philomyth.us

the truth is out there, so where is the “joy”

December 30, 2011
by Emmanuel
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Re-Design + Simplify

Well, here we are again, with the last post being well over a year ago and the last re-design over 2 years ago. There’s been some serious neglect as a result of social networking crowding from Facebook and now Google+.

At first, I was thinking to just scrap the ol’ blog, but then I figured that I might give it one last try. But instead of duplicating what’s already happening on the social networking sites, I am simplifying philomyth.us back down to the basics of blogging. I still haven’t decided what I’ll be posting, but I am leaning towards more long-form open-to-the-public articles that need a home.

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October 15, 2010
by Emmanuel
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Good-bye Flickr, Hello SmugMug

The past few years, I have been using a combination of flickr (photo hosting), vimeo (video hosting) and WordPress (self-hosted blog) to share our family’s pictures and videos. I had a pretty good workflow going for a time there. But after waiting forever for flickr to allow more customization, I decided to consolidate everything to SmugMug. You can see the work in progress here at er-fans.smugmug.com.

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September 13, 2010
by Emmanuel
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Beyond Bookmarking

Nowadays, I do most if not all of my reading electronically or online. And sometimes this makes it difficult when I want to go back and reference something I have read previously, whether it is an article, website or book.

The simple method of using a browsers built-in bookmarking doesn’t provide enough context and accessibility. And so I’ve been using web-based bookmarking resources for a couple of years now. But I have run into some limitations that has caused me to update the tools I use and how I use them.

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September 1, 2010
by Emmanuel
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Joining the Android Revolution

I can’t remember how long I’ve been using a Windows Mobile device as my daily communicator. It was even before I made the switch to GSM. And before that, I was using Pocket PC as my pre-phone PDA. Well, the wait for Android is over and the time has come to embrace my Google overlords (J/K).

For all the time that I was with Microsoft’s mobile platform, although it was not really an open platform, a fringe developer community (centered around xda-developers) filled the gap to make modifications and “improve” the user experience. However, as Google has pushed Android to be a viable mobile operating system and a more open development platform, it was time to make the jump.

In a nod to HTC smartphone success, I was originally trying to maintain my loyalty, but they were taking too long to come out with a high-end Android device on ATT. So after seeing the Samsung Captivate in action, and hearing Samsung’s announcement that they would be limiting their Super AMOLED screen to their own devices (i.e. no AMOLED for HTC), I made my choice.

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