“Design has moved beyond making a product more desirable, to being a primary tool for shaping the emotion and aspirations of a brand.”

Vision is the Art of Seeing things Invisible.

JiYoung showing off her new found Lions pride… even though she kept getting confused who we were rooting for. Though they lost this night in the bottom of the 9th, they went on to win the whole thing in a Game 7 comeback!

Baseball at it’s finest. Congratulations!

One of JiYoung’s favorite Korean Boy Bands came to Tokyo and we got the VIP treatment thanks to the guys over at YG Entertainment (thanks!). It was actually a really good concert with some good energy… of the 8,000 or so there, not too many Japanese Oba-ba’s worshiping the Korean crew. And afterwards we got the quick hello and a handshake from the Dunk loving bunch.

Simple the best Media Player their is.  Easy to use.  Pretty much plays any format you can find.  What more could you ask for.  Their words…

VLC media player – the cross-platform media player and streaming server

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.  VLC media player.

How many times have you been annoyed at how slow your Microsoft apps are and how useless and bloated all the features are.  Sometimes life just needs to be more simple… which is what makes Neo Office so great.  Pretty much everything you need from Microsoft but 5x faster and for free!!  Their words…

NeoOffice is a full-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database programs) for Mac OS X. Based on the OpenOffice.org office suite, NeoOffice has integrated dozens of native Mac features and can import, edit, and exchange files with other popular office programs such as Microsoft Office.  NeoOffice Home

Ooh Ahh. JiYoung and I attended the US Marine Corp. Ball in Tokyo. So interesting to see all the guys, accompanying escorts and general festivities. The Corp. mascot was there – the bulldog – which was big highlight.

Pathfinder delivers on the idea of the Finder re-invented.  As the #1 thing you use on your computer, it has really been the leased progressed over the year.  Pathfinder take your work to a whole different level with all kinds of crazy and insightful tools.  Their words…

The Finder, reinvented

Path Finder is an award-winning file browser and management application for Mac OS X. If you’ve ever wished Apple’s Finder just did *feature X* or *Y*, Path Finder may be what you’ve been looking for.

Designed from the ground up to for speed and extensive system integration, Path Finder is a standalone application that leverages what you already know about working with your files.  Path Finder 5 by Cocoatech

Absoluately the best application for Mac people who have to have their icons THEIR way.  Themed, random – whatever.  Customize your machine pretty much anyway you like.  Their words…

Customize icons.  Change the Leopard icons you can’t… and more.

Panic – CandyBar 3

A pretty cool way to look at photos, videos and more on the web.  If only they could make it server side native so you didn’t have to have the application to use it.  Very Matrix like…  Their words…

Transform your browser into a lightning fast, cinematic way to discover the Web.  Cooliris