Trips

Peru

a thought…

the key issues for a successful technical assistance programme (under my point of view) are: needs assessment strategy implementation: cooperation with other agencies. if we want impact: only long term projects, in order to give the sufficient inertia for them to run independently (minimum 5 years) only projects above 1.000.000 us. have a reliable full-time […]

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windows live writer

are you a blogger? you should consider downloading the windows live writer a great tool from Microsoft that helps bloggers to easily post to any kind of blog. this is my first post with it.

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let u go, atb

close your eyes and listen to let u go from atb. you will be transported to a dancefloor … “i was wrong to let you go…” I’ve been to all the familiar places I’ve been running like a sentence never begun I’ve been looking for a way to let you know I’ve got nothing left […]

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7 ways to send huge files

(extracted from http://mashable.com/2007/05/23/7-ways-to-send-huge-files-25x-bigger-than-gmail/) Gmail users can now send up to 20MB of attachments to each other. But we want more! Here are 7 awesome services that let you send files of more than 500MB.

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Telepopmusik

telepopmusik. just breathe, just believe I brought you something close to me, Left for something you see though your here. You haunt my dreams Theres nothing to do but believe, Just believe. Just breathe. Another day, just believe, Another day, just breathe Another day, just believe, Another day. just breathe. Im used to it by […]

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summit of the Mount Everest

Mount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth, as measured by the height of its summit above sea level. In May 2005, artist Xu Zhen led an ascent on Everest, and succeeded in removing the summit of the mountain, reducing its height by 186cm, Xu Zhen’s own height. The summit of the Mount Everest has […]

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Istanbul in autumn

Sunny day, huge breakfast with Turkish sausages,  fried tomatoes and eggs, feta cheese, organic jam and real honey. We are ready to go shopping, as dani thought that we were in summer time and came with sandals, shorts and without a pullover…

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George Carlin

paradox The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways , but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more […]

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David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto

World Citizen-I Won’t Be Disappointed/Looped Piano David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto The air is thick. I have not been thinking about the past, more the future. Rereading Ian McEwan’s Black Dogs brings me to this point. Thinking about living a full life: one to write about. It does not have to be rich in experience, […]

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seoul

i’m in soul’s airport. stuck. my bags where not checked in to destination (daegu) so i had to pick them and now 5 hours waiting to check in again in the departure hall… at least you have cheap internet. 3000 w for 1 hour. …by the way, my cell phone does not work in this […]

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gps in korea

I’m astonished by the amount of gps systems that the cars have here in korea… even the crappiest car in this town (Daegu) has a 7 inches gps with multimedia, 3d maps, video, mp3, … you name it. I went to a shop on sunday and i saw several models. They run on windows. It […]

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seoul yongsan

we went to yongsan, the biggest IT mall you think of. i was looking for the nikon d300 but it comes here tomorrow only, and the price is not better. i continue to be impressed with the gps…

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jazz in itaewon

we went two days ago to "all that jazz" a very nice club where we could enjoy western food (after more than 2 weeks in korea is more than welcome) and cool jazz music. itaewon is the district where americans live. now we are in insadong district. very cool one.

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love

A girl asked a boy if she was pretty. He said no. She asked him if he wanted to be with her forever. He said no. She then asked him if he would cry if she walked away. He again said no. She had heard too much. She needed to leave. As she walked away, […]

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The Bluetooth® Sports Helmet

This is the winter sports helmet with built-in headphones that receive Bluetooth® signals from a remote transmitter that plugs into your iPod® or other MP3 player, providing you with a personal soundtrack while skiing or snowboarding, ensuring no audio wires will impede your mobility. The upper shell is durable injection-molded ABS, while the lower shell […]

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mac OS X leopard

I was invited to participate in the developer’s tech talk from the new apple mac OS X leopard in Geneva (yesterday). Very interesting… …everybody with their apples macbook pro and their iphones (how do they get them here in Switzerland?), and I was with my sony vaio T and my HTC p3300… Black sheep…

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nikon d300

my next camera, that I will most likely buy in Bangkok on the 30th 😉 correction; i did not buy it in Bangkok. My brother bought it in NYC, but i had it for Thailand

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chiang rai, thailand

Here we are, in chiang rai, after driving for a long way. We started from pai today. We rided an elephant in the river and then had a relaxing at a geiser and hot spring… In a couple of days we give our 4×4 back and we take a plane to phuket, then probably ko […]

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ski rando – lac jovet

On Saturday we did an outing to “lac jovet”. See the photos here. Starting altitude (parking): 1210m Top altitude (for those whe did not get to the top): 2322m Difference of altitude: 1122m Starting time:8.32 End time: 15.43 Distance done: 32.9 Km

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dealextreme

dealextreme is an online shop based in hong kong where you can find all the gadgets you might think of… at a price that is hard to believe… and with FREE DELIVERY anywhere in the world.

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google maps

google maps for mobile is now including a very cool feature: my location… yeap! it uses your gsm network to know "more or less" where you are. In cities is better as you have more repeaters.

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http://drop.io/

drop.io enables you to create simple private exchange points called “drops.” The service has no email signup and no “accounts.” Each drop is private, and only as accessible as you choose to deliberately make it. Create multiple drops, add any type of media, and share or subscribe as you want. To make a drop just […]

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iPhone's sdk

  Apple has released the SDK for the iPhone.Honestly, I think that it is going to be the revolution. The iPhone is a MAC OS. Same platform but handheld. Believe me, there will be a before and an after of this.

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Push!!

I have managed to have push email in my HTC phone 🙂 And I have manage to set up a cron to publish post by sending and email from my phone. Cool.

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photo workflow

Since 2001, when I got my first digital camera until today, I have shot a lot of pictures. More than 30.000. Now that I have my nikon d300 there are a couple of fundamental questions that I keep asking to myself: 1.-Should I shot RAW or JPEG.2.-How do I organize my 30.000 files. 1.-Well, I […]

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phone watch

some time ago I plugged a lint to a shop where I buy some stuff because it is incredibly and unbelievably cheap and in addition they do not charge for shipping worldwide even being based in Hong Kong. Well they have a watch which is a phone with: -Triband GSM 900/1800/1900– Bluetooth support (free bluetooth […]

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CERN open doors

CERN opens its doors to the publicOn 6 April 2008, CERN will open its doors to the public, offering a unique chance to visit its newest and largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), before it goes into operation later this year. This scientific instrument, the largest and most complex in the world, is […]

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la vida misma

Anoche, mi novia y yo estábamos sentados en la sala, hablando de las muchas cosas de la vida. Estábamos hablando de la idea de vivir o morir.Le dije: ‘Nunca me dejes vivir en estado vegetativo,dependiendo de máquinas y líquidos de una botella, si me ves en ese estado,desenchufa los artefactos que me mantienen vivo, prefiero […]

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homelidays

homelidays is a great service where appartment and houses owners around the world advertise their properties. So if you are traveling to Paris, Ibiza or wherever you will find great appartment and houses in the best places for less than you would pay in a hotel.

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Wine fair

Yes, yesterday night we went with Pep & Carmen to a wine fair in Prevessin. We tasted and bought some boxes of wine. Now Nuria and me are resting, but they were going for a ski rando outing to a 3000 m pic. Good luck.

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Wine fair

Yes, yesterday night we went with Pep & Carmen to a wine fair in Prevessin. We tasted and bought some boxes of wine. Now Nuria and me are resting, but they were going for a ski rando outing to a 3000 m pic. Good luck.

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ze drem vil finali kum tru!

The European Commission have just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German, which was the other  possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty’s Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in plan that would be  known […]

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in the news…

China to s(t)eal $9bn DR Congo deal (by John C Dvorak at http://www.dvorak.org/blog) BBC NEWS | Programmes | Newsnight | China to seal $9bn DR Congo deal –This is one of those China-Africa deals I’ve been harping about on the weekly No Agenda podcast. If you read between the lines you can see how the […]

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strida

This is a very cool bike. I saw it the other day. Great for commuting in the big cities. Cool design and easy to fold. http://www.strida.com

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globat sucks

I have had ESAN.biz site at globat.com I got a call from my customer (ESAN) to tell me that the site was offline. I had already several problems with this hosting company… they were down quite often. I took a look… mmm I went to the FTP and all the site was gone!!!! GONE!!I chatted […]

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globat …

Thank you for contacting Globat Chat Support. You are now chatting with Technical Specialist ‘PJ’PJ: Hi and thank you for contacting Globat Signature Support! We have received your question (s) from the pre-chat survey and will answer you momentarily.  Thank you for your patience. Me: helloPJ: hi Me: http://www.esan.biz is not workingMe: I connected to […]

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mobile me

Mobile me is the new service from Apple. Take a look to the video, it is what anybody would dream of: push email, calendar, contacts… but on a @me.com domain… that’s the downside. It would be great to have it like google apps, with your own domain.

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Scribefire

I just installed ubuntu 8.04 in a 10Gb partition of my vaio.I like it a lot. But… 1/2 battery life that I get with windows, no hibernation… and problems (now fixed) with sound.I installed also firefox 3.0 and Scribefire plugin in it. Now I’m trying it to post into the blog. Looks fine, but Windows […]

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Laptops

Laptops… I have my laptop with me at all times. My old vaio vgn-t27GP. Now is getting old. I miss a camera, a mic… but I love it. Now I have ubuntu and apart from the battery life it rocks. I’m looking forward to buying a Macbook pro for home use. Nevertheless like small computers… […]

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drupal

download and install drupal modules from command line wget -q -O – http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/modulename.tar.gz | tar zxv

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my next laptop

Two days ago HP annouced what it is going to be my next laptop 😉HP Elitebook 2730p, a 1.5kg tablet pc with a 10hours battery. This has to substitute my sony vaio t.   http://www.notebooks.com/2008/08/17/hp-2730p-hp-tablet-updated-video/2730p_palmrest/

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storm in versoix

This week we moved our offices to Versoix. Yesterday there was an incredible storm…This morning, where I park my car there was a tree… and two smashed cars… incredible… I feel lucky…

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fitbit

http://www.fitbit.com/Did I get enough exercise today? How many calories did I burn? Am I getting good quality sleep? How many steps and miles did I walk today? The Fitbit Tracker helps you answer these questions.

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alternative for groove

http://www.collaber.com/ Collaber brings a Virtual Office Environment for your team to share files, events, tasks, manage projects and get the work done as if they are all located in the same location, no matter where the members are physically located. It keeps your data safe and secure. A great free alternative for Groove

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Tener un hijo

(por Andreu Buenafuente) El verano pasado mi hijo Alejandro, cumplió 4 años, y, cuando sopló las velas, mi mujer y yo le dijimos: -Cariño, pide un deseo. A ver, ¿qué has pedido? Y el niño nos mira así, todo ilusionado, y nos dice: -Una play station o un hermanito. Y mi mujer y yo nos […]

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iio – is it love

iio – is it love beautiful song from iio… beautiful. I never knew a love A love that could be sweeter No matter what my mind says Your music gives me fever The moment that we danced Your arms felt like a cradle And when you took my hand I was no longer able It […]

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no estamos locos

Ketama – no estamos locos no estamos locos que sabemos lo que queremos vive la vida igual que si fuera un sueño pero que nunca termina que se pierde con el tiempo y buscaré, oye pero buscaré me desperté esta mañana y empieza de nuevo un día después de una borrachera me he “tomao” una […]

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robin 2 – show me love

robin s – show me love One of my favourites tracks for dancing… back in 1993… Heartbreaks and promises, I’ve had more than my share I’m tired of giving my love and getting nowhere, nowhere What I need is somebody who really cares I really need a lover, a lover who wants to be there […]

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peek

http://www.getpeek.com/ If the BlackBerry is too techie or pricey for you, check out the Peek. It does one thing and one thing only: e-mail. This slender little device gives you BlackBerry-like portable access to e-mail (it’s not a phone, organizer or anything else), but without the hefty fees; monthly service costs about $20 for unlimited […]

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mino

http://www.theflip.com/ Like the iPod and the BlackBerry before it, the Flip Mino exploded into the mainstream, quickly becoming the most popular video camera in the country in its first year. It stores up to an hour of video clips on its internal drive, meaning you don’t have to buy videotapes or memory cards, or even […]

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tarpipe

http://www.tarpipe.com tarpipe makes it easy to share content across different social media applications. Automate your publishing Create publishing workflows that can be triggered by e-mail messages, instant messaging updates and third-party applications. Share content easily Use our share form to easily publish content on several social media destinations, including twitter, Jaiku, Pownce and FriendFeed. Keep […]

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HDR photos

This a a pipe created with yahoo pipes which takes pictures from flicker with the tag HDR, high dynamic range imaging which is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of exposures (the range of values between light and dark areas) than normal digital imaging techniques. The intention of HDRI is to […]

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foxmarks

http://www.foxmarks.com/ Foxmarks is a free add-on for your Firefox browser that syncs and backs up your bookmarks and passwords across multiple computers and more.

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ZEITGEIST

ZEITGEIST, The Movie – Remastered / Final Edition – Full Production. What does Christianity, 911 and The Federal Reserve all have in common? It is long buy you have to watch it… believe me.

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Alphawezen – into the stars

A very nice song from Alphawezen, into the stars I am sleeping within fragile skin Dreaming of a brighter flame to wake within Am I free to be here now That‘s everything I have Why do we lose ourselves To fires on the shelf We could feel ourselves And how we break our shells You […]

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snaptell

http://www.snaptell.com/ With SnapTell you take a photo with your phone (iphone or other) and you are involved in a marketing campaign. You send a picture of a product and you get as results info about it, reviews and so.

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Optical Illusions

(From WebUrbanist) Seeing is believing… or is it? Aided by high-tech materials, today’s artists and architects are finding that if it can be imagined, it can also be built. This selection ofarchitectural optical illusions showcases 20 more very public ways to fool the eye, please the mind and satisfy the soul. (image via: Big Illusion) […]

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Interactive Video Object Manipulation Interactive Video Object Manipulation Interactive Video Object Manipulation

Interactive Video Object Manipulation Interactive Video Object Manipulation from Dan Goldman on Vimeo. This demo illustrates our research to bring interactivity to video editing: Our system analyzes videos using computer vision techniques, enabling interactive annotation, browsing, and even drag-and-drop composition of new still images using video footage. This is a joint research project of Adobe […]

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Coach Surfing

http://www.couchsurfing.com Couch Surfing is a huge community of people around 230 countries offering their couch for you to sleep for free. Yeap… if you have a couch and you want to share it, sign in!

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NeatReceipts

http://neatco.com/products/neatreceipts It will make you live easy: NeatReceipts is a mobile scanner and digital filing system that helps you manage all of your paperwork on the computer.  NeatReceipts includes NeatWorks software that identifies and extracts the important information from receipts, business cards and documents and automatically organizes it for you.  All scanned documents can be […]

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a.nnotate

a.nnotate Do you review documents and find existing methods awkward and time consuming? Do you need to gather feedback from several people? Would you like an easier way to keep track of all your documents? A.nnotate.com lets you easily give, collect and store detailed notes on documents and web pages.

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flight cinema

There are really ingenious people…. Are you flighting? Do you have an iPhone with films? Then you will like this… Take an air-sickness bag and cut it down… then insert your iphone and hold it with the tray. voila.

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The Private Lives of Your Favorite Toys

from WebUrbanist by msaleem (sources: doc18, revlimit) After you’ve put on your pajamas, brushed your teeth, turned out the lights and gone to bed, that’s when they get down to business. It’s a secret that has been accidentally exposed to many but never corroborated and proven beyond doubt, until today. The Indian in the Cupboard […]

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Secure your mac

Secure your mac: MacTrak (traking service for mac. Activating it via web. Costs 60USD for life and all machines. It sends pictures and locatation when you activate it. Location in not just IP but wifi hotspot location) iAlertU (free alarm that activates by movement, keyboard, unplugging, mouse. Sends email with picture of person trying to […]

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Touch me

Touch me – Dj Tiesto When I close my eyes while listening to this song, I am teletransported to a dancefloor with tons of feelings. You’ll always be my baby I’m always thinkin of you baby yeaahh Touch me in the mornin and last thing at night keep my body warm baby, u know it […]

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The 11 Coolest Mugs

from WebUrbanist by msaleem Whether you’re a coffee drinker or tea drinker, there’s one thing everyone can agree on: The mug you use to drink your beverage of choice is just as important as the brand you like, the amount of milk and sugar you take, and your favorite biscuits to go with your drink. […]

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"new mail" sound in mac mail

If you have a new mac and you use mac mail, you will notice that “new mail” notification does not work very well. If you have growl you can then play a sound from there but it is not the cool “new mail” sound. The workaround I did is to copy the “new mail” sound […]

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Royksopp – Remind me

Royksopp – Remind me (chorus) Will remind, will remind, will remind me, Will remind, will remind, will remind me, Will remind, will remind, will remind me, Will remind, will remind, will remind me. It’s only been a week, The rush of being home in rapid fading. Prevailing to recall What I was missing, all that […]

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Trip Around the World

We are now 4 days ahead of our trip around the world 😉 We will be starting on Thursday, going to London, for a day, then to San Francisco for 5 days, Taithi, Moorea and Bora Bora for 9 days, Auckland, then 28 days around New Zealand. Catch a flight in Christchurch to Hong Kong, […]

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Day -3

Monday. 3 days to go. I just booked the car for our stay in New Zealand. We will be getting to Auckland on the 28th of February, at 21.35, so we will rent it from the 1st of March until the 26th, when we will drop it in Christchurch The company I used (that I […]

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The Uninvisible Art of Amazing Urban Camouflage

From weburbanist.com Camouflage isn’t just for hunters and the army anymore – it’s being used to make artistic statements, beautify urban environments, make ugly cars look nicer and for shock value. These examples of unusual use of camouflage show how versatile the concept is, from making homes blend into forest environments to creating eerie optical […]

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Day -2

Tuesday.Two days to go. We were trying to get an insurance. We booked everything with the one that we found in the lonely planet forums and routard: http://www.atlasdirect.net but unfortunately they never confirm via email, so I  called them yesterday and they were pretty rude. They said that everything was wrong. We could not be […]

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The Best Seats in the House

 from http://www.weburbanist.com When asked to list essential, life-enhancing furniture around the home, there are not many people who would include their toilet. However, remove it from their home and they’d be aware of it in a very short time. The humblest seat in the house is also the most vital. For that reason, let us […]

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Day -1 (Tomorrow we are leaving!)

Wednesday already…..Tomorrow we are starting our journey!! Yesterday we took Mina (our cat) to ours neighbours’ place, where she will have pretty in very good hands. I’m sure. We are nearly ready. We just have to pack. I have a list of things that I should not forget in the iPhone (things software) and we will follow […]

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Snow storm in Geneva

We are in the easyjet flight to Gatwick. It should have taken off 35 min ago but… snow storm…so we are in the process of icing crock. I have already disconnected the phone so I will probably publish it from London. After nearly one hour we took off. It was curious to take off with […]

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Beth

Beth took the day off to fight her highs-phobia in St paul’s cathedral followed by a great burger with south African wine. Then a bit of history on Elizabethean, Georgian architecture during a short walk to Tatem Modern. Another walk under the rain and back to our hotel which ended up being quite good quality, […]

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Leo

Around 7, just 5 min after we arrived to the hotel, and Nuria fell exhausted in bed, I went to meet my dear friend Leo. We met in Paddington and we went to have a beer and catch up. It was great to see my friend.

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Heathrow… and fly

And again today we got up at 4.20 am with not many hours of sleep and with a break at 12.00pm when someone entered in our room!! That was a shock! Apparently two Torres had booked on the same night, what a coincidence. No raining nor snowing, so the 10 minutes walk to Paddinton train […]

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Flying

Writing with the iPhone again. We are in the plane. It’s a jumbo 400, and the flight will be more than 10 hours. Now I just finished lunch and the movie I was watching: burn after reading. I must recognize that virgin atlantic is prety good. Good service and hi-tech on demand multimedia systems. Nevertheless […]

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San Francisco

Well well…. after more than ten hours we finally made it. Here I am in the USA hostel San Francisco (with free wifi), 6.45pm local time and Nuria just fell KO…. and give me a couple of minutes and I will follow. It is been more than 24h without sleeping. San Francisco? Great. It was […]

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Goood morning San Francico

After more than 12 hours we woke up on this St. Valentine day and went downstairs for breakfast. At the USA hostel San Francisco we have free pancakes in the mornings (you have to cook them yourself though). See the monster pancakes we cooked… I was ashamed of not being able to finish them… Later […]

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Crab crab

We are at Fisherman’s wharf, and even if we have not yet digested the pancakes, we could not miss having seefood lunch. Now the weather is not that good. It rains 10 min per hour. The way here was nice. We saw where the cable cart turns using a rotating platform, we tried the Ghirarselli […]

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After lunch…

We are now back to the hostel. I have noticed that the date of the posts is the date of the server, not our time here, so take into account that for us, now is 8 hours less, so all today’s posts that appear published as the 15 are actually the 14th. Well, after crab […]

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Cable Car museum, China Town and SFMOMA

We started the day again after 12 hours sleep. Today was our second day with pancakes, the result was much better. See the photo. We managed to cook nice pancakes. Once we finished our macro pancakes, all day walking under the rain. Yes, it has been raining all day non-stop. We should be paid by […]

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Alcatraz

This morning, after the pancakes (we are now experts) we went out under the rain towards powell street and then to market street to catch the classical F tram. I took a photo from the inside. It was raining a lot. It was one with everything in Italian. From Milan. We stopped at pier 33 […]

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Golden Gate Bridge

After having lunch at Hard Rock cafe in pier 39 we walked west. We were looking for the stop of the bus number 28. It is the only one taking you to the bridge. Here the bus ride costs $1.5 and you can use the ticket for 90 min. Not bad. Anyway, we got there, […]

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Scenic drive with Dylan

Today we had booked a tour with Dylan. He came at ten and took 10 of us in his van for a great 4.5 hours. We visited most of San Francisco, the golden gate, and the highlights: muir woods, with the amazing redwood trees with 120 m high and some more than 1000 years! One […]

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Bye bye San Francisco

Today is our last day here in SF. Guess what. Sunnnnnny. Yes. Every day raining like hell and today that we leave, sunny… Anyway. This morning we woke up later than usual. We went downstairs and we realized it was rush hour for pancakes. We got our spot and we cooked the worst pancakes of […]

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Hello paradise!

We still cannot believe that yesterday we were in San Francisco having a nice bacon burger at Luci’s diner and today we are in a wood bungalow facing the sea in Huahine in the French Polynesia. Before I must say that we do not have Internet access. I continue to take photos with the iphone […]

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Huahine

Our first night in paradise. We really believed that we were going to wake up at least in Australia… and the reason is that there was such a tropical storm during the night that being lost in the middle of the Pacific ocean you have the feeling that the strong winds and rain was going […]

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Tropical storm

Well yes, it seems like the rain follows us from Geneva. If the first night we thought that we were going to wake up in Australia, tonight I though that we were in the middle of the thunder itself. I woke up several times with the lighting, very nice, I thought, the storm is going […]

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Pora Pora

Rejane gave us a lift to the airport and there we waited with the Polynesian ladies who were in the same flight when we arrived wearing immaculate flower hats. As we wanted to go diving we thought it would be probably better to assure us a place for the following day. So we phoned and […]

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Swimming with the Sharks

Sunday 22nd of February. Bora Bora. After our great evening at the Intercontinental hotel with lobster a go-go and tipical Bora Bora dancing show, we went to bed, latter than usual, and the day after, Sunday, was going to be our first day in the pearl of the ocean. At 7.30am we had the Bora […]

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more sharks, rays and other wonders

This morning sunny! wow!! We booked here at chez Nono a one day trip around the island to experience the most beautiful sites of this piece of paradise. We woke up, walked to the supermarket to buy breakfast. We had breakfast in our table 3 meters from the sea and I went to the hotel […]

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Around Moorea

Wednesday, we woke up at our great bungalow seeing the lagoon. I wish we could wake up with the sound of the sea more often 😉 We had our succulent breakfast on the terrace watching the waves breaking far away. We had bought loads of different things in the supermarket, so actually the 90 minutes […]

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Tahiti again

Thursday and today is our last day in Moorea. At 10am we have to leave Motu Iti bungalow and before 9 we have to give back the car. We asked the lady of the house if she could arrange transport to the airport and she did. 1.35pm and flight is leaving at 2.20pm. So we […]

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Tour around Tahiti and fly again!

  We woke up early. The sun was getting into our hobbit bungalow. In front of the bed we had a huge glass with incredible views. The roof of the bungalow was like a boat upside down, with the peculiarity of having plants and grass on the roof. Nothing was symmetric. We had breakfast. We […]

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Auckland and on the road

We wake up at our little room in the Aspen Lodge in Auckland. Early as usual. We went for breakfast and I updated the blog by buying some Internet wifi time. We have lost one day in our trip from Tahiti to New Zealand. I was even hesitating on the fact that I have booked […]

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Cape Reinga

After a chilly night at Tutukaka holiday park, we woke up for a shower. Me, hating getting up early in the morning, could not see the machine to enter the 50 cents coin to have the 7 minutes hot shower, so I had a quick cold shower. We went to the diving center to check […]

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Bay of Islands

So after our fantastic nice in Whangaroa, we drove back to Paihia so we could do the full day trip around the many islands in this beautiful bay. This time we had booked, so we had two places for Ms. Piez, close. We started the tour following the dolphins, so some people could swim with […]

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Poor Knight Islands? another time…

We went to bed quite late after our dinner and conversation with Dominique ( the Swiss) Adam and Jo the British on a tour for a year. We spent another hour trying to find the key of the cozy room we were given, and could not find it anywhere… The night was terribly windy and […]

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hot beach?

We got up in Thames prepared to go around the Coromandel Peninsula with more than enough time to arrive in Rotorua by mid afternoon. Well, we miscalculated the time and did not consider the roads. The day was very grey, not a single spot of sky was to be seen in the whole day, what […]

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Rotorua, geysers, Taupo and Tongariro

We woke up in the western environment of the cactus backpackers. Our little room was in a patio and the whole hostel was old but cool. We meet some people while having dinner. An Australian guy with an incredible accent and some other. The weather was crap. It has been crap all day. Raining non-stop. […]

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Tongariro Alpine Crossing Tururu!!

Mordor of the Lord of the Rings, the three volcanoes together, the emerald lake and amazing scenery. The lonely planet recommended to do this tramping in one day, exhausting, but we were well prepared with our latest acquisition in Taupo: our Keen sandals, similar to Teva but with a weirder look. This trekking was the […]

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South Island with the right foot

The backpackers place we stayed in Wellington was cool, but a bit noisy.  They were partying all night and our room was close to the party 😉 Wellington was a bit like San Francisco, with hills and little Victorian houses. It is far nicer than Auckland. Anyway, early in the morning we woke up, had […]

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abel tasman trekking

Glorious Sunday ended nicely in Nelson and we went to bed late for again another early morning. We had one hour and 15 minutes drive up to Kaiteriteri the starting point to our Abel Tasman trekking with kayaking. At 8.30 am we were there in the kayak booth queuing to get instructions on the adventure. […]

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17Km of unsynchronized kayaking

Tuesday at 7 we where up, but I did not want to get out of my sleeping bag, as it was freezing cold outside. In the end I had to go to the toilet, so I decided to get everything packed and prepared for the next experience. At 9.30 our guide, Cam, arrived with the […]

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whales? nope… pancakes instead

We overslept, ummmmmm that was nice, warm and with a shower at night and in the morning, so different to the cold hut!! At 9.30 we were driving direction to Kaikourua when I decided to phone just to check if we could advance our booked tour a few hours. Surprise surprise, all day tours had […]

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Franz Josef glacier

We woke up this morning with an outstanding breakfast: eggs, bacon and sausages, all this with orange juice coffee and tea. We felt like marquises. After such a breakfast we had 10 minutes to check out. Normally here check out time is 10am. So we packed everything in our little daihatsu sirion (now we know […]

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Fox Glacier. Sunny experience!

We woke up at 7.00 am for a quick shower and the luxurious full English breakfast without the beans. We literally run to the Fox Guides Company to pay for the half day trot in the glacier and got our numbers to change the boats. Our mountain shoes are not high enough for the experience, […]

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Wanaka

  Waking up to a surprisingly sunny and cold morning, we turned inland direction Wanaka alongside the Haast river, climbing up to Haast Pass and the Mount Aspiring National park. We missed the stunning Blue Pools as they were closed, but we could admired the views from the no so distant inaugurated road (opened in […]

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Embrace the Fear

“I must no fear, fear is killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be […]

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Glenorchy in the way to Paradise (literally)

Today we left Queenstown and we headed to Glenorchy, not very far (around 45 Km) were we are now in a camping site, in a little bungalow. The scenery from Queenstown to Glenorchy is just amazing. Again we had perfect weather. Latter in the afternoon the clouds started to come but the rest of the […]

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Te Anau and the "gusiluz"

After a succulent English breakfast with scrambled eggs, bacon and fantastic beef-tomatoes-something else sausages we started driving back to Queenstown and then to Te anau. I started the routine of phoning 2-3 guesthouses, BBH backpackers to find a place to sleep. Te Anau seemed to be fully booked, so I continued phoning from my list […]

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Piopiotahi (Milford Sound)

Fiordland is sliced by numerous deeply recessed sounds, technically fiords and since 1986 it is one of the 300 World Heritage Areas because of its uniqueness that must be preserved. The famous Milford Track has been described as one of the finest in the world, pity that was fully booked. So we decided that as […]

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Slope Point (4800 km from South Pole)

We overslept today, at 8.15 when the alarm went off, I did not want to get out of bed. I could heard the rain furiously hitting the roof of our nice place. Dani got up complaining about the many bites he had all over his body, saying that he woke up twice cause of the […]

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Catlins and the Sea Lions

We woke up in the house with great views over the ocean (hilltop backpackers) that we had for ourselves. We had breakfast and we took the road in the opposite direction to go to a couple of places that we missed in our way here: two waterfalls (McLean falls and Purakaunui falls) a lake and […]

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No blue, yellow-eyed, black-crested penguins

Saturday morning, raining like hell, good thing we went yesterday to the lovely Otago peninsula. It stopped for 2 minutes just to give us the time to load the car, and continue the road trip. Direction the Mackenzie country, NZ’s treasured highland. On our way, the weather started clearing up and timid sun shone. We […]

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Aoroki (Mount Cook)

After a cold night at Omahau Downs (but with heating in our room 😉 ) in Twitzel we had breakfast and left direction to Mount Cook, around 50 Km of where we where. The earlier evening in the living room we had to light fire. It can get pretty cold here in this area, even […]

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From Tekapu to Akaroa

We woke up in the “Tailor Made Tekapu Backpackers”, had breakfast and put our backpacks in the car, that this time was completely frosted in ice. Tekapo is at 760m of high and is probably the coldest place in NZ. The idea was to go up Mount John where on top there is an observatory […]

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Banks peninsula

After a long sleep for the driver (near 11 hours) in the Queen bedroom we went straight to the kitchen to fry our beef sausages for breakfast. We escaped a fine, as in NZ you have to park your vehicle in the sense of the traffic, and we always have parked where we saw a […]

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Christchurch

  We woke up this morning in our cell in the jail guesthouse and after having breakfast we decided to spend the day in Christchurch, so the car would rest for a day 😉  The original plans were to drive to Hanmer Springs, a thermal village where nuria wanted to go to soak in hot […]

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Last day in New Zealand

Here we are, in Christchurch airport waiting to board. I am now on the iPhone. Looks like we get 15 min of free wifi here. We woke up again in the jail backpackers and this time we had proper breakfast: the sausages that we still had and the beans 😉 We finished the bread and […]

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Hong Kong Phooey

Here we are, in the rainy and foggy Hong Kong. We got here this morning, one hour ahead schedule, so at 5am local time more or less. After 11 hours of flight, 2 films and a failed attempt to sleeping in the economy class air new Zealand, we were fresh as a daisy. We took […]

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10 Intense Public Guerrilla Marketing Posters

From weburbanist.com Guerrilla marketing has perfected the technique of catching people’s eyes and grabbing their attention, targeting consumers in unexpected ways and unconventional places. That, of course, is the point of this once-fringe form of advertising, which has now been taken up even by large corporations like Adidas and Microsoft. These 10 posters show just […]

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dimdim

Dimdim, the world’s easiest web conference delivers synchronized live presentations, whiteboards and web pages while sharing your voice and video over the Internet – with no download. It is open source, so I will be trying to install it in my servers 😉

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laconica or twitter or micro-blogging

Laconica is a Free and Open Source microblogging platform. It helps people in a community, company or group to exchange short (140 character) messages over the Web. Users can choose which people to “follow” and receive only their friends’ or colleagues’ status messages. It provides a similar service to sites like Twitter, Jaiku, and Plurk.

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61 Exceptionally Creative Wine Label Designs

from: weburbanist.com Much of the enjoyment of wine is in the selection. Whether you are a casual drinker or a wine connoisseur, the process of picking a bottle of wine is made more exciting by the packaging. Wine labels that catch our attention are the ones with beautiful artwork, sleek and elegant designs or the […]

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Photos

A selection of the most artistic shots of the TDM (tour du monde) trip is already online at http://norai.net/photos Specific links: San Francisco French Polynesia New Zealand Hong Kong   The selection is not representative of the trip itself. It is an artistic selection.

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qik roam

http://qikroam.com QiK Roam is a solution to set you free from expensive roaming charges when using your mobile device while traveling. Instead of coming home to a nasty shock in the form of a gigantic bill from your cellular service provider, you can take advantage of Qik Roam’s hugely discounted voice and data rates in […]

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gubb

Remember I posted a link to a web based “to do” list called “Remember the Milk“? Remeber the Milk was very good web tool to manage your to do lists. It even has offline mode using google gears. Now we have a new comer in the market: gubb gubb is a free web-based application with […]

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Search Trash folder in a Mac 10.5.6

I was wondering how to search something that was in the trash folder in my macbook…. not easy. This is the way to do it: Go to the Finder, select Go > Go To Folder and type in ~/.Trash to bring up a Finder window showing the contents of your Trash, but this time around, […]

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Sennheiser MM50ip

 I ordered my new set of earphones at internet.ch. If I buy in Switzerland I always compare prices in Switzerland with toppreise. I had the same model without the mic manufactured by creative. I was really happy as the quality sound is superbe with no distortion at all. In addition to this they isolate very well from […]

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event management online

aimado sendomatic eventful ennect evite activeciti spongecell eventwax renkoo pingg ilcu cvent socializr my punch bowl minglenow confabb live events zoji eventsbot eventbrite planyp wevent gydget setdot upcoming youreventhub meeting4 going zvents My favourites are “my punch bowl” for A-Z free event organization, and “eventbrite” which is very professional and free for free events. Then […]

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New look for tokao

tokao.com is washing his face. In fact I am even considering removing the toi and call it just tokao. I have been this theme that I found in internet to display number of comments, tags, and categories. Changed some colors etc… I hope you like it. Also in addition to the new look I am […]

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Now you Can Change What Google Says about you

Google me? I’ll Google you! Google has become the de facto public record these days but most people remain in relative obscurity there and/or fear of what past indiscretions Google will expose to people who search for them. Today Google released a product, called Google Me, that aims to change all of that. For a […]

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Google Product Search for mobile

Google just announced that Google Product Search is now tightly gone mobile. You can search product price comparisons in your iPhone or Android phone. The new interface is tailored for these devices making it easier to read customer reviews.

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Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope released

“Jaunty Jackalope” is the code name for Ubuntu 9.04, which was released on 23 April 2009. See the Jaunty release schedule. See also the Ubuntu Developer Summit for Jaunty, which took place on December 8th to 12th, 2008 on Google Campus, Mountain View, California, USA. And check the technical overview for the latest update link […]

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2d bar codes

Have you ever seen this 2D bar codes? Now you can to to 2d sense and create a free account. You can download a free app for your iphone and start creating links and 2d bar codes, that when you take a photo with your iphone triggers an action: going to a map, sending email, dialing […]

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tokao.com is just tokao.com

When I first bought this domain, the first thing that came to my mind was to call it tokao.com, that in Spanish (slung) would be something like “I’m crazy”. After some years I realised that for the English community and friends, the fact of adding this “toi” to the beginning was just making things more […]

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Brightkite

I would like to talk a bit about a very promising web application and also great iPhone application that has been out there for a while but has not been very successful in terms of people using it.  It is true that we are surrounded by Social Apps. For iPhone, web, such a facebook, twitter, […]

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::norai.net is gone for photos only

During this weekend I have been working on both sites, tokao.com and norai.net. I decided to focus ::norai.net on what is best: photography.  ::norai.net has been up since 2000. The actual domain was bought in early 2002. It has always been a mambo/joomla CMS and a lot of energy went into it at the beginning […]

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Flu

Worried about Swine Flu? Keep this links at hand: Official news on the WHO website: http://www.who.int/csr/don/en/ Online map: http://healthmap.org/en And a very nice wiki that people can update regularly (best resource): http://flu.wikia.com/wiki/Flu_Wiki  And real time google maps: Google maps Swine Flu

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Time to patch Google Chrome

Earlier this month, a problem was discovered in Google’s new web browser, Google Chrome, that would have allowed an attacker to launch and run scripts on a compromised machine. The issue, originally discovered by Roi Saltzman of the IBM Rational Application Security Research Group, had been given a security rating of “high.” Interestingly enough, although the attack takes […]

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Genius G-Shot HD520 HD cam with 720p for less than $150

Are you looking for a low end camera that records pretty good video resolution? Here you have the winner: Genius HD520. It shots 5MB stills and 720p video. It is a high definition video camera, can output on high-resolution flat-panel TVs using the HDMI cable ; it supports high efficient MPEG4/H.264 image compression format and […]

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Photoshop? nope, aviary

Always wanted to have photoshop or software to edit photos? Well, photoshop is very expensive, heavy and very difficult to use. On previous posts I have mentioned several “cloud” software. I do like the “cloud” approach. For those who are not familiar with the term, it would basically mean that you run programs on your […]

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A Mobile App That Saves Lives, Literally

Written by Jolie O’Dell (www.readwriteweb.com) DataDyne‘s EpiSurveyor program, funded by the United Nations Foundation and the Vodafone Foundation, has been implementing mobile technology to track and contain disease in developing nations since 2007. In a recent and potentially devastating polio outbreak in Kenya, EpiSurveyor’s new mobile platform was used to track virus carriers and immunize affected children. The campaign targeted around 2 million […]

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3G portable router

This is the first 3G portable router. LevelOne 3G MobilSpot Portable Wireless HotSpot (WBR-3800) by CP Technologies. Putt your 3G sim card into the router’s CardBus or USB interfaces and you’ve got an instant portable network for sharing to any 802.11b/g WiFi or Ethernet device. A 10/100Mbps WAN jack lets it double as your home […]

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Facebook on your desktop

Facebook has released a desktop application built with Adobe AIR. That means that it is platform independent (Mac, PC, Linux). You will have to have Adobe AIR in your computer and then install the Facebook application. Facebook also announced their Open Stream API technology. With the API now the limit is the sky and you will start seeing […]

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Windows 7 free for one year

Microsoft is giving away Windows 7 free for a year with the launch of the Release Candidate. The ReleaseCandidate is now available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers, and will go on unlimited, general release on 5 May. The software will not expire until 1 June 2010, giving testers more than a year’s free access to […]

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Audit your PC

There is free tool that you can install in your windows PC that will tell you from the serial numbers and model of your motherboard to the serials of your windows license and all installed software. Very handy Belarc Advisor

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Google Search inside gmail

(copied from gmail blog) I used to have a problem. People would ask me questions, over chat or email, and I’d have to leave Gmail to search Google for an answer. Then I’d have to select the answer, copy it, go back to Gmail and paste the answer into the chat window or my reply. […]

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iPhone app for tracking swine flu

  There is an iPhone app, IntuApps, which has Swine Flu Tracker, waiting for approval from Apple before it’s released into the App Store. In it, you can see the current Threat Level for the disease, a map showing confirmed and suspected cases, a symptoms area to inform people, and an alert page for breaking news […]

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Spot satellite messenger

This is a very cool gadget. Basically a gps, with the particularity that has a couple of buttons, one to check in, so it sends communicates your position, and the second one for help. Same thing but you are asking for help. The beauty is that works everywhere, not dependent of GSM or mobile networks. […]

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Pachube

Pachube is a web service available at http://www.pachube.com that enables you to connect, tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices, buildings and environments around the world.

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hackintosh a dell 9 mini

If you feel that Apple should have a notebook and you are tired of waiting for it, then follow this tutorial and you will have a dell 9 mini running the lates macos 😉 Do you have a different notebook? Check this table to see the limitations when installing macos

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Condoleezza Rice

In a video that surfaced Thursday, Rice said, “The president instructed us that nothing we would do would be outside of our obligation, legal obligations under the convention against torture… I conveyed the authorization of the administration to the agency. And so by definition, if it was authorized by the president, it did not violate […]

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versions of documents

Are you working on a document (or other file) and you did some changes that you regret? Well, Document Management systems allow you to keep versions or history of changes so you can revert to a previous state. Very handy. What you probably don’t know if that if you have Windows Vista Ultimate or Business […]

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New Amazon Kindle DX

Amzon just announced the new Kindly DX with a 9.7″ screen. You can already pre-order one at $489 and will be delivered in summer, when they release it. This screen looks like a nice improvement over the 6″ that they launched recently. It will be capable of displaying not just books, but magazines and newspapers.

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Update facebook without facebook

Competing services hellotxt and Ping.fm both introduced features that let Facebook administrators update Facebook Pages. The pages, which also include the new Public Profiles introduced after the latest Facebook revamp, let companies or individuals promote businesses, products, or even public personas using a page that’s similar to the standard user profiles.

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12 Extremely Effective Guerrilla Marketing Stunts

(from weburbanist) Ad-agencies are finding it more and more difficult today to get through to the average consumer, and marketing saturation only grows with every year. It’s for that reason that guerrilla ad-campaigns are becoming so prevalent in the industry.  Here we take a look at some of the recent, most effective and ingeniously simple […]

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martin jetpack

You know, for a device as potentially bad ass as the Martin Jetpack is — the company boasts a maximum range of 31.5 miles at 63 mph, and the ability to hover at 8,000 feet above ground effect — the video we’ve seen thus far has been pretty lackluster. Of course, you can’t actually get your hands […]

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Google going into social

Google company executive Eric Schmidt said Google was looking at ways to generate money from the surge of social networking activity on the Internet, as well as at ways of integrating microblogging capabilities, such as those popularized by Twitter, into its search product.

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GPS photo finder mini

Now we have plenty of software that use gps location from the photos we take. You take photos with a gps phone, such as the iphone, most of the nokias then you import the photos into iphoto or picasa3 and voila, you know where the photo was shot, using google maps, for instance. Well, if […]

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Glue works automatically as you browse popular sites about books, music, movies, wines, restaurants, gadgets, stocks, actors, tv shows and other everyday things around the web. The Glue Bar appears right on your current page to show you friends who looked at the same things and what they thought! Glue 4.2 Overview from AdaptiveBlue on Vimeo.

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Google voice

Google Voice is coming soon. It is a service that gives you one number for all your phones, voicemail that is easy as email, and many enhanced calling features like call blocking and screening, voicemail transcripts, call conferencing, international calls, and more. Google Voice is currently available for GrandCentral users only, but will be open […]

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FriendFeed

I have previously talked about several alternatives to twitter.  FriendFeed is again, more than twitter, and it is hitting really hard. Personally I like brightkite with the great iphone apps, but friendfeed is growing very fast! Give it a try. You can log in with your twitter account, but you can have videos, photos, etc… […]

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Japan Airlines jet engine sucks up cargo container

A Japan Airlines flight has been grounded at Los Angeles airport after a large object was sucked into one of the plane’s engines, officials say. They say the incident happened as JAL flight 62 was leaving one of the airport’s gates. Television footage showed the object – believed to be a cargo container – wedged […]

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What Is Google Squared?

(by Erick Schonfeld of techcrunch.com)   Google Squared is How Google Will Crush Wolfram Alpha. One of the next frontiers of search is taking all of the unstructured data spread helter-skelter across the Web and treat it like it is sitting in a nice, structured database. It is easier to get answers out of a database where […]

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yoono

Simplify your online social life with a Firefox extension that will bring together all your social network and IM services in one place, from facebook, to twitter, google talk, yahoo, etc… yoono

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COOL-ER Ebook Reader

(Jason Kincaid from crunchgear.com) We’ve gotten our hands on the COOL-ER, a new Ebook reader coming out in two weeks that’s sporting a (relatively) low $250 price tag and a case that looks like an over-sized iPod Nano (it’s also coming in 8 Applesque colors). Interead, the small startup that built Cool-er, is obviously trying to bring […]

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play.fm

PLAY.FM is the most comprehensive audio database for DJ and club culture on the internet. More than 12.000 DJ sets, live recordings and radio sessions can be streamed free of charge and on-demand. Upload, track list wiki, meta-shop DJs can upload and release studio mixes, radio sessions and event recordings themselves and check their audience […]

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Guatemalan Attorney Predicts his Own Murder on YouTube

When Rodrigo Rosenberg turned up dead on Mother’s Day in an upscale neighborhood in Guatemala City, his murder was seen as little more than another execution-style shooting in one of Latin America’s most dangerous countries. Now, after a video emerged in which Rosenberg accused Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom of orchestrating the murder, the killing has sparked civic […]

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Google translates emails

(from readwriteweb.com) Gmail Labs has done it once again. A new feature introduced today allows users to automatically translate emails into English and any other supported language. Sort of. As with any non-human inter-linguistic interpretations, the messages suffer in translation. But thanks to this new feature, you’ll be able to get the gist of the Cyrillic text in […]

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BenQ GP1 pocket projector

The BenQ GP1 Pocket Projector is the first to use LED lights. It weighs 1.5 pounds with a 20,000 hour lamp life. Great little device at a price tag of around $500. Great for travel, or salesman. It uses LED technology and has great specs such as 1000:1 contrast ratio.

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15 Creatively Offbeat Canoes, Kayaks & Boats

(from WebUrbanist) Smokin’ on the water… that’s how hot these cool canoes, krazy kayaks and bodacious boats are! It’s amazing what a little tech know-how and a vivid imagination can do when whipping up wild watercraft. Here are 15 that’ll really float your boat. Pedals, Not Paddles (images via: Life In The Fast Lane) Trampofoil, Hydro-bike, HydroSlide, Hydrothopter, […]

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Chrome has add ons

Finally Google Chrome has been updated to support add ons. Is that the end of firefox advantage? Google Chrome’s extension system. The long-awaited feature will finally deliver what Firefox and IE users have had for ages: a way to add more tools, services, and additional features to the browser.

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Google Wave

Here’s the full video of the Google Wave demo from  Google’s IO conference in San Francisco. Techcrunch review of Google Wave is here. Exclusive interview with the founders is here, and our video and notes from the press conference is here. Google Wave looks to be an integrated communications platform that brings together email, chat, […]

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Shortcuts

Are you a shortcut guy/girl? I am. I like to use keyboard shortcuts to get things done. On my Mac, Linux or Windows machines. This are a couple of site that will help you on this: keyXL Shortcut World

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howcast

I just wanted to mention a very nice app for the iphone: howcast, It is basically a “How-to” video aggregator  which has hit 500,000 downloads of its iPhone app and a quick spin of the service shows why – it’s fabulous. Just six months after launching, HowCast is already the second most popular free app in the Lifestyle category […]

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Hulu from outside the US

Don’t you live in the US? Would you like to watch hulu, abc, and other US TV shows online? Well, every time more, more websites are IP based, so if your IP does not fall under a specific country, you cannot access the content. You could solve this by going to the preferences of your […]

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Introducing EverSave 1.0.2

Introducing EverSave 1.0.2. EverSave is a clever tool which allows you to save all of your documents – if possible – in a specific time interval or by changing the frontmost application. This means no more data loss if applications crash.

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Google: more search options

(from google blog) Google’s first Searchology was two years ago, Google was excited to launch Universal Search, a feature that blended results of different types (web pages, images, videos, books, etc.) on the results page. Since then Universal Search has grown quite a bit, adding new types of results, expanding to new countries, and triggering […]

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Google Releases Dev Version Of Chrome For Mac And Linux. But It Doesn’t Want You To Use It.

(published in techcrunch by Jason Kincaid) Here’s some bittersweet news for those of you eagerly awaiting Google’s Chrome browser for Mac or Linux: tonight Google is publicly releasingdeveloper versions of the Chrome browser for both operating systems, and anyone will be able to download them. Unfortunately you won’t be able to ditch Safari or Firefox just yet […]

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Google Squared: is it like wolfram alpha?

Google Squared is a search tool that helps you quickly build a collection of facts from the Web for any topic you specify. Facts about your topic are organized as a table of items and attributes (we call them “Squares” for fun). Customize these Squares to see just the items and attributes you’re interested in. […]

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Palm pre is out

Palm pre, which is like an iPhone (user interface I mean), was out on the US (with Sprint) last Saturday. Looks like it is looking pretty good: multitasking, elegant, great touch screen experience, great photo quality (3MPx), full keyboard…. We’ll see later today if Apple releases the new iPhone with new hardware, and hopefully adding […]

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WWDC 2009 – new iPhone 3GS

Yesterday it was the Apple’s WWDC 2009 (Development Conference). They announced a new line of laptops (basically all based on the macbook pro). No more macbooks without the “pro” because they added a firewire 800 to the 13 inches model. They have also removed the slot in the left and replaced with an SD card […]

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Google Quick Search Box for Mac

Google just released the Google Quick Search Box for Mac. It is sort of spotlight but that in addition to search for applications, emails and stuff in your computer, also searches de web and can trigger actions such as opening files or sending emails. Also it allows you  to use it as a Twitter status updater.

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itpints beta – home

itpints is the new itpints is a real-time search engine. It’s not like Google, nope, with itpints you wont be able to know the aswer to any question. Instead, with itpints you can know what is people publishing on internet about anything of your interest, at the same time you’re searching for it. The relevancy of any […]

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WHO raised the Pandemic alert level from Phase 5 to 6

WHO has just raised the alert to the maxim level of pandemia. Here the official communication: The new Influenza A (H1N1) virus has continued to spread to many more counties and with increasing numbers of people affected. There is verified community spread in multiple locations. The phase change is not a signal that the virus […]

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bChamp: iPhone app to beatbox

bChamp, drums controlled by voice bChamp offers an exciting new way to drum. bChamp is a voice controlled drum kit for your iPhone. Easily make groovy beats by beatboxing into the iPhone microphone. bChamp instantly translates your beatboxing into impressive drum sounds. Making and practicing beats was never so easy or fun. No talent required. […]

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Wackiest Beds Around The World

(from www.duvetandpillowwarehouse.co.uk) They say that your bedroom says a lot about you as it is the place where all your belongings are kept, where you can shut yourself away from the rest of the world and be your true self…whatever that may be! We have done some scouting and found you the wackiest beds in […]

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Home

We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth’s climate. The stakes are high for us and our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and HOME has been conceived […]

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New words

TESTICULATING – Waving your arms around and talking b*llocks. BLAMESTORMING – Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible SEAGULL MANAGER – A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves. ASSMOSIS – The process by which […]

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Mouse wheel work wherever the mouse pointer is

WizMouse is a mouse enhancement utility that makes your mouse wheel work on the window currently under the mouse pointer, instead of the currently focused window. This means you no longer have to click on a window before being able to scroll it with the mouse wheel. This is a far more comfortable and practical […]

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Amazon Kindle source code to the world

Amazon is releasing the source code of the kindle devices to the world. It’s fairly basic Linux underneath (kernel 2.6.22 on the latest 2.1 software). What’s unclear without compiling one of these and booting it up (to our untrained eyes, anyway) is whether Amazon stripped out its various DRM and licensed codec support — MP3 […]

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Choosing a font?

Sometimes you want to choose the right font and the preview that the computer gives you is not very good because you have to scroll and do it one by one. The solution is flippling typical, as website that will allow you to type your text and see how it looks like with different fonts.

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The Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator™

This is one of the most valuable resources of keywords that you have to mention in an interview or any conversation 😉 The Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator™ Just click on the button and you will get wise sentences such as: integrate authentic synergies streamline open-source networks engage data-driven wikis

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Opera Unite

Opera Unite is extending what you are able to do online. Opera Unite harnesses the power of today’s fast connections and hardware, allowing all of us to help define the future landscape of the Web, one computer at a time. Read about how Opera Unite is going to change the way we interact on the Web…. […]

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Augmented Reality: Layar browser

Layar is a sort of browser derived from location based services and works on mobile phones that include a camera, GPS and a compass. Layar is first avaliable for handsets with the Android. It works as follows: Starting up the Layar application automatically activates the camera. The embedded GPS automatically knows the location of the […]

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Linux native multitouch support

You can add multitouch support to linux: You need: Linux kernel 2.6.30; a computer with a Broadcom 5974, Stantum, NTrig or DiamondTouch surface (the HP TouchSmart tx2 has a Ntrig surface, but you need to get the appropriate firmware from the NTrig site); our NTrig, Stantum, or DiamondTouch driver, or the Broadcom 5974 driver from Henrik Rydberg; their demo […]

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Firefox find feature

Do you use the CTRL+F to find stuff in the page that you are browsing? If you do, this could help you a lot. Findlist is a add-on for firefox that will add a drop down list in your find bar with the latest searches. It could be very handy.

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Steve Jobs was not just sick but had a liber transplant

(from techcrunch) There really isn’t much to say here beyond what are being reported as the facts. Apparently, Apple CEO Steve Jobs had a liver transplant two months ago, the Wall Street Journal reports tonight. When you read that, it’s pretty shocking — but not that surprising. After Apple initially tried to pass off Jobs’ gaunt […]

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Finally Google Maps tells you "what's here?"

Finally what many people was waiting, to be on a google map, right click and have a “what’s here?” option. When a user clicks on “What’s here?” Google will return as specific a result as possible, be that an address, a “natural entity,” or a place name. When combined with the “At this address” feature, […]

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Iran election on twitter

It has been a very controversial subject. Iran elections and media coverage has proved to the world the power of citizen journalism using twitter. Would you like to see realtime images of people using their phone cameras and uploading them to twitter? This link to twicsy speaks for itself.

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Ping.fm

Ping.fm is a simple and free service that makes updating your social networks a snap, with over 40 social networking sites and adding more all the time. Between ping.fm straight forward posting methods and advanced custom triggers, we make it easy for you to post your messages exactly where you want them to go. Give it a try!

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UK iplug air

UK plugs are bulky. We all know that. For security reason they should have a fuse so when traveling with a macbook air for instance, the adaptor takes more space than the computer. Watch this video because it is a great solution!

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pixelpipe: the best tool for social networking

Pixelpipe is a content distribution gateway that allows users to publish text, photo, video and audio files once through Pixelpipe and have the content distributed across over 75 social networks, photo/video sites and blogs, and online storage. They provide a number of mobile & desktop applications for users, liberating their content and sharing their life. […]

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iWannaSleep

Have you ever wanted to go to bed and get sleep while listening to iTunes? iWannaSleep will stop iTunes when you program to do so, so music does not keep playing all night long. A little freeware program for your mac that will let you programe when to pause iTunes.

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BookFresh Is OpenTable For Everything Else

(from techcrunch) In the online reservation space, you probably know about OpenTable. The restaurant reservation service’s IPO in a time of drought for IPOs, made big headlines. Now imagine OpenTable for just about everything besides restaurants. That’s BookFresh. Who might need such a service? A lot more services and individuals than you may realize. While most services have some […]

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Google city tours

Google has released another product from the labs: Google city tours The new site can build itineraries for brief trips to locations around the globe in a matter of seconds. At this point details on the new product are fairly sparse — it looks like Google hasn’t written its customary blog post yet, but given […]

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Shared Notebooks with Evernote. Finally

Popular web, desktop, and mobile note taking app Evernote has finally added the one feature that power users have wanted for ages: shared notebooks. The update allows you to share your notebooks with the world or select individuals, and grant write/edit access to your notes and notebooks. It’s not a revolutionary update, but the new […]

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Augmented Reality

We have talked about augmented reality in the past. It is the fact of adding layers of information into a real image. The most immediate application would be with new phones. Using the camera, gps, compass and Internet to add a layer to what you see with information or actionable interactions. Here you have some […]

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Compact flash adapter

The new CompactFlash adapter from Photofast can hold four 16GB microSD cards running in RAID. This makes the slower microSD format as fast as CompactFlash by striping data across all four microSD cards at once. For those that don’t need 64GB of storage, the CR-7100 will hold one 16GB microSD, while the CR-7000 holds one […]

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Downgrade to a previous software release?

Sometimes you have installed the latest version of any program and you noticed that dammed, the old one was better, had no ads, was simpler, more stable, etc… and then you go to the program website and the only version you can download is the current one? Well there is a website called oldversion that […]

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Google’s Africa Strategy: Search And Trade Via SMS

Not only does Google want to organize all the world’s information, it also wants to make all that information available to everyone in the world. For the majority of the world’s population, that means making it available on a cell phone, and not a fancy iPhone or Android with a Web browser either. I’m talking […]

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The Pirate Bay Sold For $7.8 Million

Today, Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory X AB has announced it has acquired The Pirate Bay website for 60 million SEK, which is roughly the equivalent of 7.8 million dollars. This was almost immediately confirmed by The Pirate Bay. Although the title of their post is entitled “TPB might change owner,” from the text of the […]

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NASA releases the most complete map of the earth

NASA and Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and industry (METI) released the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) Global Digital Elevation Model (GDEM) to the worldwide public on June 29, 2009. It covers 99% of the earth’s surface and it is available for downloads. The GDEM was created by processing and stereo-correlating the […]

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Google apps sync for Microsoft Outlook

Now businesses can run Microsoft Outlook on Google Apps instead of Microsoft Exchange, so they can achieve the cost savings, security and reliability of Google Apps while employees use the interface they prefer for email, contacts and calendar. Not Quite Gears “Although we use the same protocol as gears, we don’t use gears per se,” […]

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Box.net vs SharePoint

Plenty of enterprise 2.0 companies have set their sights on replacing SharePoint. Based on the premise that “sharing should be simple” and implying that SharePoint is anything but, Box.net‘s campaign is more than a marketing ploy. It’s a bold sign of the growing conflict between hungry young startups and Microsoft over who will dominate business […]

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Pogoplug

The Pogoplug connects your external hard drive to the Internet so you can easily share and access your files from anywhere. So forget about expensive NAS systems, configuring your firewall and router… buy this box, plug your USB Hard Disk and access to it via web from anywere! You have even an iPhone app 😉

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Gmail drag and drop labels

Gmail is constantly adding features to help people become more organized. Today, Google has tweaked its Labels feature to add more functionality to the labels toolkit, helping users implement labels in a more organized way. Your labels will now be located in a new area on your Gmail interface, above your chat list and grouped together […]

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pingdom: free website monitoring

Over the last few years, Pingdom has established itself as a well-regarded uptime monitoring service, but until now, its services were only available to paying customers. Today, however, Pingdom launched a free version of its service. The free service offers all the features of Pingdom’s paid accounts, though users are limited to monitoring just one website or server. […]

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Improvements to Google apps contacts

For starters, they have launched a new API that, when combined with the existing shared contacts API, gives administrators the ability to maintain an updated and detailed global address list in Google Apps. Google has also updated the Contacts interface throughout the Google Apps suite – particularly in Gmail – making it easier for employees […]

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Glims for Safari

Glims is a little add on for your Safari that will allow you to control your search bar and use it with many other engines (amazon, ebay, facebook, etc…) and you get a preview of the most relevant sites while you type.

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gdgt

gdgt (like “gadget” — or g-d-g-t) is a new kind of technology site — a social gadget platform that enables you to connect with the community through your gadgets, and connect with your gadgets through the community. It’s a place for you to engage with your devices and hang out with people who are as […]

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the man wall

Are you a man who likes watching sports, drinking beer and smoking cigars? Then this is the piece of furniture that you NEED! The Man Wall Features include: 52″ Vizio Flat Panel LCD HDTV 2 – 26″ Vizio Flat Panel LCD HDTVs 1200 watt Panasonic 5.1 Home Theater System DVD player with 5-CD changer iPod […]

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Expono

You can’t swing a stick on the Web these days without hitting a photo or media sharing service. Some of the most popular ones like Flickr and Photobuckethave become an indispensable part of our online lives. Among the most recent services to enter the game isExpono, a photo sharing, organizing and protecting service with added features like GPS […]

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Expono: Flickr, Picassa and the Kitchen Sink

You can’t swing a stick on the Web these days without hitting a photo or media sharing service. Some of the most popular ones like Flickr andPhotobucket have become an indispensable part of our online lives. Among the most recent services to enter the game is Expono, a photo sharing, organizing and protecting service with added features […]

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14 iPhone Apps With Push Notification for Productivity

With iPhone 3.0 OS upon us, we’ve finally seen the delivery of much-needed push notifications from Apple. Applications that take advantage of this new feature continue to trickle in, and though the selection is slim right now, there are a handful of apps (some on their way) that should allow you to become more productive […]

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Recommend your favorite apps with appsfire

AppsFire allows you to share with your friends your lists of favorite iPhone Apps. All you have to do is download and install AppsFire app on your Mac (PC coming soon), let is scan your Apps on iTunes. Then it will point you to your private AppsFire page where you can decide which app you […]

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Google Chrome OS

Remember all those whispers about a Google desktop operating system that never seem to go away. You thought they might with the launch of Android, it’s mobile OS, but they persisted. And for good reason, because it’s real. In the second half of 2010, Google plans to launch the Google Chrome OS, an operating system […]

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Facebook Makes Spontaneous Event Planning Easier

Facebook has updated its publisher tool to allow users to create events directly through the Publisher. After clicking on the “Events” icon, you can enter information about what the event is and where and when you want to meet. You can invite friends published event that’s created either on your profile or your news feed by […]

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Update Google calendar with twitter

You can connect your Twitter account and your Google Calendar to add events to your calendar by Direct Message. It’s like having a personal assistant! Step 1: Follow the instructions at Twittercal.com to get set up Step 2: Send a Direct Message to gcal to enter a new calendar appointment. Example: “D gcal meeting with […]

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Powerpoint? Keynote? nope, Prezi

Prezi allows anyone who can sketch an idea on a napkin to create and perform stunning non-linear presentations with relations, zooming into details, and adjusting to the time left without the need to skip slides. The ideology of Prezi is based our natural knowledge on how to coordinate ourselves in space; traditionally all information we […]

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The Four Essential Apps for Distributed Teams

Distributed teams. Virtual work. Placeless offices. Whatever you want to call them, groups who work from geographically separate locations are more common than ever. Despite how widespread this mode of coordinating work has become, there are those still wondering just what tools are absolutely crucial to making a distributed team work. Here’s a list of […]

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Mathematical logic

What Makes 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%? Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%? We have all been to those meetings where someone wants you to give over 100%. How about achieving 103%? What makes up 100% in life? Here’s a little mathematical formula […]

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Google Calendar Adds Labs and Opens Up An API

Google Calendar now has its own Labs. Long one of the most popular features of Gmail, at least among the early adopter crowd, Labs is the tab in Settings where users can find and turn on experimental new features. Google Calendar Labs is launching with six features: Background Image (now you can change it) Attach a […]

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Drupal Mavens Unveil Open Atrium: An Intranet in a Box

Proprietary intranet vendors, be scared. Be very scared. Today,Development Seed, the open source shop behind DrupalCon in DC and other endeavors, has released the public beta of Open Atrium. Open Atrium is a free and open source intranet built as a Drupal distribution, with some impressive functionality available out of the box. Not only is this a […]

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Google Brings Location To The Mobile Web On The iPhone

Google’s updates surrounding location are now coming fast and furious. Just a few days ago it added location to Google Maps for the Chrome and Firefox browsers. Today, it brings location to the mobile web on the iPhone. If you have the new iPhone 3.0 software and go to Google’s homepage in Safari, you’ll notice a new […]

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Yammer: an Intranet solution

Yammer is a tool for making companies and organizations more productive through the exchange of short frequent answers to one simple question: ‘What are you working on?’ As employees answer that question, a feed is created in one central location enabling co-workers to discuss ideas, post news, ask questions, and share links and other information. […]

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Going Up? 15 Amazing Elevator Artworks & Ads

You’re crammed into a tiny space with several other people, spending an average of thirty seconds staring at either the floor or the wall. That’s what makes elevator advertisements and art so brilliant – people have little choice but to look. Marketers and artists have taken advantage of this very captive audience in some brilliant […]

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pixlr: free online alternative to photoshop

Pixl brings you advanced online image and photo editing tools, just choose your flavor, jump in and start creating! Jump in n’ get started! Pixlr is the creator of online cloud-based image tools. Today they have two applications in their suite, one they call Pixlr Editor and the other is Pixlr Express. They are built in Flash […]

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7 e-learning and teaching resources

While the down economy continues to hurt funding to our schools, more and more teachers are looking to web-based services to help educate their students. Whether it’s through open resource projects like CK-12, virtual classrooms like those in Second Life, or through therepurposing of tools like Twitter, millions of teachers are finding innovative resources to engage their […]

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Going to Kenya and Liberia

Well, here I am at gate B37 Terminal 5 in London Heathrow airport. This time on my first trip/mission with the ITC, that I joined 2 weeks ago. I am now using my iPhone and we are ready to board. I will be arriving to Nairobi late at night and tomorrow I will be meeting […]

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Nairobi

Nairobi. I am posting this from Monrovia in Liberia because I had no internet in Nairobi. I arrived on Thursday, pretty late at night. There was a guy waiting for me. I had no problems to get into the country without visa with the Laisser-Passer. The hotel was a bit crappy but OK. On Friday […]

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Liberia, day one

Here I am, in Monrovia, in the Corina Hotel. A 5 stars hotel… I’m joking. There are no 5 stars hotels here. This in fact a place with clean sheets, and free wifi. That is good enough. The flight was long. Flying economy within Africa and in a 5 or 6 hours trip, with stop […]

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Monrovia National Holiday

Sunday. We had the day free after a meeting with our local guy here. We did plan the week and then Francis took us with his crappy car to have a tour around the city. What can I say about it. It is a post conflict zone. The few big buildings that are still standing […]

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Monrovia – Meeting the Minister of Trade

Today we had a productive day. We met the Minister of Trade and her Chiefs. Here you have some photos: the toilet in the floor of the Minister (they have no water and no electricity, only own generators), the Ministry of Trade Building and stairs, the bullet hole in the glass in the Minister’s meeting […]

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Great Plug for Globetrotters

Are you a globetrotter with a penchant for vivid colors? Mili’s got your back with its compact and surprisingly practical Universal Charger. Capable of plugging into US, UK, EU or Australian-style sockets, this unit covers quite a bit of ground and can power a pair of devices at once via USB. Technically then, you’re unloading the chargers […]

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Semi Pros: 15 Examples Of Awesome Truck Mod Art

Trucks… cars on steroids or society’s workhorses? Trucks are cool fresh off the assembly line but such huge, mobile canvasses just naturally invite artists to add to their awesomeness. Here are 15 examples of awesome art made for, with and upon trucks. Burning Man’s Big Rig Jig (images via: Laughing Squid and American Steel) One of the visual […]

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iphone 3gs turn by turn software

As you might know with the iPhone 3GS it was announced to have TomTom. Well we have to competitors in the market already offering Europe maps and turn by turn software for 79 and 89 euros. The first is Sygic the Second is iGo my way. There is a third player in the market too: […]

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How to fix a Corrupted Time Machine Backup

The other day time machine decided to stop working for me and kept giving me errors about mounting the backup image. After firing up Console.app I found that the sparsebundle which time machine stores the backup data in was corrupted. This is a bad thing since if I couldn’t find a way to fix the […]

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16 Apps That Make Sharing Large Files A Snap

File sharing services are not as popular today as they were four years ago. It’s not that people are sharing any less. Rather, they just found easier ways to do it. Would you upload a funny video from a friend’s email to any of those services or would you search for it on Youtube and […]

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shoot it app for iPhone

Shoot it! is a very cool app for the iPhone that will enable you to send a real, photo postcard from anywhere to anyone in the world directly from your iPhone. Your personalized postcard will be delivered in just days…not weeks. Easy. Just take a photo (or choose one from yor library) write the text, […]

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yuuguu

Instant screen sharing and real time collaboration. Yuuguu offers cross network instant messaging, instant screen sharing, real time collaboration, web conferencing and remote support. Fast, secure screen sharing Yuuguu uses an instant messenger style interface so you can instantly start a screen sharing session in just one click. And there are no downloads or installs required for […]

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Tell Me Where iPhone app

The other day we went out for dinner with some friends. Seb finally fell for an iPhone and he showed me a pretty nice app: Tell me Where Actually the English site is empty so you have to go to the French one if you want more details: Dis Moi Ou It is a little […]

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Mikogo

Yesterday I posted a link to yuuguu, a sort of adium or multimessenger that would allow you to share your desktop. Well, in the comments I got Andrew from mikogo who was recommending me to try his product. I did and I love it. I got a couple of friends to install it. I tested […]

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fatsecret will help you on your diet for free

Looking for a free internet site that will help you achieve your objectives towards your ideal weight and lifestyle? FatSecret is a new online diet, nutrition and weight loss community that harnesses the collective contributions of the members to generate practical and motivating information so that you can make better decisions to achieve your goals. Fatsecret […]

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Augmented Reality is taking off

Arf (Georgia Tech) a virtual pet you take anywhere ARghhhh (Georgia Tech) first person table-top action game Sekai Camera (Tonchidot) AirTag the real world Kweekies (int13) a portal to creatures in a parallel world Layar (SPRXmobile) Browse the world with an AR browser Artoolkit for the iPhone (Artoolworks) the most popular AR kit now on […]

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Kool Skool: 15 Examples Of Awesome Bus Mod Art

The words Bus and Boring share more than just their initial letter but that hasn’t stopped an assortment of visionary artists from jazzing up this most utilitarian form of transport. These 15 examples epitomize the height of slick transit glorious! C’Mon, Get Hippy! (images via: David Icke, Buses On Screen and Career Capitalist) Bubble gum on a bus? Sure […]

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iPhone 3GS: TomTom, Navigon and iGo my way

There are 3 major players of turn by turn navitiaon for the iPhone now: TomTom Navigon iGo my way Tomtom costs 99.99 euros for the European version.  It has 21 countries. Everybody was expecting this app. There were rumors about the price. We saw photos of the little gadget to put it in the car… […]

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13 Fantastic and Fun Image Generators

Whether you’re artistically inclined or not, sometimes you just need to whip up an illustrative or entertaining image for a blog post or presentation. The tools on this list help you generate respectable graphics in a jiffy — design talent optional! Most of the tools on this list are web-based and as easy to use […]

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Gruml: A Google Reader App For Your Mac Desktop

Google Reader is a very useful service for consuming your news feeds (assuming you still use RSS), but it lives in the browser, which means it doesn’t the responsiveness and polish of a desktop app. For all those Mac users out there looking for the best of both worlds, I present to you Gruml, a new desktop […]

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sixthsense project: integrating information with the real world

‘SixthSense‘ is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information. The SixthSense prototype is comprised of a pocket projector, a mirror and a camera. The hardware components are coupled in a pendant like mobile wearable device. Both […]

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Augmented Reality Navigation System

Mobilizy GmbH reveals a preview of it’s augmented reality navigation system, the first fully functional mobile AR navigation system available for the Android platform. Wikitude Drive was developed by the Mobilizy Research & Development group in Salzburg, Austria, to satisfy the curiosity of the developers to see if it was feasible to combine real-time navigation […]

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Montreux

Here I am at the “Eden Palace au Lac” in a balcony in a nice suit in the fifth floor facing the lake. Nuria is working while I relax here listening to the economist with my iPhone.

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7s SevenSnap entertainment shopping for your iPhone

Finally, it is online – the sneak preview explaining the idea behind SevenSnap. Take a look at the guide. SevenSnap in a nutshell: Every 60 minutes, we are offering you a product from the realms of consumer electronics, travel and leisure activities. To see the price of the product, which drops every second, you have […]

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Snow Leopard upgrading

Don’t let Apple’s marketing enchant you – upgrading to Snow Leopard isn’t exactly the hassle-free affair that the Mac maker wants you to believe. You must pick the right cat for you, identify incompatible apps, plan your upgrade path, and customize the installer. Enter Geek’s guide to installing Snow Leopard, the definite resource for Mac […]

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Dropbox

Would you like to make your life easier? Wouldn’t it be nice to have all your files synchronised over your Mac, PC, Linux and web? Being able to share files without sending emails and so? Well a guy like me would use webDAV for that, but there is a particular commercial tool which looks great: […]

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Online Backup Unlimited for $5 per month

We all know how important it is to backup our computers, but studies consistently show that most computer users — even those that know better — don’t. As Internet connections get faster and storage becomes less expensive, online backup services like Backblaze, Mozy and Carbonite have stepped-in to help consumers back up their data. Not […]

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Bilbao

Here we are in Bilbao. Today is Nuria’s dad bithday. 70! And like a kid. No we are at a very nice restaurant that it is listed in the Michelin guide having a nice lunch. Tomorrow we’ll head to Picos de Europa.

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Bing Pops With Visual Search

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand keywords. Today at TechCrunch50, Microsoft senior vice president Yusuf Mehdi announced a new visual search feature on Bing which returns results as an interactive gallery of images. For instance, if you type in “dog breeds,” it organizes them for you in a grid of images that you can scroll […]

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Home automation

There is a company called Savant who designs, develops and manufacturers deliver home control and automation, multi-room audio/video, advanced digital audio and video processing, extremely flexible and scalable audio/video switching, digital media server and jukebox capabilities, and an array of integrated applications and services. The fact that I mention this company here is because traditionally […]

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Crazy Contortionist Art: Bodies in Urban Spaces

How would you react if you were walking down a crowded city street and 20 people suddenly ran past you and crammed their bodies into the tiny space between two buildings? What if you happened to look up and see someone hanging from a street light, wedged into a window frame, or squeezed into the […]

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PBworks Adds Microblogging And Email Upload Features To Wikis

PBworks (formally known as PBwiki), a startup that specializes in helping businesses, non-profits, and educational institutions collaborate via wikis, today announced its Social Collaboration Update for PBworks Project Edition and Legal Edition, which integrates social media-style user profiles and microblogging to help teams work together more easily. The new user profiles in PBworks allow organizations to […]

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Human Canvas: Body Painting Meets Fine Art

Emma Hack has made a name for herself as one of the most creative and visionary Australian artists to come along in years. But she doesn’t work on canvas or clay; her medium is the beautiful form of the human body. Hack began her career as a makeup artist, hairdresser and children’s face painter. But […]

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WebNotes, a nice web annotation tool

Web annotation services let people add their own virtual Sticky Notes or comments to Web pages for others to see. But Web annotation is back with the launch today of Google’s Sidewiki. To be honest, I don’t have high hopes for Sidewiki. Marking up the Web has limited appeal to the average consumer. A better approach, […]

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Starbucks Goes Mobile: Pay For Coffee With Your iPhone

Starbucks and the iPhone are sort of the perfect combination. You can browse the web for free on the AT&T hotspots, you can buy in-store songs from iTunes right from your phone, and now you can use two new official iPhone apps. Now available in the App Store, myStarbucks (iTunes Link) and Starbucks Card Mobile (iTunes Link) let […]

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Picasa 3.5 with face recognition and google maps

Picasa 3.5, a new version of our free photo editing software for Mac or PC. Picasa 3.5 has name tags and uses the same technology that powers name tags on Picasa Web Albums. With name tags, you can organize your photos based on what matters most: the people in them. When you first launch Picasa […]

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No to all in windows xp

When you drag the files from the source to the target directory, Windows XP alerts you that a file exists in the target location with the same filename as one you’re trying to copy. It also asks you whether it should replace the existing file or not, as shown. If you were working in Windows […]

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iPhone 3GS voice commands in Spanish

Llamar a un contacto Diga “llamar” o “marcar” y, a continuación, el nombre de la persona. Si una persona tiene más de un número de teléfono, puede añadir “fijo” o “móvil”, por ejemplo. Marcar un número Diga “llamar” o “marcar” y, a continuación, el número. Realizar una corrección Diga “error”, “ese no” o “no”. Controlar la reproducción de música […]

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Etze, buying and selling handycrafts online

Etsy is an online marketplace where you can buy and sell items that are handmade, as well as vintage goods and crafting supplies. Etzy mission is to enable people to make a living making things, and to reconnect makers with buyers. Their vision is to build a new economy and present a better choice: Buy, […]

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Iris Notes

IRISnotes is a pen and mobile note taker that can capture handwritten notes and drawings, as well as edit, save and export them. Your handwritten notes can be instantly converted into editable text in a wide range of languages. Turn your handwritten notes into editable text*! Simply write your text using the provided ink pen. […]

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money management

Money management is now easy with moneystrands. If you do not want to monitor multiple bank sites and maintain painful spreadsheets anymore, then moneyStrands automatically pulls together data from your bank, credit card and investment accounts to provide an accurate, up-to-date picture of your financial life broken down by meaningful automatically identified categories along with […]

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Qnap 3.0

Qnap has released the 3.0 firmware for their NAS products. Take a look at the video. I start wondering if I should forget about running a full server at home… with this I could have my blog, my photos, and all my files… and even IP cameras… plus if you buy 2 you could have […]

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Pollux for iTunes

Pollux for iTunes will help you to stop worrying about organizing your music library again ✹ Completely automatic and easy to use ✹ Tags name, artist, album, album art, genre, year, and lyrics ✹ Analyzes the track’s unique fingerprint, so it can never be wrong ✹ No existing track information necessary ✹ Automatically corrects each […]

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Google docs improving

Now there is an equation editor so you can easily complete problem sets online or write papers that include equations. Also a “Go to page based on answer” option in Google forms, making it easy to show participants only those questions that are relevant to them. To make outlining term papers more customizable, Google has […]

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Rovio Robot. The ultimate webcam

Rovio™ is the groundbreaking new Wi-Fi enabled mobile webcam that lets you view and interact with its environment through streaming video and audio, wherever you are! With Rovio, you will always be just a click away from the people and places that are important to you.

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Free iPhone to iPhone text messanging

Quick Pitch: Ping! is simplified iPhone-to-iPhone messaging with push notifications (also works with iPod Touch). It uses a unique Ping! ID, and works similar to Blackberry Messenger so that messages can extend to friends anywhere in the world without text messaging costs. Genius Idea: Although text messaging has come down in cost over the years, […]

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Vue is the coolest wireless webcam network

Vue is the easiest and simplest way to remotely view your family, your home, your business…virtually anything, from anywhere, at anytime. Vue lets you create your own personal video network and delivers live video wirelessly for you to see and share from any web browser or flash-enabled mobile device – no software to load. It’s […]

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The Cement Factory Loft in Barcelona by Ricardo Bofill

LoftLife takes a look into The Cement Factory loft, Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill’s legendary and unusual live/work complex in Barcelona. Originally, the space was, in fact, a cement factory but it also resembles a cathedral with its high, narrow windows and gothic-style arches. Today, the factory serves as Ricardo’s personal home, as well as offices, laboratories, […]

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Create 3D buildings online in Google Earth

Building Maker is a 3D modeling tool for adding buildings to Google Earth. It’s fun to use, and an easy way to get on the 3D map. Here’s how it works: Select a city from around the world. Make a building with photos we provide. Save your building and it will be reviewed. See your […]

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nikon d3s, night vision…

Nikon has announced a new player, the nikon D3s, an incredible machine capable of shooting at 102.400 ISO! and with its FX CMOS sensor shoot HD movies as well. It has 12.1 Mp and the will cost around $5.200. You still have the D3X with 24.5 Mp and the D3 with 12.1 Mp and also […]

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HAVA media streamer for iPhone available now

Just a quick note to all you HAVA Player enthusiasts: the iPhone app that the company announced at CES is finally ready for public consumption. Available from the App Store (of all places), the software lets HAVA owners control it all remotely — including cable, satellite, and your DVR. What’s more, you can stream your recorded programming […]

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Android 2.0 screenshot walkthrough

We hope you Android lovers out there are sitting down, because we’re about to knock your socks off. Android 2.0 hasn’t been released, announced, or even pictured. Until now. And we’re doing it like we’re doing it for TV — major screenshots and major information right here, just for you, our beloved readers. Android 2.0 […]

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Amazing Program Turns Sketches into Photo Montages

What if you could create a fairly convincing image montage in mere minutes, using an online tool that automatically does all the work for you? It sounds insane, but five students from Tsinghua University in China and the National University of Singapore have created a program that does just that. PhotoSketch allows users to create photomontages […]

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Kigali. and babies

Well well, here I am again, at many miles over the sea, well actually over the desert probably, in my way to Rwanda, Kigali to be precise. Again, I was planning to go with my ducati to the airport, as I have done for the past few times. This time, though, the flight was at […]

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Microsoft: Integrated Videos and Maps for Driving Directions

From Microsoft Research: (a) Original spacing of panoramas. (b) Final spacing of video frames, after slowing down at landmarks/turns and speeding up between. (c) Straight ahead orientation. (d) Final orientation with look ahead. (e) Widening the view and freezing the landmark thumbnail. One frame of the route video. The field of view is automatically expanded […]

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TaffyBox Combines BitTorrent Search And Web Download

TaffyBox is a BitTorrent service, but there’s a hook that makes it a really nice choice for the casual BitTorrent user – easy search combined with a Java applet BitTorrent client for downloading. There are other services like BitLet that let you download torrents directly from your browser via a Java applet. But you need to […]

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GazoPa search similar images

GazoPa is a similar image search service on the web in open beta. Users can search images from the web based on user’s own photo, drawings, images found on the web and keywords. GazoPa enables users to search for a similar image from characteristics such as a color or a shape extracted from an image […]

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Google Maps Navigation Becomes Reality on the Android

When it comes to maps, Google has had nearly everything: great satellite imagery, huge coverage, and even some basic navigation features, but not what everyone that’s ever used a GPS device really wants: turn-by-turn navigation. This changes today, as Google just released a beta version of Google Maps Navigation for Android 2.0. Here’s a quick overview of the […]

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NoNotes Makes Attending Class Optional

Quick Pitch: NoNotes.com is a transcription service for students. Students can record lectures while paying more attention in class, then upload their recording to be transcribed by NoNotes. Genius Idea: Last week, you might’ve seen the story about the Georgetown student that’s looking to hire a personal assistant to help deal with the overwhelming life of […]

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Find alternative to programs

Are you looking for an alternative to photoshop, word, or any other program? Try alternativeto a great web where users vote for the best alternative programs. They will help you find the right software for your computer or mobile phone. To do this they wanted to rethink the whole process of searching for apps. No […]

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Spotify

Spotify is a new way to enjoy music. Simply download and install, before you know it you’ll be singing along to the genre, artist or song of your choice. With Spotify you are never far away from the song you want. There are no restrictions in terms of what you can listen to or when. […]

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Mac Mini Server

Recently Apple released some new products. Maybe to take some of cloud out of Windows 7. May be not. There is this great iMac of more than 27″ for $1700 (less than the 30″ monitor…) a beautifully design multi-touch mouse and my favourite… a mac mini server! I has no CD/DVD and runs Mac Snow […]

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Twitter Lists

Twitter just released to everybody the ‘list’ feature. In a nutshell what you can do with your lists is to cluster the people you follow (for instance) in topics. In my cases at @tokao I see everybody, while @tokao/tech the twits about tech, and so on. I think it is one of the best things […]

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Barnes and Noble going International

Want to be the head of Barnesandnoble.com’s international business? Because they’re definitely hiring a whole team, and they’re starting at the top. Recruiting firm Russell Reynolds Associates is representing Barnes & Noble in a search for the “head of their international business,” according to a source who was contacted about the position. The job entails […]

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WordPress 2 app for iPhone

The new version of WordPress for iPhone just arrived in the App Store (iTunes link). While the first version was already quite usable, this update brings a number of new features and usability enhancements to the WordPress experience on the iPhone. The new interface makes it easier to switch between comments, posts and pages. The comments […]

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video search

Would you like to find more cat videos than the ones you find in youtube. If that is possible sure… Well videosurf is a very smart video search. Give it a try.

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Sonos S5

The Sonos ZonePlayer S5 is a high-performance wireless music system with 5 speakers powered by 5 dedicated digital amplifiers. With 2 tweeters, 2 mid-range drivers and 1 subwoofer, the S5 delivers crystal-clear, room-filling sound that rivals much larger, more complicated audio equipment. Plus, the all-digital sound architecture provides precise sound reproduction, just as the artist […]

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All Aboard! Clever Recycled Train Car Homes, Offices & Hotels

Railroad cars are big, heavy, and cumbersome. They’re notoriously hard to move into new locations off of their tracks, and because of their odd shape most people wouldn’t think of using them for anything else anyway. But in the spirit of recycling, green construction and shipping container homes, some enterprising people are recycling old train cars […]

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Spotify competitor Deezer debuts desktop client, premium offering

[France] Paris-based Deezer is not waiting for Spotify to expand into new territories and is moving forward with its own plans pretty quickly. The French startup recently raised $9.5 million (€6.5 million), bringing the total invested into the company to nearly $20 million, and today the company’s launching its previously rumored premium offering and a couple of new products. […]

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10 Clever Architectural Creations Using Cargo Containers: Shipping Container Homes and Offices

(Check out our complete collection of 70 Works of Recycled Art and Design.) With the green theme growing in popularity across every stretch of the world, more and more people are turning to cargo container homes for green alternatives for office, and even new home, construction. There are countless numbers of empty, unused shipping containers around the world just […]

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Den of Daydreams: 8 Fantastical Make-Believe Makeovers

While many of us go for a functionalist, pick’n’mix approach to home decor (”I need curtains: oh, that will do” etc.), let us be upstanding for the financially brave, creatively passionate and unashamedly geeky souls who transform their homes into miniature versions of their favorite corners of modern culture, as these 8 thoroughly unique examples illustrate. […]

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Do it Yourself? 14 Silly (and Scary) Vehicle Modifications

We’ve all seen the car driving down the street with a garbage bag duct taped over a broken window. As dangerous (and hilarious) as that may be, it is by no means the limit of amateur automotive engineering ingenuity. These pictures, from the always-hilarious thereifixedit.com, show just how creative people can be when it comes to […]

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In my way to kigali (4th time)

Here I am again on board of a plain typing in the little iPhone keyboard. I am in Nairobi. Now the plain is goin to take off to Kigali (Rwanda) where I will go to the hotel, which will be suprise surprise because every hotel was full due to a confernce that it’s taking place […]

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Flying Back home

I write again from the plane. Now having Tripoli on my right at less than 4 hours flight from Amsterdam. This time I use my old friend laptop (sony vaio) who comes with me in all the trips I do. I must say that aside of being noticeable old, it is starting to finish my […]

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About Face: Unbelievably Hilarious Face Painting Art

Remember going to birthday parties or the carnival as a child and getting your face painted? Face painting is fun and magical, and it lets us temporarily transform ourselves. You can be just about anything, from a fierce animal to a dainty fairy to a weird celebrity look-alike. Unfortunately, most of us stop getting our […]

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365 Days of Stormtrooper Photography

What do stormtroopers do on their days off? Feed bread to gigantic pigeons, jam out on Guitar Hero, catch fish in a toilet and send vaguely insulting emails to Luke Skywalker, according to these photos by Stefan Le Du. The amateur photographer is shooting daily photos of stormtrooper action figures posed in various scenarios, either performing […]

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Google Translate Now Talks and Translates in Real-time

Google’s tool for translating text between 51 languages, Google Translate, has just added some very nifty and very useful features, with the biggest change being the addition of instant, real-time translations. While the company hasn’t removed the “translate” button from its service, it should because now the proper translation will appear in real-time below the text box. […]

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Google: Twice the storage for a quarter of the price

People today have more personal data online than ever before. More and more people are starting to move the bulk of their data off the desktop and into servers “in the cloud,” where it’s accessible from any computer or mobile device and easily shareable with friends and family. At the same time, digital photo technology […]

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Mini NAS from Addonics

The Addonics Mini NAS is a small portable Network Attached Storage enclosure solution in the market. Come built in with fast Ethernet 10/100Mbps connection, any 2.5″ SATA hard drive or Solid State Drive (SSD) can be installed into the Mini NAS and become instantly sharable over the LAN. A USB printer can also be shared […]

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SharedDoc Launches Document Commenting Platform

SharedDoc is an online document platform that lets anyone upload a document online and then share the file to a community, so they can add comments. Once you upload a Word or Google Docs document to SharedDoc’s platform, you can send email invites to a friends or colleagues to comment on the document. In order […]

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New Pogoplug

Pogoplug has released a brand new improved version of the original Pogoplug. Now it looks like a snail…. cool. The Pogoplug connects your USB drive to the Internet so you can easily share and access your files from anywhere. The Pogoplug is the perfect accessory to your connected life. Imagine accessing all your files and […]

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Amazing stereoviews

Photographs of Japan from the Meiji and Taisho Periods (1868-1926) have captivated viewers around the world since they were first circulated. One photographer in particular captured Japanese life so beautifully that his work has been seen by countless people all across the globe. Until very recently, though, his name was virtually unknown. Now we know […]

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How Google Wave is Changing the News

It’s not too often that legacy media learns a new mass communication tool along with its audience. But that’s exactly what’s going on now because of Google Wave. Although it’s still invitation only and in preview, the real-time wiki collaboration platform is being used by some media companies for community building, real-time discussion, crowdsourcing, collaboration both […]

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Amazon Improves Kindle Battery Life and Adds PDF Reader

Just in time to remind holiday shoppers, Amazon has announced an 85% battery life increase as well as a native PDF reader application for the Kindle digital book reader. Whereas the previous battery life topped out at about four days with wireless access turned on, the updated Kindle will run for seven days without needing to be […]

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Internet Problems

Since last tuesday I am having internet problems at home. My phone stopped working and the internet debit has been decreasing to ridiculous download speeds averaging  30Kb/s (I should have 8 t 9 Mb…) Since this morning Internet keeps dropping so tokao and norai will not be available in a constant way until this is […]

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Internet up again, but not at 100%

As some of you have noticed, I have been in the black since the weekend. Internet just went down. From 20 min ago it is up again, but not at the speed of light… and telephone still does not work. Let’s hope everything goes back to normal soon.

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Why Google Is Killing Gears & Pushing HTML5

As it is with everything Google does, the technology world went into a tizzy when in 2007, the search giant released Google Gears, a way to access web applications offline in your browser. Microsoft responded with its own technology and Adobe Systems came out with AIR. And while our readers were divided on Google Gears, gigaom […]

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Oasis of the Seas

We were thinking about going on a cruise once our baby is born… so I looked for options, and I found a floating paradise. Judge for yourself, it is the world’s largest cruise. The massive $1.5 billion vessel is nearly 40 percent larger than the industry’s next-biggest ship and five times larger than the Titanic. […]

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Urban Camouflage: Liu Bolin, The Invisible Man

In a world of Photoshop and special effects, artistic craft wrought by hand is getting harder to come by. But Liu Bolin doesn’t need any fancy technology to produce the jaw-dropping illusion of invisibility – his urban camouflage photography is all paint and pure talent. The Beijing-based artist spends hours studying his chosen locations and […]

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Google Officially Launching Chrome Extensions

A couple weeks ago, Google unveiled its Chrome Extensions site after clues began popping up that a full-on push for extension support in their browser was imminent. Unfortunately, that site was only meant for extension developers who were allowed to upload their creations to Google. On the page, Google promised that end users who were looking for these […]

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Google Real-Time Search Invades the Intranet

Google’s freshly launched real-time search is the big news of the week. And as it turns out, real-time search is not just limited to public searches on Google.com, but is also available to Google Search Appliance users. Now, if your intranet or Web site search is powered by Google’s enterprise universal search appliance, you too can take in […]

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tokao not being updated

As you’ve notice I am not updating tokao as often as I normally do. There is good reason for that. I am a father for the first time. Kai was born on the 8th of December at 5.09am. Now he and his mother are at home. I am very busy this week at work and […]

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Amazing Audio: 40 Sexy Speakers & Sweet System Designs

Home speakers were once ugly, boxy things that you hid away from sight because they did nothing for your décor. But smart designers have been working to make the home audio speaker an attractive part of whatever room it’s in, and some of their designs are positively unbelievable. The Grand Enigma (image via: Dvice) The Grand […]

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The Secret Life of Everyday Things: Art by Terry Border

When we go to bed at night, are the contents of our refrigerators, utility shelves and medicine cabinets throwing wild parties, getting amorous, acting out plays and engaging in cannibalism?  Maybe not, but it’s fun to imagine them getting up to all kinds of mischief behind closed doors, and that’s exactly what a photo series […]

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Google Insights for Search

http://google.com/insights/search/ See what the people is searching for With Google Insights for Search, you can compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, time frames and properties. See examples of how you can use Google Insights for Search. Categories Narrow data to specific categories, like finance, health, and sports. Examples: Top Newspapers in the UK […]

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Merry Christmas…eve!!

Just to wish you a very merry Christmas eve! I’ll be celebrating it with Nuria, Kai and Nuria’s Mum, Dad, Brother and Brother’s girlfriend. For the first time not with my family (Mum, Brother, Grandma…) I wish you all the best!!

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Plug

Meysam Movahedi’s latest concept certainly isn’t the first revolutionary tweak to the tried-and-true power outlet, but it’s easily one of our favorites. Put simply, the Rambler Socket is an in-wall box that contains 1.5 meters of extra cabling along with a traditional AC outlet. Granted, you’ll need a pretty deep wall to make something like […]

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Google Goggles brings visual search to Android; Favorite Places brings QR codes to restaurant reviews

Looks like Google’s been busy on the camera tip lately — not only is it launching a new QR code-based Favorite Places mobile search product today, it’s also demoing Google Goggles, a visual search app that generates local results from analyzing mobile phone images. Favorite Places isn’t super-complicated, but it sounds like it’ll be pretty […]

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TuneUp

TuneUp is a tool that will allow clean up your itunes digital music collections which are probably a mess… rename tracks like track01, add the cover, album and so… and automatically. I did posted previously about another one: pollux but looks it does not work anymore….

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Last day of 2009. How was it?

For me (us) it has been a great year. It all started in December 2008. Nuria got a new job at The Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. A considerable jump in her career in a place where most of us would love to work for what they do, which is to save […]

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New Google phone: Nexus one

Today Google has officially released the new android 2.1 phone manufactured by HTC called Nexus One. Here you have the official link. Engadget had an early copy to review. You can read the review here. It has videos and unboxing photos. It has a 1Ghz processor, 5Mp camera, microSD (up to 32Gb) and a 3.7 […]

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mysomeday: dream, plan, achieve

Keep all those resolutions you made. mysomeday is a website that helps you to make a list to keep track of these ‘Somedays’. You can share them with Friends and the community or keep them private. For each Someday, we’ll show you related step-by-step Plans for achievement. You can copy and customize a Plan or […]

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Phanfare: Photo and Video hosting

I just wanted to introduce a new player in the photo hosting. I have talked in the past about flickr, picasa web, smugmug (one of my favourites) and now a small company from New Jersey, phanfare offers you options of unlimited photos from $49.99, and the pro $99.99 with Raw support. The galleries do not […]

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Text recognition OCR in photos

I have blogged about Evernote in the past. Is one of my top ten apps for the web, mac, windows and iPhone. I use it extensively everyday. I take photos with my iPhone 3GS which has autofocus and in the past with my iPhone 3G with a berklin case with a magnifying glass. The fact […]

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Notable: provide feedback on websites

Notable is an online tool that will allow you to easily provide feedback on websites. Quickly and easily give feedback on design, content, and code on any page of a website or application without leaving your browser.  Works on iPhone, too! Notable helps your team collaborate through visual feedback on screenshots, via a chaos-free process so that […]

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Chat, share documents and whiteboards

Showdocument is free online service that will allow you to upload a document and in real time chat and highlight stuff together, like browsing the pages together. You can also open a plain one and write, and even link it with google docs. Very easy to use and very handy when wanting to go over […]

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Amazing Inklet trackpad tablet app for MacBook

The Inklet app essentially converts your multitouch trackpad in your MacBook into a drawing tablet by adding pressure sensitivity when using with a Pogo Sketch, as well as “advanced palm rejection” which lets you rest your hand while drawing or writing. As you can see in one of the videos after the break, you can […]

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the meaning of "open" for Google

At Google we believe that open systems win. They lead to more innovation, value, and freedom of choice for consumers, and a vibrant, profitable, and competitive ecosystem for businesses. Many companies will claim roughly the same thing since they know that declaring themselves to be open is both good for their brand and completely without […]

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yahoo sells zimbra to vmware

Zimbra is the email I am using with norai. I use the open source version and it is the best email experience you can have. They have announced that VMware has bought email and collaboration software developer Zimbra from Yahoo. Rumors of the sale have been floating around for some time now but the writing […]

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Google's new approach in China: they might pull out

This is from the official google blog: Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. However, it soon became clear […]

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Design the case for your iPhone

There is very cool website called case mate where you can design a unique case for your iPhone, iPod, Laptop, etc…. It is made in flash and it is very very nice. Give it a try. The final price of the case is a bit expensive but you’ll get something unique.   

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How SharePoint Can Deliver Project Transparency

By DUX RAYMOND SY | Published Jan 14, 2010 on cmswire Transparency in projects is becoming a requirement for many organizations today. SharePoint provides a number of out of the box features and integrations with third party tools to support the transparency required. But even before you go about designing the solution, make sure you have […]

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Is this where advertising is going?

Many times you have wondered who the hell reads the adds in websites and other places. You just skip them or close them, so you wonder how can the companies pay to advertise… Nowadays mass advertising is transforming into custom advertising. Google does so in its add sense and gmail. I would say it might […]

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Square: iPhone payment system

A new payment system has been developed for the iPhone. Take a look to the video Square is Jack Dorsey’s (Twitter co-founder) new startup that now has Kevin Rose (Digg founder) on board as an investor and YouTube pitch man for the prototype payment device that plugs directly into the iPhone’s headphone jack.

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More Than Fit to Sit: 15 Clever Bench Ads

[ By Steph in Guerilla Marketing & Ads, Subvertising & Counter-Ads, Urban Images. ] A bench is a bench – except when it’s also a platform for a surprising, thought-provoking, memorable advertisement that sometimes even functions as urban art. The best bench ads turn ubiquitous public furniture into interactive displays that entreat the public to get fit, go on vacation, […]

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Brainstorming online tools

I have blogged in the past about prezi, and I think is one of the coolest presentation tools out there. I would like to share a couple of other brainstorming tools that might be useful for your thinking processes: Prezi xmind bubbl.us

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Prediction for 2010

On the 31 dec 2009 I blogged about 2009 and I did some prediction for the future. I would like to extract (literally) part of that entry in order to have an entry of its own: What can we expect in the next 10 years? Obviously the hardware will continue to explode. Hard disk, processors, […]

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Paste without formatting by default on a mac

Here’s something I know affects plenty of users out there. Have you ever pasted text in a document or email message, only to have it formatted differently than all the text around it? Irritating, right? There’s an answer, thanks to the Keyboard & Mouse pane in System Preferences. If you click the Keyboard Shortcuts tab, […]

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Google Fast Flip

Google Fast Flip is a web application that lets users discover and share news articles. It combines qualities of print and the Web, with the ability to “flip” through pages online as quickly as flipping through a magazine. It also enables users to follow friends and topics, discover new content and create their own custom […]

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Stupendous Steps: 15 Great Escalator & Stair Ads

[ By Steph in Architecture & Design, Guerilla Marketing & Ads, Subvertising & Counter-Ads, Urbanism. ] While spending 30 seconds on an escalator, where do you look? Most people just stare straight ahead – making escalators an ideal location for advertising. But some ads are more colorful, clever and controversial than others, using both the […]

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iPad from Apple

(from engadget) Here it is folks, the Apple iPad. The screen is gorgeous, tilting is responsive, and the thing is insanely thin and light. Still, if you’ve used the iPhone before — and you can see the two devices side-by-side here — there’s not a lot of surprises here so far. Here are some initial […]

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Google search is going more social

Late last year we released the Social Search experiment to make search more personal with relevant web content from your friends and online contacts. We were excited by the number of people who chose to try it out, and today Social Search is available to everyone in beta on google.com. We’ve been having a lot […]

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Internet in 2009: wrap up

What happened with the Internet in 2009? How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many Internet users were there? This post will answer all of those questions and many more. Prepare for information overload, but in a good way. We have used a wide variety of sources from around the Web. […]

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bains d'Ovronnaz

The last few days I have not been posting in the blog because I was in Ovronnaz enjoying thermal baths for 3 days with Nuria and Kai. Yes Kai did try too 😉 I wrote a couple of stories with the iPhone wordpress app but they were lost… Ovronnaz is at 2 hours from here […]

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Memoria Casa Joaquin in Spain by A-cero Architects

Memoria Casa Joaquin is a house located in Spain and designed by A-cero Architects. The rich, pure and volumetric qualities of the forms are also apparent in the structure, which includes concrete walls that create the outlines of volumes. The design process is intended to discover new visions of everyday life directly related to Galician […]

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Google PowerMeter

Google PowerMeter is a free software tool that allows you to view your home’s energy consumption from your personalized iGoogle homepage. Using information from utility smart meters and in-home energy management devices, Google PowerMeter helps you to save money and use less electricity. What is Google PowerMeter? Google PowerMeter is an opt-in software tool that […]

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Send Help: Disaster Response From The Cloud

Relief agencies, companies and volunteers came together and built a global network of systems and people to coordinate emergency aid operations for the Haiti earthquake victims. This piecing together of a jigsaw of different organizations and technologies with one common goal serves as a testament to what is possible using cloud computing and may serve […]

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location based apps: the future

I have talked in the past about location based apps. Now google targets your searches depending on your location. New browsers ask you if you allow them to know where you are so the results are more location based, and not only traditional searches but more and more real time social network news from twitter […]

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Winsome Words: 18 Examples of Typography in Web Design

[ By Steph in Architecture & Design, Gadgets & Geek Art. ] “Web design is 95% typography.” That quote has been repeated around the internet so many times it has practically become gospel – probably because it’s true. While images are important, most of what we process while browsing the web is text. Using the […]

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Google Could Unveil Gmail’s Social Features Today

Google could be launching later today a social status update feature in Gmail. The Wall Street Journal reports that it is a new Gmail module that could integrate status updates as well as content from YouTube, Picasa and potentially other social sources. Google is organizing at its headquarters an event where they will “unveil some […]

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Siri: a personal assistant for your iPhone

You’re busy. Between meetings, social events, and hopefully a workout or two, your schedule’s packed. Don’t you wish you could hand off simple tasks so you could have more time to play? Take a look at Siri, your personal assistant. Just like a real assistant, Siri understands what you say, accomplishes tasks for you and adapts to […]

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Google Buzz

Google has just unveiled its latest attempt to become more relevant in the social media space: Google Buzz. The product is integrated within Gmail and will be rolled out gradually to all of the webmail service’s users over the next few days.

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5 Insightful TED Talks on Social Media

As social media has become a game changer for industries across the board, you can bet the experts at this year’s TED conference will have their sights set on peeling back the hype and getting at the core of what social technology has in store for this year and beyond. Perhaps the best part of […]

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OpenTable: booking restaurants online

There is a very cool service called OpenTable. OpenTable is the leading supplier of reservation, table management and guest management software for restaurants plus www.opentable.com, the world’s most popular website for making restaurant reservations online. With more than 12,000 customers throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain and Japan, the OpenTable hardware […]

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Zoho Invoice

The productivity suite empire Zoho launched a simple invoicing tool, unsurprisingly called Zoho Invoice. Now, the startup is releasing a new version of its Invoice, dubbed Invoice 2.0, that has a fresh user interface and provides a more open application. The fact is that over the past two years, there have been a plethora of online invoicing startups that […]

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We are going on holidays!!

Yeap! we are all (the three of us) going on holidays! I will be blogging daily as we did in our previous trip around the world one year ago! You will be able to follow our trip on by going to: http://tokao.com/tag/caribbean-cruise/ It is our first trip with Kai. It is not like the trip […]

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Tomorrow we are leaving to Barcelona

We are planning to leave the house as early as possible, but lately with Kai looks like it is impossible to be out of home before noon. We are going to the checklists we have: winter clothes for Barcelona, summer clothes for the Caribbean… replacing the batteries of the alarm sensors, putting up the system […]

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Long sunny drive to Barcelona.

We woke up early, but we couldn’t leave the house until noon. Logistics are difficult with a 2 month old… We packed the car and we headed towards Annecy after stoping by Nuria’s office because she had to drop some stuff there. Once on the road, everything went smooth. Kai would sleep and wake up […]

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Villa Olimpica

We woke up and it was sunny. The day before it was raining and it was awful. We walked towards downtown, stopping by Barbara’s parents so they could meet Kai as well, and then in Joanic we took the metro (L4) towards Barceloneta, where we walked to the beach and all along the beach until […]

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Twitter adds local trends

Twitter has improved  #trends by adding local trends. For me trends as twitter shows them are spammy and useless. For what I see with this improvement, only a few cities in the world are included. Obviously not Barcelona, where I am now, or Geneva where I live.

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Calçotada

We woke up and… no sun today. This is starting to be like Geneva, where you never know if it is going to be sunny, cold… We had Gerard and Nuria with Clara coming over. Clara is lovely. Look at the photo… Then we went to can cortada to have lunch with my uncle (my […]

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Eneko & co.

On Monday we went downtown. We met Kike, the traveler at Zurich in placa catalunya.He is doing fine. We went for a walk until the sea, then the port and then up to borne where we had a final drink and he left. We stayed around to eat some tapas (delicious) and went back home […]

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Lovely sunny day

We spent most of the day with Raquel, Kike and Eneko. In the morning they came here to my mum’s and we took the bus number 55 to Plaza Catalunya. We walked down portal del Angel and had a coffee in around placa del Pi. We walked down the Ramblas to the sea, to the […]

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Getting ready

Wednesday, a day to take it easy, meet a couple of people and prepare the bags for the day after, for the long trip. In the morning we woke up pretty late because we the night before we went to bed at 2am from Alberto’s place. We took the 55 again towards placa de catalunya […]

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Iberia sucks

Here I am, in the middle of the ocean writing again. I would have love to name this post something like our trip to Miami, but I can’t. We woke up this morning and went to the airport. In the airport they told us that we did not have the right seats in order to […]

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Welcome to Miami

After our great dinner in the restaurant in the corner of this busy street, the cafe nuvo we went to bed. We had a good night. Woke up several times (as usual) but OK. The hotel is at the heart of Miami Beach, it is cheap a bit noisy but highly recommended. Just for sleeping […]

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Driving by the coast to Port Everglades

We had to leave the room by 11am. We agreed that The Clay Hotel had the best location possible in Miami Beach. We left the bags in reception and walked to Ocean Drive where we had a nice breakfast. We went back to the hotel, took our stuff and put it in the car. We […]

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Key West, pirates town

We continue from the previous post, but now from the MSC Poesia. We woke up early. We decided to leave the curtains open so in the mornings we could see the sun rising in the sea. We had our shower and went to the 13th floor where the breakfast buffet is. Incredible choice and views. […]

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Key West

Just a quick note from MSC Poesia. We are in Key West. We arrieved this morning and we are leaving now to Playa del Carmen. I am writing from my iPhone using edge in roaming so no photos. I will write more as soon as I find wifi somewhere.

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Cozumel, Mexico

Early this morning they announced that instead of stopping close by Playa del Carmen and take boats to the port (that was the plan), we were going to go to the island in front, Cozumel and stop in the port. We did, and we went down but seeing that to go anywhere we should take […]

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Georgetown, Cayman Islands

When we reached Georgetown in the Grand Cayman, we were supposed to leave the ship by 10 with boats. There were 2 other cruises and the sea was a bit moved. In fact the captain could not properly anchor and had to stay all day in the same spot using the engine. Plus the boats […]

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Montego Bay, Jamaica

This morning we arrived at Montego Bay in Jamaica. The previous two days have been a bit of miss organization from the side of MSC. First it was supposed to stop in Playa del Carmen and not in Cozumel. Petty because playa del Carmen is a nice place and the place where it stopped in […]

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Navigation day

From Montego Bay to Nassau you have quite a long distance. The day was all day navigation. The ship is packed with activities: in the pool area, theatres, etc… and it was a gala night. Everybody with suits and ties… I did not bring any… like in the titanic. We spent most of the day […]

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Nassau, Bahamas

We arrived to Nassau this morning. now in an hour we will be leaving to For Lauderdale to start the second part of the cruise. In Nassau we had a great day. The temperature is great, it is sunny… mmm… We went down and after us 4 more cruises arrived. We are all here. the […]

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Fort Lauderdale, half way

Half way. For most of the people the cruise is over, but we continued. We discussed weather it was worth to go down and visit Fort Lauderdale and we concluded that we will be here next Saturday and with a rental car, so it was the best day to enjoy the ship, which was again […]

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In the way to Puerto Rico

Navigation day. Puerto Rico is far from Florida. The day started rainy and a bit cold but as the day was progressing the sun took over and the temperatures raised. We spent most of the day in the pool area. I am reading “the Help”, from Kathryn Stockett which is about maids in Louisiana on […]

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San Juan de Puerto Rico

We are now at San Juan de Puerto Rico. The ship leaves at 10pm (ship time) and we head towards Philipsburg. I found free wifi here and I managed to upload all previous posts. From the ship it is impossible to upload photos… I did not have the time and the occasion to take the […]

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Philipsburg, Netherlands Antilles

We did not get to Philipsburg until 1pm (ship time). During the trip some places had different time zones, but in order to avoid problems the cruise always referred to the ship time (Miami time). The night before they let you a print out of the activities for next day. The time you get to […]

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Road town, Virgin Islands

We arrived early to Road town. We took it easy though. Had breakfast and then left. The nice thing of cruising in the Caribbean and I guess is the same in the Greek islands and other small towns, is that with a day you have more than enough to visit them. I guess it is […]

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On the Sea

From Road Town to Nassau you have a full day of navigation. We spend the day in the MSC Poesia, in the pool area, having cocktails, having a swim, sun, … and in our nice balcony, reading… chilling out. There are plenty of activities to do, so you never get bored.

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Nassau, this time in Paradise Island

In our second time in Nassau we decided to go and spend the day at Paradise Island, 15 minutes by boat from Nassau. There you have the Atlantis hotel where we wanted to stay for the day and visit all the aquariums. We realized that last time we did not see anything. Atlantis is huge! […]

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End of the cruise: Fort Lauderdale

[mappress]We finished were we started: Fort Lauderdale. When we arrived we took the budget shuttle that took us to budget where we took our car for the next 4 days. First we had breakfast at bagels Einstein or something like this. Then was to visit fort Lauderdale. They said it was the Venice of Florida, […]

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Everglades

After having breakfast at the hotel, we took the car and headed towards Florida city and Everglades, in the south west of Florida. And incredible natural park that is like a the biggest delta of the world, coming from a lake and instead of ending in the sea like a traditional river it does so […]

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Miami: downtown, little Haiti and design district

We spent the day exploring other parts of Miami. Distances are big there. We went first to have breakfast at bayfront, in downtown. We did not manage to get breakfast at the hotel because we went down too late… but breakfast at bayfront was nice. We walked around and went to downtown. After that we […]

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Key Biscayne

In our last day in Miami, we packed and checked out. Had breakfast and put everything in the trunk of the car. Then we headed to Key Biscayne where we spent most of the day. We went to the lighthouse and to the beach, then we went to Boaters Grill, where we had some seafood […]

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Google Calendar Rescheduler

The new gadget, available in Google Calendar Labs, is called Smart Rescheduler. And it is very simple. Once turned on, you can select an event and click “Find a new time” and the machine does the rest, offering up multiple options for folks to chose from. As you can imagine, those of us on the […]

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8 Unconventional Motorcycles Around the World

When it comes to custom motorcycle builders, there’s crazy and there’s really crazy. From the alligator bikte to the Motorcycle Tank. 8 strange vehicles around the world. The world’s biggest motorcycle Almost thirty feet (9 metres) long, ten feet (3 metres) high and weighing as much as a school bus, the name emblazoned along the side of this […]

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near.me a very cool foursquare interface

I have talked about foursquare in the past. When I first joined them they were only in a few cities and you were not able to edit places or are new ones. Now foursquare is a completely different different tool, much more powerful and more looking like the one it had my number one in […]

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check.in

I have written several times about my workflows for facebook, twitter using brightkite, one of my favourite apps. Now with all the location-based apps there is a clear hype, but again we will start experiencing fatigue. You go to a bar and then what… you have to open brightkite, check in write a note and […]

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Facebook adding location features soon

Facebook confirmed yesterday that it is working on a Location-based product but said that it has re-evaluated its plans to focus more on Places like restaurants. As part of a larger blog post about clarifying language around privacy controls, Facebook deputy general counsel Michael Richter said that the company now has “different ideas” that are “even […]

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10 Most Creative Resumes

Sabrina Saccocio is a TV, radio print and web producer who has put together a great eye-grabbing resume, looking for a unique and interesting work, a Facebook resume. (Link) Pocket CV by Temitope Shoda. If you have to go to several jobs interviews in one day, this resume is, besides creative, very easy to carry. […]

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novadrive from novatel: cloud-based unlimited storage

Novatel, maker of some of  3G / WiFi devices has decided to expand to data storage via novadrive. Cloud-based storage accessible through their software for Windows or Apple, but they’re have a nice mobile site so your phone. Among the features such as remote wiping of your data if someone steals your computer to the […]

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Paperless post: evite alternative

I have blogged about evite in the past and now I have to mention it again. Traditionally people organize events by sending emails to everybody, having private one-on-one conversations for specific things, and at the end, if it is a big event, you don’t know who is going, who is bringing what etc… There are […]

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Open Source Success: Alfresco Software Reports Record Revenues

Alfresco Software reported record revenues today, providing a signal that open-source technologies are a top choice for the enterprise as the economy moves out of the recession and cloud computing becomes more prevalent. Alfresco reported both record fourth quarter earnings and record revenues for 2009. Growth is up 61% compared to last year. We look […]

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iPad guided tours

How ibooks will work How safari will work How mail will work How photos will work How iPod will work How iTunes will work How videos will work How YouTube will work How Keynote will work How Pages will work How Numbers will work

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18 Unbelievably Realistic Works of 3D Digital Art

What can’t artists do with 3D computer graphics these days? Fantasy can be brought to life in ways never before imagined, and realistic scenes as clear as a digital photograph are illustrated with stunning vitality. These 18 CG images from 15 talented artists will blow you away with their depth and attention to detail, from […]

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redux

Are you looking for stories? You normally use your list of blogs, youtube and so, and then you might share it in facebook or twitter, or maybe you are bombarded by funny emails on fridays with jokes and so. If you are the kind of person who likes this friday’s emails, then redux can be […]

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how does it look in an iPad?

The media if flooded with iPad news. Tons of people unboxing, reviewing, and falling in love with the beautiful iPad even if aware of its limitations (no camera, multitasking, closed platform…). If you want to see how a website would look like in an iPad (because you don’t have one) check this out: http://ipadpeek.com/

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iPhone OS 4 live on Engadget

Want to follow the event at 7pm Paris time or 10am Pacific time? Apple will present the new iPhone OS 4 (not a new iPhone phone, just the OS). Maybe in summer they present the hardware for the OS 4. We’ll find out in an hour. http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/live-from-apples-iphone-os-4-event/

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10 of the most impressive subway stations

Stockholm Tunnelbana (Sweeden) `Subway stations are usually designed in a clean and modernistic style in order to make people forget they are traveling deep underground. It is different in the Stockholm subway though, in which several of the deep underground stations are cut into solid rock which were left with cave-like ceilings. Oldnature meets nextnature. […]

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10 Fantastic Photoshop Tutorials on YouTube

Photoshop has been a mainstay of the design software pantheon for over 20 years, and it remains a great tool for pro artists and social media customizers alike. But the sophisticated image editor has a daunting learning curve. With so many tools, features, and concepts to get a hold of, new users can be discouraged […]

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Google Docs Adds Major New Features

Google has announced that it has rebuilt Google Docs from the ground-up. The result is a massive overhaul of Google Docs, including completely redesigned spreadsheet, document, and drawing editors, group chat functionality, and the ability to collaborate with real-time character-by-character mark-up, much like Google Wave. You can preview the new changes, starting today. The one word […]

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OffiSync Now Lets You Co-Author Files With Most Versions Of Microsoft Office (And Google Docs)

OffiSyncis a plugin for Microsoft Office that serves as a bridge between Office and Google Docs. When it first launched, the app’s primary feature was to save Office documents to your Google account. It’s since integrated Google Image Serach into Office, and support for Google Sites. And today it’s getting another major upgrade: you’ll now be able to sync […]

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Peace Corps Devs Win Web Award for Remix Site

Who knew the Peace Corps were Web developers? Certain African farmers did anyway. Now, with its AfricaRuralConnect project the recipient of an Interactive Media Council Outstanding Achievement Award, a lot more people know it too. ARC is a product of the National Peace Corps Association and provides a platform for Africans in the business of agriculture, and those […]

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Farm Radio NGO, helping African Farmers

Farm Radio International is a Canadian-based, not-for-profit organization working in direct partnership with approximately 330 radio broadcasters in 39 African countries to fight poverty and food insecurity. Their materials are also available electronically to broadcasters and to rural development organizations in Africa, Asia and Latin America. What do they do – Their program supports broadcasters in […]

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Google Adds Calendar Invitations to Gmail Messages

If you’re a Gmail user, you may have noticed a surprising new feature in your e-mail account this morning: There’s now an “Insert: Invitation” link adjacent to the “Attach a file” link in each new message you compose. The invitation addition makes scheduling meetings and setting up appointments via Gmail much easier. It also completes the […]

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Mac latest update of the timemachine

I updated my mac and one of the new updates was the timemachine. I am running my time machine backing up in a Samba server (linux machine). This new update is deletes your old time machine in order to create a new one probably in a newer and more stable format. I decided to go […]

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Next iPhone handset forgotten in a bar

Gizmodo has a nice story on a prototype iPhone next generation forgotten in a bar. Looks like an Apple guy forgot the phone in a bar. The story is credible: the phone was inside a cover that made it look like a 3gs but when removed, a different phone… the new iPhone that we are […]

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10 Radical Restaurant, Bistro and Cafe Designs

(Images via: Make Sweet, Spot Cool Stuff Travel, Cool Family Vacations, Trendir, Dirwell, Momoy, Juvan Design,  Restaurant Tycoons, Home Architecture & Interior Design, Modeco Design, Autojogja, Momoy) Feeling a little peckish? Longing for a dining experience that transcends the ordinary, taking your taste buds on an otherworldly journey into hot damnnnn territory? Fret not, foodies, for […]

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Group buying: A billion-dollar Web trend?

Can we all get a better deal by making purchases together? That’s the idea behind a new breed of “group buying” Web sites — at least one of which may be valued at more than $1 billion. It’s hardly a stretch to predict that group buying will become one of the biggest Web trends of […]

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Google Earth view comes to Google maps

Five years ago, shortly after Google’s acquisition of Keyhole, we introduced the first integration of Keyhole technology into Google Maps — Satellite view. Suddenly, you could see what places actually looked like from the air, and easily switch between this view and the map view. Mapping has never been the same. A few months later, the […]

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thoughts on Flash (by Steve Jobs)

Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe and owned around 20% of the company for many years. The two companies worked closely together […]

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Have fun organising a Geocaching event for iPhones

Geocaching is a high-tech treasure hunting game played throughout the world by adventure seekers equipped with GPS devices. The basic idea is to locate hidden containers, called geocaches, outdoors and then share your experiences online. Now you can geocache using your Apple iPhone and Groundspeak’s Geocaching iPhone Application. How It Works The iPhone 3G and […]

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walking men

Walking Men 99™ is a site-specific Public Art Installation, surrounding the site of the upcoming Four Seasons Hotel in NYC’s Downtown area, a photographic collage of 99 pedestrian traffic-light icons collected from around the world. The installation will remain on display for one year, starting January 16th, 2010 through January 15th, 2011.

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JK Rowling: The fringe benefits of failure

J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo. At her Harvard University commencement speech, “Harry Potter” author JK Rowling offers some powerful, heartening advice to dreamers and overachievers, including one hard-won lesson that she deems “worth more than any qualification I ever earned.”

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Google Street View Adds Local Business Listings

Last week, the newly renamed Google Places added a ton of features to help local businesses create a directory page right on Google. Today, Google’s Street View is joining the party by showing links to local business listings right in Street View. As you turn around in Street View, names of local businesses and other “Google Places” […]

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animoto – create custom presentations

I have discovered a very interesting website: animoto Animoto does nice videos from your videos and images automatically. The output is pretty impressive and it is very easy to use. With the free account you get 30 sec videos. Take a look at the one I just did for my son. It has taken me few minutes […]

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Manage your tasks (ToDos)

How do you manage your tasks? This is how I manage mine: I use google apps (you could use gmail tasks) and I use the tasks there. You can create a calendar with the tasks with due date. In my iPhone I syncronize it with Geetasks pro which is a great app that syncs your […]

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How I do organize my ToDos or task lists

I have read extensively about how to organise yourself. One of my favourite authors for this is David Allen and his “Getting Things Done” book and now philosophy. It does not fit my needs 100% but you can get a lot of good ideas. It is a read I recommend to anybody who would like […]

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How Can Social Media Save the Starving Children?

Social media has superpowers. Or so goes current tech-wonk opinion on Facebook, Twitter, et. al. From creating a “social Web,” to shaking up e-commerce, to mobilizing people behind a presidential candidate, social media has reached its tentacles into pretty much everything. Except places where there aren’t iThings and high-speed wireless. Ya know, most of the […]

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Products I can't live without

Here a quick list of the products I can’t live without: Gadgets: Macbook pro iPhone 3GS (as soon as the 4G is out… then … 😉 ) Nikon d300 with nikkor 18-200 and  sigma 10-20 (I wish it was a nikon d3s though…) Fonera2.0n (great concept and community. I have two an convincing friends to […]

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Google Adds App Store for Analytics

Today, Google is giving users even more tools for finding and understanding their web stats. The company has just announced they’re opening a full App Gallery for Google Analytics. Currently, the gallery holds 32 applications, with more on the way. Developers can submit their apps online, of course. Apps are available in 12 categories, including business intelligence, […]

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5 Great Ways to Find Music That Suits Your Mood

Jessica Miller has written for Jewcy.com, The Jew and the Carrot, and is an avid digital music explorer. She holds a B.A. in religion from Barnard College, and blogs regularly on her own site, The Boomerang Blog. You don’t have to be Oliver Sacks to know that music can have a profound effect on the human psyche. Music is […]

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All Google Services To Be Available on Google Apps Later This Year

This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. As you’re planning your Cloud Architecture, check out this helpful resource from our sponsors: Using a Data Center Relocation To Create A Virtual Infrastructure. At Google Atmosphere last month, Google Apps President […]

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2 hidden ways to get more from your Gmail address

I recently discovered some little-known ways to use your Gmail address that can give you greater control over your inbox and save you some time and headache. When you choose a Gmail address, you actually get more than just “yourusername@gmail.com.” Here are two different ways you can modify your Gmail address and still get your […]

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Silentale, the Dropbox-for-communications, opens to the public

After nearly a year in private Beta, Silentale, which is calling itself the “Dropbox for communications”, opens to the public today. The service is a kind of personal CRM system, providing a searchable backup of your contacts, messages and attachments across various communication channels, including email and social networks Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. It’s designed to […]

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Udemy Launches Virtual Learning Academy

Online video education is a space that is growing rapidly, and even attracting the attention of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who thinks that web-based learning sites will revolutionize education. Today, Udemy is launching as a learning site that aims to democratize online education by enabling anyone to teach and learn online. Udemy, which was incubated at the Founder […]

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Jeff Jarvis: This is Bullshit

As you know there are few books that I keep mentioning because I love. One of them is “What Would Google Do?” from Jeff Jarvis. I also listen every week to Jeff  (Gina Trapani and Leo Laporte) in “This Week in Google” or TWiG. I follow him in twitter… so basically I like the way […]

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grove: bamboo cases for iPhones

For $99 you can have a unique iPhone cover made of wood (bamboo) that fits your iPhone to the micrometer. Take a look to their website: grove These are beautiful, unique and expensive cases to make your iphone a unique piece in harmony with the nature. You can buy a plain case for $89 or […]

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MAXroam cheap international roaming

Living in the US you can travel around using your own data plan, with you iPhone, iPad, Android or whaterver. In Europe it sucks as everytime you change country you roam. I was looking for prepaid plans in Spain, Switzerland and France for iPads or just as a USB modem (3G) when I found this: […]

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Location specific apps for your phone

Apple filed a patent in 2008 to have locations specific apps. What does it mean? If you go to a restaurant then a new app in your phone with the menu, or in a library with the books, or … you name it. Macrumors published this: Patently Apple points to a newly-published patent application from Apple […]

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The Future of News

Following with the series of Jeff Jarvis videos, here another video that discusses about the business of news which is changing radically. The old-time economics of supporting a big newsroom, printing the news on paper and getting it to people’s doorsteps seems increasingly unsupportable given the exodus of advertising dollars to internet sites. If you […]

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How are location services going to change

I have reviewed and written several times about location services, giving you my thoughts and preferences on mobile applications such as foursquare, gowalla, tellmewhere, latitude and others. Now I would like to try to predict what what it is going to happen to what I think is one of the key avenues for social real time media. […]

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UrbanSpoon Challenges OpenTable With iPad-Based Restaurant Reservations Service

Restaurant review site UrbanSpoon is slowly moving into OpenTable’s territory. About half a year ago, the company launched a very limited test of a basic reservations tracking system for restaurants in the Seattle area. At that time, however, restaurant owners could only use UrbanSpoon to tell their customers whether they had last-minute openings. Now, however, UrbanSpoon is […]

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withings wifi body scale

Five months ago I wrote a post about tools to control your diet. Now I would like to extend on a 125euro gadget that I might buy in the future: withings. Withings is a body scale that it is connected via wifi to internet. It is a smart body scale, you just step on it […]

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Google TV is here

Google officially unveiled Google TV at its Google I/O conference. Google is teaming up with Intel, Sony and Logitech for Google TV. The device is not designed to replace your cable or satellite box, but work alongside it: The goal is to be able to view web content and television content side-by-side from the same interface. This […]

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37 Sand Sculptures that Make Your Castle Look Sad

[ By Marc in Environment & Nature, Gadgets & Geek Art. ] A small shovel and a pail for sand are the typical beach goer’s adventure kit, but some people take their sand castles a bit more seriously. With ladders, and teams of workers, sand sculptors travelto the most exotic beaches around the world creating […]

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How To Use Google Wave for Live Blogging

This an article you can find at ReadWriteWeb. They had been Live Blogging during Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook privacy press conference. They decided to put this theory into practice and live blogged the event with Wave. The reaction to the experiment was overwhelmingly positive, so they decided to share how they did it : How It’s Done […]

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CloudCourse: An Enterprise Application in the Cloud

From google official blog: At Google we have experts on everything from Python to penguins. However, connecting our expert teachers to eager students around the globe can be a complicated business. To that end, we are excited to release our new internal learning platform, CloudCourse under an open source license. Built entirely on App Engine, CloudCourse allows […]

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DeHood: A Location-Based Social Network for Your Neighborhood

The current crop of location-based social networks mostly focus on getting users to check in and share tips about local venues like restaurants, stores and coffee shops. DeHood, which officiallylaunched earlier today, wants to bring a bit more value to its users by going beyond check-ins. The new location-based social network wants to bring a local […]

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Camouflaged Human Canvas: Faux Body Art by Kim Joon

[ By Steph in Gadgets & Geek Art, Urban & Street Art. ] Jumbles of beheaded bodies, limbs entwined, torsos twisting, hands reaching out – in compositions that are both glaringly Asian-influenced and psychedelic – call to mind some orgiastic body painting experiment, until you focus on the strange perspective and profusion of hands in […]

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OpenWays makes your smartphone a hotel room key, provides a different kind of 'unlock'

For years now, hotel chains have been toying with alternative ways to letting patrons check-in, access their room and run up their bill with all-too-convenient in-room services. Marriott began testing smartphone check-ins way back in 2006, and select boutique locations (like The Plaza Hotel in New York and Boston’s Nine Zero) have relied on RFID, iris scanners, […]

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How the next DSLR should be

As you know I love photography and I have a nikon d300 with a nikkor 18-200 and a sigma 10-20. This are my thoughs on how I would like this sort of cameras to evolve in the next years: Pixel-wise they are OK already. Around 12 to 20 Mpx is more than OK. I would rather […]

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Create a Socially Integrated Online Shop in 60 Seconds

Tinypay.me is the easiest way to sell virtually anything and is the world’s first socially integrated e-commerce website. Genius Idea: If you are thinking of putting an old watch up for auction oneBay or listing your latest T-shirt design on Etsy, you may want to check out Tinypay.me first. Tinypay.me is an e-commerce service that enables […]

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snapfinger: order your next meal online

Snapfinger is the largest online restaurant ordering site with more than 28,000 locations in over 1,600 cities.. Don’t wait in line… Snapfinger is the largest online Restaurant Ordering Site Snapfinger is the US’s largest most complete restaurant search and remote ordering site for take-out, delivery and catering from your favorite restaurants. More than four years […]

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Steve Jobs at D8 conference

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Apple rumour: Lala to become apple's Spotify

The other day, listening to TWiT Kevin Rose (from digg) and Leo Laporte were discussing gossips about Apple. I would like to share with you one that it makes sense: As you know recently Apple bought Lala, an online music service like pandora, last.fm and meny others. Also Apple has been building mega big data center in […]

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International Organisations in Geneva

This is a list of employment pages at International Organisations in Geneva: CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics) * EFTA (European Free Trade Association) GAVI alliance IATA (International Air Transport Association) ICC (International Computing Center) ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) IFRC (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies) ILO (International Labour […]

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Google alerts

Google has a service you might never have heard of: Google Alerts. Google Alerts are emails sent to you when Google finds new results — such as web pages, newspaper articles, or blogs — that match your search term. You can use Google Alerts to monitor anything on the Web. For example, people use Google […]

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Task Management in the Cloud

I just finished reading the 37signals book reWork. It is a very interesting book that I recommend. If you are one of these guys living in the cloud, using google docs, or zoho, online calendars… then you probably also use online task management tools. Maybe you are happy to use your outlooks todo lists, or […]

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Painted Alive: Boldly Brilliant Body Paintings

Craig Tracy is dedicated to creating surreal moments in time. Without the use of digital manipulation or photographic tricks, he creates dazzling body painting compositions that have elevated this particular type of artistic expression into the realm of fine art. He recently opened a gallery in New Orleans: the first gallery in the world dedicated […]

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iWebcamera: Turn your iPhone into a real webcam

Turn your iPhone into a real webcamera and use it to video chat with your family and friends. With iWebcamera you can use your iPhone as webcamera in applications like Skype, Windows Live Messenger, Youtube and every other webcamera enabled application. Features Turn your iPhone into a real wireless webcamera. Two quality options. Instant-Pause mode, […]

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iPhone 4 is here

Yesterday at the WWDC Steve Jobs announced the new iPhone 4. We were expecting it after all the leaks in internet, from the stolen/lost iPhone 4 prototype in a bar to the ones found in Vietnam. We knew he would probably was going to announce a new iPhone. From all the videos, photos and rumors […]

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Microsoft Rolls Out Office Web Apps

Microsoft rolled out Microsoft Office Web Apps on Skydrive to users in the U.S., U.K., Canada and Ireland yesterday. Users can login with their free Live accounts and create and edit Word 2010, PowerPoint 2010, OneNote 2010 and Excel 2010 documents in their browsers, and store them in the cloud. Users don’t need an Office 2010 […]

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CloudApp: sharing files in the cloud elegantly

CloudApp allows you to share images, links, music, videos and files. Here is how it works: choose a file, drag it to the menubar and they take care of the rest. Thy provide you with a short link automatically copied to your clipboard that you can use to share your upload with co-workers and friends. Additionally you can view, track and delete files […]

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Annotate web sites and pdf. Keep organized.

Nowadays we spend more time surfing the Internet than sleeping. Some of us work hooked in a browser, searching for information and managing it, and believe me, to keep track of relevant information is not an easy task. Before we use to have cabinets where we stored our papers, now we have bookmarks, and other […]

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Google Earth: Hiker’s Edition

Google Earth just released a new edition of its desktop app which hikers, runners and cyclists are going to love. They call it Google Earth 5.2. I call it the Hike’s Edition. One of the new features allows you to recreate the path of a hike or bike ride by ingesting geo-data from one of […]

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Google Docs’ New Upgrades Go Live for Everyone

Google has recently made a slew of changes to their Docs office and productivity suite live for all users and all new documents. From now on, when you create a new spreadsheet, drawing, presentation or text document in Docs, you’ll be using the snazzy new interface and collaboration features as the default. Two months ago, Google […]

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Mac OSX 10.6.4 is out

Mac OS X 10.6.4 is out and with it, Mail 4.3 which breaks GrowlMail, Letterbox, Letter Opener and DockStar. All but DockStar fixed though. To fix Growl Download a pre-patched GrowlMail.bundle and drop it in your ~/Library/Mail/Bundles/ directory. If you want it available to multiple users on your system, use /Library/Mail/Bundles/ Download: GrowlMail.mailbundle To fix Letter […]

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Kevin Rose: ideas on ebooks

Most people of my generation still prefer the smell of a book to an iPad or a Kindle. Well I am not like my generation. I strongly believe that an ebook reader is the future, not just because it can hold all your books, but because it can offer endless things that you can not […]

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Flowdock: keep your team organised

Flowdock is a web based project management tool that helps you keep your team organized and up-to-date with no effort. Similiar tools include yammer, Google wave or SociaWwork. Flowdock is similar to google wave, with strong focus on tagging. The best way for you to understand how it works it to watch their video:

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Memeo Launches "GDrive" with Google's Blessing

Memeo, the company behind a host of backup, sharing and synchronization tools and mobile applications, has just launched Memeo Connect 2.0, an updated version of its earlier desktop-to-cloud synchronization service for Google Docs. Like its progenitor, Memeo Connect still offers drag-and-drop uploads, but in the latest release, the application’s operating system integration has been dramatically improved. Most […]

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YouTube Gets a Cloud-Based Video Editor

If you have found yourself like I recently have – stuck with video on an iPhone and a netbook, but no real way to edit it – then fret no more, because YouTube has added an editor. While the YouTube Video Editor is certainly nothing to compete with the likes of Final Cut Pro or Premiere, it has […]

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Human Furniture Art

Anthropomorphic design is nothing new, but these furniture objects are quite literally made of people. A cross between art photography,performance artand home furniture design, these strange shots show us a surreal artistic perspective on everyday household objects. These photographs may not be safe for work … nor are the creations they depict safe, and they do not […]

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Stick with me, baby!: Cool Mac stickers

A group of designers living and working in Barcelona for Herraiz Soto & Co created a family of stickers to personalize the Apple logo on the MacBook with some hair. Clearly, these designers are not business types. If you’re a Mac user (like me) you may relate. The collection is called Stick With Me Baby. I don’t […]

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How to jailbreak your iPhone 3GS with iOS4

Well, two days ago iOS4 was out. Two days later dev-team has released Pwnage Tool 4.01 to jailbrake your iPhone 3GS. First make sure that: If you have a Jailbroken iPhone 3GS with the OLD BOOTROM and you DID NOT use Spirit to jailbreak then you can create the ipsw with PwnageTool 4.0 and restore […]

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My iPhone 3GS runs iOS4

Two days ago I upgraded to iOS4 (jailbreak) and I am a happy man. The best: Folders: I used to have 7 or 8 screens, now I have only 1. All inboxes in 1: I keep my inboxes to zero messages. I love to see all the incoming email in a single place, from any […]

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Expensify – Build Better Expense Reports

Expensify is an application developed with the premise that the process of creating accurate expense reports doesn’t have to be nearly as difficult as most people make it. Rather than letting receipts pile up and manually typing each item you’ve purchased into a massive spreadsheet, Expensify lets you import expenses directly from your credit card […]

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How to sync and manage notes with Gmail and iO4

Ever since the first iPhone, there has been a “Notes” application. However, the ability to save and manage notes has always been fairly minimal. Now, with iOS4, Gmail users can easily manage their notes, even across multiple Gmail accounts. One of the apps that is seemingly unchanged from the very first iPhone release is the […]

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TIME best blogs for 2010

Best Blogs Zenhabits PostSecret Climate Progress HiLobrow Hipster Runoff Kottke.org Cake Wrecks The Oatmeal S___ My Kids Ruined Deadline Hollywood Everything Everywhere The Sartorialist Information Is Beautiful The Daily Kitten Shorpy Apartment Therapy Double X Strobist Roger Ebert’s Journal The Awl GeekDad Engadget The Washington Note The Consumerist Pitchfork Essential Blogs The Daily Wh.at TechCrunch […]

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44 Creative Logo Designs with hidden symbols

Since I found out that the Carrefour logo (French supermarket chain) had a hidden “c” (in white), I started seeing a lot of logos with hidden stuff. Here you have some: Carrefour Living in France and having Carrefour supermarket all around Europe, it is only now that I realized that there is a “C” in […]

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Traveling? Create your own travel guide

Stay.com turns travel planning into a fun and social activity. Have fun discovering some of the best attractions, restaurants and hotels around the world, collect places you find interesting in your own guide and share it with family and friends. Forget about your already outdated travel books. Stay.com has updated information on thousands of places […]

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Tour de France 2010 real time with bing maps

Looking for tools to help you follow the 2010 Tour de France? Microsoft has built an app for Bing Maps that visualizes the various stages of the race and provides information like weather and results. You can see the routes the cyclists are taking on the map, including important points like the beginnings and ends of stages. […]

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Keep your books library in the cloud

Let’s talk about books. If you read blogs probably you enjoy reading books. During our lives we accumulate a ton of books and magazines. Well magazines we can bin (some of us) but books we keep. Now with ebooks this is changing. There are still a lot of people who still things that all this […]

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10 New Retail Rules: What Would Google Do?

10 New Retail Rules: What Would Google Do? by Jeff Jarvis Inspires New White Paper Inspired by Jeff Jarvis’s book What Would Google Do?, Oracle has prepared a new white paper that outlines 10 ways retailers can profitably navigate today’s competitive landscape, which is marked by transformative consumer technologies as well as profound macroeconomic changes. […]

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Great Travel guides for the iPhone

Condé Nast Digital Britain recently unveiled a series of apps for the iPhone and iPod touch, dubbed Condé Nast Traveller City Guides. There are four separate apps for Barcelona, New York, Paris and Rome priced at around $9.99 each. The apps [iTunes link] are divided into six sections containing more than 500 searchable listings, complete with venue […]

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Google Maps Adds Built-In URL Shortening

Sending someone a Google Maps URL can be a pain, because they tend to be very long. To remedy this, Google has integrated theirpreviously mentioned goo.gl URL shortening service into Google Maps, so you can shorten links right from the map. The feature is still in Google Labs, so you'll need to turn it on by clicking […]

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Google Launches App Inventor: DIY App Creation Tool for Android

Google launched “App Inventor,” a do-it-yourself mobile app creation tool that lets anyone build their own Android applications without needing to know how to program or even write a line of code. Instead, using an online interface, would-be developers visually design the app’s interface and interactions, using drag-and-drop blocks that specify what the app should […]

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Jailbreak your iPhone just visiting a website

Do you have an iPhone? even an iPhone 4? Just go to http://jailbreakme.com with safari in your iPhone and slide the bar. Jailbreaking your iPhone now just as easy as this… Why should you do that? Well, first now it is legal, you can always restore your iPhone if you prefer, and you get cydia, […]

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Calculate Taxi Cab Fares With Bing Maps

Thanks to a new app, Bing Maps now calculates the cab fare on a route between two points. The Taxi Fare Calculator was developed by Ricky Brundritt as a submission to the King of Bing Maps competition. The app is available at the Bing Maps website right now. Just pick a region (results are best within a […]

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Art On The Fly: 10 Examples Of Zany Zipper Art

All praise the zipper: the ubiquitous, maintenance-free, no muss, no fuss fastener that trumps both buttons and Velcro! Zippers operate smoothly, silently and safely day in and day out, often in close proximity to our most sensitive bodily parts yet they rarely – “There’s Something About Mary” excepted – cause us anxiety or grief. These […]

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Use Character Tags to Remember Bookmark Keywords

We’ve sung the praises of the art of keyword bookmarking before, but the number of keywords in your setup can quickly get out of control. Reader Swc oxcart shows us an easy way to keep track of all your bookmark keywords. Google Chrome’s auto-suggest will automatically narrow down your bookmarks for you by adding a […]

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Using Google mail (apps or Gmail)? Try Rapportive to see you contacts activity in the net instead of ads

Rapportive shows you everything about your contacts right inside your inbox. You can immediately see what people look like, where they’re based, and what they do. You can establish rapport by mentioning shared interests. You can grow your network by connecting on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and more. And you can record thoughts for later by […]

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On demand car service via iPhone

There is nice service in the US with cars and an iPhone app. Their goal is that you’ll use UberCab when you need a car service. If you want to use it yo can use your iPhone app or SMS to request a black car limo service within a matter of minutes, for about 1.5x […]

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Crowdmap

Crowdmap is designed and built by the people behind Ushahidi, a platform that was originally built to crowdsource crisis information. As the platform has evolved, so have its uses. Crowdmap allows you to set up your own deployment of Ushahidi without having to install it on your own web server, and it is free. With […]

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Text books in electronic format: CaféScribe

Students buy an eBook either on CafeScribe’s online store or in its offline store. They then read it via a PC and Mac software program called MyScribe. CafeScribe Features Notes in MyScribe are done as overlays, so that they stay in context. Notes can also be shared, including in groups, which according to Isabella Hinds […]

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Facebook adds Location: Facebook Places

Finally Facebook has partnered with Gowalla and Foursquare to create Facebook Places. They just updated the iPhone app but it is still not working. Nothing on the web yet. A lot of questions though: How are they going to use Places? How are they going the manage check-ins? They said they were partnering with Gowalla […]

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Millennium Development Goals Monitor: Countdown to 2015

MDG Monitor website shows how countries are progressing in their efforts to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Halfway towards 2015, a lot more needs to be done to meet the Millennium Development Goals. Ahead of the United Nation’s 25 September High-level Event on the MDGs, which will identify gaps and determine how to accelerate […]

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GrottoCenter: a comunity database for cavers

GrottoCenter is wiki-like website for cavers. The site allows cavers to share their knowledge and favourite caving locations with other cavers. GrottoCenter includes a Google Map that shows the locations of the submitted caves and the site’s members. Currently the map shows the location 0f over 12,000 caves and 361 grottoes. As well as displaying […]

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Some tips to manage email

Are you drowning in your inbox? I try to keep keep all my inboxes to zero. Whatever I have in my inbox requires action. Once the action is taken, and action could be just answer quickly, then I archive them. I have unified inbox, meaning that my inbox has emails from 5 different accounts. I […]

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Bicycling Directions, Trails Come to Google Maps

There’s nothing worse for a bicyclist than finding yourself a mile in to a two-mile stretch of shoulder-less, busy, highway-speed traffic with no alternative route. Before today, this was a common occurrence if you went to trusty Google Maps to get bicycling directions, but starting today, that has all changed. Google has added bicycling directions, lanes and […]

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22 Incredible Photos of Faraway Places

Thailand Chances are you already know Steve McCurry as the man who took one of the most iconic photos of our time. It was of a 12-year-oldAfghan refugee girl who’s piercing green eyes told us her harrowing story. The image itself was named as “the most recognized photograph” in the history of the National Geographic […]

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Cute Stickers For Apple Portable Devices

Hello all Apple fanciers, you may get something new and interesting for your portable devices! Each sticker here features a perfect combination with the same element- apple, therefore you’ll find all them perfectly suit your iPod and iPhone. Yups, it’s time to pay more attention to the back of your “Apple”! Selling Price: $3.90-$13.90 Buy […]

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What the f**k is…

Looking for social media strategies in twitter I bumped into a couple of funny sites that I would like to share with you: WHAT THE FUCK IS MY SOCIAL MEDIA “STRATEGY”? It is like the bullshitr generator that I have mentioned earlier but with “social media” terms. It is inspired on: WHAT THE FUCK SHOULD […]

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Mac tip: Save PDF to Web Receipt folder

This is a small tip that can be helpful for those buying stuff via internet. When you are done with the transaction and you have the receipt on the screen, what do you normally do? Well in most cases you print it out, then you don’t know if the printer is on, if there is […]

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The Seatle apartment

Chelsea brought this article and this fantastic little apartment to my attention. I am guilty of not covering apartments very often but I love the use of space in this one and you must see it. The article written by The Seattle Times Rebecca Teagarden is titled “Tiny apartment shows the value of a good […]

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Complicated Mechanisms Explained in simple animations

Radial Engines Radial engines are used in aircrafts having propeller connected to the shaft delivering power in order to produce thrust its basic mechanism is as follows Steam engine Principle Steam engine once used in locomotives was based on the reciprocating principle as shown below Sewing Machine Maltese Cross Mechanism this type of mechanism is […]

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New iPods and Apple TV

Steve Jobs announced a lot of updates and new products in its yesterday keynote: iOS 4.1 now and iO4 4.2 by November (free updates) also for iPad (so multitasking by November). It will include wireless printing from iPhones, iPods touch and iPads, and AirPlay, to stream your music videos and photos over wifi. New iPod […]

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Skype introduces 10 way video calling for Windows

The second beta of Skype 5.0 brings a number of changes both outside and in – most importantly, you can now make group video calls with up to 10 people. It also welcomes in a fresh new look, as well as increased stability and better quality when making group video calls. Make group video calls […]

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Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg in the New Yorker

A very interesting article that you can find at the New Yorker: Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in his college dorm room six years ago. Five hundred million people have joined since, and eight hundred and seventy-nine of them are his friends. The site is a directory of the world’s people, and a place for private […]

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Build Project Management Gantt charts with Gantto

Anybody who’s ever managed a project, whether online or off, knows how invaluable a Gantt chart can be. For project managers looking for a Web-based alternative to the industry standard Microsoft Project for creating Gantt charts, one option might be Gantto, a Y Combinator-funded startup that recently went into private beta. Gantto offers an intuitive […]

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Looking for a netbook?

Asus just released the new Eee PC 1015PME is the first 10 inch LED display netbook from Asus with a 1.5GHz dual core Intel Atom N550 processor,  a 320Gb Hard Drive, 1Gb or RAM and USB 3, wifi n, bluetooth… and 13 hours of battery life, and 500Gb of cloud storage… If you are looking […]

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Great In The Sack: 15 Weird & Wonderful Shopping Bags

Calling all shopaholics and sacks addicts: we’ve got your fun bags right here! These 15 weird & wonderful shopping bag designs take the concept of “love handles” to a whole new level while consigning the basic, bland, brown bag to the boredom bin. Shopping Unplugged (images via: Ads Of The World)You know those Smart Electricity […]

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International Taxi Fare Calculator

Do you travel often? I do, and I always wonder how much is going to cost me the taxi from the airport to the hotel, always afraid if I would have the right amount or if the taxi is going to try to charge more. Well take a look at world taxi meter website. It […]

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Walmart in China

Crocodiles. Bulk Rice. Mixed Meat for the choosing. Orange Juice And Cooking Oil (fish?) pack. Turtles and other stuff. Who knows… Walmart Brand Spirits. Rib Cages. Assorted Dried Reptiles. Beautiful Boxes Of Liquor. Frogs. A Large Selection Of Chopsticks. Ducks on a rack. Great Value Brand Beef Granules. Pig Faces. Antibacterial Bikini Underwear For Men. […]

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Dynamics: Credit Cards of the Not-too-Distant Future

Credit card theft and fraud are two of the largest problems plaguing consumers, banks and businesses today. The problem is exacerbated by the ease at which criminals can steal credit card numbers – either by stealing data with a magnetic strip reader, or by copying a number down with pen and paper. A new revolution […]

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Europe according to stereotype

A London-based graphic designer has created a series of maps depicting Europe according to the national stereotypes in the minds of various peoples. Yanko Tsvetkov, a Bulgarian living in Great Britain, created the first one in 2009 in the midst of the energy dispute between Russia and the Ukraine. Russia was labelled “Paranoid Oil Empire”, the Ukraine […]

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The license place could be key in social media

Bump.com allows users to connect online and offline via unique identifiers, including license plates, mobile phones and online profiles. Ever wanted to tell the driver in front of you that their lights are off? Or maybe you’ve wanted to be the good Samaritan and warn someone that his meter has expired. Perhaps you just find […]

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Print from your mobile using Dropbox

Wirelessly Print Anything from Anywhere, Anytime While mobile phones have become a lot more capable in the past few years, the connection between the printer and your phone is still very weak. For instance, if you are using a BlackBerry or an iPhone, how do you print any of the presentations or spreadsheets that you […]

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GPS tagging on nikon Dx000

Unleashed Dx000 Wireless direct geotagging – for Nikon’s D3100, D5000 and D7000 The Dx000 (spoken “D-X-thousand”) version of the Unleashed offers all the functionality that the original did, but comes in a new form factor. It is only 5mm flat, fits beautifully on the side of the camera and connects wirelessly to any Bluetooth® GPS […]

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Hands free assistant

I was checking apps that integrate with Evernote when I found dial2do. It allows you call a number and create reminders, send texts, listen to and send email, and access your favorite 3rd party services – all while keeping your hands on the wheel and your eyes on the road. It is thought for being […]

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Photography with the iPhone 3Gs

One of my passions if photography, and even if I have a good camera (nikon d300) with lenses to cover from 10 to 200mm, most of the times I don’t have it with me. What I do have with me is my iPhone 3GS (waiting for the iPhone 4). I am pretty happy with the […]

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Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone with video

Yahoo! just launched a new iPhone app of their Yahoo! messenger. So, what’s the big deal? Well, when apple annouced the new FaceTime everybody was excited! wow! video chat with your iPhone and they will open the standards… Sure but they have been sleeping… FaceTime works only over wifi… only between iPhone 4 users… Then […]

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Track who opens and respond your emails

There is a tool called EmailOracle that allows you to track if your email is opened, read and so. It inserts a pixel in the email which is hosted in their server. Then if it is accessed they can build stats on that. The cool thing is that they have a Gmail extension 😉 The […]

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Halloween dishes

Halloween parties are an excellent chance to show off creative cooking skills, and explore the darker depths of your mind’s pantry for spooky and gross ideas. Here are some examples of ghoulish appetizers and disgusting main courses that round out your already awesome Halloween party: Dismembered Heads (Images via divinedinnerparty, petitchef, instructables) You can’t go wrong sculpting dismembered […]

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Photo Essay: 18 Places to Feel Dwarfed by Nature

Some places — and activities — have a way of making you feel really, really small. ***Copyrighted Material: The images below are copyrighted against unauthorized use. We were granted special permission to feature them in this Matador photo essay. Please visit the photographer links for licensing conditions for each photo.*** 1. Uluru, Australia The massive […]

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Travel tips for blogging

Those of you who know me, know that I love traveling and that I am a technofreak. I would like to share with you some tips in order to have a great trip diary, using the latest techonologies. Checklist Option A When I travel I pack my nikon d300 with a 10-20mm and a 18-200 lenses. […]

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Drag-and-Drop Your Images into Google Docs

Google has just added the ability to drag-and-drop images from the desktop into a Google Docs document. The new feature works with the latest versions of Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari, and Google says it plans to add support for other browsers soon. The feature works exactly as you would expect. Rather than importing an image using the web uploader, entering […]

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Backup!!

Early in 2009 I reviewed several online backup services and my conclusion was that if you want a hassle free solution the best way was to use dropbox for the active documents you are working on, as you have online versioning, local copies in your computers and everything is transparently synchronised. They give you 2Gb for free and if you do need […]

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Rootkit hack in tokao's server

Well, sorry tokao have been offline few hours. After rebooting the server after a year or so, I noticed weird things, like “who”  and “top” were not working, some directories were not there (like the log one), cpu was 100% all times… yeap, tokao server was compromised on the 26th of October, so yesterday after […]

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Fauxtoshop: 15 Phenomenal Forced-Perspective Photos

How do you make a full-sized commercial airplane look like a toy, or give the illusion that your human subject is touching a cloud? Photoshopis an easy answer, but a much more low-tech method produces results that are just as amazing: forced perspective photography. Just as in filmmaking when miniatures convincingly stand in for buildings, […]

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10 Essential Websites for iPhone Photographers

iPhone photography is a growing medium, akin to Lomography in its cult status and the way it champions light-hearted, lo-fi, everyday shooting and off-beat effects. Like any good burgeoning artistic movement there are already a bunch of brilliant online resources aimed at iPhone photographers offering great galleries, talent showcases, app reviews, exhibition news and more. […]

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15 Unusual and Creative Bus Stop Designs

Unusual bus stop designs Creative and unusual bus stop designs that make the time you spend waiting for the bus a bit more bearable. (Pics)Futuristic public transport bus stop in Curitiba, Brazil Curitiba Bus Stop Football goal posts were placed in bus shelters around Sao Paulo, Brazil to promote the World Cup Guarana Antarctica Bus […]

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40 People Who Changed the Internet

The world has become tightly connected since the internet. The web itself has replaced the practice of reading newspaper. Most of us now communicate through e-mails instead of paper and pen. We now watch networks or movies online, it has even become a wide business venture, so much so we can now make purchase and […]

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15 Cool, Crazy & Controversial Advertisements

From severed arms to crosses made from marijuana, shocking imagery in ads aims to get our attention – and that they do. Advertisers are using bold and bizarre visuals to draw eyes in an increasingly cluttered world and their attempts range from disgusting gross-out tactics to clever interactive displays. Some of these 15 ads effectively […]

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Google search improved

Have you noticed that when you search anything with Google, no there is a little triangle on the left of the first result that you can move up and down with the arrow keys and wherever you are there is a little magnifying glass that when you mouse over you have a preview of the […]

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16 Creative Billboards Worth Advertising

With the constant innovations of advertising in new media, it’s easy to forget the tried and true forms of advertising that once dominated media buys. The old fashioned billboard tends to be plastered with text and ugly graphics, but there are pioneers who are pushing the limits of a once conservative business. Here are 16 […]

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New iPhone, iPad App Lets You Search Inside Local Restaurants

EveryScape, a startup working to create visual guides for local search, is today rolling out its Eats application for iPhone and iPad to users in the Seattle, San Francisco and SoHo areas. The application takes mobile users inside nearby restaurants for a more up-close and personal search experience. Using Eats, application users can essentially explore the […]

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Parkour for Lazies: The Bizarre British Lying Down Game

It’s happening all around the world: people are taking pictures of their friends awkwardly lying face-down in all sorts of unlikely places. On top of statues, in the middle of roads, in front of famous landmarks – absolutely anywhere you can conceivably fit a horizontal human body, you’ll find someone playing the bizarre game. The […]

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Evol: Mini Buildings With Mighty Details

Evol is a Berlin based artist who is his own kind of urban planner. Like Russian dolls, Evol’s creations are a city within the city; he specializes in stenciling intricate building details onto surprising surfaces. Three dimensional balconies, windows, and mini graffiti create a realistic building facade in the middle of the sidewalk. Here is […]

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Google's New Feature: Trap My Contacts Now

Want to import your Gmail address book into Facebook? Google is happy to let you do that (although it doesn’t want to make it easy). But first, it wants you to be aware of what you’re doing namely, that you are importing them into a place where you will never be able to get them […]

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Foursquare, Gowalla: checking in is not a game…

I have written in the past about the fight of location based apps like foursquare, gowalla, tellmewhere, brightkite, Google  etc… in several posts. Now, time has passed. I have tested everything it was new. At the beginning it was fun: having badges and mayors with Forusquare, leaving stuff and taking stuff with Gowalla… but with time […]

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3D Video Capture with Kinect

By combining the color and the depth image captured by the Microsoft Kinect, one can project the color image back out into space and create a “holographic” representation of the persons or objects that were captured .

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Facebook email

Yesterday Facebook annouced a new email system for Facebook with @facebook.com. Mark Zuckerberg said “This is not an email killer. This is a messaging experience that includes email as one part of it,”. It’s all about making communication simpler. “This is the way that the future should work,”. Here are the keys to what a […]

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Editing your Google Docs on the go

Cross posted on the Official Google Blog, Google Enterprise Blog and the Google Mobile Blog With Google Docs, we’re always trying to make you more productive—and part of that means making it possible for you to get things done from anywhere, at anytime. That’s why we’re excited that the new documents editor now supports editing on […]

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Google Launches Personalized Fashion Shop Boutiques.com

Google launched a personalized online fashion shop Boutiques.com, letting users visually search and discover fashion goods as well as create their own fashion boutique. Currently limited to the U.S. and women’s fashion only (with plans to expand in the future), Boutiques assists you in refreshing your wardrobe with a combination of curated fashion choices from […]

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Look again, the brunette on the back is not naked. It’s the front girl’s left arm. The blond is not hairy… It’s some guys’ leg.

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Holiday gift list for geeks

Wondering what to buy for a geeky person? Here is my list: Apple iPad (Great to consume content) MacBook air 11″ (sexiest laptop to take with you everywhere) iPhone 4 (the best phone ever, with the best camera) Time Capsule or Airport Extreme (the first if you have a mac to forget about local backups, the […]

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5 Common-Sense Rules for Online Meetings

Running a meeting virtually presents some special challenges that you simply won’t encounter when you’re able to round up your staff from within the building. The more you can do to streamline the process ahead of time, the better your meeting will flow and the faster you can get through your agenda. These five rules […]

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Xmarks: Alive and Kicking

You’re still alive, she said Oh, and do I deserve to be Is that the question And if so…if so…who answers…who answers… I, oh, I’m still alive! from Alive by Pearl Jam I’m pleased to announce that we’re in the final stages of completing a sale of Xmarks to a new owner who is 100% committed […]

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Social Networking: The Present

Social Networking in Web 2.0: Plaxo & LinkedIn Mark Suster who joined GRP Partners in 2007 after having worked with GRP for nearly 8 years as a two-time entrepreneur. Most recently Mark was Vice President, Product Management at Salesforce.comI wrote in his last post where he discussed the origins of social networking online, beginning with CompuServe, […]

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Sparrow, new email client for Mac

I came across a new email client for Mac: Sparrow Sparrow is in beta (v6) and it is free. It works with Google and Google apps, and the advantages that has over Mac Mail is that you can archive and see labels, pretty much like you see it in the web, with conversations, etc…. It is beautiful, […]

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Multiple Gmail Accounts Just Got a Lot Easier to Manage

Google’s announced yet another awesome Gmail feature today. Called e-mail delegation, the feature will allow you to easily manage multiple Gmail accounts without signing in and out of Gmail and switching accounts manually. Originally, e-mail delegation was useful for granting others access to your primary Gmail account — personal assistants, for example. With today’s changes, […]

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Great Optical Illusion

If you are sited infront of your computer the angry one is on the left and the calmed one on your right. Now if you walk away from your computer and increase the distance you will see that the calmend one is now on the left and the angry one on the right. Incredible now they are in […]

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Gmail can now restore deleted contacts

So what if Google knows and remembers all our data, at least it’s turning that stuff into something useful. The latest enhancement to its Gmail client is a neat Contacts restoration option, which can rewind you back to a maximum of 30 days ago, offering a chance to recover rashly deleted email addresses or to remedy an ill-advised sync with any […]

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Google body browser

Google has recently demoed an interesting WebGL application called Body Browser, which lets you explore the human body just like you can explore the world in Google Earth. Now you can try Google Body Browser before it’s added to Google Labs, assuming that you have a WebGL-enabled browser: * WebGL is available, but not enabled […]

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Viber for iPhone: Call anyone, anywhere for free

Viber is an iPhone application (Android and Blackberry versions coming soon!) that lets you make free phone calls to other iPhone users that have Viber installed. When you use Viber, your phone calls to any other Viber user are free, and the sound quality is much better than a regular call. You can call any […]

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Foursquare adds photos and comments, finally

Foursquare has added two heavily requested features to its popular iPhone app that should make the service significantly more social: photos and comments. The new features let you attach photos to checkins, tips and venues, and add comments to the checkins of your friends. These social updates, released just in time for the holidays, will […]

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Skype 3.0 for iPhone – with video calling

Happy Holidays season – hohoho. This season is very special as we are releasing a new version of Skype for iPhone and iPod Touch with video calling. Now you will be able to share all the special moments in video, as they happen, wherever you are. Download the app straight from iTunes and let us […]

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Blizzard Wizards: 10 Cool Cutting Edge Snow Plows

When snow begins to pile up, snow plows head out to take it down. These glorified power shovels are a triumph of basic technology against the forces of nature, and even then there’s room for adaptation, customization and decoration. So clear the way for these 10 cool cutting edge snow plows… or better yet, let […]

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13 Scary Sky-High Platforms & Observation Decks

Your head spins, your stomach clenches, your heart pounds furiously. You’re thousands of feet above the ground with nothing but glass keeping you from teetering over the edge in a lengthy and final fall. Do you have the guts to look down? Hundreds of feet in the air, these 13 tower platforms and observation decks […]

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11 Tricks to Cutting Travel Costs in 2011

BARGAIN hunters will need to be craftier when booking a trip if they want to get the best prices this year. It’s no secret that airfares are up and added fees for everything from checked bags to exit-row seats are pushing the cost of flying higher. On top of that, hotel bargains are expected to […]

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snow tyres for your bicycle

Do you have snow where you live? Would you like to use your bicycle but it is too slippery? Well, here you have a DIY tip: SNOWPOCALYPSE! No matter how much we swear we’ve learned our lessons, Seattle always seems to get caught by surprise by the snow. There we were, minding our own business with […]

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Microsoft OneNote for iPhone, for free, only in the US

Microsoft has released its first iPhone app with ties to its Office application suite, OneNote Mobile for iPhone. The app, which Microsoft says is free “for a limited time,” lets users access, edit and create notes from the iPhone. These notes can are then synced over the cloud with the OneNote web app or OneNote […]

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Content Strategy: Now is the Hour of Real Time Web Analytics

Real-time web analytics tools have made content strategists’ dreams come true — we can now understand precisely what our audience likes, dislikes and is responding to, as it happens. All content strategists dream about fully understanding what their audience wants in terms of content. Delivering content that is valuable, shareable and findable is the goal […]

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Yobongo Launches Location-Based Chat App for iPhone [INVITES]

Yobongo, an iPhone application for serendipitously connecting nearby people in mobile, chatroom-like environments, is launching in private beta Monday. The previously stealth startup hails from Caleb Elston and David Kasper, both formerly of Justin.tv. The two started working on the application in March of 2010 and left their Justin.tv jobs in October to pursue Yobongo […]

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Usabilla Micro usability tests

Usabilla offers a fast and simple way to collect feedback in any stage of the design process. Ask your users simple questions to collect valuable feedback and discover usability issues. Use our One-Click-Tasks to measure task performance. Users simply share their feedback by clicking anywhere on your website, mockup, sketch, or image. Measure time, collect […]

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OpenStudy – Social Study Groups

OpenStudy is a social learning network where students ask questions, give help, and connect with other students studying the same things. Our mission is to make the world one large study group, regardless of school, location, or background. OpenStudy uses AI recommendation engines to match students, and really real-time technologies to facilitate online interaction. It’s […]

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domai.nr

Most of the domain names are already taken. For the .com .net and .org, the first ones to appear, any combination of 6 or less characters is nearly gone… so you either buy in the resell market or you use one of the latest released such as .cc or .co or country base such .ly , .es […]

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10 Intense Public Guerrilla Marketing Posters

Guerrilla marketinghas perfected the technique of catching people’s eyes and grabbing their attention, targeting consumers in unexpected ways and unconventional places. That, of course, is the point of this once-fringe form of advertising, which has now been taken up even by large corporations like Adidas and Microsoft. These 10 posters show just how powerful guerrilla […]

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thesixtyone – Let the Listeners Decide

Record executives and radio DJs may have controlled what made it onto record store shelves in the past, but a web-app called thesixtyone is helping its users decide for themselves what they want to listen to now. With a goal of helping young artists get discovered, thesixtyone has created a way for music lovers to […]

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Guerilla Marketing With A Hemi: Wild Campaigns With Cars

Guerilla marketing catches one by surprise, and instantly generates a ripple effect through the most coveted advertising holy grail: word of mouth. When cars, such a large part of our typical lives, are thrown into unique and wild advertising campaigns it’s difficult not to tell one’s friends. (Images via core77, artculture, graphics, kosmograd) Wireframes models […]

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Get Out! The Table Shelter

Extremis is one of my favorite outdoor brands. The reason is that they do not bother bringing designs to the market unless they have a true innovation that really works for real life. This year, their creative touch has turned to making a “Table Shelter.” In November, they launched the Hopper table and now have a […]

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Keyboard Shortcuts for Win and Mac

ACCENTED VOWELS Á (Aacute) — shift-opt-y (Mac) — alt-0193 (PC) — & Aacute; (html) À (Agrave) — opt-` + A (Mac) — alt-0192 (PC) — & Agrave; (html) Â (Acircumflex) — shift-opt-m (Mac) — alt-0194 (PC) — & Acirc; (html) Ä (A-dieresis) — opt-u + A (Mac) — alt-0196 (PC) — & Auml; (html) Ã […]

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iPhoto duplicates

Since I have my iPhone 4 I have noticed that iPhoto sometimes imports things twice from my iPhone, so I end up with some duplicates. I don’t know if this is due to the fact that I have tons of photos in the iPhone and in the iPhoto, or that this is the 4th iPhone synchronizing with […]

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Google Translate App for the iPhone

The official Google Translate for iPhone app is now available in the App Store. The iPhone app [iTunes link] allows you to translate from and to 15 languages and to translate words and phrases into more than 50 languages. You can also listen to your translations spoken aloud in 23 different languages. One can also zoom […]

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Call Phones from Gmail

Some of us, when logging into our Gmail or Google apps accounts, can now see a new thing: Free Call to Phones from Gmail. To the US, sure. If you click on Learn More, then you will see that they have competitive prices to call using VOIP. I have to say that I have several […]

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Love love

Love Love is a sculpture created by French artist Julien Berthier that resembles a sinking ship. It’s a fully functional boat, well, half a boat created from a 21-foot yacht that he cut in half, adding a new keel and motor. Julien has taken the sculpture across the English Channel and toured it around Europe, […]

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Hengki Koentjoro, Jakarta, Indonesia

Hengki Koentjoro was born in Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia, in 1963. He is a graduate of the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California where he majored in film. He now lives in Jakarta where he specializes in fine art photography both underwater and on land. </p>

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Inspiring Home with One Garden per Level in Singapore

The Meera House was designed by Guz Architects and is located on the island of Sentosa in Singapore. We consider it a daring and original project- after all, not many homes feature green spaces for every floor of the building. Here is a short description from the architects: The plots on the island of Sentosa are not large […]

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Lip Paint

What have you seen, lively crabs, smart foxes, cute pandas, and other kinds of animals? Not exactly, because what is shown here is merely one thing: lips, and of course coming with various patterns. Isn’t that incredible, our lips now can create impressive paintings too?!

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Google Search Chrome tips

If you have made the switch to Google Chrome, as I did long time ago, then this tips are is going to save you some time: Did you close by mistake a tab? Click Command+Shift +T and there you have it again. (Control+Shift+T for Windows) Going to the search bar? Click Command+L and the cursor […]

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Tablets

Tablets have been there for ages. I remember few years ago laptops with touch screens based on windows. They were sort of a flop. I wanted a tablet laptop back in 2008… iPhone was the pioneer of a new generation of smart phones… and the iPad set a before and an after on the tablet […]

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Irina Werning

Came across this project today called ‘Back to the Future’ by photographer Irina Werning and just had to share. I think its quite genius. I love old photos. I admit being a nosey photographer. As soon as I step into someone else’s house, I start sniffing for them. Most of us are fascinated by their retro look […]

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solowheel

Like a stripped-down Segway, Inventist‘s new Solowheel is geared for the mobile urbanite. The “self-balancing electric unicycle” operates through gyroscopic technology, which a 1000-watt rechargeable lithium-ion battery powers. On a full charge (which takes about 45 minutes), the Solowheel lasts two hours—but the battery actually recaptures energy when going downhill. Weighing only 20 pounds and consisting of […]

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Irina Werning 2

I am LOVING Irina Werning‘s brilliant photo series ‘Back To The Future’. What a cool idea! And it’s good that this is an ongoing series, because I could keep looking and looking with fascination. Irina Werning is a photographer born, and currently living in Buenos Aires.

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WhatsApp, Beluga and Viber

There are a couple of iPhone apps that I started using recently. One is WhatsApp which is a cross-platform mobile messaging app which allows you to exchange messages without having to pay for SMS. A cool thing is that it is available for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and Nokia. In addition to basic messaging iPhone, Android […]

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Lanyrd Keeps Your Conference Life On Track, Via Twitter

Lanyrd,  via Twitter, track event sessions and keep up with favorite speakers — at all stages in the conference lifecycle. Some newlywed couples work to produce an offspring on their honeymoon. Most don’t labor towards birthing a startup. But that’s exactly what British entrepreneurs Natalie Downe and Simon Willison did on their post-nuptial adventure. After […]

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Subway Animals

In 1988 the british artist Paul Middlewick started seeing something else but subway plans in the Londonian underground. He took a second look at those maps and saw a forrest. In fact he saw many and many animals formed by lines and dots that actually make the subway map. From Dogs to parrots, passing elephants or […]

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Room 77

This website offers you a very cool service (in the US so far). Room 77 is a site (and iPhone app) that helps you choose the right room in a hotel. Normally you go online and book a room, and in the same hotel you could have very different room, one facing the sea, one […]

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280 daily diary

280daily is quite possibly the future of consistent journaling and the easiest way to create a searchable archive of your life. Secure, completely private, encrypted and safe. How could you put 280daily to use? Below are 7 possibilities. Journal. Realistically keep a journal, 280 characters only takes 2 minutes! Travelling. You’re too busy having fun […]

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Looking Ahead to Drupal 8

In the opening keynote for DrupalCon 2011, Drupal founder Dries Buytaert laid out what they’ve learned from Drupal 7, and his initial plans for Drupal 8. Looking Back Drupal 7 was a huge endeavor. The release took three years and had 1,000 contributors, with 30 people being responsible for 50% of the improvements. In discussions […]

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Google Debuts New Online Magazine

Google has quietly launched its own full-length online magazine, a quarterly publication whose aim is to create a “breathing space in a busy world.” The first edition of Think Quarterly, based out of the U.K., is a 68-page dive into the world of data and its impact on business. The first thing most people will notice […]

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Create stories using social media

There are several tools where you just enter a twitter handle and you can create a story or news hub. We have storify (beta) that turns what people post on social media into stories.  Collect the best photos, video, tweets and more to publish them as simple, beautiful stories that can be embedded anywhere. There is […]

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Amazon MP3: Cloud Drive and Cloud Player

Amazon launched Amazon mp3 cloud drive and cloud player, for the US. You can shop 15 million songs and find bestselling albums from $7.99 every day.  You can explore new releases and find fresh deals daily. You can download a cloud player and start having fun, or just use the web.  

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Rome2Rio, a Vehicle-Agnostic Travel Site, Launches

A new travel site called Rome2Rio launches today, the brainchild of two ex-Microsoftemployees, Michael Cameron and Bernard Tschirren. The site’s main innovation? It’s vehicle agnostic, in a way–you tell it you want to go from A to B, and it’ll tell you what combination of car, plane, train, or ferry you need to take. In that […]

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2011 Logo Design Trends

Logo Lounge, for the past nine years, has posted annual logo design trend reports and they have just released the 2011 logo design trends report. I would love to hear your thoughts on the showcased trends. Do these identity / branding trends effect you or your process? Do you agree with these suggestions? Have you noticed […]

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5 Great Skype Alternatives

Microsoft’s whopping US$ 8.5 billion purchase of Skype is probably good news for a large pool of video chat users, but there’s undoubtedly those who are worried about the possible implications of the acquisition. While there’s no exact clone of Skype floating around out there, a number of tools would still make great alternatives for […]

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Blogging from an iPad

Do you use wordpress for your blog?Do you have an iPad? Then you have probably have tried the wordpress free app.Well, there is another app (not free) which works even better. It allows you to connect to flickr, youtube, picasaweb, and create rich text posts with photos and a much more flexible editing environment. You […]

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The real causes of the economic crisis

It is obvious we are living one of the biggest economic crisis of the history of the world as we know it, and it is far from over. We have heard many complaining and writing about the causes and what has been done wrong: the america housing bubble, the banks, the debt… And we are […]

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Time Lapse Video

Terje Sorgjerd, the photographer behind the viral video The Aurora, has done it again. Here, Sogjerd captures the Milky Way over El Teide, Spain’s highest mountain. Click through to watch, and get details on how the video was made. Filmed between April 4 and April 11, 2011, the individual frames were shot using a Canon […]

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iPhone augmented reality translator

Word Lens — http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/word-lens/id383463868 download now on the App Store, and purchase language packs when you need them! Languages currently available using in-app purchase: – Spanish to English – English to Spanish Try the demo modes first to get a sense of the technology in action — reverse or erase Spanish and English words! Check […]

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Move

3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage… all to turn 3 ambitious linear concepts based on movement, learning and food ….into 3 beautiful and hopefully compelling short films….. = a trip of a lifetime. move, eat, learn Rick Mereki : […]

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Travel tips: who needs hotels anymore?

Traditionally when we go on holidays, we used to go to a travel agency where they could either help us build a trip with their limited options, or sell us a package (something still interesting). Now the biggest travel agency is Internet. We we create our custom trip, filter options like dates, type of travel […]

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The Books I read in 2011

We are approaching 2012, and before that I wanted to make a list of the books I read throughout 2011. I must say that most I listened to, some I read on the iPad or even on the iPhone and only a few were actual books. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… […]

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The World is Watching: Urban Intervention Goes Ocular

How much more welcoming would a city environment seem if it were filled with friendly creatures? German artist Timm Schneider is filling Weisbaden with very strange beings that are not only unexpected, but also completely lovable. (all images via: Timm Schneider) Timm Schneider is a graphic designer who found that his job sometimes left him […]

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GTD: Todos, Task managers… PART 2

I had promised for a while that I would write a second part to the GTD To Do review I did some time ago. Well, here it is. It is not going to be so deep as the one I did back in September 2010, simply because I don’t have too much time to write […]

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insync: it is ok to break up with dropbox

I heard about insync on twitter not too long ago. It caught my attention the fact they sell themselves as a Dropbox killer, I had to try. Insync (http://insynchq.com) is, like Dropbox, a little program you can install in a mac or pc even if you are not an admin (which for my work laptop […]

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Day 2: Los Angeles tour

We woke up early. Sure. Went out for breakfast to the corner at cafe collage. We had coffee and a muffin. Then we went back to the hotel to book a day tour around LA. They picked us up and spent all day visiting places. Before though we had a walk until Santa Monica. nicer […]

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Day 3: LA to Albuquerque

I woke up at 4am. Stayed in bed until 5:10 when I had a shower and went downstairs to be picked by the shuttle. In my printout it said we were departing from terminal 8 but the driver insisted that there was no terminal 8. Good start. Finally our flight was operated by Skywest and […]

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Day 5: Grand Canyon

Woke up at 6 am by mistake. Sebas’ blackberry did not change the timeline when changing state to Arizona. We went down to have breakfast and I managed to have a Face Time with Nuria and Kai 🙂 We jumped into the car, it was damn cold. 4 degrees. Flagstaff is at 2150 m. In […]

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Day 6: Antelope Canyon & horseshoe bend

As usual we are a bit post with the local time. From California to New Mexico to Arizona and now in Utah the time zone keeps changing. Today we had breakfast as usual at the motel and then went to the tour operator for the antelope canyon. We paid 70$ for the two of us. […]

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Day 7: Zion Park & Vegas

We woke up early in Springdale. Had breakfast at this motel ran by an Indian couple and headed to the Zion’s park visiting center. We left the car there and grabbed a free shuttle to the end of the park: Zion lodge. We did some nice trekking from 8am until 1pm, visiting a couple of […]

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Day 8: Las Vegas: New York New York

4th April. Wednesday. Today it was a walking day. From the hotel we are staying (New York new York) till the Wynn las Vegas. Sunny as usual but perfect temperature, we visited most of the hotels in the strip. The incredible Venetian with gondolas on the third floor, to the design of the cosmopolitan, Wynn […]

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Day 12: Fat Boys up and down

Woke up at the motel 6 and took the Harley’s to go for breakfast at the Andersen’s restaurant. After that headed north till Santa Maria, Arroyo Grande and then round turn to Santa Monica where we are now, at Hacienda inn. After leaving our stuff at the motel we took the road till the end […]

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Remote desktop made easy

We’ve heard about tons of solutions to share the desktop. From commercial solutions such as gotomypc to share the screen using skype. In a recent long term consultancy I had to give training to users all around the globe. There was no budget for a commercial solution so I used my beloved mikogo. Up to […]

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Back to tokao

It has been a while since I don’t publish anything on my blog. Working full time and having a 2.5 and a 5 months old does not make it easier. I am going to try to publish more stuff from now one. More opinion on topics I like, and more of my online social life […]

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I live on Google Chrome

It is not 100% accurate… but let’s say that chrome and its extensions have become my remote office. If I have my Macbook pro with me, then I use Mail App, iCal, etc… but when I am at my client’s office for a long period of time, like I am now, then I don’t carry […]

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Peer to Peer banking

If you are tired of the high interests of borrowing money or if you are not happy with the return on your investments or savings accounts then you should consider borrowing money directly to people who has money to lend or lend it to people who need it. This is peer to peer banking. Both […]

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New iPhone or iPhone 5?

Looks like everybody is expecting the new iPhone (iPhone 5) to be presented this month. My contract with Orange is expiring so I am elegible for a new phone soon. Do you want the new iPhone? Name Everybody was expecting an iPad 3 and they called it the new iPad. Now everywhere you read about […]

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Photo tips

I had to prepare a brochure on photo tips for my current client. The idea is that anyone leaving on mission would take one of the organization’s cameras and take photos. This brochure should help them improve their shots, which are mainly taken in conferences. It starts with a checklist: Signed checkout form Camera Camera Bag Main Battery fully […]

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Gadget fatigue?

When the first iPhone went out few years ago, it was revolutionary. Queues in apple shops were in the news and people was so excited. With every product apple launched, iPads, MacBooks, iPhones… people gets overexcited and buy the products… Now, with iPhone 5, are we starting to be tired? What else can a gadget […]

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The Books I read in 2012

Blood Work (Connelly, Michael) Magic Of Thinking Big (Schwartz, David J.) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1) (Rowling, J.K.) Without Remorse (Jack Ryan, #1) (Clancy, Tom) The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games #1) (Collins, Suzanne) Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) (Collins, Suzanne) Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3) (Collins, Suzanne) The Affair […]

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Expand on Demand: Secret Deck Spaces for Small Dwellings

Article by Urbanist, filed under Houses & Residential in the Architecture category.   When it comes to tall apartment and condo buildings, the idea of adding more space is almost always out of the question – but what if you could push a balcony outward on demand, rather than adding an entire deck or patio? Here are three designs to […]

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Holidays in Belize

Nuria left to Belize for work today. I will fly on Wednesday and we will spend a week diving in San Pedro while at the same time we take some time off the kids. The plan is to be a couple of nights in Belize city, that it is not a nice or safe place […]

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Day -2: Trip to Belize

On my first post regarding our trip to Belize I added a map with the places we are going to go. Here I would like to document a bit our pre-trip research. Follow the trip #belize To organise this trip we have used the following tools: Tools [wptab name=’Hotels’] For reviews I always use: TripAdvisor […]

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Day -1: Going through the checklists

Tomorrow is going to be a long day. Today is mainly packing and making sure I don’t forget anything, that the camera card is formatted, all batteries are on full and that is basically it. Today Kai was going with the school out the village for carnival so we went to take photos and see […]

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Day 1: Geneva, Washington and Houston

Day one. Sunny in Thoiry. Nuria’s dad drove me to the airport a 9:30am. I passed security without any problems. I only carry my ikea family cabin bag, my Scottevest and no computer or iPad, just my iPhone 4S and my Nikon d300 that I did not have remove from the bag. Once inside I […]

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Day 2: Houston to Belize and relax

Terrible night. I woke up every hour. I guess is the jet lag. The hotel was just fine. They have the free shuttle which is very convenient, although Houston airport is not very well designed. Every time the driver has to pick up someone in another terminal he had to edit the airport. The hotel, […]

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Day 3: Cave Tubing

Friday. We slept all the way until 7am when the alarm clock ringed. Nuria had to go for work for the last time this week. We met her colleagues for breakfast and after they left and I stayed at the pool side listening to a Lee Child book. Around noon they all came and left […]

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Day 4: la isla bonita

We wanted to leave early … But we didn’t. We woke up and had full breakfast at the Radisson. We packed and checked out. It was 8:45 and the water taxi to San Pedro was leaving at 9am, so even if it was 10 min walking we took a taxi. Then we realized that it […]

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Day 5: very very rough sea

We did not have diner yesterday but peanuts and wine, like in the old times when we were doing the round the world trip. We have room number 3 at changes in latitudes b&b. it is facing the patio and is the only one in the corner so windows everywhere. I guess is the best […]

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Day 6: off the beaten path

Breakfast at “changes in latitudes” was excellent. Different from yesterday. We had fruit, then pancakes with banana and caramel. Delicious. We called home to see Kai and Noa and then we called the diving center. They cancelled today’s outings, still a lot of wind. Looks like we won’t dive. No problem as we are on […]

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Day 7: tackle box, sharks and dolphins

As usual we had an amazing breakfast, we FaceTimed to see Kai and Noa, Nuria’s parents and my mum. We called the diving shop and YES they were going out. They picked us up at the wharf in front of the B&B at 8:30 and we went to the shop. It was packed We left […]

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Day 8: blue hole

5:15 we were on the boat going to the diving shop for a full day out with 3 tanks. We were around 15 and some dived yesterday with us so we knew. It is quite a long way to reach lighthouse reef, but the dives were amazing. First we arrived to the blue hole site. […]

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Day 9: Caye Caulker perroflauta

Last day in Isla Bonita. In the morning we just chilled out at Ramon’s village and at 1pm we did our last dive, they took us pictures for the Advanced Open Water PADI and then we took the water taxi to Caye Caulker which is 30 mins away. Caye Caulker is very special. Smaller and […]

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Day 10: chilling out

Slow day in Caye Caulker. Just chilling out by the pool, having walks around the island and little more. We had luch at sunrise by the sea (fish and ceviche) and dinner at Habaneros. Nuria got crab and I had Mayan BBQ.

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Day 11: to New York!

Long day. Woke up early at Seaside Cabanas in Cay Caulker to check out and take the water taxi to Belize. There a crappy old taxi to the airport for $25. My flight was leaving at 1:20pm and is going to Newark. Nuria’s was leaving at 3:30 and she is going to Miami and London. […]

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Day 12: New York and back home

Last day. Slept pretty well at the Equity Point Hostel. A bit cold but it was snowing so nothing to complain about. I had a shower and packed. Went downstairs and had breakfast. Then took my backpack and walk walk walk. That is what I love to do in New York. I walked down to […]

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An Android device in my iLife

I have had a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2, 10.1″ for two weeks now. The bank sent it to us when we placed some money in a long term deposit. I am an Apple guy, with my Macbook retina, my iPhone 4s and a second generation iPad. I have always been curious about Android and in […]

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The future of photography

Photography is one of my main passions. You can find many entries here about my workflows, my camera, lenses, etc… I have a nikon d300 with a couple of lenses covering from 10-200 mm. Before this one I had a Panasonic DMZ (I forgot the model, but not a compact) and some other digital cameras. […]

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WordPress problems?

One of the most amazing features of WordPress self hosted is the automatic updates of plugins and core with a single click. On the last update, all of a sudden when accessing the admin back end, I got an error: Fatal error: Exception thrown without a stack frame in Unknown on line 0 Well, that […]

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Day 0: Trip to Peru

Nuria is going to Peru for work, and the plan is that I would be joining her in Lima, leaving the kids with the grand parents in Salou and stay for a couple of weeks in Peru. This is one  is the most unprepared trip we are going to do. Why? Well, I will be […]

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Day 1: Salou to Madrid and… Lima? Yes!

In the morning Nuria’s parents,  my mum,  Noa and Kai and I went to the beach as usual. Then after siesta my mum dropped me at Camp de Tarragona AVE station on her way to Barcelona. It was the first time I was taking the fast train in Spain. The trip was smooth. It runs at […]

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Day 2: fly and relax at the hotel

I boarded the plane in Madrid around midnight. I had to wait all passengers to board so they could tell me which was my seat. 25F. In the middle of the middle row. The plain was packed. I thing there were only 2 extra empty seats,  so I felt lucky,  but like my brother said,  […]

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Day 3: holidays starts at today

  Why holidays are starting on day 3? Well I allowed myself up to Saturday so 3 days,  to reach Lima due to the type of stand by ticket I had. Fortunately I made it on the fist attempt. Friday is Nuria’s last working day. Her colleagues were leaving at 4:30pm so that was when […]

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Day 4: Arequipa

  We had nice breakfast and then packed one bag to go (mine) and the other (identical, as we have two ikea bags)  in the hotel with Nuria’s work clothes and laptop. We book the last night and took the posh taxi to the airport. We made sure before leaving that we had the hotel […]

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Day 5: Colca Canyon two day trekking

  We did not sleep much as the hotel was located in the junction of two main streets and honking was non stop all night long. In addition we were picked at 3am… The tour consisted in breakfast in Chivay after 3 h trip. The road trip was scary and we could not sleep either,  […]

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Day 6: Ascend to Cabanaconde

At 5am the alarm went out. Time to start the ascent. My legs were heating from the previous day but we had a good night sleep with the only noise of the river. There was full moon so the headlamps were not 100% required. Many people had to go up with mules as it was […]

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Day 7: Titicaca lake

In Arequipa we took the night bus to Puno which is located by Titicaca lake. We took the bus at around 11:30pm, so we had time to have diner at Chicha restaurant. We were very tired by then though… specially after two days walking… we were falling asleep as we had wake up at 5am […]

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Day 8: Taquile island

  At 6am Rosa, who barely spoke Spanish, woke us up. We had breakfast and descended to the boat. We headed to the more turistic island Taquile. There again we climbed and made a trekking around the island. We had lunch on a lovely place. I ordered fish and the local beer and it was […]

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Day 9: Ollantaytambo

  At 4am the bus arrived at Cuzco. We took a taxi to where the colectivos to Ollantaytambo departures. For 10 soles each we took it and at 6am we were in Ollantaytambo. Here is where we are now that I am trying to catch up with the blog. Many days without Internet and even […]

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Day 10: Machu Pichu

  Yesterday we went to bed early. We did not have dinner because we were full with a very nice lunch in a pretty restaurant (Tawa Chaki). Our train 81 was boarding at 5:40am so, we woke up at 5 took the takeaway breakfast that the hotel prepared for us, and walked to the station. I […]

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Day 11: Sacred Valley

  We were checking out today from the nice quiet Apu Lodge in Ollantaytambo. We took it easy, had a marvellous breakfast (eggs, fruit, cereals, bread…) and then the plan was to hire a taxi for both of us to take us to Cusco, but doing all the Sacred Valley in the way so we […]

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Day 12: Cusco

  We are at the end of our trip. We are going to spend the day in Cusco. There is a lot to see here, from the cathedral(s) to walking around and the ruins not too far… We had breakfast at the Marqueses hotel. Nothing spectacular. Beautiful hotel, but nothing special honestly. We went out […]

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Day 13: from cusco to lima

Woke up and checked out after having breakfast. Left the bag in the hotel and went for a walk until 1pm when we went back to the hotel to take the bag and call a taxi. 10 nuevos soles to the airport. We arrived at Lima and of course, cloudy. Went to Melia and did […]

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Day 14: back home

Woke up early,  had a shower and breakfast at Melià. Left Nuria in bed when I took a taxi to the airport with plenty of time,  leaving the hotel at 6:45sm when my flight was at 10 am. Just before rush hour. Got to the airport around 7:15am and the cue on Air Europa was […]

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David Cole on CMS-free Websites: about Jekyll, Prose, GitHub and Healthcare.gov

This interview is extracted from FedOSS , which is a regular podcast with FedScoop’s Luke Fretwell and Red Hat U.S. Public Sector Chief Technology Strategist Gunnar Hellekson discussing the latest in federal government open source software. Development Seed’s David Cole discusses “CMS-free websites,” including Jekyll, Prose.io and GitHub and how the new Healthcare.gov will leverage […]

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New look for tokao

I have my blog a bit abandoned. Nowadays with all the social media channels it is hard to continue blogging using self hosted solutions. All your friends are on Facebook, so you post your day to day things related to family and life there. Twitter and Google plus and LinkedIn to share your interests, when […]

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