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Hoping to Make iPhone Toys as a Full-Time Job – NYTimes.com

By Jake Hackl On 04/23/2010 · Leave a Comment

Hoping to Make iPhone Toys as a Full-Time Job – NYTimes.com. Spring blog cleaning here; the fact that I’m an an inconsistent blogger is highlighted by this saved draft from 4/5/2009 regarding making iPhone apps a full-time job. Back then the plan was to write an iphone app (puts me is a small pool [...]

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How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell – The Oatmeal

By Jake Hackl On 04/23/2010 · Leave a Comment

How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell – The Oatmeal. One of The Oatmeal’s classics really hit home once again this week.

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IIS Compression in IIS6.0

By Jake Hackl On 01/13/2010 · Leave a Comment

One of my clients business is audio sales via cd-burning and downloading through retail kiosks as well as remote fulfillment via web orders (phew – say that four times fast). It is an interesting business that I’ve been working with for 4.5 years. Besides the content role I’ve had that included CDN management, transcoding, SAN [...]

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JD Laboratories also has a new approach to China

By Jake Hackl On 01/12/2010 · Leave a Comment

Today Google published their new approach on China through their blog. In an effort to show my solidarity with Google I have decided that JD Laboratories shall also take a new approach with its business in China. I’m still working on the JD Laboratories tax preparation for 2009 but thus far 0% of [...]

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Doubled the RAM on the MBPro to 8GB

By Jake Hackl On 12/16/2009 · Leave a Comment

My spring laptop came with 4GB of high-flying RAM and I’ve been waiting for prices to drop drop drop so I could max it out at 8GB and they finally fell into the range of acceptability which for me on this day is $475. There is also the weird urge of year-end spending for tax purposes; the [...]

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