The White Cat

How to pick a camera (or try to)

2011-09-26T21:52:00.001+01:00

Many people ask me stuff about gadgets, cameras nowadays are seen as gadgets given their presence in mobile phones and integration with printers and other strange stuff, however the purpose of them has not changed even if it's either a digital or analog medium: To record an image. So, I receive lots of requests asking me if camera X is better than camera Y, if feature A does any good or if price

Post Processing 101

2011-09-24T18:04:00.000+01:00

prometheus-bd from flickr asked me for some tips about photos post processing, I though of posting it here so everybody could read it, even if I'm not very good at explaining stuff... I though of starting with the basics of post processing, this is not how to take a photo, what background is best for a given subject or what composition is best for a given scene, this is meant to be a simple

GH1 - Ressurrection :D

2011-08-30T09:03:00.000+01:00

So ... My GH1 got the SD card jammed in it...

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic - Camera

2011-08-24T18:36:00.000+01:00

Because my GH1 solved to commit suicide (I may post the repair process later - once I get it repaired), I solve to check what my 'old' 5800 was capable when it came to photo image quality (if you can call it that). **WARNING - RANT ABOUT NOKIA AHEAD** After N95, Nokia did not release any mobile phone worth of it's price. Anne update was a mess, most of the devices expected to have it as an

Playing with blender (UPDATE v2)

2011-06-15T01:33:00.000+01:00

I've always looked at blender as a complex and hard to use tool, at least when compared with Art Of Illusion, however it is a very powerful and complete tool and since my trouble with using it is the lack of experience, I solve to give it a try and create a 3D model of one of my favorite cars, the VW Polo. After 2 hours fighting with the keyboard shortcuts, cameras and lights, I managed to get a

Super Scribble (EDITED: 10/03/2011 v2)

2011-03-08T22:50:00.000Z

EDIT: You can download the latest package installer .sis file from here: Downloads - super-scribble - Project Hosting on Google Code If you have a Nokia with a touchscreen and a Symbian OS and ever tried Python I'm sure you know Scribble, a small sample application that shows Python touchscreen interaction by providing a simple doodling application. One of the things you may have noticed it,

Tablet + Windows 7 x64 = riiiiiiight!

2010-12-11T22:50:00.000Z

Well... if you have a Trust, Genius, Aiptek, Nisis, etc. tablet, most likely it is made by a Taiwan company called Waltop. That I have said before on a previous entry, I also recommended taking the drivers from Waltop website (they have x86 and x64 versions), that I can still recommend, however if you're using GIMP on Windows 7 x64 (and I guess Photoshop as well, given the number of threads on

Xmas list 2.... riiiiiight.... (updated)

2010-12-10T16:54:00.000Z

Since i did adquire some gadgetery goods since last time, i feel like it's a good idea to update this ... Obsolete entries from my last xmas list:Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Sony Alpha 350k Sony HDR-SR11E Samsung SyncMaster 2233SW Intuos3 A5 Wide USB "Special Edition" Current entries in my xmas list:Intuos4 Wireless (for the price this costs i'd rather have the pandora) Pandora Handheld Voigtlaender

Artificial Bokeh

2010-12-06T23:07:00.000Z

Bokeh... better use wikipedia explanation: In photography, bokeh is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light." Now, this is often used to enhance a subject or give a dreamy or surreal look to a picture, in portraits is often used to achieve a smooth background, and while it's not always desired it

Line of code of the day #5

2010-11-16T16:03:00.000Z

Another LOCOTD.... just for me to remember those nice *cough cough* code lines that i come around from time to time.... i'm currently working as a trainee (until February), i'm currently implementing a custom featured content management system (CMS), i'm using php, mySQL, xhtml, css and a bit of JS for some slideshows... but this LOCOTD is about SQL .... Store Procedures (SPs), as you may not

Canon Power features...

2009-08-26T08:57:00.000+01:00

I don't own a Canon camera... but for the ones that own one and have that feeling that the camera could gain with some extra customizable options in menus, or just want to try advanced photo technics without have to pay a premium price for such features, CHDK might be what you're looking for... http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK Please note that not all cameras are supported by such free 'add-on'..

5800XM v30.0.011

2009-08-10T00:28:00.000+01:00

Update! I updated OTA, since OVI Suite didn't detect the new version, now as far as i can tell... ...the goods: - Snapier on some tasks (web browsing is more stable and fast) - A few graphical glitches disapeared - Tab (unable to change tab in settings and in messages) bug disapeared the neutral: - fullscreen toggle button (when in fullscreen) in web browser is located on the corner and is

Stuff..

2009-07-15T00:23:00.000+01:00

Hello bloggers... i wonder who still reads my blog... well ... today i'll provide something entertaining ... my junk album on picasa account was updated... feel free to visit it... I also added an Experimental album with something done with 2 photos with diferent exposures... after contrast blend, noise reduction filter and selective saturation enchancement you can see the final result... i was

Ovi Suite + Nokia Maps 3.0 + Nokia 5800

2009-07-01T03:05:00.000+01:00

Hmmm ... i installed Nokia Ovi Suite, that by the looks of it should replace the old Nokia PC Suite, it is still beta, but seems to work well... till i checked for updates there and it told me that i had an update available for my 5800... nokia maps 3.0, i read in engadget that the updated was expected ... so i happilly download it and installed it... to see it completely f*** up my phone ... ...

Zapp ... noticias!

2009-06-18T22:47:00.000+01:00

Bem ... já há muito queixei-me do facto da Zapp possuir um limite invisivel (no plano ilimitado) de 300Mb por dia (mais coisa menos coisa), no qual findado provocava um abrandamento da velocidade oferecida... algo que estava em violação do contracto em 2 pontos diferentes. Ao que parece esse limite desapareceu ou foi aumentado (para cima de 500Mb - foi o maximo que fiz até agora)... posso agora

Line of code of the day #4

2009-06-18T21:13:00.000+01:00

Weee... another LOCOTD ... (no ... that doesn't mean Crazy Tower Defence) ... today i present here the following line of code: solution[i] = solution[j] | (~0)&(1<

Vista + ICS + NSU

2009-06-16T16:31:00.000+01:00

So... with N97 and a few other touch devices from nokia a new update is to be expected for 5800xm, i was trying to check for updates when NSU (Nokia Software Updater) refused to work... it said some components were missing... and i was like "???" ... how can they be missing this was working yesterday and i didn't shutdown the PC?... hmm.. what i have done that could possible damage NSU

Line of code of the day #3

2009-06-09T15:10:00.000+01:00

So... remember that little problem i had to 'compact' selected bits? i think i solved it... By using a very special look-up table i manage to do the trick using this 'easy' to read line: (( f[(m&0xF0)|(val&0xF0)>>4] >> 3) >> (f[(m&0x0F)<<4|(val&0x0f)]>>3)&0xF) Oh, this code is just for 8bits, a simple expansion allows me to use it for 32bits (with look-up table taking up 2Mb)... and no... i

Line of code of the day #2

2009-06-02T07:51:00.000+01:00

Who would guess its another LOCOTD, this time we have some C code to show... solution[batch] = solution[batch] | ~((polar_0[batch] ^ polar_1[batch])&polar_0[batch]) | ((polar_0[batch] ^ polar_1[batch])&polar_1[batch]); In case you're wondering ... yes i could load the values of polar_0 and polar_1 on index batch, but since i don't know what kind of effect that will have on performance,

Need a media center/entertainment PC?

2009-05-22T16:31:00.000+01:00

I was checking ASUSTeK website when i was surprised by this little fella: Rampage II Gene It's tiny.... but packs everything needed to make a quite powerful machine.... problem: costs more than 200€ so ... a PC build with it will cost quite something ... (specially if you pair it with 2 BFG Nvidia GTX 295 H2O, 6Gb DDR3 2000Mhz and a i7 Extreme CPU) ... and to keep things silent and cool, the V1.

Cleaning fail...

2009-05-21T09:59:00.000+01:00

So... today, after have some work done i solve to clean up and desktop since my sister is using it, she cares little over the dust that accumulates on filters... My computer case is very nice, a Thermaltake Tsunami, so i got the moment to clean up the cables as well, a year ago or so, i buyed a lcd panel for temperature monitoring and a card reader, sata plugs and usb extra plugs were freebies (

Hmm...

2009-05-04T13:05:00.000+01:00

Well ... i'm dead tired, have a pile of work above me and it each time i try to reduce the pile, it increases size.... Hmm ... right... i won't sleep till i finnish this piece of code, so ... don't expect for me to be very cooperative into helping in something... In 5 days or so, we shall see if i'm alive after being up and wake working non stop for more that 4 days... not that i never did it

Swine Flu...

2009-04-30T14:42:00.000+01:00

So.... first was the avine flu ... well ... now is swine flu... evolution ...

Quando o frio aperta....

2009-04-30T11:22:00.000+01:00

Quando o frio aperta: link Bem... de volta ao trabalho...

Line of code of the day

2009-04-28T17:21:00.000+01:00

Hmmm ... you know... sometimes you create pieces of code that look like crap but do wonderful things and very fast... so i'll paste a line of a VHDL architecture module... now imagine that 90% of the rest of the module is similar... yes... a nightmare to debug... div_buffer <= (NUM_VARS-LOG2_NUM_VARS-1 downto 1 => '0')&((offset-(stack(top)(NUM_VARS+LOG2_NUM_VARS-2 downto NUM_VARS)&'0'))&'0');

LCDs...

2009-04-20T07:31:00.000+01:00

Hmm... you want to buy a new screen for your computer, or even for your living room, but have no idea of what to choose and how to see if it's really good that cheap one at the store in the next corner? Well, then i have something to you! Was not made by me, but you may want to see if, even if you are already happy with your current screen. LINK You don't need to be an expert to know that my

A new gamepad!

2009-04-18T15:59:00.000+01:00

Hmmm ... I got my hands in a new gamepad, my old one is a bit worn off, the old one is a Logitech Dual Action rev1, but usb cable is torning apart and shoulder buttons get stuck on bottom sometimes, d-pad really sucks, but analogs still work fine... The new gamepad i got was offered by a friend (that i must choke somehow), it's a very sturdy controller from speedlink, is the d-struct model,

A new pen tablet!

2009-04-17T04:33:00.000+01:00

Finnally i got my hands on a new pen tablet, and now a review over it! It costed me 68,99€ so, my last tablet costed 69,99€, first, let's look at the specs and compare them with my old tablet... I had an Wacom Volito2, it was little but precise, i loved it, 2000lpi 512 pressure levels, A6 area... Now i have an Trust (Aiptek hardware in reality) tablet, it's the 7300, has 4000lpi, 1024 pressure

Random photos

2009-04-16T03:28:00.000+01:00

PhotosDuring easter i took some photos on a small town, where ACRA-EC HQ are, click on the photo to see them, enjoy!

Questing for a Pen Tablet...

2009-03-31T05:47:00.000+01:00

Well... my old (not so old ... but old enough to be dead) Wacom Volito2 is dead... so... i searched for a new pen tablet.... my experience with Volito2 told me that a bigger area than A6 is desirable for the kind of stuff i do.... so an A5 area or an A4 would be better... what choices do i have? After google a bit i come to join this conclusions/facts:Wacom pen tablets are .... overpriced... no

Blender...

2009-03-26T11:51:00.000Z

Ah... o blender ... aquele programa de modelação 3d que 'ninguem' consegue usar devido a uma interface intragavel... bem... eu nao o consigo usar mas isso nao evitou que perdesse uma hora a tentar fazer algo ... lol... bem o resultado fica aqui exposto para todos os que quiserem ver... eu puz texturas ... mas nao faço a mais palida ideia de como as renderizar correctamente..."fear the mad kitty"

Wacom tablets...

2009-03-24T08:45:00.000Z

Hmmm ... tomorrow (25th) wacom will reveal something (my guess would go to intuos4) but i'm not here to rant about it... this actually happen a 'long' time ago...Wacom tablets are good, yes, very good indeed, i had (well... have) one that stop working for quite some time now...After my pen tablet (a volito2) stop working i solve to open it up to check if a wire from usb cable was broken or

VHDL considerations...

2009-03-24T06:06:00.000Z

While programming in VHDL can't be considered a very easy deal, there are certain things on it that are very easy to do... i lost 2 days with one of those things... Making a crash course into VHDL sintax (and assuming that you know how a computer works in hardware terms), you control bits in vhdl... yes... bits... the simplest think in computers world... of course that it isn't very easy to do

Manga reading...

2009-03-21T17:38:00.000Z

I found another good manga for reading, it's quite crazy, has lots of action, comic stuff, fantasy and ... well ... boobs ... by some reason author of it put most of the wizards as females with 'some' attributes... The name of it: Kurohime Good reading...

Rubik's Cube

2009-03-16T04:37:00.000Z

I like puzzles... and i happen to own several Rubik's cubes [at right: 2x2x2, 3x3x3 and the demoniac 4x4x4 (5x5x5 is hard to find...)]Today i took the day to think a bit of solving approaches to the 3x3x3, the method i first learn was the layer by layer method, the first 2 layers and the top cross are pretty intuitive for me, i found the algorithms to solve them by myself, the top corners are

That was big...

2009-03-09T02:46:00.000Z

Just some random (funny) fact, this was the message that you would (will - hmm, better don't ask how) get when you've finish Lemmings for Atari Lynx:Link (7442 bytes .TXT)Yep... they took almost 7,4Kb of perfectly good space and used it to something that can be called one of the longest game over screens ever made (maybe not, but at that time there weren't many games with such big end), well, it

Nexys2 with plexiglass

2009-03-04T16:45:00.001Z

Pictures speak for themselves... I know it will get scratched, but at least is not the board that will get those scratches ... :p

"No... I will not fix your computer..."

2009-03-04T10:36:00.000Z

Hmmm ... ultimamente tenho sido, demasiado requisitado para compor PC's, redes, saber que componentes são uteis ou não, resolver problemas ligados à informática no geral...Se têm algum problema desses, tenham o meu contacto e tenham a infeliz ideia de me contactar para resolver tal assunto vão aqui umas dicas:Primeiro, procurem no google, se não sabem o que o google é ou não tenham internet...

Pong... yay...

2009-02-27T18:13:00.000Z

Well ... just pong... Youtube link Enjoy!

VGA 8bits per pixel limitation... not a real issue!

2009-02-26T12:26:00.000Z

This was the most colourful image i could find in my images folder (image from VGCats.com): As you can see only the sun is a bit weired... this was using a custom 256 color pallete on gimp and simply changing color mode to index using dirthering.... Dirthering is really powerful ... I was surprised with the results i've obtained using only 256 colors, specially with only 2 bits for blue

FPGA and VGA Screen

2009-02-26T05:04:00.000Z

It wasn't easy... but i manage to put VGA to work on the nexys2. Main issues i found and solve: 1) Screen mode - My lcd doesn't like 640x480@60Hz ... it works but it complains (something like: please use 1440x900@75Hz) 2) Calculus issues - After change to 800x600@72Hz (50Mhz pixel clock - the clock of the fpga how nice... XD), i found out my pixel mapping was all wrong... the reason? Apparently

Hello World!

2009-02-25T19:11:00.000Z

Well ... here it is! The hello world in the nexys2 ... lol... not that complex, but the block i made will allow me to output useful information once i start to implement more serious stuff... HELLO World Enjoy...

Comics update!

2009-02-25T18:20:00.000Z

Well ... 2 new comics suggestions: ULTIMO - Sci-fi, fantasy, action, fight Bamboo Blade B - Hard to describe... filled with craziness...

FPGA - Nexys2

2009-02-23T01:48:00.000Z

While was not today, the Nexys2 from digilent has finally arrived, i spent the weekend playing a bit with it, it is a quite neat package, i had already the latest Xilinx ISE Webpack installed, so was just a matter of reading the reference manual, set the pins and start testing stuff. Just a tip: If you adquired one of these, you may feel some trouble in using the segment display, to activate an

Awesomeness!

2009-02-09T12:23:00.000Z

I just took a sneak peek into NOiSE manga .... it's just... awesome - a very action packed fist chapter! If you are to search for such comic may be advised that: "May contain strong language, excessive violence, nudity and/or lots of blood and gore." I can say it contains excessive violence and gore... Good reading >:D

A very big joke...

2009-02-09T09:47:00.000Z

I believe most of ppl know the uncyclopedia website as a parody to wikipedia... well... I go there usually to have a good laugh, today i found something quite nice, hilarious.... and .... long... XD .. They also have Unbooks one of them is a nice big, continous joke, i leave the link here so that you with free time can also lose some on reading it, enjoy! My_New_Life_as_a_T-Rex

5800 XpressMusic - Review

2009-02-02T07:41:00.000Z

Yep, i buyed the first S60 touch device by nokia... i've been using it for a couple days, so lets talk about the goods and the bads: The goods: The screen is perhaps the best screen i ever saw in a mobile device, a little smaller than iphone but with increased resolution, it has an awesome constrast and bright (i use it with bright on lower settings).The battery looks like it gives what it

Puppy Linux

2009-01-24T00:27:00.000Z

Today i spent the entire day installing linux (well, any SO that could run would do it) in a old machine, with 64Mb of ram, it had to be a light distro, and since it doesn't have a - functional - CD drive, it had to be really installed, also, bios didn't support pen drives for booting and such (and i don't have floppies avaliable around here), so there i was, with a very dusty computer to restore

Labels Sphere

2009-01-15T18:37:00.001Z

Added a new widget, if you like it you can find instructions here: http://www.bloggerbuster.com/2008/08/blogumus-flash-animated-label-cloud-for.html Not very useful, but kinda cool... ;p

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

2009-01-09T00:57:00.000Z

Ok .... pra quem não saiba este bichinho vai estar à venda na worten mobile por 364€ ... é o iphone killer da nokia na minha opinião... GPS, FM Radio, Touchscreen, Acelerómetro, Wi-Fi, microSD de 8Gb included, 3.2 MP na camera, filma a 640x480@30fps .... Symbian S60 release 5 (V9.4) - com todos os goodies .... TV Out .... ah sim ... é também um telemovel com 3G ... e mais não digo.... google it!

RTSS@2007 CiberMouse

2009-01-08T05:52:00.000Z

Ok .... i made a ciberMouse within RTSS2007 rules, if you don't know what it is ... is simple... imagine a mouse in a labyrinth, there are more mouses there, they all want the cheese and to come back to their home, but the mice have a problem, they are kinda blind, have 4 really bad eyes (one eye is on their back - don't ask!) and they only sniff the cheese at 120º on they front, to make. things

T260HD

2009-01-05T14:24:00.000Z

Hmm... it happen a week ago but i managed to convince my dad to buy a Samsung T260HD to replace both TV and computer screen, for 450€ this is perhaps the best computer screen i ever seen, the 1920x1200, 1:1000 contrast (1:10000 dinamic) with 5ms response time and crystal view design... just awesome... of course that if it was to desk work the T240HD would be enough it has the same features, just

Messing with google...

2009-01-03T18:28:00.000Z

Strange calculation... There are plenty useless things you can do with google.... ...this is one of those... enjoy! x3

Happy new year :3

2009-01-02T17:01:00.000Z

So ... here we are ... a new year ... a whole old trashy world... it could be worse i guess... I guess this year will be no diferent from last one from me... well... i hope to finish my studies and get a job, but that's life going as expected... And you ... any hopes or dreams for this year? Hmm.. well ... anyway... good luck with them i guess ;3

Lumines Mobile

2008-12-29T15:18:00.000Z

Enough with programming, let's talk about games, one of my favorites is the Lumines, i do have the mobile version, that is in game play very similar to other versions (basically just lacks some musics and the time bar doesn't change speed within the same music) This game is very similar to tetris, but adds some tricks that make it one of the best arcade games ever invented. Mobile version has

JS, Base64, png's...

2008-12-20T00:18:00.000Z

And now for something totally diferent: PNG JS Encoder Have fun >:D PS: Sorry if this makes you're browser crash .... it's supposed to run well on any decent browser and to show an color pick like image....

Exaustion...

2008-12-19T20:29:00.000Z

So... i just delivered my assignment... i lost 3 weeks to nothing i guess... is just like a huge amount of code that does a lot of stuff in background, but it does little to be shown to user, so my guess is that i'll have a negative grade or something - teachers usually only look to the interface - go figure... Oh! And teacher requested us to do an webpage to show the work we have done... yeah...

Working with .NET again

2008-12-17T10:44:00.000Z

If you want a little piano for your Windows Mobile PDA you can get it here (copy-paste to install - works on WM2003 and later), it was made as a test for my sound control class, enjoy ;p Sorry for the 'bad' piano tones (it looks more like a guitar) but i didn't have time to mess with audacity and get a nice tone ... Well ... nothing else to report for now.... *goes back to work* PS: Well...

C# a quanto obrigas...

2008-12-11T19:20:00.000Z

Sim, claro ... após 600 linhas de codigo para fazer um servidor não há muito que possa estar mal além de uns typos ... certo? .... errado... estaria certo se estivesse a falar de C .... o velhinho C .... mas com o C# aquilo que parecia estar certo pode estar errado ... muito errado... (e de notar que este problema aqui descrito nem foi o pior ... apenas o mais simples de entender). Vejamos como

.NET Framework

2008-12-10T11:46:00.000Z

While the development of the application for CM classes has stalled due to extreme complexity, i did not stop searching solutions to simplify the application (i don't think i'll finnish the application on time anyway). Regarding network comunication using .NET Framework i found two very nice samples that may provide some help, i share my findings here with you. I hope to post my own solution in

Firefox 3: Add-ons

2008-12-09T11:52:00.000Z

O firefox tem milhares de add-ons disponiveis, alguns são lixo, mas outros são insubstituiveis, assim deixo aqui a minha lista de add-ons favoritos, alguns deles já mencionados anteriormente, deixo também umas dicas de utilização deles: Downthemall (leia-se down them all e não down the mall) - gestor de downloads, permite aceleração através de multi-part até 10 ligações (pode acelerar até uma

Blog layout

2008-12-07T14:44:00.000Z

I really hate doing layouts... but i did it because my posts are a bit ..... freaking huge sometimes... well, the sidebar is off-screen in IE7 so bare with it - or just use Firefox, Opera, Safari, Konqueror or Chrome that works properly. Yep IE is nasty... but that you should knew it already...

Opera 10

2008-12-07T03:00:00.000Z

*stares* http://www.opera.com/browser/next/

DataSet.WriteXml

2008-12-07T01:44:00.001Z

Let's talk about .NET Framework (Compact Framework to be more specific) .... again... After spent several hours trying to put my XML file control class to work properly i finnally had some success. When i saw the methods WriteXml and ReadXml for DataSet object i said to myself: "Zeca take a note here... this is pretty usefull!"... only for after a few minutes of coding bash to find out that it

Blogging and organization...

2008-12-06T21:13:00.000Z

In the next minutes i'll be organizing my tags on blog post, so that you can find stuff easier (like you ever need that) PS: A visit from Brazil in my blog? That was trully unexpected... =3

.NET Compact Framework experiences

2008-12-06T20:58:00.000Z

Today i made my first custom control for .NET Compact Framework, nothing too fancy and mostly was copy-paste from msdn website. Well, it does the job and is compatible with Visual Studio interactive designer (that was the tricky part actually). A few days ago i made some experiences with sound on managed code, i found out an awsome class for playing .wav files, the API is just amazingly simple.

Xmas list.... right...

2008-12-03T04:38:00.000Z

Well... i know i'll never get those ... but since i hope to finish my studies and get a job on this next summer (thinking too ahead i know >__>''), i can start by making a list to where my savings should go (hoping some generous soul that won the lottery has nothing to do to the money - right....)... well here it goes - some of the stuff is not even available yet: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic (i could

Stuck pixel? no problem!

2008-11-30T02:45:00.000Z

If you know what a stuck pixel is (no, is not the same as a dead one) and you happen to get one, just follow this link: http://flexcode.org/lcd.html My new laptop had one... was hardly visible, but now is gone!

Bored...

2008-11-23T05:41:00.000Z

Well ... i was bored so i wandered on the internet, over old places i used to visit.... I bumped into some updates on Ranu's manga, SugarStars, i lost the number of times she did restart over ... i hope this is the last time (i don't think she can improve any further in drawing quality ... and story seems to be awesome as far as i could read it) Oh yes .... i added her to my blogging list ....

Pó

2008-10-28T19:30:00.000Z

Há uns dias limpei o desktop ... no sentido fisico... tirei uma carrada de porcaria dos filtros de ar... Por curiosidade procurei por "dust in computer" no google ... bem fica o link: http://blog.savel.org/2007/07/17/dust-in-computer/ Vejam lá não deixem chegar o PC a esses extremos....

Portátil novo!

2008-10-18T09:28:00.000+01:00

Bem tenho um portatil novo... o velhote ardeu... como a plataforma montevina não está muito divulgada deixo aqui uma pequena review: Especificações: Portatil: Runner T564 CPU: Intel® Core 2 Duo P8600 2.4GHz 3MB Cache FSB1066 Display: 15,4." WIDE WXGA, Máx. 1280x800, Glare RAM: 3GB SODIMM DDR2 667 (exp. até 4GB) Chipset: Intel® PM45 Grafica: 512MB GeForce 9600M GT Drive: Gravador DVD RW DUAL (+/-

Informação.

2008-10-18T08:46:00.000+01:00

A todos os utilizadores da zapp que com o tarifário Web Sem Limites: Quando o serviço foi lançado em Portugal era impecável, sempre rápido, podia jogar Fear Combat online com um ping de 100-150ms, e fazer downloads a quase 300Kb/s muito perto da velocidade anunciada. Quando uma aplicação efectuou trafego p2p eles telefonaram, eu indiquei que não tinha conhecimento de qq aplicação p2p a correr

DownThemAll

2008-06-20T23:34:00.000+01:00

In the post below, i talked about DownThemAll as an extension for Firefox, well... now i will explain what i like on it: Context menu's integration on firefox;Reg Ex download filter for both embebed and linked contents of a page;Batch Download (this one could be improved);Download Accelerator (if server supports it); Pause support (if server supports it);Auto rename option;Queueing options;About

Browser's War!

2008-06-20T17:50:00.000+01:00

Edit: Portuguese: Desculpem não ter isto em português ... mas é pra toda a gente entender ^__^; So... you know (or not) that there are many browsers out there, and now FF3! Here goes my review over them: IE4 (yes, it is still used!): Very very old, if you have it, you may consider buy a new computer. Quite insecure, it is used on WM2003 and prior for handheld devices (not as insecure in those

O que é um PNG...

2008-06-01T13:51:00.000+01:00

Chunk: Lenght: 4 bytes Chunk Type: 4 bytes Chunk data: 4 bytes (If needed) CRC: 4 bytes ----------------------------- PNG Sig: 89 50 4e 47 0d 0a 1a 0a ----------------------------- IHDR Chunk: Lenght: 00 00 00 0d = 13 bytes Chunk Type: 49 48 44 52 = IHDR Chunk Data: Width: 00 00 00 02 = 2 pixel Height: 00 00 00 02 = 2 pixel Bit depth: 08 = 8 bits per color

Comics

2008-05-09T03:09:00.000+01:00

Fica aqui uma listazinha de sites com comics interessantes: http://xkcd.com/ http://ctrlaltdel-online.com/ http://www.userfriendly.org/ http://snafu-comics.com/ http://ivanov.in/garfield/ Divirtam-se...

Quanto vale o Blog?

2008-05-01T23:29:00.000+01:00

Sim.... quanto vale o blog? .... no meu caso 0.00$ até à data, popularidade nunca foi o meu forte, a prova-lo está a minha conta do deviantart... Portem-se.. e se tás a ler isto ... não deves ter mesmo mais nada pra fazer... Nota: Dada a inutilidade da widget... removi-a... tornando este post um pouco inutil....

ActionScript 3 ... parte 2

2008-04-28T13:15:00.000+01:00

Hmm, renovando os meus conhecimentos de actionscript: AS2 para AS3 parte 1 AS2 para AS3 parte 2 AS2 para AS3 parte 3 Programação orientada a objectos com AS3 Boa leitura =^____^=

Portable Apps

2008-04-27T16:43:00.000+01:00

Para quem não sabe, existe um site dedicado a aplicações que funcionam apartir de uma simples pen drive, www.portableapps.com Têm lá coisas como firefox, openoffice, tunderbird... até antivirus, a suite por defeito é muito boa e como agora se encontram drives de 2Gb a 7€ nada melhor de que fazer uso desse espaço todo para ter tudo o que precisas. Uau .. 2 posts no blog em menos de 4 meses ...

Action Script 3...

2008-04-26T20:58:00.000+01:00

Ok ... hoje resolvi ver o que tinha mudado no action script, a mudança de AS1 para AS2 foi algo pacifica pra mim, mas quando exprimentei AS3, tive algumas dificuldades. Tudo se deve ao simples facto de o paradigma de programação ter sido renovado, agora em vez de por o codigo nos objectos, isso é feito em runtime, o melhor exemplo é mesmo os butões, antes pra associar uma acção a um botão, o

Olha o blog

2008-02-10T14:09:00.000Z

Não sou muito apologista de blogs ... mas cá tá um... aquando da escolha do nome encontrei um blog engraçado: http://gatobranco.blogspot.com claro ... dada a minha natural incatividade nestas coisas.... recomendo que vejam o http://disco-bar.blogspot.com