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The iPhone Accelerometer
A sophisticated mobile device can do more than just play MP3s or make calls. I had a lunch with a friend that hacked his iPhone to work in Brazil. Many people are doing that (or paying somebody to do it for them) around here. And he showed me something very interesting. The component that causes…
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Android and the Open Handset Alliance
I like this kind of announcements and alliances. Makes me feel that openness and the right things can be successful. Open Handset Alliance The Android (formerly GPhone) platform (or parts of it) will compete with Windows Mobile, Symbian, S60, QTopia and other Open Source initiatives as Open Moko. For developers there is nothing to download…
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ODF versus CDF
There are some news popping on the web about ODF to be substituted by W3C’s Compound Document Formats. Read them carefully, read other sources too and try to understand first before making judgements. Entities like OpenDocument Foundation are switching opinions in a quest for some sort of Universal Format, that still doesn’t exist, promoting CDF.…
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Tourism in Croatia
Some relatives just came back from a trip in Portugal and Croatia. About Croatia, they said was impressive and unexpected. Cities are wonderful, beaches are great and people are beautiful. Everybody speaks Italian and English as second languages. Croatia in the map. The say the best trip is to rent a car in Italy and…
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Getting Things Done
Arrived !
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NO Gimp, YES Picasa
While all Linux blogs are talking about new Gimp 2.4, I’m very happy with Picasa. Yes, I know they have different purposes but Picasa does everything I need with my photos. It is intuitive, powerful, extremely easy to use, fast and nice. You may say F-Spot is the OSS equivalent but I couldn’t spend more…
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Gartner’s top 10 strategic technologies for 2008
The following is a copy-paste from an e-mail circulating internaly. The content is probably some place on the web, just don’t know where. Green IT This one is taking on a bigger role for many reasons, including an increased awareness of environmental danger; concern about power bills; regulatory requirements; government procurement rules; and a sense…
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Upgrade to WordPress 2.3
I upgraded yesterday my dear blog software to WordPress 2.3. From now on I’m using an easy and practical method that updates the software directly from the Subversion repository.
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Back from Central Asia
Yes, was a great trip indeed, as I told you the other day. 20 days in Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, northwest of China and Moscow+Paris for desert. We compiled all the stories, pictures and videos in my blog . But for non-portuguese speakers I can only offer an interactive map and a small collection of only 500…
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How to Make Linux Distributions
To make a Linux Distribution is funnier and easier than you think. Just watch this video.