Speech By Bill Gates. #Motivation

Posted by juliomedina on Jun 13, 2011 in General Thoughts | 82 comments

Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about

eleven (11) things they did not and will not learn in school.

He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings

created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and

how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

Rule 1 : Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2 : The world doesn't care about your self-esteem.

The world will expect you to accomplish something

BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school.

You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss

Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity.

Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping:

They called it opportunity.

Rule 6 : If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault,

so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7 : Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring

as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills,

cleaning your clothes and listening to you

talk about how cool you thought you were:

So before you save the rain forest

from the parasites of your parent's generation,

try delousing the closet in your own room..

Rule 8 : Your school may have done away with winners and losers,

but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades

and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer.

*This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9 : Life is not divided into semesters.

You don't get summers off and very few employers

are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF.

*Do that on your own time.

Rule 10 : Television is NOT real life.

In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11 : Be nice to nerds.

Chances are you'll end up working for one..

If you can read this... Thank a Teacher.

If you can read this in English... Thank a Soldier!

And for life and everything else you have... Thank God!!

iSteve:The Book Of Jobs | The Steve Jobs Biography

Posted by juliomedina on Jun 6, 2011 in General Thoughts, Reviews | 425 comments

iSteve: The Book Of Jobs

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I just found out that you can pre-order the Steve Jobs Biography on Amazon and if you have not already done so, YOU SHOULD! I have been an apple fan for several years now and it just seems like with every year that passes or every keynote that Steve Jobs attends I become even more of a fan than I was before. I think it’s awesome thatWalter Isaacson is the author because he has written books on amazing people like, Ben Franklin, Einstein and Kissinger. Now to add Jobs to that list is a pretty cool feat. I am huge supporter of Steve Jobs. He literally changed the world with the iPhone. he made it possible for 14 year olds to get rich with their ideas by creating apps. I am honored to be part of the mobile app industry. If you did not already know I created an app called AF Tracker that gives Air Force members a way to calculate their PT Test scores easily and more features to come. Apps are the future and Steve Jobs made that possible. I can remember watching the keynote as he announced the iPhone 3G and feeling such an excitement for the release of the product. I had a countdown set online and everything. (Don’t judge me!,haha) Anyhow without getting carried away if you are an iOS developer or just an Apple Fanboy/girl, this book is for you.

One of the biggest reason I am HUGE fan of Steve Jobs for the simple reason that this man does not let anything stop him or bring him down, if you did not know he suffers from a rare form of cancer. Despite having to go on sick leave he is always at work and always making appearances etc. It’s pretty cool to me that the man behind one of the biggest corporations in America is a motivated and dedicated individual even after he has “made it.” His leadership abilities and style can be summed up in a quote of his from back in 2007. He said, “There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very very beginning. And we always will.”—Steve Jobs it’s easy to see why he was voted the CEO of the decade by Fortune magazine isn’t it? I find motivation from him. He made it by staying focused and never quitting and that is something that ANYONE can do.

A few interesting Steve Jobs tidbits:

Steve Jobs was fired by the guy whom he hired to run Apple!

At 30, Jobs was fired by John Sculley whom he had hired to run Apple. Jobs went on to found NeXT computers which never tasted success but its technology lives on in the current Macs after Apple bought NeXT and integrated NeXTStep into Mac OS.

Steve Jobs earns less than minimum wage!

Jobs’ annual salary is $1, just enough to keep company health benefits. According to a regulatory filing, Jobs took a salary of $1 in 2010. However, he owns some 5.5 million shares in the company, which are worth some $1.8 billion at the current price of around $333 a share, a rise of more than 50 per cent on the year. He became a millionaire at 25.

Steve Jobs is the single largest shareholder of Disney!

When Disney bought Jobs’ other company Pixar, he also became the single largest individual shareholder of Disney. Apple isn’t his only gig you know! In 1986, Jobs bought the computer division of film director George Lucas' for $10 million. He named the computer animation studio Pixar, and signed a distribution deal with Walt Disney.  As the CEO of Pixar animation studios, Jobs promoted computer-generated story telling with movies including Toy Story, Finding Nemo, A Bug's Life and Monster Inc. The movies were a huge success and Jobs decide to take the company Public in 1995. He was back in business.
lion. Job was Disney's largest shareholder and got a seat on their board.

One of my goals is to make it a WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference) before he retires. I am passionate about the mobile app industry and I am excited for its future and I am thankful to be a part of it. I am just a small fish in a HUGE pond and to be able to attend the conference is a dream. It’s a very reachable goal though too. I will keep you informed on my progress. If I have it my way you will hear that I am going to WWDC and hanging out with the greats like:

Gary Bennett- who runs Xcelme-  and wrote Objective-C for Absolute Beginners: iPhone and Mac Programming Made Easy – I took this course before the book came out and it gave me a great foundation of the basics in programming with Objective-C. Gary is also a prior United States Navy Serviceman so he gets extra cool point for being a service member in the armed forces. (even if the navy is not as cool as the air force.) All kidding aside he is very skilled and easy to talk to simply, a great teacher!    ;)

Dave Mark – The first book I ever read when I gained an interest in iOS development was  Learn Cocoa on the Mac

Jeff Lamarche who has written many book on iOS development and a very down to earth dude. I follow him on twitter.

CocoaGeek- I follow him on twitter as well and I learn alot from him. Really cool dude. Know his stuff and very down to earth

Anyhow...

Amazon describes the book like this:

“From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In iSteve: The Book of Jobs, Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs’ professional and personal life. Drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson has conducted with Jobs as well as extensive interviews with Jobs’ family members, key colleagues from Apple and its competitors, iSteve is the definitive portrait of the greatest innovator of his generation.”

This title will be released on March 6, 2012. So reserve your copy now and make sure you have it right away because my prediction is: THIS IS AN INSTANT BESTSELLER!

I can’t wait to read it and then post my review about it! I will probably do a written and video review about the book after I am done reading it so stay tuned and reserve yours today.

Edit: 8/15/11

It's official the cover was released for the book today.  Here is a link to the story too.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/15/steve-jobs-biography-cover-photo-and-november-release-date_n_927548.html

Also just found out they pushed the release date to November, 21, 2011! I am excited about it. My Birthday is on the 19th of November if you were looking for a good birthday present....

Atkins Day Break Blueberry Almond Baked Square Review

Posted by juliomedina on May 27, 2011 in Reviews | 172 comments

So, I had a chance to taste the other new Day Break Bars in the Atkins line and I am in LOVE.  The Atkins Day Break Blueberry Almond Baked Square is a delish little treat. I was not sure what to expect and I will let you in on a little secret, I bought them in the afternoon at our local shaw's market. It was roughly 4:00pm. I had not had very much to eat all day yet so I decided that I would not wait and opened one of these bad boys up. I hoped in the jeep rolled down the windows. ( It's almost warm enough on the cape to take the top of and maybe even get crazy and take the doors off too.) Ok, Ok anyhow so I opened up the package and to my surprise these tasty little treats are just that. LITTLE. When I saw the size, I was a little discouraged.  I decided to take small bites and savor each and every one. From the first bite you could taste the blueberry goodness. ( I am a HUGE bluberry fan, anyway.) Like, I said t was not very good but it was full of flavor. The 10 grams of fiber keep you feeling full so thats a plus too. All in all it's a great new product.

• Low Carb - Only 6 net carbs
• Low Sugar - 2gram
• High Protein -5 grams
• High Fiber - 10 grams
• 130 Calories

Dripable – Review of the Drip Feed Blast System

Posted by juliomedina on May 24, 2011 in Reviews | 2,087 comments

I had the opportunity to be a beta tester for the Dripable Drip Feed Service and I wanted to share my review.

Dripable Drip Feed Blast Overview from Julio Medina on Vimeo.

Pros:

• Consistent Link Building
• Good Mix Of Backlinks
• Good Mix of PR from Backlinks built
• Good Footprint Coverage from the Search Engines
• Easy To Use
• Set and Forget For Different Project
• “So easy even a IM Newb Can Do It.”
• Very Affordable
• Easy To Read Reports of already built Backlinks
• Good Support System
• Under Promise and Over Deliver

One of the biggest “Pros” to a service like this is the simple and very real fact that:

Because of the 2 bullet points above, building a constant number of backlinks with dripable, will make up for the ones that will eventually die off or never get posted.

Cons:

None Thus Far*

*Please do not mistake my empty list of Cons as me saying this is a miracle service or a one stop shop for your SEO need because it’s not. If you find that shocking then you have a lot to learn anyway.  On the other hand this service is a great way to keep building links. There are many other factors that will affect your rankings too like one of your main elements YOUR CONTENT.  Yes, you need backlinks. Yes, backlinks will help you rise to the serps on your journey to #1 in SERPs!  MANY of you IM will buy a service like this and expect it to be an auto pilot to a six figure income.  That is not a realistic expectation.  You can build almost an infininte amount of backlinks to your website and if your content, web design and overall on page SEO. The bottom line is Botwiz and Georgebg really know how to provide good quality service at a fair price.  Check it out. Dripable Drip Feed Blast

Edit: Update 6.22.11

There are 3 plans availible:

$47- 1,000 Backlinks Per Day

$67-2,000 Backlinks Per Day

$97- 4,000 Backlinks Per Day

***Use the above links with the promocode dripless to save 10% Off!***

You can see an extended video review here:

Dripable -Drip Feed Blasts | Best Drip Feed Blast System

Posted by juliomedina on May 23, 2011 in Reviews | 1,187 comments

This is an older posts visit here for the latest review and info:

Dripable Review

I wanted to post a review on a new system that was just launched called dripable. It is a drip feed blast system and what that means is it build you backlinks on a schedule. What better way to conquer your SEO needs and save you time than this? Dripable is an Automated Link Building - Monthly SEO Service.  You can check out my video below to see the service and how easy to use the system is.

Dripable -Drip Feed Blast System Review from Julio Medina on Vimeo.

So as you just saw in my video it's a really simple system to create quality backlinks to your sites. If you are an IM then you know by watching the video that this service has good value and something that you really can't pass up.

There are 3 Plans to choose from:

$47- 1,000 Backlinks Per Day (500 Blog and 500 Forum)

$67-2,000 Backlinks Per Day (1000 Blog and 1000 Forum)

$97- 4,000 Backlinks Per Day (2000 Blog and 2000 Forum)

Depending on what kind of site you have and how aggressive you want to be there is a plan available for you. The plans are very well priced for the type of service.

Just a little disclaimer. You can tell that the links and the mentions to Dripable.com are not any kind of affiliate link or anything of the sort. This is an honest review of a good service that I got to beta test while it was in pre launch and now that it's launched I want people to know about it.

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