Posts in category Tech
Honeycomb Looks Already Outdated
Recently, there is a lot of talk about the Android version, named “Honeycomb” for tablets. A video was posted with some sneak peek of it.
The problem is that, to me, it looks already outdated. If you compare the look of the final Honeycomb with the pre-alpha of Meego, you’ll have the impression that the first actually came [...]
Speaking Seriously About the iPad
In January this year, I wrote about why the iPad matters. There, I pointed that a lot of changes would come to the digital world since it appeared.
Recently, the iPad was officially launched in Brazil. Now you don’t need to import it and pay huge taxes for it; you can go to a local shop and buy it, paying the huge taxes for it.
There is [...]
OAuth paranoia
One day after I posted the lack of respect for OSS apps in Twitter “ecosystem” (a word they seem to like a lot these days), they announced that the API request for trending topics will now return the promoted tweets.
As I was reading this announcement, the paranoid hat fell on my head.
As I explained before, OAuth allows Twitter t [...]
Twitter making it hard to use OSS app...
Twitter, the biggest microblogging tool around, decided to change their policy to applications and it’s making it hard to OSS developers create applications that can be as good as the other applications.
First, let me explain what is the problem they are trying to solve, how they are trying to solve and how this will make the life of OS [...]
When Chrome crashes…
[6666:6680:32113841705:ERROR:net/base/host_resolver_impl.cc(802)] Called HostResolverImpl::CancelRequest() after Shutdown().
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start_thread [0x27a96e]
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[6666:6691:32113881274:ERROR:net/ocsp/nss_ocsp.cc(480)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler.
--2010-06-17 [...]
DE evolution through XFCE window layo...
(or “Hey! I know this! I used it 10 years ago!”)
After unsuccessful attempts to make KDE or GNOME usable on my work computer, I decided to try XFCE again. It was exactly what I was looking for, but that’s not the point of this post. While messing with its configuration, I found the window border settings and I noticed that s [...]
Why 3.3.1 is the best thing what happ...
The IT industry is in turmoil over a change Apple did in their iPod/iPhone/iPad license:
Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code [...]
Why the iPad matter
or “It’s not the change, but it’s the seed of it”
So Apple announced yesterday their new product, the iPad. Some people call it table, some people call it a big iPhone/iPod touch, some call it “balloon boy”…
But, in the end, it’s a game changer. Not directly, but it put the seed to change a lot [...]
Why Go feels like a balloon boy
One of my friends like to use the expression “balloon boy” to everything that gets a lot of attention but it turns to be a lot less interesting in the end.
Go is a new language created by Google that recently went open source and generated a lot of buzz in the interpipes.
As someone who have been working as programmer for almost 2 [...]
GPL and the web
A few years ago (two or three), I saw Richard Stallman at FISL where he said that things like Webmail were bad ’cause you don’t have any control over the software it runs in the server. In a way, he is right: How do you have any control over your data if you don’t have any control over your software? How can you be sure that [...]
