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Windows 10 in 2018
I love changes, especially good changes. But Windows OS update is not one of those. I have been using Windows 7 for my home workstation nearly a decade. But I decided to update Windows 10 last week. The biggest reason is the new Premiere is dropping support Dolby AC3 (which means there is no easy way to edit my video shot on my sony cam). Here are my Day 01 observations during the course of my setup: 1. I upgraded with my Windows 7 OEM key (although Microsoft claimed a paid upgrade is required s
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Design with Data — Why should you design with real content?
We have a lot of assumptions in the process of creating wireframes and mockups for websites & apps. As wireframes & mock-ups are not dynamic, it is easy to aware various scenarios when dummy content or placeholders are used. In contrast to graphic design or typesetting, which you build on certain materials delivered by the client. Website & app is on the other side of the track, it’s like working on a blank canvas at the beginning. Stakeholders like clients & users have some rough ideas but ther
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A Brief Guide to Setting up Mac … (again)
Buying a new mac is one of the most exciting things I enjoy. The experience is sacred, since owning a new Mac is far less frequent than switching new phones (not that I switch new iPhone every year). The box-opening is a total satisfaction, a box is slowing sliding down from the cover with friction, and then you see the iconic logo at the center of the beautifully crafted art piece. Seeing the screen lit up for the first time, you almost forget how many junk files you have in your old mac and it
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PUGZ
Funded on Kickstarter on 2015, PUGZ is a small & beautifully crafted earbuds that will perfectly connect to the world without 3.5mm port. (iPhone 7 was announced in 2016 Sep, FYI). It feels like a wire headphones, so light and accessible, except Bluetooth & batteries are packed in already. There’s also a magnetic charging interface that company named “Squircle”, which can connected to a Micro-USB port / USB port through an adapter (Lightning Adapter was also the plan, but they failed to gain the