January 2009
E*TRADE baby outtakes http://tr.im/dwgq Very funny
Adobe, Apple working together on Flash for iPhone →
Once thought to be building Flash for the iPhone mostly on its own, Adobe has mentioned at the World Economic Forum that it’s not only continuing work on the animation plug-in but has teamed up with…
Amazing music video: http://tr.im/dvfd Took 4 weeks of planning and two days of shooting.
I officially reached adulthood: just bought a dryer for my apartment.
Impressive →
Impressive is a program that displays presentation slides. But unlike OpenOffice.org Impress or other similar applications, it does so with style. Smooth alpha-blended slide transitions are provided…
tvRSS for Boxee →
Right now tvrss feeds are renamed from “tvRSS - search based” to “Show Name - tvRSS” and an image from http://thetvdb.com is added to some feeds. Oh, and the urls are re-written so that boxee doesn’t…
ntorrent - Google Code →
nTorrent - A graphical user interface client to rtorrent (a cli torrent client) written in java. nTorrent can administer a rtorrent process over a network and allows several clients.
How Gmail Destroyed Outlook →
As of this week, Gmail has reached perfection: You no longer have to be online to read or write messages. Desktop programs like Microsoft Outlook have always been able to access your old mail. There…
Taking Android "cupcake" out for a spin →
The upcoming revision of the Android operating system, code named cupcake, has generated a lot of excitement among users of the first Android-based phone, the T-Mobile G1. Because Google’s Android…
Dell Prepares to Dial Into Smartphone Marketplace →
Dell, aiming to rev up sales as its mainstay personal computer business struggles in the recession, is preparing a move into cellphones as early as next month.
Smart phone shipments to grow despite overall... →
Smart phones sales should account for 17 percent of mobile devices in 2009, according to new projections.
AdSweep - An ad blocker for Opera and Chrome (like... →
AdSweep is a small addon that aims to hide advertising from the web pages you visit like Adblock. In technical terms, AdSweep is a user javascript that defines CSS rules based on the web site you are…
Sciral : Innovative Productivity Tools : Free... →
This calendar let’s you take in an entire year’s worth of events, conferences, and important meetings in one sweep! Simply set your options below and click Download.
David Seah - Compact Calendar 2009 →
I find myself doing more project planning these days, so I dusted off my old compact calendar from several years ago. It’s just a simple printable calendar created using Excel’s date functions and…
Procrastination hack: '(10+2)*5' | 43 Folders →
Following on the idea of the procrastination dash and Jeff’s progressive dash, I’ve been experimenting with a squirelly new system to pound through my procrastinated to-do list. Brace yourself,…
Thinking out retrying RTM (http://tr.im/d938) logged in after two years. Found a snapshot of all my life priorities in Nov 2006
Wikipedia May Switch to System Requiring Editorial... →
Wikipedia’s founder, Jimmy Wales, is proposing a system of flagged revisions, which would mean any changes made by a new or unknown user would have to be approved by one of the site’s editors, before…
Microsoft's IE8 Release Candidate Goes Live, Final →
The new version, which comes after two public beta releases, is now considered “platform complete” - the product is effectively complete and done. Unless there are major critical issues that arise,…
GNOME developer says "KDE 4.2 rocks" →
Jason D. Clinton, maintainer of the GNOME Games module: “I just wanted to continue to praise what the KDE people are doing since I poorly reviewed 4.0. I just installed KDE 4.2 (what is tagged in…
Does Apple Really Own Multi-Touch? →
The Macintosh turned 25 years old this past weekend, and Apple [AAPL] seems to be celebrating the occasion by sicking its blood-lusting attorneys on Palm [PALM] in a potential patent infringement…
JDarkRoom →
JDarkRoom is a popular, simple full-screen text file editor with none of the usual bells and whistles that might distract you from the job in hand. If you are writing a novel, essay, thesis or just…
rtm4bb - Google Code →
A task management application for your BlackBerry which utilizes Remember the Milk.
Mozilla wants to watch 1% of Firefox users →
Mozilla Labs, the research arm of Mozilla Corp. , wants 1% of Firefox users to allow it to watch how they use the browser — and the Web in general.
Back in Oslo. Wroclaw is really a beautiful city and @opera crew there super smart and cool.
Tip: if you wanna meet the head of security of wroclaw airport, bring a tempur-pedic travel pillow in your hand bad. Vzla passport helpful
Warzone 2100 Resurrection » Frontpage →
In Warzone 2100 you command the forces of “The Project” in a battle to rebuild the world after mankind has almost been destroyed by nuclear missiles. The game offers campaign, tutorial, multi-player…
Antico - A Qt4 Desktop Environment (Replaces KDE,... →
Antico is a Qt4/X11 Desktop+Window manager (i.e. KDE+KWin).The goal is to create a Window/Desktop manager simple and fast.All parameters must be configured from few files, avoiding unnecessary…
Paradigms lost: The Windows 7 Taskbar versus the... →
With Windows 7 comes a brand new Taskbar. With the brand new Taskbar comes the familiar claim that Microsoft has copied Apple— this time, Redmond is accused of copying the Mac OS X Dock. In our…
Obama Staff Arrives to White House Stuck in Tech... →
If the Obama campaign represented a sleek, new iPhone kind of future, the first day of the Obama administration looked more like the rotary-dial past.
Apple quietly updates $999 white MacBook to... →
$999 now gets that newer generation 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo processor with faster 1,066MHz frontside bus, 2GB of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM memory standard (up from 1GB), integrated NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics,…
In Poland. Bad weather in Wroclaw so had to land in Krakow (not as close as it sounds, 4h bus ride) damn.
Venezuelan pianist playing with Yo-Yo Ma in inauguration right now (Gabriela Montero)
Epidermis Theme Manager →
Epidermis is a project that promises to bring together all the aspects of a complete GNOME theme in to a single interface, allowing you to install and apply a completely new theme in a single click.
Proposal for a new HTTP header: X-Torrent →
The thinking behind the X-Torrent header is that whenever a web server returns any headers over HTTP, it includes an X-Torrent header pointing to a torrent tracker for that document. When a website…
Mozilla delays Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 →
Mozilla said Tuesday that it will delay the third beta of Firefox 3.1, citing a “large number” of remaining bugs as the reason for the slip.
Arrived home.
Ccs-Fra flight delayed. Probably going to miss Fra-Osl connection. Hence, will be late for work. Damn.
Radio interview in about 1 minute to talk about Opera (90.3 FM)
I think I just unlocked my first iPhone 3G.
Movistar iPhone 3G unlock: epic fail
Tiddly Backpack →
Store, reference and organize your notes. It’s a portable personal wiki that looks great. No fees, no charges just download and start using straight away. Tiddly Backpack is the usability of a Web2.0…
Paper airplane - The best paper airplane in the... →
When he started folding the paper, I knew this was something different,
something special. He never explained how he did it but every move, every
fold, every detail was burned into my memory. After…
Exclusive First Look: BeeJiveIM 2.0 For iPhone →
If you’re a regular IM user with an iPhone, chances are you’ve heard of BeeJiveIM. Long established as a top choice IM app for BlackBerry, the iPhone release rocketed up to the #2 best selling…
Blackberry tethering (and more) on Linux →
An article explaining how to tether (use as a modem, via a USB cable) Blackberry smartphones on Linux: Mandriva, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE and Fedora.
Blackberry Messenger network effects in Venezuela are impressive. 9 out of 10 friends and family have one. Probably will give in soon.
A good source in movistar told me that the Bold numbers completly overshadowed iPhone 3G launch here.
How To Create A Disposable Webpage →
We’ve got disposable email accounts, phone numbers, login details, fake names, and file sharing tools. Disposable services are good for cases where you need something to exist for a limited amount of…
Zune 30GB Bug: The Official Fix is to Do Nothing →
The bug was caused by a leap year handling issue. Just wait til Jan 1st and it’ll fix itself. Happy New Year, bitches.