Entries from March 2008

Adobe Photoshop Express

March 28th, 2008 · Comments Off

Whoooa, I was going to write about how compelling are becoming Web2.0 online applications compared to self-hosted solutions and another big player just beefed up their online solution: Adobe. The new service is Adobe Photoshop Express and can also be used to edit pictures (similar to Picnik in Flickr) but this is completely flash, so [...]

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Tags: Adobe · photography

Quick one: Photography and Blogging…

March 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Two issues not related to each other but just wanted to very quickly comment few things. Regarding blogging I found this nice pic in a post from microblogging.it (in Italian). The red part is my modification…isn’t blogging the platform which covers all the quadrants and likely be the core idea in future communications platforms? My guess [...]

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Tags: N95 · photography · Public

After mentioning googlelookup…

March 9th, 2008 · Comments Off

…I wanted to give the award to the best hidden feature in Excel 2003… I often copy charts as part of my job and I have to say that this feature is great if you know how to find it in the Edit menu… The best part about this feature is that Microsoft thought it [...]

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Tags: Microsoft · Public

Search engine war: I cannot survive without Google

March 9th, 2008 · Comments Off

Lately I saw a post discussing how the strength of Google search results were not the only reasons Google is the first search engine for a lot of people. The conclusions: the deals Google is making with Firefox, Opera and others are helping this growth and dependence…

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Tags: Google · Google Search · Public

R.I.P. IBM T41

March 8th, 2008 · 4 Comments

I still remember when I started with Nokia and I was given a brand new black laptop: a IBM T41. I didn’t like black laptops and I didn’t like IBM…. However, after more than 3 years I can honestly say that T41 was one of the best machine I have ever owned. I really mistreated my laptop, [...]

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Tags: Computers · IBM T41 · Personal

Old news: How to program with python…

March 4th, 2008 · Comments Off

I’m receiving some emails regarding the source code of my recent Python application…Just wanted to say that I have no problem sharing the code as long as you don’t distribute it as yours and don’t charge if you make an exact replica of my program. Just drop me an email and I’ll send it to [...]

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Tags: N95 · Nokia · nseries · PyS60

Flock

March 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off

Trying to blog using Flock. Switched today from Firefox to test it and I have to say it looks nice (well, the Blog Editor has some weirds fonts… it seems like a resized version of the original editor and it looks difficult to read)… By the way, if you are a Firefox user and import [...]

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