Posted by: Geries Handal on: February 20, 2009
The question I have been asking myself is “where are the software companies, whose cracked software can be found on the p2p networks?”. Software companies figure out long ago, that they can fight these phenomenon. Slowly, they had changed, now big companies offer basic free versions of their products, understanding that $$$ is “Business to [...]
Posted by: Geries Handal on: February 7, 2009
Userfly is a service that permits site owners, record the sessions of their visitors. All you need to put a script in your website and viola. Its a pretty cool and useful tool, because you see how your visitors “behave” in the website, as well what works and what doesn’t.
When you sign up they give [...]
Posted by: Geries Handal on: December 3, 2008
Originally this was the title of this post:
Removing your battery from your MacBook, will decrease its performance.. So what?”
I still feel the same, however I changed my mind, when thought about it from a broader point of view. If your laptop, either made by Apple, Asus, Sony, HP, Dell, slews of the performance of the [...]
Posted by: Geries Handal on: November 6, 2008
Approximately a month ago, I finished reading “Good in a Room“. Like most of those books they use real life cases and stories to keep the reader interested. In one of the stories of a “financial advisor”, the author uses a metaphor of a window being broken several times by some kids playing. Maybe it [...]
Posted by: Geries Handal on: November 2, 2008
Lately I have heard the term “open source” and the word advantage in the same sentence. And my reaction being “aja and…”, which made me realized that people tag a new project as open source, underestimate the efforts of starting, sustaining and growing a open source project. Even more, I wonder if there are naive [...]
Posted by: Geries Handal on: August 31, 2008
In Tegucigalpa (Honduras) you will find individuals in the stop lights try to make a living by selling you some sort of product or service. In other occasions you will find kids asking for one Lempira* or any kind help. Its common to find kids offering to clean your windshield in exchange for some change.
Couple [...]
Posted by: Geries Handal on: August 11, 2008
Currently I’m looking to buy a new laptop, the one I have right now works fine, the challenge is that is 17 inch. It’s becoming a hassle to carry it from one place to another, especially when studying a master abroad. In Honduras you will find many places where you can buy a new laptop, [...]
Posted by: Geries Handal on: June 29, 2008
This is a nice presentation (and point of view) on how to make (and run) profitable business. The nice thing is that it goes “retro” where gives arguments on that the revenue model of putting a price on a product/service, still works and that its really better that trying to be the next youtube, facebook, [...]
Posted by: Geries Handal on: April 22, 2008
I was reading my RSS feeds and found a post from CrunchGear mentioning that CNN has a service where you can order T-Shirts with your favorite Headlines from CNN and that it can be hack CNN’s headline T-shirt WEB application, for it to show the headline of your choice. How to do this?
Go to this [...]
