If you believe in your own talk, a thriving “eco-system” is the place where all the players interact and affect one another in a positive way. If you focus on what you can get out of it and how you can differentiate by keeping products away from others… “you are doing it wrong”! If you [...]

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Wow, it’s really the end of an era. 11th of Feb 2011 is now the day when Mubarak stepped down and handed over his power to the military of Egypt and the Nokia I know ceases to exists. What is going to happen in Egypt is unclear whereas the future of Nokia is much more [...]

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After almost a year, I finally decided to buy the N810 and have to say i have a lot of mixed feelings about the device/platform/experience. I know there are already a million posts on this device, but I thought a list of pros and cons will definitely come handy since I am thinking about selling [...]

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Recently, I was reading about the news of the “first specification for Interoperability and Preservation of Metadata in Digital Photography” from vnunet and although it’s great news on the photo-data standardisation process it’s really disappointing to see very few progress on the “data convergence front”. You see the problem I have is that I have [...]

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As time goes by, my memory is getting worse and worse, my schedule is getting  busier and busier and being mobile has become an important requirement to be cost effective as well as time efficient… so I had to find a good strategy to cope with my daily life and this post summarise my activities [...]

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Recently I started playing with a small heart anti-stress toy and I found it quite nice. The only downside is that I don’t want to carry this toy with me all the time so I leave it at home most of the time. However, there’s one thing I carry with me all day long (in [...]

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I’m sick as hell (I’ve got chicken pox or chicken porx since I’m a little overweight these days) and got time kill in bed. So I started spending more time in my latest hobby: photography. It’s strange how I used to take pictures just because of my photo obsessive-compulsive disorder and never realised I really [...]

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It’s strange how sometimes people are very aware of the battery consumption of some applications but put all concerns aside when it comes to applications that use the internal accelerometer. Is it because they are all nice or because the application does not really give the impression of running in the background all the time? [...]

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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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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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