29 Jul 2010

Magic Trackpad Teardown

29 Jul 2010

The new Kindle

Amazon announced today a new Kindle version. Some features:

  • All-New, High-Contrast E-Ink Screen with 50% better contrast 
  • No glare
  • New and Improved Fonts
  • 21% smaller body and 17% lighter
  • Battery Life of Up to One Month (this is cool)
  • Double the Storage 20% Faster Page Turns
  • Enhanced PDF Reader

But the best feature of this e-reader is probably the price. The WI-FI version is just 139$ and the 3G + WI-FI is 189$.

Will be released on August the 27th, available today for pre-order.

29 Jul 2010

Time zone converter

Time Zone Converter

TheTimezoneConverter.com is a site meant to quickly convert times from one timezone to another.

via [One Thing Well]

29 Jul 2010

Funniest thing I've read all week

In Java 1.6.0_21, the company field was changed from 'Sun Microsystems, Inc' to 'Oracle.' Apparently not the best idea, because some applications depend on that field to identify the virtual machine. All Eclipse versions since 3.3 (released 2007) until and including the recent Helios release (2010) have been reported to crash with an OutOfMemoryError due to this change. This is particularly funny since the update is deployed through automatic update and suddenly applications cease to work.

And I love this comment also: "That's the oracle bug"

15 Jul 2010

AndroNoter - A SimpleNote Android client

And it's live. My fist Android application is live in the Android Market. It's called AndroNoter and is a SimpleNote Android client.

Feaures:
  • Quickly take notes on the go
  • Synchronize your notes with SimpleNote
  • Email your notes from inside the app
  • Search for keywords through all your notes
  • Edit your notes while offline
  • Automatically saves and syncs notes when you go back from editing to notes list
  • Free (as in free beer) and no ads
  • And more to come
If you would like to try it out just search for in on the AndroidMarket on your phone, download it and have a look.
12 Jul 2010

If Games Had Super Easy Mode

30 Jun 2010

Proxy settings on Android

Where are the proxy settings? I can't find them anywhere!!! How can I configure a proxy on Android? 

It was so simple on the iPhone. In the config screen for your wi-fi network you have a section called HTTP Proxy. 

16 Jun 2010

How to take a screenshot

10 Jun 2010

Format XML with TextWrangler

I've been using TextWrangler as default text editor in Mac for some time now and today I've been confronted with a small problem, I had an xml file that wasn't formated at all and I wanted a way to easily format the file. Searched in the Text Wrangler menus and didn't found a tidy option so I googled my problem. 

As I expected, I wasn't the first one to have this problem so I quickly found a solution. And after a minute of work I had my XML file indented and formated as I would.

So ... here are the steps I did:

  • Go to your TextWrangler's Unix Filters Folder. You can find it if you go to #! menu, Unix Filters, Open Filters Folder.
  • Create a file there, paste the code below

#!/bin/sh
xmllint --c14n "$*" | XMLLINT_INDENT=$'\t' xmllint --format -

  • Save the file, give it a meaningful name like "Format XML.sh" or something

And there you have it, now if you go to the #! menu, Unix Filters submenu you will see your Format XML.sh, click it and your xml file will be automatically formated. 

9 Jun 2010

New Apple store to open soon in Paris

A new Apple store will soon open in Paris near Opéra. If anyone knows the exact date please let me know in the comments.

   
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