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Are you curious about “how to make icons for Mac”? I’m. And TUAW have something for someone interested in the same thing. A few weeks ago, Matthew Cone showed us how Macinstruct’s beautiful icons, courtesy of the talented Gary Gehiere, came to be (http://www.macinstruct.com/node/40). In that article, you were shown the beginning stages of icon design – how the meaning of an idea is distilled down to a few carefully placed pixels. The end result, of course, is seen here - on Macinstruct - in the icons scattered throughout the website. ...

Yeah: today is time for meetings :D !!! By TUAW a news that anyone (like me? without money?) was waiting for: CCC aka Carbon Copy Cloner is [en:Universal Binary]. This means that now it runs on [en:MacIntel] too. But, what’s new in this beta release? ...

And… seems to be a nice meeting. ;) After a lot of development, the comunity surrounding the project realeases last stable version 1.2.3.1 of Mono. What about [en:Mac_OS_X|Mac OS X]? Here is a dedicated page on the official wiki of Mono. And, in particular, I’m happy to highlight a tutorial/howto about XCode and Mono integration: CSharpPlugin. I know that [en:Mono_(software)|Mono] is the open-source implementation of [en:.NET_Framework|.Net] (started by [en:Novell]), and that I hate [en:Microsoft|M$], but… I can’t hate a framework. It’s like to hate the [en:Plutonium] because we make the [en:Atomic_Bomb] with it! ;) ...

Because of the numerous requests ( :P ) I have registered my weblog on FeedBurner. Last comments too. Subscribe quickly: I have activated a plenty of features of FeedBurner. I didn’t know how rich it is. Ah: to integrate FeedBurner in my Wordpress more easly, I have used the [WP FeedBurner Plugin from OrderedList.com](FeedBurner Plugin).

Oggi ho partecipato alla “Giornata di Informazione Tecnologica” organizzata dal Centro di Ateneo per i Sistemi Informativi (C.S.I.) della “Federico II”. In questa giornata Microsoft Italia ci ha deliziato con un programma di tutto rispetto: [en:.NET_Framework_3.0|.Net Framework 3.0] [en:Windows_Presentation_Foundation|Windows Presentation Foundation] [en:Office_2007|Office System 2007] Microsoft [en:SQL_Server_2005|SQL Server 2005] [en:Windows Vista] Dopo questa intera giornata di auto-fustigazione (resistere dal picchiare fisicamente i [en:Developer_and_Platform_Evangelism|Microsoft IT Pro Evangelist] è davvero una ardua prova…), solo in uno modo posso esprimere quello che vorrei dire a tutta la società di Gates: ECCOLO QUI! ...

Today is a great day ( :P ): I have added Google Page Rank calculation on the sidebar (→) of my weblog. It’s possible thanks to the [en:PHP] class “Google Page Rank Checker” by Emre Odabas, hosted on PHPClasses (the most important source-of-code-and-snippets for PHP Developers). The class calculates “only” the integer value (between 1 and 10): the graphic representation is by me. Actual Page Rank? 5!!! O_o

It doesn’t need words. VS. Source, GadgetBlog.

… because the [en:Microsoft|M$’s] mormons think to squeeze money from consumers also from this. I’m reading on TUAW that: … This means that if you want to run Vista on Parallels, and want to keep within the terms of the EULA, you’ll need to buy either the Business or Ultimate versions, whose [en:EULA]s allow for virtualized use… M$ wants to control also the “environment” where Vista runs, not only what runs INSIDE Vista. Does it sound like… [en:Mafia]? Where is our freedom to install the buyed system ANYWHERE WE WANT TO? ...

Lo so, potrà sembrare quasi volgare come definizione, ma… quello è. Vista è questo. Una nuova interfaccia grafica strafica sul… nulla. Niente di davvero nuovo. Nessuna rivoluzione. Solo tanti calcoli affaticanti per la nostra scheda 3D, che non regalano DAVVERO nulla di utile a livello di [it:Usabilità] ([it:Microsoft|M$] davvero non sa cosa sia…). Mi fa piacere segnalarvi un articolo che ho trovato su Inquier (versione Italiana). Ecco un estratto: Prendete 10 persone e fate loro provare Vista; nessuno, oltre la rutilante facciata, sarà capace di trovare altro che un bell’aspetto. ...

Pollycoke, che sta ormai acquistando una certa notorietà in tutta la comunità Italiana (ma non solo), ci parla di una proposta SCONVOLGENTE (in positivo) fatta dalla comunità degli sviluppatori del Kernel ai produttori di hardware: […] the Linux kernel community is offering all companies free Linux driver developmentAll that is needed is some kind of specification that describes how your device works, or the email address of an engineer that is willing to answer questions every once in a while. […] In return, you will receive a complete and working Linux driver that is added to the main Linux kernel source tree ...