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Trying out the android app

Pedro Assuncao — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:39:17 +0000

So I come back from the road trip and what’s they’d first thing I do? Install the wordpress android app so I can blog anywhere, hehe. I kind of decided to use my blog as it was intended (as a web log), not necessarily as people see them these days (as places to write longer pieces of text that cannot be tweeted).

Peace

Introducing the new eyePhone

Pedro Assuncao — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:02:29 +0000

Awesome Futurama video parodying Apple’s iPhone:

Layar rocks, or how the Berlin wall is back up

Pedro Assuncao — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:55:12 +0000

I’m starting to love Layar more and more. One of the latest “layers” introduced was the ability to view the Berlin wall – as if it was still standing – by pointing your phone to the place where the wall used to exist. You can read the entire article here.

Do you see the potential? Being able to peek at any historical time and place and see what that location looked like a long long time ago. Imagine going to the Coloseum in Rome, Italy and watching a 3D gladiator fight happening in front of your eyes. Granted, that will take more development in augmented reality contact lenses (which, believe me, will exist in a near future) but for now you can potentially do that with your phone.

I really have to get an Android powered device

Other (probably intelligent) wordpress plugins to install

Pedro Assuncao — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:24:36 +0000

Following up on my post about RAM (or lack of it), i decided to install a proper wordpress plugin to cache most of the stuff in static HTML files. It’s called WP-SuperCache and i’m hoping it’s really super

But now i cannot but wonder if i shouldn’t – somehow – find a way to have nginx serving these static files instead of passing the request to apache. I’m already caching static JS, CSS, and image files with nginx, so that would probably make sense.

In other news, installed a plugin that serves a different WordPress theme for mobile phones. It’s called wordpress-mobile-edition, in case you are interested.

Google unveils Nexus One phone. Europe fail, though.

Pedro Assuncao — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:42:21 +0000

Google announced today the immediate availability of their first mobile smartphone, the Nexus One. For the US only, that is. If you happen to live in third world countries like Germany, France, Spain, etc. you will be greeted with the following sentence in their home page:

Sorry, the Nexus One phone is not available in your country.

Tough luck for all of us poor Europeans who will, as usual, have to wait for the latest gadgets to arrive (from the top of my head both the iphone and the motorola droid were released first in the US, being the latter still to be released in more countries than Germany and the UK).

I think I’ll get an iphone, since Google obviously does not want Euro-scum buying their phone right now

New programming language (GO) and new mobile OS (Bada)

Pedro Assuncao — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:14:14 +0000

Wow, these have been a couple of crazy days: First Samsung announced a new operating system for mobile devices called Bada – that will compete directly with Google’s Android – and the next day Google announces the creation of a new programming language, supposedly a cross between Python and C++, called Go.

It looks like today every company is trying to spread like a freaking octopus in every possible direction. Does this contradict the usual startup talks about focusing in a specific niche and being really good at it, or is it just that – as companies grow – the niche is no longer enough to buy ferraris for every manager?

Python on my E71. Sweet.

Pedro Assuncao — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:30:26 +0000