Computer Stuff

  • The History of the Amiga

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    I had a Commodore Amiga 500. If I compare all the computers I owned and rate them by fun, innovation and appeal, I would consider the Amiga 500 the best computer I every had. Only with my Mac I could again had similar experiences. The easy of use, the interface, the fun factor, the games,

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  • Microsoft’s new Linux Bashing Site

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    As if the famous “Get the Facts” website wasn’t completely stupid and biased, MS presents us with another Linux Hate website, this time called WindowsServer/Compare. In this new site, MS mainly compares the Windows Server Platform to Linux, Unix and Mainframe environments as well as providing some case studies… it’s “Get the Facts” part 2,

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  • HP Blog Printing

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    I got a two side printing accessory for my HP C6180 to save some paper, and I needed to test it with some text what would take more than a page. I went to ARS Techica, picked an article and clicked the print button on the article. For my surprise, instead of the Firefox printing

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  • The .Mac 10 Gb Behemoth

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    I’m glad that Apple didn’t give us .Mac users more than 10Gb of iDisk space or else we would have a .dmg file bigger than the current 9.5 Gb one in our Mac’s /~home/Library/Mirrors/”alphanumeric”/. This only happens when the “Local copy/sync” is enabled on your Mac, but the option is enabled by default when you

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  • New My iTunes from Apple

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    Apple releases a new “My iTunes” widget… for your website. It allows you to show your purchased music and video lists as well as the ratings. [tags]Apple, iTunes, My iTunes[/tags]

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  • The State of the Coffee… The Open Kind

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    In April, I took the initiative of bringing the OpenCoffee Club project to Portugal, most specifically to Lisbon. The project started as well as it could, with more than 10 people signing in the first week, which was good considering the nature of the event. For the fist OpenCoffee meeting we had 6 persons showed

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  • Gmail Video

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    The guys at Gmail are making a cool “Add your clip to this video” campaign/project. They show you a video with people passing the Gmail envelope and you just have to print the Gmail envelope, make a video with it and submit it. You can check some of the user submitted clips here and read

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