RIP Steve Jobs: 1955-2011
You have to admit that Steve Jobs was a genius – a brilliant innovator and businessman. He took a failing company and transformed it into an innovative, popular and technologically influential force that is received positively by almost everyone.
As much as I rip on Apple and their fanboys, you have to respect what the company has done along the way and how they have influenced the tech industry. They really know how to market products and sell the shit out of them.
Here is one brilliant video of Jobs in 1997, before Apple came all the way back to become a market leader. There’s something about this video that I just find interesting. Some guy is ripping Jobs apart and his response is just brilliant.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF-tKLISfPE
Two quotes to remember, which every software and hardware company should go by:
“You can only please some of the people some of the time.”
“You’ve gotta start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can’t start with the technology and try to figure out where you’re going to sell it.“
PS – what’s the over/under Apple stock goes down more than 10% tomorrow? I’m going over. -11%
HA! Steve Jobs misses his first event in years and what ends up happening? No iPhone 5. Just a measly iPhone 4S and a 5% drop in Apple stock. Same exact thing as the iPhone 4, but with better guts. Bahahaha, what a waste. Android already has phones with better hardware (none of which I’m a fan of, unfortunately). It’s a damn shame all of the tech blogs on my news reader are taking about this stupid ass phone like it’s the end of the world.
Fucking Apple. I can’t wait to get me a Nexus Prime. This thing better be designed to piss all over the iPhone 4S. Like… Samsung should literally not even release it until it is better.
This is probably useless for everyone, but I couldn’t find anything on the interwebs that did what I needed, so I had to write a program to do it myself.
Basically, I have a string of text that I need to paste over and over throughout the day. I always copy this text to my clipboard, but over the course of the day, I work with a lot of images and those end up copied to my clipboard – not the string of text I need. Then I have to go back into notepad and copy it all over again, which wastes a good 15 seconds. Fuck that noise. It takes too long. I want to be able to do this with hotkeys.
So I fired up VB.NET because that’s what lazy fuckers do. I haven’t written a Windows program since 2006 when shitty assed VB6 was all the rage and .NET is different, but whatever. I can figure anything out.
So what does this thing do? You enter text in the box of the app and minimize it. The program registers a global Windows hotkey (Control Alt Z) which will copy the text from the box to the clipboard. “Well that’s damn useless… What a stupid assed program” Nope. It saves me time from stopping what I’m doing to find the original data and manually recopy. So even if I copied something else to my clipboard, all I have to do is hit Control-Alt-Z then Control-V and BAM my original data is pasted again. #winning
Download here
(This might need .NET 4 libraries to run, but I have no clue)
