Posted by bordalix
Thu, 09 Feb 2006 17:12:00 GMT
30 boxes debuted 4 days ago, and it rockz! Finally found my calendar service, thank you guys:
- Add new events through a command line (brilliant);
- Eficient Ajax powered interface, working in all browsers;
- Tag enabled events;
- Shared events, even with people outside 30boxes;
- Full integration with iCal and Outlook;
- Javascript/HTML badge to include a snippet of your calendar in other web sites;
- Will have an API soon.
Ahhhh, and it's free.
Tags calendar, office | 2 comments
Posted by bordalix
Thu, 09 Feb 2006 15:22:00 GMT
Azureus and uTorrent (the two most popular bittorrent clients) had included in their latest beta new forms of encryption, which will provide a completely random-looking header and (optionally) payload to avoid passive protocol identification and traffic shaping. The technical details are a bit hairy, but if have the guts you can always take a peek
here.
But Bram Cohen, the guy who invented the Bittorrent protocol, does not agree with this decision, since he believes that ISP's will be able to still detect Bittorrent traffic, and that this could harms the Internet performance as a whole, as stated in his
blog.
What's next, an encrypted Skype?
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Posted by bordalix
Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:42:00 GMT
After 2 weeks of design, coding and others, joaobordalo.com is now officially launched. This will be a evolving site, with new features and functionalities being added across the time. I intend to use it as my
Ruby on Rails test bed, so put your fingers crossed.
All posts from
alinobairro had been migrated here, but comments were not, and I'm still in the process of adding tags to the older posts.
This site will be more than a blog, but for now, it's just a blog and a couple of pages (see the upper left corner).
Please take a look at it, try it, and give me some feedback by commenting to this post. Thank you.
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Posted by bordalix
Fri, 03 Feb 2006 17:05:00 GMT
After a few days not digging, I've just found three pieces of news that worries me:
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Posted by bordalix
Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:19:00 GMT
Guys, if you own a cell phone (who doesn't), you have to point your browser to the
bluepulse website, sign-up, and follow the instructions. These guys developed one amazing software, described as:
A free program for mobile phones that allows you to run tiny, useful widgets for a variety of uses, such as instant messaging and RSS.
And it's true, and works like a charm: in less than 5 minutes, I was talking with my buddies in MSN. I'm going to try now the RSS reader.
The platform allows any one to develop new widgets, and I surely hope the business model motivates people to develop new functionalities and services. I'm really impressed with this, and I reiterate: go to the
website and try it.
Tags development, mobile | 1 comment
Posted by bordalix
Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:18:00 GMT
Today's bloglines reading gave me a lot of interesting stories about possible technical, social and political trends. Here are a few, rescued from my last browser crash:
- Yahoo seems to be experimenting a new way of online ads: in Yahoo Movies, search for a movie (I used Vatel), go to the bottom of the page, and in the Sponsored Links box notice the links for different ad types. Click one and you will see ads only about the tag you just selected. Nice move, gives you less visibility, but targeted ads with higher levels of attention;
- Still in the advertising market, it looks like the marketing guys are getting there: The New York Times as a story about marketers getting really excited with three second messages in phone displays, all powered up by GPS positioning and location target adverstising;
- An interesting post on why Yahoo Music is better than iTunes for home entertainment. I admit I will think about this, really;
- A beautiful idea, sharing broadband to increase speed, is becoming a business case: two companies, Mushroom Networks and WiBoost Inc., are about to launch their new products. It looks like good sense is prevailing, take a peak at the article;
- Lawrence Lessig wrote an interesting post about the need for regulation on the "net neutrality" issue. If you want to know more on this subject, try the Wikipedia definition.
Tags advertising, itunes, lessig, yahoo | no comments
Posted by bordalix
Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:17:00 GMT
A
beautiful interactive ruby lesson by
why the lucky stiff, don't work well on Safari, use Firefox. More
resources on ruby at
squidoo lens, another bright idea for content organization.
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Posted by bordalix
Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:15:00 GMT
I'm really sorry Santa, for being a pain in the ass, but with all the gadgets I'm requesting, I will need a car to transport them:
- Can you send me one of this?
Ok, this was my last request.
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Posted by bordalix
Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:14:00 GMT
Dear Santa, is me again. I've just watched
Steve's keynote (1h32m23s) and I would like to add to my wish list a couple of things:
- the new iMac, with a Intel duo processor inside (2-3 times faster);
- a MacBook Pro, also with the Intel beast (4-5 times faster), an iSight built in and a remote controller;
- the new iLife 06, now with iWeb (amazing!);
- the new iWork;
- and a .Mac account.
Ahh, and a huge, huge one was a real Mac retail store here.
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Posted by bordalix
Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:13:00 GMT
Dear Santa, I know I'm late, but can you please send me one of each?
- this one for be able to speak with my mom while in the pub;
- one of this, to impress girls;
- and one of this, because it's so cool!!
Thanks in advance.
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