• Brand New: Sprite Gets More Sprite
• I love this website. Again another new logo for an old company. I honestly never got why so many companies are messing with a good thing. This is your brand and something the public has viewed as "YOU" for so long, if you choose to change it please make sure it is a great change. From this picture I see no point in this change, the new logo doesnt look any better or any worse. This defeats any purpose of the change in the first place, because it gets no press or any other reaction positive or negative. Don't fix it if it aint broke!

Another Innocent young man

Another young man killed for absolutely no reason. If you haven't heard a young man Oscar Grant in Oakland, California was killed (executed) on New Years Day by an officer.

Grant and some friends got into a fight on the train which obviously led the BART officer to handcuff them. What doesn't make sense is the fact that minutes later he was shot execution style. He was handcuffed and on the platform while getting shot by this officer.

Thanks to a girl on a passing train who recorded the whole act on her cell phone, we can all see what exactly happened on YouTube and even news networks.

The excuse used by the officer and the department is that the Bart officer mistaken his gun for his tazer. Sometimes I think that the public is so dumbed down that we star to just assume right in every single person even if it is right in front of us. As much as I hate violence I am glad they are protests and riots going on in Oakland because things like that cannot go on anymore.

This isn't based on race, this is based on rights. There was no reason to pull out the tazer from my eyes because the young man had three officers on him, what more can he possibly do?. I have heard of too many people being killed by Tazer guns this whole summer so I don't think that's even a save way to calm someone down. How in the world are you going to explain to his parents and his family that your son has died due to mistaken weapon identity?

In this day and age Officers have way too many rights and reasons to fire a gun and in this event there was absolutely no cause for it. Sometimes important news like this gets lost and for simple reasons like news on the other coast didnt report it and etc. I hope all of you take this problem seriously as we did Sean Bell and many more in the future. I haven't heard a peep from any politicians on this and not even Barack, but thats another story. What do you guys think fo all this?

I love this position because I get to bring up new concepts and Ideas when I see fit and my opinion is being listened too for once! ]]> Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:52:13 -0700 http://virb.com/seanhills/posts/text/857330 http://virb.com/seanhills/posts/text/857329 If you don't know me well by now I am the person who is alwasy trying out new things even when everyone else is using the norm or so call best. So here I will just list some webware and software products that in my eye are worth the shot.

• OPERA 9.5 - I have for the past two years been using camino web browser instead of firefox for mac because of it's sluggish ways, which is very annoying and can make a user unproductive. After a while I just wanted more choices in my web browser and more spead since I average 25 plus tabs a day. So I started using Opera 9.5 and surprisingly it has out performed all of those browsers in speed and memory usage, which are important to me.
  

  Opera Web Broswer 9.5

  A lot of people have just bypassed Opera but with this new version there is no way I am going back to firefox at this time. It's new interface, updated email client, custom rendering engine and it's amazing Opera Link, that syncs your bookmarks and Speed Dial between your computers and mobile phone are built in and just make using it great. There are plenty other items tied in with the browser like better fraud protection, but Ill let you check it out for yourself.

• OPERA MINI 9.5

If you are going to use Opera 9.5 on the computer using it on the cell is a must. Opera mini is the best web browser on the mobile phone and I think will continue being so because of its innovation and anyone with less fancy cellphones and even blackberys can enjoy full websites on their mobile device so check it out.

• Clicky Web Aanalyics - One day I was getting annoyed with google analytics lack of live updates to its web stats. To me I just wanted to see the habits of the users in real time and maybe even get organization names and get something extra about my future client, employer etc. I stumbled upon a blog discussing several sites that are better than google analytics and I was amazed right away. Here is a list of thing sthat are offered by Clicky.

Track outbound links
Track downloads
Bounce rates
Visitor organizations (e.g. Microsoft Corp)
Visitor hostnames (e.g. comcast.net)
Most active visitors
Track custom data for every visitor (usernames, cookies, etc)
Email reports
IP tags
Real time data
Widgets of Mass Deliciousness to put on your web site
Get your stats via RSS feeds
View popular data in a TagCloud instead of boring tables and charts
Aggregate (multi-day) view for all data
Data export to CSV, XML, and JSON
Spy (a live view of your web site)
Works with visitors who have disabled JavaScript
White label as your own product
Official WordPress plugin for easy integration with your blog
FeedBurner RSS stats integration
Google Maps integration
Clean, modern interface
Public statistics
Updated constantly
Free service
Insanely affordable premium service
(starting at less than $2/month) n/a
Affiliate program to earn you cash or free premium service

There are more products to come! I figured I would start off with a quick post, but it ended up long so I will make daily updates about new products you might be interested in so keep an eye out.

iPhone app lets you search the Web with your mouth ?

A quick overview from the folks from webware about a new iphone application that uses your voice to search the web. Honestly what is the purpose of this ? Do I really need to use this at all, like things can sound cool, but please make them useful.

• #111 Pea Coats ]]> Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:52:11 -0700 http://virb.com/seanhills/posts/text/857327 http://virb.com/seanhills/posts/text/813992 As you heard or read a million times already Google has developed it's own browser dubbed "Google Chrome". Everyone seems to think this is the best thing since slice bread but it isn't by far. It looks decent with its simple design and UI and was pretty fast when I tried it, but of course its only a beta version and the first one at that. Unless they plan to just continue to call it Beta like Gmail for the next 4 years. ]]> Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:41:35 -0700 http://virb.com/seanhills/posts/text/813992 http://virb.com/seanhills/posts/text/794810 So if you haven't noticed yet, I have redesigned my blog and portfolio site yesterday night. This took a week and 2 days to get the design and structure down. Also, I am still working my blog ]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:40:00 -0700 http://virb.com/seanhills/posts/text/794810 http://virb.com/seanhills/posts/text/747243 If you can't get enough of my tips and reviews or rants just bookmark me. If you have an iPhone Sean Hills Design Blog is now fully functional for you. Thanks to a handy wordpress plugin & theme called iwphone-wordpress-plugin-and-theme and some css hacks. Just go to www.seanhills.com/blog and it will recognize you are using an iPhone, then watch the magic happen. Check it out son !!!

  
  

  

  

  

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  ]]> Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:59:14 -0700 http://virb.com/seanhills/posts/text/747242 http://virb.com/seanhills/posts/text/746150 One of my favorite spots to chill in Austin is definitely Hickory Street. It's a great place to just hang out have a nice $3 magarita a jerk chicken sanwich and watch some open mike. It's funny cause if I was in my hometown in NYC I would be stressed out about some non important nonsense and wouldn't take time to just relax and enjoy the nice day. Other news I am still on the job hunt and it doesn't bother me because I know after all these interviews and emails I will end up in a great place. Life is a long jouney full of rough times and good times, but the most important thing is to stay focused on the main goal. I came to Austin to change the cycle of how many new yorkers think and especially people in the hood. I always here it's impossible to do this and that, but no one ever tries. Well this is me trying and very close to accomplishing that goal. It's all in your hands so grab it.

  

  

  

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