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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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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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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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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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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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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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GTD: Todos, Task managers… iPhone, desktop, cloud… no perfect solution

Objective: I would like to mange my Getting Things Done (GTD) using a task manager (or todo manager) that: Most of the inputs will be on my mobile device: now an iPhone, but in the future probably android. That it can be done offline on my phone when I am roaming, it is synchronized. Synchronization […]

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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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Packing like a pro

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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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