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  Nuno Morgadinho 11:08 am on January 27, 2009 Permalink  

  iPhone 

  I didn’t buy it, Ana got me one for Xmas out of nowhere! I was pretty astonished as she had to sign a contract with Telecom to get it :s

  On the cool side:

  • the apps – you buy them of Apple App store using iTunes or directly via the phone very easily.
  • software updates – with many mobiles if you get an error in the factory software the only way to get it fixed is to do a firmware upgrade, and you need to be a bit adventurous to do that and hope it works. With the iPhone it is very easy to upgrade the software and people are improving and reporting bugs every day.
  • it’s a GPS, it’s a PDA, it’s a mobile phone, it’s an iPod.
  • internet browsing, google earth, youtube, games, etc.
  • you can ssh or remote connect from it.
  • good integration with the Mac and Google, it syncs calendars, GMail accounts, etc.

  On the not so cool side:

  • the battery – it’s a GPS, it’s a PDA, it’s a mobile phone, it’s even an iPod but it is not magic :) That means the battery doesn’t last too long if you use it for internet browsing, google earth, youtube, etc. If you use it like a mobile phone it should last the same as a normal mobile but I haven’t test this (guess why). Nowadays I charge mine every two or three days depending on the usage. This is the only reason I see why it may not be the ideal thing for a traveller. Maybe you can work around this with a second battery?
  • camera quality is so-so.

  This is all I can remember but as you know there are a lot of reviews out there. Someone was telling me it doesn’t do photo sms’s but it is not something I use anyway. I can upload photos to Flickr or Picasa on the go with an app I have :-)

  And apart from that, you’re always connected to the Internet, which is a new experience. Sure you can get the same thing with a Blackberry but … this is such a cool device really. You should just go to a shop and try it for a while. You’ll see.

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    Ana Aires 11:29 am on January 27, 2009 Permalink

    eu rulo.

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  Nuno Morgadinho 5:46 am on January 7, 2009 Permalink  

  Apple product announcements 

  Last night came the new Apple product announcements. During the keynote, several web sites had live feeds, amongst them macrumors. They got hacked and this is how it started:

  

  Hehe, damn pirates!

  Among the announcements I like the idea of organizing photos in iPhoto by face (using face detection). That’s just cool.

  Some of the announcements are described here.

   
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  Nuno Morgadinho 5:25 pm on February 27, 2007 Permalink  

  Macbook TV 

  Received today a Mini-DVI to S-Video adapter to connect to a TV and watch movies on it. Just had to change the refresh rate in System Preferences -> Display. With the option ‘Mirror Displays’ not selected I can extend the monitor and watch a video on the TV and do other stuff on the laptop.

  

   
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  Nuno Morgadinho 5:54 pm on February 21, 2007 Permalink  

  vídeo-conferência pelo Skype 

  Primeira vídeo-conferência pelo Skype. A coisa funciona muito bem. Tinha audio e vídeo muito límpido.

  Já agora, o meu Skype Name: nunomorgadinho

   
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  Nuno Morgadinho 7:32 am on February 21, 2007 Permalink  

  Curly Brackets don't work in Aquamacs 

  In Aquamacs make sure to disable the ‘Use Option Key for Meta’. Just go to Options >> Option Key >> Use Option Key for Meta

  Update: This might work: (emulate-mac-finnish-keyboard-mode t)

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    david reitter 8:55 am on February 21, 2007 Permalink

    using one of the emulation modes in the same menu works wonders when you still want to have Option as a Meta key on non-English keyboard layouts.

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  Nuno Morgadinho 7:51 pm on February 1, 2007 Permalink  

  lgrind utility for Mac OS X 

  Thanks to Dimitrios Galanakis for distributing universal lgrind binaries for Mac OS X users. lgrind is a great utility that permits inserting source code into LaTeX documents.

   
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  Nuno Morgadinho 1:52 am on March 24, 2006 Permalink  

  iCon Steve Jobs 

  Did you read this review on the book "iCon"?

  I also recently finished this book and agree with Prla when he says:

  > That’s an awful lot of dollars and it goes around in Silicon Valley the same way you and I buy chewing gum.

  While reading the book, I frequently skipped the numbers because I always had to think twice before understanding how much money was at stake.

  Later on reading I realized what at first had puzzled my mind, why was it an unauthorized biography? Obviously Jobs couldn’t authorize such a bad prospect of himself being publish with his blessing.

  What more can I say? I don’t know.. it’s very interesting to see his concern with the design of things.. to say “the next Apple computer can’t be any larger than this phone list!” and leave the meeting is top-notch among many other things that go by in this book.

  His strong attitude and persistency, according to the book, are incredible! The first job interview at Atari in which he refuses to abandon the room until he gets a job there or the DoS (Denial of Service) he did to the marketing firm he wanted to Apple, etc. are perfect examples. That’s the profile we associate with entrepreneurs these but while I try to be that way, for him it just seems to be his Tao (nature).

  To ask workers in the elevator: “Why should we pay you?” is also incredible..

  His interest on Zen Buddhism is also quite interesting. In Zen Buddhism there’s a search for emptyness and non-attachment (each person is one and doesn’t depend on anyone or anything to be happy). He is really detached and does what he think best without any fear of what other people will think or say.

  The life of Steve Jobs is inspiring and to know it better gives me will to create new things, beautiful designed and capable of changing the world to a better place. And the book well transmits that inspiration.