http://albertcamacho.com My playground, my rules Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:52:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Wow. Blizzard has announced the next installment of one the most addictive games ever.  I am now having flashbacks of raiding gaming cafes in Katipunan with friends early in the morning, demanding that they open up before their business hours. Such was the need to satisfy wanton hack-and-slash lust. The ... http://albertcamacho.com/2008/07/02/diablo-3-announced-sleepless-nights-await/ Well... maybe not. But you do get to be a part of a Guinness World record for most software downloaded in a day. Do yourself a favor and stop using that "other" browser. http://albertcamacho.com/2008/05/30/download-firefox-save-the-world/ Got myself the long-awaited DSLR for my birthday early this month. Here is the result of my newbie-ness. Not much post-processing for now aside from the occasional crop. See the rest of the album here. http://albertcamacho.com/2008/05/15/nikon-d60-test-shots/ Come on you geeks, admit it. You're guilty. Freelance Switch is part of my daily blog reads. Though I'm not really a freelancer right now, a lot of the stuff on this site is still pretty useful, or at least entertaining, to the cubicle-bound among us. http://albertcamacho.com/2008/04/14/ctrl-z/ So there, Remix Project is now powered by WordPress 2.5 with all of it's fresh interface goodness. There were minor kinks in the Automatic Upgrade plugin and the new Admin panel takes a while getting used to but it's all good. If you have a WordPress blog, go upgrade now. ... http://albertcamacho.com/2008/04/14/upgraded-to-wordpress-25/ Everytime Bryan Veloso redesigns his blog, the rest of us feel like little worms. His new design is a step from his usual style but he pulls it off in a very smooth manner. And yeah, "Topics" is a more suitable term than "Categories" for organizing blog posts. The best ... http://albertcamacho.com/2008/04/08/avalonstar-goes-grunge/ It's a designer's nature to nitpick and fuss over the minutest pixel. Naz Hamid over at ALA discusses how to use this obsession in polishing your work to perfection. "It’s a phrase you hear often: design is in the details. With design, paying attention to small details—and in some cases, obsessively ... http://albertcamacho.com/2008/03/04/a-list-apart-on-design-details/ Asus has been tempting me to get an EEE PC for sometime now. The announcement of the new member of the diminutive family might have sealed the deal. The next-gen EEE boasts of a larger 9-inch screen, double the RAM at 1Gb and 12GB of storage at the cost ... http://albertcamacho.com/2008/03/04/9-inches-of-eee-pc-goodness/ I cringed when Jason Kidd was dealt for Stephon Marbury in 2001. I did the dance of joy when Steve Nash was signed as a free agent in 2004, the vital piece in what has been the most entertaining show in the NBA for the past 3 years. And now this ... http://albertcamacho.com/2008/02/07/shaq-now-a-sun/ Meet the anorexic new member of the Mac family: the Macbook Air. I purposely held off posting about it until I got over the initial ooh's and aah's so I can make a more level-headed comment on the device. The Name - you would think Apple came up with another crossover ... http://albertcamacho.com/2008/01/18/the-macbook-air-is-a-thin-crunchy-biscuit/