August 9, 2009
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 […]
August 9, 2009
iPhone TV: Top iPhone Apps for Live Streaming Television.
August 7, 2009
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 […]
August 7, 2009
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: […]
August 6, 2009
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 […]
August 6, 2009
Yeap… and other social media sites are experiencing similar attacks.
August 2, 2009
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 […]
July 28, 2009
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 […]
July 27, 2009
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 […]
July 25, 2009
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 […]
July 25, 2009
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 […]
July 23, 2009
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 […]
July 23, 2009
Less than two months ago, Google dropped a spectacular surprise upon the world: Google Wave. The communication tool aspires to redefine not only email, but the entire web. Well, in the last two months, Google and third-party developers have been hard at work testing out the system, fixing the kinks, and building some amazing extensions […]
July 22, 2009
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 […]