January 2012
5 posts
Trello →
So I started testing trello. I was using microsoft one note to manage my lists because it suck less than the other options. So now almost all of them are in trello. Downside is that I can’t use it from my windows phone yet.
Now I can use the one note for taking notes, and for that it is really good.
Imovlr is my “company wannabe”, where I put some software that I pretend to...
Playing with templates
The site may look weird for a while.
Also wondering about buy a premium theme from tumblr.
I’m fine with this one now :).
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Nokia Lumia 710
So today I went to local store ( mediamarkt in Almere - NL) and saw a Nokia Lumia 710. Before that I had an impression of it being the ugly duck. Everybody talks about the Lumia 800 and the 710 is just the bugdet option.
The point is that it is way better than I thought. Really. Being almost 230 bucks cheaper than the Lumia 800 and free on contract it is really a good option. If you are a...
“So Jony Ive leads the design team at the two most-profitable phone makers....”
– Daring Fireball
Like a friend like to say, Fantastic!
December 2011
3 posts
Minimal: Occupy Tumblr →
I have to say that I will do the same.
mnmal:
Here’s the idea as described by my friend Patrick Rhone from Minimal Mac:
What if, 1% of the users of a particular free service of 36 million clients and growing, were to decide to drop $10.00 cash every month into an envelope and mail it to said service? What if that envelope had no return…
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Just bought my Christmas gift →
I bought the game and now everything that were in their store :).
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Windows 8 for ARM will be metro only →
I really not sure about it. The dock mode is something that I wish, and when in dock mode I want a full desktop.
Makes more sense that a tablet only ( read not “dockable” ) will not have the full desktop, no matter if is arm or x86. And of course if is dockable, it will have the desktop.
November 2011
5 posts
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Getting rid of annoying padding left on... →
I was fighting against a html/css layout when I managed to find that it renders automatically with the style -webkit-padding-start:40px. After a fast search on internet I found this link that explain what is going on. It is the “default” css of browser, that in my opinion is just wrong in many levels.
A good start →
That is really a nice surprise, I think that even nokia didn’t expect that now.
Coisas da Erica
Meanwhile helping my wife with her website, that in two weeks has more visits than the sum of everything that I published online ever.
October 2011
11 posts
New Nokias phones →
It is probably the best windows phone around but it is not the “first windows phone” as Elop said. HTC has great phones before and their new generation is pretty good. Nokia music didn’t impress me and for now it saves itself by the hardware and the maps/navigation.
The prices are really good and the 700 model at only 270 bucks is really attractive. Makes a lot of sense to...
OS X lion server with no gcc, make, toolchain →
Just add the directory to path. Seems that someone forgot to check that before the release.
“We have never felt so calm and relaxed when using a smartphone. Whether...”
– HTC Titan review. Serene is the word, I don’t want that my phone make me more anxious that I’m already.
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HTC Windows Phone →
Meanwhile Nokia just create expectations, HTC still making the best wp devices.
My HTC Trophy already felt several times and still working well and smooth, including yesterday that it felt from the ladder and hit each step until reached the floor.
Samsung have the better screen. Only that. LG wps is a kind of urban legend, I never saw one.
Stuff no one told me →
The subject says it all.
Too Late →
Javascript has a lot of problems but Dart come too late.
I never expected that →
With a lot of stuff appearing today, I choose this particular one. The one that really surprised me.
It is not about a company, is it about mankind.
“Will buy one and use in my living room as plasma tv”
– Ryan Lowdermilk — @ryanlowdermilk, about new mobile phones with screens bigger than 4.7”.
September 2011
5 posts
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no direction →
“It is like buy a automatic car and rip it off because I’ll always drive...”
– — Brandon Watson ( @BrandonWatson ) about changes in UI. People said the same stuff from windows 3.1 to 95, 98, NT, XP, Vista, Seven and now Windows 8.
At the time of new 95 there were people that hacked the system to run as default the old program manager and he thinks that will be people...
wrong on many levels →
So is really necessary run a instance of VMware to have multiple profiles on a mobile phone?
The system is open, it should be easier just implement it. I’m wondering how much the already average poor batteries stand-by times will be decreased.
Without Coffee
I’m kind of addicted to coffee, really. Last month I counted and in average I drank 5 to 10 cups of 200ml a day only during work time.
That will kill me. Even if coffee is not a hard drug I can’t live forever drinking coffee in that way. Maybe I can but I don’t want. So I started a challenge to myself that is try to stop, drink less coffee as possible during my vacations. So...
August 2011
6 posts
Thoughts about Apple vs Samsung
I don’t know how samsung is divided internally but is like somewhat Samsung hired the chineses from nckia to project the phones. Let’s take the iphone 3G and the galaxy S.
Not only the form factor, but almost everything looks like. In this case is not about the patents (even if they are using it to make the point ), but how samsung simple make a generic version of the concurrents....
Tablets PCs →
This article is gold. After the ipad, the question now is what’s next to production?
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About focus
I just deleted several web accounts, including Dropbox, Flickr, Yahoo Groups, and others. The point is to apply this motto: “focus is about say no”, including all these stuff on internet. Except dropbox that changed his terms of service to a kind of big brother, all other was just a question of focus.
In the last month I delivered way more stuff that I was used to. I did three new...
July 2011
7 posts
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The title says everything →
“Dreams feel real while we’re in them. It’s only when we wake up that...”
– I don’t know if I’m waking up or going to sleep each morning anymore.
weekend of fun :) →
I can’t remember the last time that I had that kind of fun. Everything started with http://amsterdam.startupweekend.org/, a event that is focused on build a start-up during the weekend.
Most than simple using my programming skills, I put my ideas out of my brain an implemented some of them, together with business and design people, and also helped to implement or expand the ideia of...
June 2011
6 posts
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Xbox live →
A lot of people are looking to Apple today, but meanwhile Microsoft shows this Xbox new dashboard that says a lot about the its strategy. With the new service live tv in Xbox, starts to make sense a device that is a xbox without the hardcore game part. Where you can check your stuff and consume your media. Maybe a MS-tv or something like that with a some sort of storage can be your home...
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new language
Since I unified all my blogs, it is fair to post english stuff here. The majority of my posts in english will have tech subjects. Stuff using portuguese will be personal thoughts or politics related to Brazil.
May 2011
2 posts
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Muito espertos
Gosto do skype, apesar de alguns problemas o serviço é acima da media se comparado a qualquer operadora brasileira de telefônia.
Eu tenho um skype-in no Brasil, já faz uns 2 ou 3 anos. Junto com o redirecionamento do skype, eles fazem minha dupla de ouro que faz com que alguem que ligue para mim no Brasil eu atenda aqui no meu celular na Holanda, com custo local. Excelente.
Para prover esse...