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This guy, Jeff Moser, is mental! He made a loooong comic strip to make AES explain itself: from a very high level, non technical explanation, deep down to mathematical details. Worth a read for sure! ;)

What’s Tweetable? It’s a plugin that integrates Twitter into my blog.

The best way to learn a new language or a new framework is to find an idea and implement it. So I’m doing for Qt on S60. So I decided to implement a dummy browser that has some smart/attractive/peculiar/interesting/funny bits. QDetroBro Because I’m lazy to package and attach code, and because is always good the evolution of a project from the ground-up, I decided to post it on my GitHub account. You can find it at: http://github.com/detronizator/QDetroBro/tree/master. ...

Because of my work, I use crappy M$ Windows in my office. And we are behind a bidirectional firewall. So, how do you do if you need to pull/push code with Git-over-SSH in this scenario? You need a Socks 5 that passes the firewall, and some scripting. First, you need to install: Git on Windows - http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ Connect.c - http://bent.latency.net/bent/darcs/goto-san-connect-1.85/src/connect.html Then, you need a script that connects to the Socks 5 server. Like: [sourcecode lang=‘bash’] #!/bin/sh ...

I follow the Qt/S60 Mailing list, that is turning out to be a very interesting and active ML, and the Qt Labs blog, always full of very good code, written directly by the guys of Qt Software. I thought could be nice to start to post some of the stuff I’m learning. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 #include <eikenv.h> #include <eikappui.h> #include <aknenv.h> #include <aknappui.h> // ... // lock orientation CAknAppUi* appUi = static_cast<caknappui *>( CEikonEnv::Static()->AppUi() ); if ( appUi ) //< Actually, this will always pass. It's a "static_cast" after all... { appUi->SetOrientationL( CAknAppUi::EAppUiOrientationPortrait ); } // ... Today's source is: [Nokia Forum](http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=164499).</caknappui></aknappui></aknenv></eikappui></eikenv>

The video is in Spanish with Italian subtitles, I’m sorry. You can find more content here. What happened in Italy is pure censorship to protect the image of a depraved, sick old man that rules my country in a new “media-dictatorship” way. The Italians should know about this. Source: blog.neminis.org.

http://www.txty.mobi/ - For sure is related to mobile, usability, simplicity and “making you able to use what you paid for”. Intrigued? ;)

I mean, you could puke because of IE8 for sure, but to make an ad to support the idea… :-P > I’m not really sure that this ad is from M$ but, what the hell, it’s disgustingly funny! :D

I feel ashamed. The Guardian a week ago released this article explaining, in a “reasonably informed way” why “nothing happens after all the scandals in which the Psycho-Nano is involved”. I say “reasonably informed way” because, normally, newspapers that are not Italian don’t really get what the man is: to understand Berlusconi you need to understand what Italy became today. In any case, in this situations, I feel ashamed of being Italian. And doesn’t matter “that I’m not him”: I’m Italian, Italy is my Country, but it’s like seeing a beautiful woman destroying herself with alcohol, unable to understand when she should stop.

I’m with a bit of proudness that I say that in July the HTC Hero, a new Android-based smart-phone, is going to be launched. HTC Hero - First Look For UK, Orange will be the operator to sell it. As far as I know, details are not being disclosed yet. HTC has developed this new UI/UX (User Interface/User eXperience) on the top of Android, called “HTC Sense”. Some says, on the top of Android (2.0 codename “Donut”). I personally don’t know if it’s true: if it is soon we will have it in the Android branch. But something tells me that this is going to be ONLY available on Android HTC phones. It’s too much of a “added value” for HTC to give it out to everyone else. Another most notable thing, this will be the first phone on the market to have full support for Adobe Flash (not just Flash Lite ;) ). Adobe announces it here. More videos about this AMAZING UI after the jump. ...