Comments (0) Joroto is seeking $2,000,000 investment for a unique web project. This web domain is perfectly timed with the current economic crisis and stands to gain large revenues and constant use.
If you represent investors, and have great vision and the ability to understand the widespread effect of a business from a generalized overview, please contact us at blog@joroto.com.
John C. Boukis
Working for a dot com can be much less glamorous than advertised. It can even be downright inhumane. The vast wealth gained by programming iPod applications, or reaching any mass audience when one is not prepared, can lead to a tortured life.
Always keep this in mind: If you are buying Joroto’s products, you will be contributing to this morbid lifestyle. You are helping to provide too much money to too few people, and usually they are programmers. Those are the last ones who will know what to do with their success. Here is an expose displaying the effects of success on Joroto:
JB
Check out our correspondence with astronaut T. J. Creamer via Twitter:
@Astro_TJ Are you experiencing flashes due to cosmic rays? Tell us another unique space experience that we may never have heard of. 35 mins ago
“Astro_TJ @joroto Yes,I do see flashes occasionally,when I close
my eyes.Another unique story?The noctilucent clouds are both mesmerizing & beautiful.”
Wow, this IS neat: Noctilucent Clouds in Wikipedia
The following is an interesting article that talks about average Chinese citizens working around China’s Internet filters.
Chinese Web Users Plan Tech Workarounds
A funny thing about network security Continue reading 'Is doing business in China so bad?'»
This is written for a user of The Bat! Adjust accordingly if your e-mail client is stating that your provider is not providing a certificate.
1) Go to the SSL link at your Internet Provider. If you are using secure e-mail, this is the POP3/SMTP link in your e-mail configuration.
example: http://host271.hostmonster.com/
2) Click on the “lock” icon in the web browser, or choose SAFETY/SECURITY REPORT, or figure it out for your browser. Continue reading 'the server did not provide a certificate during the session e-mail error'»
We should all be paying attention to events involving software patent processes in countries around the world. The processes of issuing patents and hopefully, forthcoming corrections, highly influence technology development and implementation.
February 13, 2010 update
Here is an interesting blog entry, the title speaks for itself:
Debunking the ‘Patent Troll’ Myth
The Television Show “Shark Tank” has a team of millionaires offering venture capital to inventors and entrepreneurs alike. The millionaires include Barbara Corcoran, Kevin Harrington, Robert Herjavec, Daymond John, Kevin O’Leary. The contestants are inventors, some who have very cool products, but who are mostly ignorant about venture capital.
The name “Shark Tank” is apropos in that the cast offers “puny” amounts of money to the entrepreneurs in exchange for a large percentage of the entrepreneur’s business. The idea that the millionaires convey is that the entrepreneurs will become millionaires themselves if they take one of the highly aggressive deals offered to them. Of course the investors are bound to make a great deal of money also, or they would otherwise not offer funding.
The entrepreneurs asking for money need to seriously consider the next funding step in their businesses. Take for example Marian Cruz, inventor of the Turbo Baster. Continue reading 'Sunday night Shark Tank Victims should be worried about the next attack.'»
I came across this method when attempting to add a percent (%) sign to my data without Excel multiplying all of the numbers by one hundred, as it does when formatting as a percent. I could find no way to just append a symbol to my data, except, for some reason only Bill Gates knows, there is a feature to add a custom currency sign to Excel. So these instructions add a custom dollar sign to the sheet, as though you are entering currency numbers from a country that does not use the dollar sign. However, the symbol can be any symbol you choose. Again, I will add a percent sign, because that was my mission for my customer.
I am working in Excel 2000. Hey, why upgrade? Any feedback on the options in later versions of Excel is certainly welcome.
INSTRUCTIONS:
1) Right click the field(s)
2) Select FORMAT CELLS
3) Select CUSTOM.
4) In the TYPE field, type this: ##.#[$%]
* Use your symbol of choice in place of the percent sign.
The pound signs represent the numbers in your data, so adjust the number of them before or after the decimal as necessary. The period is a decimal, of course. The bracketed expression is telling Excel that “In this country, we use a percent sign rather than a dollar sign.”
Now you can enter data, or paste number values (PASTE/SPECIAL/VALUES) from another sheet into these newly formatted cells, and this: 3.19 will appear like this: 3.19%Note: Joroto had absolutely nothing, NOTHING to do with TechCrunch’s outage yesterday.
Ah, I feel better now.
If you have not decided yet, I encourage you to go ahead and make the big effort. Come introduce yourself to me, as I will be at the Shaker Heights Country Club LinkedIn event Tuesday night! Good luck finding me of course as there are well over six hundred people registered. WOW (™Microsoft). I am waiting for a cancellation or a notice of overcrowding to dash my hopes. The guest list has continued to increase, although I thought it would tail off at about five hundred. (That is why I never win the lottery nor predict recessions accurately.)
This will be fun.
Today Tom continually iterated how much he hates people and there is no way he is going. Therefore, if you are interested in talking high-level tech talk with our lead developer, I must apologize. That is okay by me though. At least Tom will not embarrass us by showing up at this posh event wearing the same green polo he has worn to work for the past three months. Instead, we should send him to CES the next round. That is, if he can bear to sit next to a human being on the plane ride.
July 22, 2009 Update
The event was very cool. Seven hundred-something did I hear? More accomplished people in one area than I have ever seen. Real tough to do this sort of thing at the end of the workday, but well worth it.
Yesterday I received an e-mail from a partner asking where our third partner and lead developer is. Like the rush of Niagara Falls, thoughts of South Carolina governor Mark Sanford taking off for Argentina and telling no one went though my head. Then there was Steve Jobs: He nearly died, and no one holding Apple stock, most of the value of which is Steve himself, knew anything about his condition.
Rest assured, Tom is not duplicating the efforts of either of the above shady characters. He is taking a rare break from developing device drivers all day, and developing web apps all night, to spend some time with his family.
I do not miss the twenty-something e-mails a day that each details some new, advanced system or method that gets Tom all excited, but which I could care less about. For one week I have been able to spend most of my time communicating with magazine editors, developers, and users in the tech blogs, continually trying to figure out what we can do for them. People are awesome. Life was never better.
Alas I fear the honeymoon is over, and I will be chastised for my marketing prowess and lack of high level tech insight any minute now…
JB
Why not begin the new blog with some fun! (I anticipate Tom quickly taking over and never allowing me here again, unless I can make up some highly technical explanation for something-something. Well, it was nice meeting you anyway.)
Here was our promotional video for our game Trisaic for the iPod.
We were hoping for responses such as “Awe, that’s funny.” Along with some positive comments like that, we immediately began receiving comments like this:
“LOL, I thought it was funny. Sad thing is, there is probably some truth to it. My nephew had a friend who was a XXXX developer for XXXXX and told me stories of some of the things they would do to meet dead lines.”
Okay, so we are now as worried about you all as we are about our developers.
What comes to your mind as you view this?
JB
Welcome to Joroto’s blog. I will tend to opine periodically about the lighter side of life. Our CTO Tom will tend to dish out tech advice, whether we want it or not. Be prepared as anything goes within the walls of Joroto, and the blog reflects our openness.
Thank you for coming!
John Boukis
President
If you represent a VC firm that funds tech companies, Joroto is looking for you. Joroto seeks funding for a commercial web domain. Please contact us at:
Send us information on your capital investment company. Once we research your company, we will provide a generalized design and monetization project plan for your review. If you are able to visualize our concept, work from a generalized overview, and you show an interest in our project, we will provide a detailed CV for each Joroto employee.
John
Co-Founder & President, Joroto, Inc.
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