Computer Stuff

  • The Crippled Philosophy

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    If you take a good look at the consumer electronics market, you might start to notice a new management and marketing philosophy: releasing crippled products into the market as if it’s normal. By crippled I mean with less features that it should logically have, because the brands present these products as the state of the

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  • Google testing a new kind of Ad

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    According to the NY Times, Google is testing in a new ad idea where the advertiser only pays Google when the ad spurs a consumer to take an action, be it purchasing a product, subscribing to a newsletter or even ask for more details about a product or a service. The pay per click method

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  • YALLP (Yet Another Link List Post)

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    – 37 Signals launched Highrise, an online contact manager filled with Ajaxy things and the quality that 37 Signals always delivers. – Adobe released Apollo, a nice Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax runtime so we can all develop a new generation of widgets on steroids. – Some cool Bluetooth + AppleScript magic, trigger actions on

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  • It’s the iPhone!… No, wait! It’s the Google Phone!

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    Rumor addicts really need their daily fix. Now that the mother of all rumors has been out (aka the iPhone), a new substitute was in demand. Presenting the Google Phone. First we get some guy on a forum that even posts a photo of the device (probably photoshoped) along with the some specs. “The Google

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  • Gaming 3.0

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    Nowadays it seems to be a trend to attribute versions to everything. Web 2.0 is probably the most well known case, but now Sony’s Phil Harrison seem to have coined the term with his presentation at GDC. Game 1.0, as he explained, was the generation of home consoles (like the NES, Megadrive, and PlayStation) systems

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  • 10.4.9 woes

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    It seems that after 10.4.9 update it is necessary to hold down the media eject key, you can’t just tap it as before. You need to hold it down for about 1 second, this also works for [Ctrl][Media Eject] shutdown. [tags]Apple, Mac OS X, 10.4.9[/tags]

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  • Mac OS X Updates

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    iPhoto 6.0.6 and Mac OS X 10.4.9 😀 Already downloading in Software Update. – RAW camera support – Handling of large or malformed images that could cause crashes – Image capture performance – Mouse scrolling and keyboard shortcuts – Font handling – Playback quality, and bookmarks in DVD Player – USB video conferencing cameras for

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  • Shotgun Post

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    – Sony goes social and unveils Home for the PS3. It steps into Second Life turf, although is not the same thing but it’s a beginning for a game platform and it looks very good. – Microsoft announces the new HD Photo (previously known as Windows Media Photo), a new image format for HD photography

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