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iphone black and whites

I’m a believer now: with an iPhone (4S) and a nice cool application such as Snapseed, you can really get good shots. I hesitate to call them ‘artistic’ even if other people may do so. That’s not art to replicate the look of a heavily pushed Kodak Tri-X …

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running errands

I was out running errands today, walking through the city. I remembered, a mile away from home, that a screw had fallen out of my wife’s favorite eyeglasses over the weekend, and that she was waiting for me to fix them. Walking down a city street, I said, “Remind …

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excuse me sir

Excuse me, sir, would you mind taking our photo?”

http://blog.pluckytree.org/2011/10/last-time-i-saw-steve-jobs.html

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beautiful apps

I honestly don’t know what the fuck is with these “beautiful” apps for iOS.

Here’s another one that’s getting raving reviews: it’s a simple task management app that focuses on cloud syncing, changing background pictures, being free etc.

But what’s the point in having all …

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nnapulitano

Mac OS X Lion, System Preferences/Language, click su “Edit List” e cosa trovi:

Nnapulitano ???

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What I was looking for: an app to store my passwords

I stuck with Lockbox Lite for a long time on my iPhone. Then I got fed up about not being able to have the same data available also on my two Macs (not to mention the stupid ads). So …

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1 hour and 19 minutes

Using everytrail for iphone: the app shows for this particular trip 33km in 1 hour and 19 minutes with a resulting average speed of 25km/h.

The same trip displayed on everytrail.com is 1 hour and 46 minutes long, however, which makes for an average speed of 18.6 …

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ipad and photography

I am wondering about the next iPad. What is available now is certainly enticing and must be a joy for light computing / intense internet reading. I do have limited budget, however, and think that probably the iPhone 4 is a better way to spend my money. But I look at …

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ipad and crufty interfaces

iPad and crufty interfaces

Why the iPad is a potentially groundbreaking platform, despite the accusations of being ‘only a large iPhone’.

Just read this old piece written in 2003 by a (very smart) tech blogger; it’s about user interface defects as heritage of early computer hardware limitations, such as …

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espansione ram macmini

Metti che vuoi potenziare il tuo macmini che hai comprato con quattro soldi (G4 1.25ghz con 512Mb di ram).

La cosa migliore ? Aumentare la ram. Al massimo possibile, cioe’ 1Gb.
Pero’ ti hanno detto che aprire il macmini non e’ cosa proprio facilissima, insomma non serve semplicemente smollare 4 …

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