comes with a two year plan which costs about US$90. WTF!!! That is madness!!!

Ma'am I'd like an 8GB model, how much is that? Of course, that'll be about mhhh $910,000 (about US$500)... Of course, my WTF face was unforgettable... So shall we sign the papers? ... (walking away) No thanks. Cya later.

Oh and I forgot to mention, they don't carry the 8GB model until next week, that OR this is a really bad sales scam to make people buy de 16GB one.

So, with no more to say, the Colombian iPhone launch by Movistar is an EPIC FAIL. Although I'm sure people will buy the phone (a lot of people actually), BUT I don't want to get ripped off and get stuck with a really expensive two year contract. I'm about to buy my first car, I don't need another hole in my pocket right now.

Edit: For those who have been asking, I live in Barranquilla, Colombia

Update: The price list in US currency (I was actually charged more)

Thanks to Applecol.com for the price list.

But wait, there’s more! Go to minute 4:52 and look at Jobs himself setting the worldwide price for the iPhone

Presenting Kalculator: the missing calculator in your life.

max — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:48:09 +0000

I am extremely happy to announce the release of our new iPhone software: Kalculator, it is a numeric spreadsheet/calculator hybrid with all the most commonly used operands for your operating pleasure. It has the ability to solve complex arithmetic equations. Check it out at our website or go directly to the iTunes App Store. We made it in the first 24 hours to place 49 in the top 100 paid apps for Colombia, and are already hearing good things about it.

My Personal Cuil Review

max — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:09:12 +0000

A close friend of mine was really excited about the Cuil.com launch. Honestly I don’t remember reading about Cuil, so the launch came as a surpise to me. Awesome, if he’s excited, this must be something really cool, lets go and check it out.

So, it works — hey, it searches =P. But mhhh whats so special here? I don’t get it… apart from the index falling short… I must say (and I know I’m not only talking about myself) we are used to google. We know how google works and highlights the stuff you want. It’s not magic, but it works.

Today I go back to Cuil.com after reading a CNet article linked on Techmeme curiously named “Cuil shows us how not to launch a search engine”. So I decided to go back and to my surprise I did find something cool in Cuil when I went back:

… and those tabs are cool. Search results by category FTW. Maybe Cuil has a long way to go on indexing the web, but if they pull it off categorizing your results that way, I think the’re on to something.

Put your hotmail down and slowly walk away…

max — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:51:48 +0000

I find myself using hotmail less and less, mainly two reasons. The first I switched over to macs early this year and am still having a passionate love affair with mail.app included in leopard. I’m using more than three of my gmail-based accounts (imap enabled) and it’s sweet to have all my accounts in sync.

The second reason may sound pretty dumb but hey, it did it for me. Well, windows live ajax fun stopped working with firefox 3… nobody has fixed it, there are no plans to fix it as far as I know. So Windows live hotmail and firefox 3 don’t play nice… mhhh ditch firefox or ditch hotmail… mhhhh um wait not much to think there.

Oh and btw I’ve been getting a ridiculous amount of spam to my hotmail from six months back. (Almost as much as my yahoo account). Oh god… I have too many email accounts… time to cut back.

Update and excuses to my faithful readers

max — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:47:45 +0000

Well these has been a crazy month and a half… I moved back to Colombia, started a new job and all the craziness that all those things involve. I had a warm welcome back on friday when my cell phone was stolen… but hey, nothing I can do about it now.

I apologize for the lack of updates, be sure I will be updating my blog again. Been learning lots of cool RoR stuff I will share soon.

Is Digg becoming a tabloid?

max — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:52:14 +0000

With sensationalist and other rather stupid stories on the rise and fewer good stories by the day, I must say digg is starting to disappoint. As an example here is a story that just made the digg frontpage: “Sneaker makers are seeing big dollars in little feet” … frontpage? really? ok…

Or how about this one I found the other day: [BREAKING] Scientists confirm the use of cheap sunglasses linked to eye cancer, followed by another one a few days later: [BREAKING] Use of flip flops linked to feet cancer… see my point? They’re tagged BREAKING and all. Also, we all know irresponsible exposure to the sun may cause skin cancer.

More examples! how about this one: “Study links hours in front of TV to Obesity” oh, really?? wow I never imagined that slacking on a couch eating away and not getting exercise would get me fat. People, we can do better than this.

I can go on and on forever with examples, but I just want to point out that Digg is rapidly becoming into a stupid news site, it used to be better than this.

Firefox 3 and Windows Live Hotmail

max — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:01:26 +0000

Since I upgraded to firefox 3 on both my macs, the ‘full’ version of Widows Live Hotmail will not work, instead we get a plain old html mail app. Umm I’m sure mozilla did not remove javascript support from the browser, to this is a Windows Live issue. Can we have it fixed please?

Well I’ve actually been planning lately to move away from hotmail, I actually don’t know why I still use it, so if they fix it it’s ok and if they don’t I dont really care it will just push me towards dropping the service.