A little something for everyone who got a new iPhone this iDay!

With every other A-lister raving about the iPhone, I can’t help but feel happy for everyone who got themselves a unit. I mean come on, these people deserve some credit as they went through hell, with some even camping out Apple stores days before launch, just to be one of the first to own Apple’s newest, much anticipated product.

So here’s a little something for all of you lucky, proud new owners of an iPhone:

Seriously.

How to: Free up Disk Space on your Mac by removing retarded non-English languages with Monolingual

As a recent Mac convert, I’ve been all about optimizing my sexy 2.0Ghz Core 2 Duo Macbook into a machine of pure molten productivity. I’ve been doing a good job at it too if I do say so myself. (In fact my work productivity exhibited a marked improvement since I got my Mac. For instance, I now only spend 3 hours at work making personal phone calls and dicking around internet forums from my usual 5.Also, I now only steal an average of 2 reams of bond paper a month from my usual 5)

Anyway, my biggest gripe with my Macbook is its limited hard disk space. Now, for most people, 80GB of disk space is more than enough but if you’re anything like me, you’d have gigabytes and gigabytes worth of bestiality, bondage and clown porn so 80GB would be nowhere enough. I stumbled upon a nifty little app called Monolingual which strips out language localizations you never use on your Mac.

You see, Apple is very considerations in installing language localization packs for a LOT of languages. This way, whether you work in English, German or Afrikaans, you can use your machine.

However, I do not work in Afrikaans so this particular localization is pretty useless to me.And face it, chances are you’re not going to learn any new languages in the near future (the last time I actually tried to learn a new language was 2 years ago. I tried to learn French to impress ladies–you know so I could say to them “Listen to the elegant language I speak, look at how cultured I am. I belong to a rich country like Monaco while you, obviously, belong in the slums of Tondo. Come now, make haste, suck my bird.”) let alone be fluent enough in them to want a localization pack for it on your computer.

The interface is pretty straight-forward to, just check the retarded languages you want to remove from your system and click the “remove” button and you’re done. When I ran monolingual on my machine, I ended up freeing up 125MB of hard disk space–space which would be put to better use by downloading more interracial porn for my collection.

Download Monolingual via SourceForge.

LazyCast Episode 3- Relationship Lifecycle

In this episode, I talk about my version of a relationship lifecycle:

 
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Plaxo 3.0 - All about sync

I’ve been using Plaxo to organize and keep my contacts up to date for over a year now. Of course, I did so intense adverse criticism from the likes of Jason Calacanis and Web 2.0 snob par excellence Michael Arrington notwithstanding.Plaxo’s value proposition is novel yet incredibly simple–use the service to organize your contacts, update all your contacts with any changes in your contact information (new Phone number, new Email address etc.), and request/receive updates on changes on any of your contacts’ details.

Pretty straightforward if you ask me, but it turns out that Plaxo’s request update function was too easy to use. The service got a lot of flak from users who got inundated with update requests and were quick to call the company out on sending tons of notification that many deemed to be spammish.

But if you’re anything like me who spent numerous years in Business Development and Marketing, you’d have over 500 contacts in your address book, a good number of which you consider to be business prospects, your contention would be that you take the good with the bad and there is no better service out there to keep your address book organized and updated.

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il Pirata, Ecstasy

Let me just say that I am not a very big fan of themed restaurants. So, upon arriving Sunday night at il Pirata over at Eastwood City, I was a little suspect. Il Pirata is supposedly a pirate-themed restaurant which boasts of authentic Italian cuisine replete with exotic herbs and spices from the Mediterranean.

From the outside, it doesn’t look at all promising; what with the cheap-looking wooden exterior, gold accents and grinning skulls that make the entire pirate theme look forced, and a pirate ship/kids’ playground which looks like it came straight out of a B-movie.

The restaurant was actually the girl friend’s pick and as with most of her choices as far as restaurants are concerned, it was a little too awkward for me primarily because unlike most people, I do not have this blind fascination with pirates. So yeah, I do not want to run a fantasy of hoisting the Jolly Roger flag and hidden treasures through my head concurrently while I eat. I’m a very pragmatic man and all I really want to do at restaurants is get in, eat my food, check out hot women (and of course go to the rest room every 10 minutes or so for some hand comfort) and get the fuck out to smoke a cigarette. Read more

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