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March 25, 2010 Permalink | Reply

Modern Warfare 2

Most modern games amaze me but some more than others. It is no surprise that the game industry deals with the bleeding edge of computer graphics and that’s one of the reasons I recently took more interest into games again, because every time I look at the graphics of my PS3 games I gaze the television in a mixed feeling of respect and fear.

Although I haven’t bought yet the latest kid on the block, Modern Warfare 2, I think the numbers and technology involved is worthy of reflection:

You can play on-line against other gamers
It is available for PC, PS3 or XBox360
At whatever time of day you find half a million other gamers
It took the makers 2 years to develop
Cost the equivalent of a Hollywood blockbuster
Had sales worth 550 million dollars in the first 5 days.

Berto 11:39 am on March 25, 2010 Permalink

And the PC version doesn’t have dedicated servers and a good anti-cheat (it takes about 2 weeks to ban a cheater)
But i bought the game e play it almost every day – Its the best FPS around (at least 4 me)

March 5, 2010 Permalink | Reply

1Password: Because Your Memory Sucks!

If you’re on a Mac go and install 1Password, period.

No more struggling to remember all those usernames and passwords.. and it integrates beautifully with Firefox, Safari and more recently also with Google Chrome.

At least try it, seriously. I’m yet to find a person who is unhappy with this software.
March 4, 2010 Permalink | Reply

Improve Your Productivity with Things on Mac OS X

If you’re on a Mac and looking for an easy and stylish to-do list software you might want to consider Things. It has a slick interface, allows you to keep items organized for different contexts (home, work, etc) and best of all (for me at least) you can very easily add tasks to it in one simple step using a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Space in my case).

With a version for the iPhone that syncs as well, this might be the productivity tool you’ve been looking for years now since you first read that wonderful (but hard to put into practice) book “Getting Things Done” by David Allen. The cons will probably be the price and it being a desktop app but maybe you can live it that?

I’ve been using it for over a month now and so far I’ve been happy with it. To be honest it hasn’t boost my productivity. These things are like buying news shoes for running: the shoes won’t do the running for you!

Nuno Morgadinho, and Ruben Fonseca are discussing. Toggle Comments
- Nuno Morgadinho 2:25 am on March 4, 2010 Permalink
  
  Forgot to say this is wonderful to empty the email Inbox.
- Ruben Fonseca 7:44 am on March 4, 2010 Permalink
  
  Hi Nuno! Do you have any special integration with Mail.app inbox and Things.app? Or do you simple create items on Things.app inbox as you are reading the emails?
  
  I bought both the desktop and the iphone version, and never went back to iGtd
- Nuno Morgadinho 6:37 am on March 5, 2010 Permalink
  
  Ruben, in fact I’m simply creating items while I go through the emails. I find that to be a good pattern because emails most of the times don’t describe actions but rather “requirements” or whatever we want to call it :)
March 3, 2010 Permalink | Reply

Invoic€xpress – Software de Facturação

Para freelancers e pequenos negócios que precisem de um software para facturação, podem dar uma vista de olhos ao Invoic€xpress. Já suporta o formato SAFT-PT que desde 1 de Janeiro de 2010 é obrigatório e também facturas electrónicas, entre outras funcionalidades.

É um serviço totalmente web-based e tem um trial de 30 dias grátis para se experimentar. Após o periódo de trial, consoante o plano escolhido, paga-se uma pequena mensalidade por mês, mas é também possivel adquirir pacotes de facturas a vulso por um preço fixo (para quem não gostar de pagar mensalidades).

Fica a dica. Aproveitem e se experimentarem e gostarem digam qualquer coisa.

p.s. O Invoic€xpress é um produto da RUPEAL.

Nuno Morgadinho, and Paulo Abreu are discussing. Toggle Comments
- Paulo Abreu 7:04 am on March 4, 2010 Permalink
  
  O SAFT-PT é obrigatório desde 1 Janeiro de 2008.
- Nuno Morgadinho 9:05 am on March 4, 2010 Permalink
  
  Paulo, obrigado pela correcção. Na verdade estava a referir-me à nova estrutura do SAFT-PT, que entrou em vigor a partir de 1 de Janeiro de 2010.
February 26, 2010 Permalink | Reply

Empresa em Portugal vs Silicon Valley

A INEO, na sua mais recente newsletter, trouxe à baila outra vez a sessão intitulada “Da Ideia à Empresa” que o co-fundador, CEO e Business Development Director da Critical Software deu na Take Off 2007. Se ainda não ouviram vale a pena ouvir o Gonçalo Quadros falar um bocadinho sobre a história desta empresa, que é das mais reconhecidas empresas portuguesas no mundo.

http://ineo.pt/2010/02/podcast-goncalo-quadros-critical/

Do outro lado do oceano, as histórias são bem diferentes mas também valem a pena ouvir :) Aqui fica um vídeo de um painel com 6 estudantes de Stanford que criaram empresas nos seus 20 e poucos anos.

“Six young Stanford grads and entrepreneurs — Steven Garrity, Clara Shih, Kimber Lockhart, Jeff Seibert, Josh Reeves, and Tristan Harris — share their experiences starting companies and raising capital. While being in their 20s may seem to be an obstacle to outsiders, they said they “flipped” this liability into an asset — focusing instead on their raw ability to bring innovative ideas to life. They advise all young entrepreneurs to be persistent, opportunistic, and scrappy. “