terça-feira, 29 de novembro de 2005

Windows Vista Beta 1 vs. Mac OS X "Tiger"

For Windows enthusiasts, Windows Vista Beta 1 is a much-needed demonstration that Microsoft can still churn out valuable Windows releases, after years of doubt.

For Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" users, however, Windows Vista Beta 1 engenders a sense of déjà vu. Isn't a lot of this stuff already in Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther"?

Part 1: Look and feel, desktop search, data visualization and organization
Part 2: Security, networking, power management
Part 3: Printing, unique Vista features, unique Tiger features (Coming soon)

sexta-feira, 25 de novembro de 2005

AntiStress

quinta-feira, 24 de novembro de 2005

nanos @ tokyo

nanos nano wall porque não fazem eles estas brincadeiras por cá?

Por falar em Nano, estive a ver um no Colombo. O senhor estava mais interessado em mostrar-me o carro, eu fui dizendo que sim mas que giro giro era o iPod ;-). É muito giro e intuitivo de usar, e o tamanho... impressionante. Depois de ver bem o Nano, lá espreitei o carro para o senhor não ficar triste.
Mig-LSD.

quarta-feira, 23 de novembro de 2005

Portable Apps Suite™

nunca andar de pc em pc foi tão..
estar sempre no mesmo :)

e tudo numa
USB-drive de 128MB

Portable Apps Suite Contains:

Portable Gaim (instant messenger)
Portable Firefox (web browser),
Portable Thunderbird (email client),
Portable Sunbird (calendar & task list),
Portable NVU (web editor),
Portable AbiWord (word processor),
Portable FileZilla (FTP client),
Portable OpenOffice.org (office suite),

and will fit on a 256Mb USB thumbdrive.

Portable Apps Suite Light Leaves out
Portable OpenOffice.org
and will fit on a 128Mb USB thumbdrive.

e.. quase tão fácil instalar [no windows] como estou habituado no Mac

segunda-feira, 21 de novembro de 2005

Linux advocate calls for Apple to destroy Microsoft by selling Mac OS X for all PCs

"I'm a Linux advocate. I always want Linux to win. But, I refuse to lie to myself when it comes to Apple's potential with Mac OS X,"

artigo completo aqui

sexta-feira, 18 de novembro de 2005

porque tem mesmo de ser

mobilia

Orquestra de Vegetais

vegetais

Computador a 100 dólares

"Um Portátil Por Criança" apresentada na Cimeira Mundial Sobre a Sociedade de Informação
Já foi apresentado o "computador a 100 dólares" (cerca de 85 euros). Mas não o poderá comprar: estas máquinas, ainda em protótipo, destinam-se a serem oferecidas a crianças dos países menos desenvolvidos.

segunda-feira, 14 de novembro de 2005

Spud

A Potato-Powered Web Server
Spud

sábado, 12 de novembro de 2005

monstros que desfiguram paisagens

Native Wind. 20 Reservas índias têm um potencial de 300 gigawatts de energia eólica. Curioso, fiz alguma investigação sobre este mega projecto e confesso que fiquei desiludido: não encontrei as habituais críticas contra as turbinas que, noutras longitudes, são consideradas monstros que desfiguram paisagens. O browser que utilizo só me trouxe artigos e dados positivos cantando loas ao mega projecto. Estranho…

src

quinta-feira, 10 de novembro de 2005

Imperial boredom boredom boredom

Imperial boredom boredom boredom: "True, at its height, the British empire produced magnificent heaps of wealth and power. But according to the historian Jeffrey Auerbach, the empire also generated staggering amounts of boredom....

So begins this week's Improbable Research column in The Guardian"

segunda-feira, 7 de novembro de 2005

sexta-feira, 4 de novembro de 2005

'Back Row' project attempts to mimic Apple's Front Row for Windows

Apple FrontRow provides a basic media experience including Music, Photos, DVD, and Video. They don't even match the functionality provided by the initial MCE (Microsoft Windows Media Center) release," Casey Chesnut writes for brains-N-brawn. "Lack of TV recording is the biggest missing feature. Its only 'innovation' is the 6 button remote control. To get a good idea of its UI and its feature set I looked at the short videos on Apple's website and the press release video at news.com. This work was done by reverse engineering from the videos, I have never touched an iMac (or an iPod) in person ... nor would I ever want to. If I can't program it ... then what's the point?"

Chesnut provides screenshots comparing Apple's Front Row to his "backRow" along with some videos of "backRow" in use via - naturally - Windows Media Player in his full article here.

MacDailyNews Take:
Obviously, Macs can be "programmed" - just not by Chesnut. You'd think Chesnut would want to touch and learn how to program the Mac, since Windows is the preeminent example of a Mac derivative. He'd probably be able to make a better copy of Front Row if he actually tried it, instead of just looking at online videos. The irony, of course, is that Chesnut is making an Apple Front Row derivative to run on the Mac derivative Windows. Mac users sit in the front row of the innovation train, Windows users sit in caboose's back row. Microsoft's Windows is the Velvet Elvis to Apple Mac's Mona Lisa.
You want the real thing?
Get a Mac.
You want a backwards, upside-down, several-versions-old fake Mac on ugly hardware that also runs viruses, spyware, adware, and other assorted malware?
Get a Windows PC.