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ItalyGuides ci segnala la nascita di una interessantissima iniziativa: grazie ad iPodGuides é possibile scaricare sul proprio iPod (ma anche su cellulari capaci di leggere mp3) la guida audio per i maggiori centri di attrazione turistico-artistica italiani. Finalmente, non sarete più costretti a stare appresso a noiose ed arbitrariamente tediose bandierine gialle che vi guidano durante la visita delle meraviglie architettoniche del bel paese: ora potrete premere PAUSA in qualsiasi momento!

BlogFS is a FUSE filesystem allowing you to mount your WordPress blog on your local filesystem. It uses XML-RPC and the MetaWeblog API to communicate with WordPress. It might work on other MetaWeblog compatible weblogs, but it has only been tested with the single user edition of WordPress 1.5.

This browser is a beauty “piece of code”: use the WebKit rendering engine and is full of good, usefull, great ideas. It’s very slim and fast (as Safari) and have some functionality that I saw only in FF extensions. Homepage here. Screenshots here.

I don’t know this: Apple, in past, did PDA. Apple Newton. Here a wikipedia article. And here an article (in italian) of Melablog about a museum dedicated to this fashinating PDA.

Here is the “classifications” of the most requested things on Google web-search engine during the 2005. Very interesting this: Google.com - Top Gainers of 2005 Myspace Ares Baidu wikipedia orkut iTunes Sky News World of Warcraft Green Day Leonardo da Vinci Very notable (for me, obviously) are wikipedia (4), iTunes (6) and World of Warcrafs (8). Wikipedia is demonstrating its power: a good idea that I hope never die. iTunes is demonstrating the power of music-selling on-line WoW: Amazing. The greatest game of the last years.

The company that work today on the “political campain” of Silvio Berlusconi for the next political-elections use… a cracked versione of Adobe products. LOL! See here. Here the official homepage of the manifests :D.

… Il dual core dovrebbe chiamarsi “Centrino Duo” (confermando parzialmente una precedente ipotesi) e sarà disponibile in una versione a basso consumo (velocità disponibili 1,5 GHz, 1,66 GHz e 1,83 GHz) ed in una ad alte performance (1,66 GHz, 1,83 GHz, 2 GHz e 2,16 GHz). Le versioni “performance” potrebbero essere annunciate più tardi. Sempre Think Secret azzarda uno Yonah 1,5 GHz per i nuovi iBook, mentre per i Powerbook dovremo aspettare più tempo, cioè quando saranno presentate le versioni “performance” del processore. … ...

It’s a new and interesting site that offers some sceencast about various arguments. One of the most interesting is: Linux DNS Server 38 minutes 28 seconds This video explains how to set up a DNS server on a GNU/Linux server. In the video I explain a little bit about how DNS works, then I install and configure BIND in a chroot jail on 2 DNS servers in a master/slave relationship. This video is specifically tailored to setting up DNS for a web server. ...

fish is a user friendly command line shell for UNIX-like operating systems such as Linux. Bash is a standard (de facto), as every *nix user now but… this is the beauty of the OpenSource: any other programmer can think “hey, I want to remake this in another way!” and, than, do! Fish is a beautiful example. For screenshots-addicted users (like me ;)), go here. -EDIT- Thanks to Nemo for “errata-corrige”.

Google offers a great variety of services for users that wants to promote and make more reliable our site: Google Sitemaps Google AdSense Google AdWords Today, I register detronizator.org on that services and updated the theme with some components: “Google Search Bar”, “Google AdSense”, “Google Referral”. I make also the Sitemap of my Blog with this. Now, CLICK ON EVERY Ads to make me rich! :D