Google Modules

Prima o poi doveva succedere. Con l’apertura delle API di Google Homepage e i tutorial allegati per realizzare nuovi moduli non poteva non nascere un sito interamente dedicato a questi. Google Modules, questo il suo fantasioso nome, ha al suo attivo oltre una trentina di moduli, che vanno dal sudoku all’ascii art e dai feed rss al proprio bookmark su del.icio.us. … Via DownloadBlog.

December 23, 2005 Â· 1 min Â· 64 words

iPod: ancor piĂą, il tuo miglior compagno di viaggi

ItalyGuides ci segnala la nascita di una interessantissima iniziativa: grazie ad iPodGuides Ă© 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 piĂą 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!

December 23, 2005 Â· 1 min Â· 71 words

BlogFS

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.

December 23, 2005 Â· 1 min Â· 49 words

Shiira 1.2

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.

December 23, 2005 Â· 1 min Â· 43 words

Apple Newton: Apple did PDA

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.

December 23, 2005 Â· 1 min Â· 31 words

CBT - Computer Based Training

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. ...

December 20, 2005 Â· 1 min Â· 84 words

Play with Xcode build settings

In order to become an effective Xcode user, you need to understand two major Xcode concepts. The first is how Xcode projects are defined and organized. The second is how the Xcode build system takes the targets that are defined in your projects and turns them into products. There is a lot of flexibility in the Xcode build system for customization, so you can choose to keep your settings simple or make them as complex as you like. But for most purposes, a basic understanding of how build settings and build configurations work will make this topic easy to master—once you have these concepts clear, you can choose the settings that work best for you. ...

December 20, 2005 Â· 1 min Â· 167 words

New pages on www.detronizator.org

Hi. Finally, I take a lot of time to make my personal pages. I insert the “right things” in the pages WORKS (my occupations, my works and my experiences), and OUTPUTS (my universitary and personal projects).

December 18, 2005 Â· 1 min Â· 36 words

L'universitĂ  non sceglie Linux

Interessante digressione di OSBlog su un problema PESANTEMENTE SENTITO da me (come altri miei colleghi) dell’uso SBAGLIATO, INDISCRIMINATO E SENZA MOTIVO di software a pagamento nei centri di ricerca e nelle università (soprattutto dove si potrebbe evitare, anche e soprattutto per motivi didattici). Dal mio punto di vista, sono diversi anni che suggerisco (ormai sempre con meno vigore… gli ignoranti restino ignoranti) nel mio ambiente universitario l’uso di software opensource lì dove se ne trarrebbe SOLO vantaggio. Leggasi vantaggi economici, vantaggi didattici (usare un sistema unix accresce e di molto le proprie conoscenze informatiche), vantaggi “amministrativi” (l’Università, la mia facoltà potrebbe tranquillamente scegliere 3/4 ragazzi in gamba per gestirsi sito web e tanti servizi ad esso correlati… invece si affida ad aziende che si fanno pagare contratti milionari per fare cose che dei bravi studenti (magari sotto la guida di un buon docente) potrebbero TRANQUILLAMENTE fare da soli). ...

December 16, 2005 Â· 1 min Â· 152 words

Google will not sell music...

… but continue to do the thing that Google make in the BEST WAY: http://www.google.com/musicsearch. This is the new service that the big G offers: centralization of Music search, getting data from stores like iTunes Music Store MSN Music CD Universe Real Rhapsody and some others. Offers Album indicization (obviously) and other amazing services like lyrics. I hope Google offers APIs (really? I’m sure he will do!): in a little amount of time some applications will use the informations stored in this Services to increase our beautiness :D (examples? some OpenSource application can retrieve Lyrics from the Google “auto-magically”!). ...

December 16, 2005 Â· 1 min Â· 101 words