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"A book type family for small sizes  Premiéra is a book typeface specifically designed to work in small sizes. It is available in 3 weights: the ‘Book’ for main text demands and two styles (Bold and Italic) to create different kind of emphasis. A strong x-height and short ascender/descender make this very legible and elegant typeface very suitable for use in books and newspapers. The idea for Premiéra comes from a demand on developing a typeface that works very well in small prints. Its main features, straight lines and sharp forms, developed through a process of testing readability in very small print sizes. The result is a typeface with a strong personality whether you read it in small or in bigger size." - lautaro from Bookmarklet

"The UIScrollView and UIPageControl in Cocoa Touch allow for user interfaces with multiple panning pages. The sample project that Apple provides (PageControl) keeps all child views for every page in a lazily loaded array. I'll show you how you can implement this using just two child views, no matter how many virtual pages you wish to represent." - lautaro from Bookmarklet

"Enjoy the remainder of the summer relaxing in a Hammock Bliss Triple ($75). Billed as the world's largest portable hammock, the Triple is over eight feet wide and nearly ten feet long, perfect for couples, and is made from quick drying, breathable parachute nylon with sides of 770lb test climbing rope, and weighs only 26 oz. when packed into the attached travel sack, making it easy to pack along with you." - lautaro from Bookmarklet

"BWToolkit is an Interface Builder plugin that contains commonly used UI elements and other objects designed to simplify Mac development." - lautaro from Bookmarklet

"Interface complexity is an issue every designer wrestles with when designing a reasonably sophisticated application. A complex interface can reduce user effectiveness, increase the learning curve of the application, and cause users to feel intimidated and overwhelmed." - lautaro from Bookmarklet

"How to build an Apple Push Notification provider server (tutorial)" - lautaro from Bookmarklet

"the minimum viable product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort." - lautaro from Bookmarklet

"Even though you may be onto something, your first idea probably sucks.  Very few software startups get it right the first iteration." - lautaro from Bookmarklet

"CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious components." - lautaro from Bookmarklet

"beaTunes' powerful inspection feature lets you clean up your iTunes track data in a way unrivaled by any other software on the market today. Easily find typos or different spellings of artists' names, automatically fill in the album artist names, and much more. No more R.E.M. and REM in your iPod's artist list! No more albums hidden in the compilations section." - lautaro from Bookmarklet

"MultipleDownload, NSOperation - NSOperationQueue" - lautaro from Bookmarklet

"Microsoft Research announced on Wednesday that Mr. Gates, who purchased the rights to the videos privately from the Feynman estate, BBC and from Cornell University, in cooperation with Curtis Wong, a Microsoft researcher, has created a Web site that is intended to enhance the videos by annotating them with related digital content." - lautaro from Bookmarklet

"With DaisyDisk you can free up disk space by quickly finding and deleting big, useless files. The program scans any mounted disk and displays it on the sunburst map, where segments mean files and folders, proportionally to their sizes. The map is easy to read and navigate. You can also quickly preview any file and reveal it in Finder to delete." - lautaro from Bookmarklet

"These verses are perhaps some of the most poignant (and tragic) Jackson has ever sung. Beyond the literalness of the drug itself is Jackson's persistent yearning to escape from pain, loneliness, confusion, and relentless pressure." - lautaro from Bookmarklet

"Tiger Articles Mac OS X v.10.4 Tiger Overview: New features, APIs, and frameworks. Working with Spotlight: Powerful search technologies. Developing Dashboard Widgets: Quick and easy mini-applications. Developing 64-bit Applications: Break the 32-bit limitations. Working with Automator: Streamline everyday manual tasks. Working with Xcode 2.0: Compelling new features in app development. Developing with Core Image: Highly accurate, high-performance image processing. Developing with Core Data: Graphically define your application's data model. Core Data, new in Tiger, completes the Cocoa vision for building well-factored applications based on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern by providing a strong, flexible, and powerful data model framework. This vision started with Interface Builder which has long provided a world-class solution for defining the user interface, known as the view in MVC terminology, quickly and easily while eliminating innumerable lines of code in the process. Mac... more... - lautaro from Bookmarklet

"The Core Data framework provides a lot of new functionality to Cocoa developers, but manages to do so without creating an immense class hierarchy. There are approximately a dozen key classes, which are divided into Model, Runtime and Query classes in this document." - lautaro from Bookmarklet

"When you optimize every line of code for your website, don't forget about your static content - including images. Simple improvements can drastically decrease your download size, without diminishing the site's quality." - lautaro from Bookmarklet

"We face two challenges as we try to manage our behavior: the challenge of initiative (exercise, make one more sales phone call, work another hour on that presentation, write that proposal) and the challenge of restraint (don't eat that cookie, don't speak so much in that meeting, don't yell back, don't solve your employee's problem for him)." - lautaro from Bookmarklet

"Children who are able to pass the marshmallow test enjoy greater success as adults." - lautaro from Bookmarklet

"In celebration of The Plaza's recent $400 million renovation, experience the grand debut of New York's ultimate luxury lifestyle destination. Located at the crossroads of Central Park and Fifth Avenue, amid endless shopping, spectacular art, thriving culture, unbelievable dining and lively nightlife, The Plaza is New York's most celebrated address.  A seamless fusion of traditional and modern, and a passion for uncompromising service combine to create an experience that is indulgent, exquisite, and truly unforgettable." - lautaro from Bookmarklet

"PODCASTHow We Got StartedThe Four Seasons founder recalls the rise of a most unexpected hotel giant" - lautaro from Bookmarklet

"StudioDesk SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR LAPTOP USERS A clutter free working environment while still connected to all your peripherals." - lautaro from Bookmarklet

""From now on, we're going to build and operate hotels only of exceptional quality, and we're going to make each one the best."" - lautaro from Bookmarklet

"The Kindle DX has finally made it worth owning a Kindle for the purpose of reading technical books.  The native PDF rendering works wonderfully.  Also, many of the books below, if not free in the first place, were significantly cheaper than the dead tree equivalent which resulted in a large cost savings.  Finally, the weight of the Kindle, roughly 18oz, is significantly lighter to carry than all of these books (which only represent a few of the 100+ PDFs on the device which only occupy a few percentage of the total storage capacity)." - lautaro from Bookmarklet

"Web developer Antone Roundy posted an intriguing YouTube video on his blog last week about how he's using the free Google Trends service to create online news content that draws massive traffic to his Net Pulse News project." - lautaro from Bookmarklet

How Tony Hsieh uses relentless innovation, stellar customer service, and a staff of believers to make Zappos.com an e-commerce juggernaut -- and one of the most blissed-out businesses in America - lautaro from Bookmarklet

Paul Graham's business school and investment fund, Y Combinator, has launched 145 companies -- for a lot less money than you would think - lautaro from Bookmarklet

Nine steps to living well forever... by Ray Kurweil and Terry Grossman - lautaro from Bookmarklet

What Mark Twain once said of the weather now sometimes seems true of the state of print newspapers. Everyone complains about it, but precious little is being done to actually remake the papers—not reduce them by slicing the staff ever thinner, or cut a section here, a feature there, but actually remake them. Even if print is dying, it isn’t dead yet (at least in most places), and newspapers still present real economic potential. Herewith, with a nod to one of the greatest newspaper publishers there ever was, a proposal for rethinking the role of the print paper. - lautaro from Bookmarklet

"Apple may have just taken another groundbreaking step in the age of citizen journalism." - lautaro from Bookmarklet