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Feb

[dia.lo.gues] is alive and the GarageBand eBook is also out!

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Categories: Featured

[ dia.lo.gues ] of an amateur digital musician-1.jpg As part of my previously released eBook: “Recording Your Next Hit With GarageBand” written for MakeUseOf, I am creating and maintaining a new website: dia.lo.gues.

It’s part of supersubconscious and it’s alive now. Go and visit the site if you have a spare time. Nothing’s there yet, but it will continuously grow, filled with the latest tips and trick on music creation and publication that I stumble upon; also stories and updates on my songs.

And if you like music and want to join me in the gang of home-based digital musician, download the “Recording Your Next Hit With GarageBand” eBook for free.

Jan

The Evolution of the Computer, and Life

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Categories: lighter side

I stumbled into this funny cartoon at MakeUseOf. Aside from being funny, it also makes me think that there’s more to life than sitting in front of the computer. Don’t you think?

Jan

Belated New Year’s Resolution

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Categories: ramblings and such

It’s almost two weeks past New Year’s eve. A bit too late for resolutions. But better late than never, right? I have plenty on my list – as always, and one of them is to write more regularly in my dearly SuperSubConscious.

Lack of time has always been my excuse to keep abandoning this blog, and almost a year has passed without any updates. So, I hope this upcoming year I could squeeze out more time to babble here. I also hope that you, dear readers, could put up reading more of my silly thoughts.

But enough for me. What about you? If you care to share your own resolution(s), put it down in the comment below. We’ll pray together that we can achieve our goals this year (and the years to come).

[Image credit: 1suisse]

Apr

Save US$891 on Mac Softwares and Save The World

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Categories: Featured and techie life

macheist3-bundle

If you are a Mac user, you can save US$ 891 on Mac Softwares while making a world a better place doing so.

No, it’s not an April mop. Here’s how you can do it.

MacHeist is back in its third year of promoting a bundle of Mac softwares with a crazy discount. The total bundle should be US$ 931, but they sell it for US$ 39 only.

Now, my role here is not as a salesman and I’m not selling you anything. But what I like about this event is that they will donate 25% of the profit for charity. Their goal is to raise US$ 400,000 and at the time of writing this article, they almost reach US$ 280,000.

What good things could be done with US$ 400,000? Lots of them.

So if you have US$ 39 to spare (and want to get US$ 931 worth of good quality Mac softwares), let’s support the event and help to make the world a better place. Buy the bundle here.

Note: The event will end at April 7, 2009

Oct

How to Easily Control And Manipulate Human Mind

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Categories: self hack

Either you realize it or not, want it or not, your mind is being manipulated and controlled by others each and every moment of your life. In fact, your mind is being controlled by me at this very moment. Wanted proof? You are still reading the text, aren’t you?

Even though I tried my best to come up with the best title for this post, it could still be somehow misleading. So, before we go any further, let me set the limit to our discussion. No, we will not talk about voodoo-ish kind of mind manipulating. Maybe more like science-based psycological-ish kind. Not to the hardcore level of brainwashing, but simple tricks people use everyday to their peers or even their larger environment – mass mind manipulation.

You see, human mind is full of loopholes. There are lots of scientific experiments conducted to proof this. One of them is Solomon Asch experiment in 1957. People who know and understand about this can (and surely will) take advantage of their knowledge, while the unknown are sitting ducks – ready and able to follow every ‘command’ given to them. From a simple ‘do this’ to the level of ‘kill them’. Some for the ‘good cause’ (or at least that is what the do-ers believe), some for ‘other causes’.

I have demonstrated one of the mind control tricks clearly from the very beginning. If you are reding this far, then the trick works. They say curiousity kills the cat, but this time it keeps you reading.

Emotion is the easiest pick. Make people (believe they would be) very happy and they would do anything for you. Make them feel guilty and they would do anything for you. You can also use fear – fear of losing or fear of not getting something they want – to achieve the same goal.

Everybody have their own authoritative figures: parents, kings, ugly boss who always shouts, religious leaders, celebrities, cool guy on the basketball team, society, gods, prophets, Bill Gates… You can use people’s obidience to authoritative figures to make them taking – or not taking – some actions. Continue reading ‘How to Easily Control And Manipulate Human Mind’

Jun

Getting Old On The Road

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Categories: self hack

Traffic Jam

I’m not a commuter. Not anymore – thank goodness. But my wife is. Everyday she spends few hours to go to work and another few to go home. If we do a short calculation, multiplying the hours she spent everyday on the road and the number of days she’s been doing that – almost fifteen years, we can fairly say – as my friend put it – she’s getting old on the road.

Curiously, I really did the calculation and came up with an amazingly annoying result. So far, the number of hours she spent on the road - only for going back and forth to work – equals to more than two years. If one spent those amount of time to practice classical guitar, for example, he or she would be a world class classical guitar player. Another way to see it is this: if my wife’s hourly working rate is only a dollar, she has lost about twenty thousand dollars on the road. And the number keeps on growing everyday.

What about people who spent twenty or thirty or more of years of their life commuting? Continue reading ‘Getting Old On The Road’

May

The Nights of the Electricity Dead

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Categories: techie life

light bulb

For a technology-freaky-geek like me – and most of the visitor of this page – what could be worst than no internet connection? I’ll tell you what is: no electricity.

No internet means no browsing, no email, no chatting, no downloading… For some, it’s the end of the world. Well, if it is, then what could better describe no electricity? Hell on earth? Or the night of the living dead?

No electricity means no nothing. Not even a single working light bulb. It also means that all the ice cream in you fridge will turn into warm cream. (And we can’t let our life goes on without ice cream, can’t we?). No TV. No movies. Just imagine yourself sitting in the dark living room staring at the empty TV screen.

Some would find a short savation through their iPods. But battery could only last for so long. For others who are not that fortunate, your nights would be empty.

But that’s just a “what ifs” right? You see the scene so much in the movie but never really experienced it. The no electricity, I mean. We, modern people, have been depending on electricity so much that we are afraid imagining our life without it.

Well guess what. I went through another “Nights of the Electricity Dead”. Yas, another. For us living in the so-called third world, it’s one of the daily things we have. And believe it or not, it’s not so bad. We lit some candles throughout our house, not too many actually – our house is not that big; we sat together in our living room, enjoying the serene atmosphere; I played some songs using my nylon-classical guitar and we sang together; told funny stories and laughed together. All activities that we’d never do in the electrical world because we’re too busy watching TV or working or checking emails (or eating ice cream).

So, thank you electrical company for cutting our electricity once in a while (even though there has been too many whiles..). Darkness enables me to appreciate lights. Even the smallest ones – from the candles.

Now that the lights are on, please excuse me because I have few blogs to take care of (and few hundreds emails to read…)

May

Joke of The Day: My Site is Worth Two Billion Dollars

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Categories: ramblings and such

I just came across a site called dnScoop. We can guess what they do by looking at their page title “dnScoop – Domain Name Value, History, Stats Tool and Forum.

Out of curiousity, I put the URL of my brand new blog (still building it, at the time of writing this post) -this very site you are looking right now, crossed my finger, and clicked the “Check It” button.

Bunch of statistical datas appeared – from the domain age, pagerank, traffic rank, and such – but what really caught my attention was the “Money” part (what else!). It said that one link on my site worth about $5/mo, and if there are 8 advertisers buying the links I could get about $40 per month. I smiled. Not bad for a site that still under construction.

But, here’s the joke: The Site Value Report said

The estimated value of http://www.supersubconscious.com is: $0

Then came the punchline: they smile, gave me a string of HTML code and said “Copy and Paste this code to your site.” That code will show small square banner that says “My Site is Worth $0″ Followed by a big dnScoop logo under it. It’s like having your naked picture exibited in front of your house, framed, with the name of the photographer under it.

Anyway, enough with the self pity. I continued the fun and went crazy checking out other sites that I visited often. It’s so fun that I decided this will be one of my slacking off activities.

I chucle a little bit when reading the link value report for Google.com. It said, “We can’t generate a link value for this site.” The machine thought that no advertiser can afford placing a link ad on Google. Yet, the irony is, everybody does that all the time – for just cents per click. (AdWords, anyone?)

So, I ended the journey by copying the HTML Site Value code (of Google’s), and pasting it on my site. Now, what everybody see – on the right column of the page – is that my under-construction site is worth two billion american dollars. (And it’s for sale if there’s somebody willing to pay that much. Tee-hee).

So, how much is your site worth?

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