The place João Bordalo calls home

Lost in translation?

Posted by bordalix Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:37:00 GMT

In 10 years, you will be able to be understood by anyone in the world. Talk to anyone in your preferred language (say English), they will listen to you in whatever language they want to (Spanish? Portuguese?), all this in real time, thanks to this translation goggles. A step back for the Esperanto community, a huge step forward for globalization.

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Deskloops

Posted by bordalix Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:36:00 GMT

My iMac is having video problems: my screen is scrambled. After some goggling, I found out that my iMac serial number is in the range for the Apple repair extension program, so it has to be repaired. Meanwhile, back to Windows. But I surelly lack Exposé, and meanwhile, I found Deskloops, and my first impression is that, maybe, there are some ideas that can be taken to the next Exposé version. Apple dudes should take a look at this.

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Evolution

Posted by bordalix Thu, 27 Oct 2005 14:34:00 GMT

The world is evolving, and so are human relations. Media formats will be purely digital, and distribution will be in a peer-to-peer model. Search engines will understand what I want, in plain english. But should I say 'will' or 'are'? Is the future nearer then we think?

NTT is experimenting with human remote controlling. The idea is "to perhaps make video games more realistic", which can be very exciting, but having low voltage currents through my brain isn't my preferred definition of fun.
Videoegg claim is "internet video publishing as simple as it ought to be like posting a photo or frying an egg". Well, I don't know, don't have the time to try it, but it seems people from Six Apart really like this service: the partner each other, and now you can now post video in your typepad blog, as simple as frying an egg.
How will be TV in 10 years? Well, I don't know, but BrightCove as a really strong idea, and it makes sense. Just add mass adoption of broadband, dropping costs in video production, new reach media formats and home networks, and you have a all new economy model.
From the web2explorer blog, I found this "more-than-a-search-engine" technology, ePrecis. Read the post, and then try and throw some sentences to the text box

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Data stored in your browser

Posted by bordalix Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:33:00 GMT

Back in the late 90's, I had this really crazy ideia of having data stored in the browsers of our web site viewers. We run against a lot of technical problems, so we had to cancel the whole deal. But today I found someone with the same levels of insanity (thank god i'm not alone) and definitely, a best programmer: combining AMASS with the TrimQuery SQL engine, he is able to store full SQL tables in your browser cache. Could this be the driver for new AJAX applications?

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Quickies

Posted by bordalix Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:32:00 GMT

Here some quickies from today:

flock as landed. first experience shows me it's really beta: the del.icio.us integration works pretty well, but when i setuped my blogger account, the cpu just sky rocket (top even showed 103% usage!) and i had to kill it by hand. history search is a major add-on, but it's not working properly: i visited some sites, and try to search from some words that i seen in them, but the search results are not showing some specific pages. feed caching is another major break through, but why do i need to setup my del.icio.us account every time i restart flock? and i'm posting this using flock, and that seems to be working properly. i hope to post more on flock in the next few days.
OpenOffice 2.0 is out, with full support to the Oasis standard OpenDocument format. there is already a comparison with MS Office Spare some bandwidth, and download it via p2p

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We share your pain

Posted by bordalix Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:30:00 GMT

From Melo, an amazing parody on a new Microsoft program aimed to lower the number of bugs in their applications. Watch the video, served from Akamai.

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George W. Bush sings U2

Posted by bordalix Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:29:00 GMT

In an amazing audio copy & paste exercise, rx creates new versions of well known musics, all "singed" by George W. Bush. His website is here and my favorite music is "Sunday Bloody Sunday" from U2. What's yours?

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Nuno Markl

Posted by bordalix Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:28:00 GMT

I was exploring this post from lifehacker titled "Subscribe to free, del.icio.us videos in iTunes", and, while on that, decided to go to the podcast directory from iTunes. For my surprise (and pride), "Ha vida em Markl" was in the top of the list, which is amazing for a portuguese podcast, even if it is from Nuno Markl. Thumbs up Nuno.

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DVD 2 H.264

Posted by bordalix Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:26:00 GMT

Some of my friends had forked some months ago, and their descendants seems to really like DVDs. The problems is, besides loving to watch them, the kids really love to bite the discs, so, all the Noody and Nemo DVDs are getting quite disgusting. To fight this, my friends decided to think on a how to rip DVDs and store it in H.264 format.

Simple? Well, it looks like, the thing is, in total, we are talking of more than 1.000 DVDs, which can take a loooong time. So, they started to think on a distributed system that could offload the work to a network of computers attached to the Internet, each one contributing with spare cpu cycles, to do the job, which is pretty cool.

Meanwhile, I've found this application (Mac OS X and Be OS only) that can rip a DVD (even if encrypted) and store it in mp4 or h.264. It's called HandBrake, and his telling me that "Bowling for Columbine" will take 6h30m (!) to be completed. Come on boys, we definitly need that distributed network!

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