http://www.omaruddin.com Strategize. Collectivize. Realize. Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:19:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With the upcoming release of Ableton Live 7, I wanted to give all my fellow Ableton-hungry producers some of the resources that I've found to be useful with regards to VSTs and Ableton 6's instruments and Live Packs. Must have Live Packs (Free or cheap!) Ableton Live Packs DownloadsThe Covert OperatorsFree Ableton ... http://www.omaruddin.com/2007/10/30/essential-ableton-live-tools-and-live-packs/ For those of us wishing the iPhone included GPS receiver built in, this is a short term solution that's a hack at best but even if it is 'off' by 100 yards, I can at least avoid the time wastage that occurs with putting a starting address into the driving ... http://www.omaruddin.com/2007/09/19/iphone-gps-hack-converts-your-iphone-to-a-personal-navigation-device/ A good friend of mine, Vid Luther from PHPCult / Linuxpowered.com, showed me Selenium, a nifty Firefox extension, today for developing test cases that you can play back into the Firefox browser including pauses, delays, keystrokes, form values, and link clicks. Selenium IDE is an integrated development environment for Selenium tests. ... http://www.omaruddin.com/2007/09/13/user-interface-testingqa-tool-for-web-developers/ Have you ever been into a meeting with a presentation being shown by some techie or project lead that attempts to describe some kind of trend or probabilistic projection and been bored by the visualization? Well many sectors of the economy rely on very simple visualization tools that aren't at ... http://www.omaruddin.com/2007/09/10/data-visualization-oh-so-pretty/ A recent article of an interview by Guy Kawasaki on the authors of a book called "egonomics: What Makes Ego Our Greatest Asset (or Most Expensive Liability)" is a great read for anyone moving up the ranks of their career and other avenues of potential success in life. Personally I ... http://www.omaruddin.com/2007/09/10/are-you-an-egomaniac-or-just-confidently-ambitious/ Steve Jobs deserves an applause again! In addition to the recent price drop from Apple for the 8GB iPhone model, an open letter from Steve Jobs gives any first-to-buy iPhone owners a $100 offer towards other Apple gear. Are you loving apple yet? http://www.omaruddin.com/2007/09/06/another-reason-to-love-apple-the-iphone/ Having been a freeleancer myself in several realms (branding / design, IT / software architecture and engineering, business development and strategy planning, operations) I've learned a lot from my own experience dealing with clients of all types. I recently came upon a great Digg post that might help fellow free ... http://www.omaruddin.com/2007/08/28/how-to-avoid-the-10-biggest-mistakes-freelancers-make/ So I've been yapping about touch screen technologies a lot this year (Apple iPhone, Microsoft Surface, Jeff Han's Multi-touch) and you may have enjoyed the essential tools I've posted for Apple's iPhone but I thought that my fellow TabletPC friends out there could enjoy some of the tools and resources ... http://www.omaruddin.com/2007/08/19/essential-tabletpc-tools-and-software/ Technion Israel Institute of Technology researchers have developed a theoretical model of a time machine that, in the distant future, could possibly enable future generations to travel into the past. An article on this research was published last week in the scientific journal Physical Review. By tweaking Einstein's space time ... http://www.omaruddin.com/2007/08/13/a-new-theoretical-model-for-time-travel-being-imagined/ Here are some great tools, tweaks, hacks, and other cool stuff for your iPhone. I'll probably be posting more stuff like this so stay tuned. If anyone has any good tools that may be useful, feel free to drop a comment with the url(s). 199 wallpapers for the iPhone by ^manicho on deviantART ... http://www.omaruddin.com/2007/08/07/the-fun-begins-on-the-iphone/