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Sobre Nikodemo, capital riesgo, y WebTV
En primer lugar, y dado que sé cómo se siente Albert en éstos momentos, darle tódo mi ánimo en su nuevo proyecto, el WebSeries Festival. Por otro lado, no puedo quedarme al margen de la mucha tinta que se ha versado respecto al modelo de WebTV, el capital riesgo, y los emprendedores, tanto para bién [...]
My PCB business card flashes its LEDs!
Finally, I received the new PCBs from the manufacturer, after the first batch were found to be defective on track continuity (possibly due to too aggressive etching). This is a short video showing how the first one I assembled and programmed works:
Starbucks Spain rolls out free BT OpenZone WiFi
It had to happen, after Starbucks and Swisscom ended their contract a few months ago, WiFi has been missing from Starbucks in Spain. Some stores still have the old routers switched on with the ‘eurospot’ SSID, I guess it will take some time to get them all replaced. Grabbing a coffee I noticed something new [...]
Apple, please give the Magic Mouse new gestures
YMMV, but I’m very happy with Apple’s Magic Mouse – the absence of a scroll wheel or button is bliss, and the ergonomics, while not as good as some mice by Logitech, are quite good. What I do miss however is the third button, and having other commands via alternative gestures. TUAW even posted an [...]
Google GPS? Not so fast!
So Erick Schonfeld took a shot at the iPhone maps app, which uses Google Maps as its data source, and all other car-mount GPS manufacturers such as TomTom or Garmin, saying that Google should make Apple beg for maps navigation. I don’t agree with much of his post, here is why: Real-time navigation availability depends [...]
Wi-Fi Direct explained for those who think it is ad-hoc mode revisited
While it does contain most of the ad-hoc stack, the recently announced Wi-Fi Direct standard is actually an attempt to become more like Bluetooth. Ever since Wi-Fi was invented, ad-hoc mode allowed two or more adapters to form a peer-to-peer network without an access point (AP) running the show. In certain scenarios, there would be [...]
Hey everyone, faking a USB ID is not illegal, you know?
I read with interest the many articles being written around the USB-IF’s decision to give its blessing to Apple’s use of the USB vendor ID, and claim that Palm’s usage of Apple’s Vendor ID in the Pre violates its policy. Now let’s sit back for a minute, and consider what the USB-IF actually is. The [...]
Are there any security DVRs out there with Mac OS support?
It’s unreal – every single multiple-input dedicated DVR I am looking at for taking care of recording my home’s CCTV setup, only supports Windows. When network access is provider, it invariably involves loading an ActiveX control, which of course is not supported in OS X. Even more ridiculously, manufacturers such as AverDigi, a branch of [...]
Peace and quiet returns to my Mac Pro
It was all due to a clogged up heat sink in the ATI X1900 card that sits inside my Mac Pro – since the idle fan was not pulling in an airflow, it slowly wound up to full speed, until it was full-on all the time. The build-up of dust was quickly cleared by a [...]
Camtasia for Mac OS, a nice but very limited beginning
I had been an avid user of Camtasia for Windows until 2006, when I switched to Mac, so I was pleasantly surprised when I read a TUAW post announcing that Techsmith were porting it to OS X. It has been a long-missed app on the Mac, with other contenders available, such as ScreenFlow, not as [...]
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