Blogged on October 15, 2007 at 21:41
I’ve talked about this project sometime ago (post in Portuguese), and I’ve kept it dearly. It’s a great project and concept, and a key feature in desktop Linux. Everybody interested in Gnome, Linux and Open Source in general *should* take a look!
On their latest version, they’ve added YouTube and Google Calendar support, along with bug fixes and some other cool features.
They’re still a development product, and they’re releasing versions with some known bugs (and warning you about them!) but the idea is to get user’s input into the making of the product. If it were a webapp, they’d call it “Conduit Beta”… :p
You can get some screenshots and even a screencast on their website.
Blogged on August 20, 2007 at 19:15
Tripoli is a generic CSS standard for HTML rendering. By resetting and rebuilding browser standards, Tripoli forms a stable, cross-browser rendering foundation for your web projects.
So, while reading Dave’s blog feed, I came across his post where he talks about the development of a tool for CSS developers that helps making sure the correct styles appear on all kinds of browsers: Tripoli. Basically it provides the designer with a starting point for some generic tags, avoiding repetitions and making sure everything will look good on every browser. I could’ve called it a “framework”, but I don’t think it truly aims to be one. If you take a look at the examples on the Tripoli you might grasp it’s usefulness.
I haven’t used it on any project, but on the other hand I think more CMS should try to develop their own CSS frameworks in order to keep things clean for theme designers, or use existing ones. I’m kind of tired of “CSS Madness” on some CMS generated HTML. Just my $0.02…
I’ll now give you a little “preciosity”…
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Blogged on August 19, 2007 at 21:09
Screenshot of Google Analytics for the domain levifig.net
(my blog analytics are on a different report)
Can someone please shed a light on how the f… in the world, did those searches directly hit my levifig.net domain??? (that has absolutely no content aside from a link to the blog!).
I believe those searches are pretty self explanatory even if you’re an english speaking visitor. I mean… I get the first few of them: “einztein” being my nickname for some years now all over forums, social networks, irc, msn, gmail, etc…; “levi figueira” being my first and last name; the “dan balan” and the “sugar tunes” being from a couple of recent posts in my blog; and “levifig” being my “more personal” nickname and username that I use, and the obvious: it’s the domain name!
But the rest of them… come on Google… how in the world…????
Blogged on August 6, 2007 at 20:19
Internet service providers (ISPs) in Britain has been slammed by venerable consumer group Which?, which says the advertised broadband speed of “up to” 8Mbps is misleading when in reality customers can only achieved 2.7Mbps average connection speeds.
“It is shocking that internet service providers can advertise ever-increasing speeds that seem to bear little resemblance to what most people can achieve in reality,” Malcolm Coles, Which? editor told the BBC.
Retirado de: Consumer watchdog: ISPs mislead Britons over broadband speeds - TECH.BLORGE.com
Onde é que eu já vi isto??? E porque é que em Portugal é visto como “normal”?? </desabafo>
Blogged on August 4, 2007 at 20:09
De acordo com o Ars, e em dias de processos contra sites de partilhas de ficheiros através de torrents (a.k.a “torrent trackers”), eis que nos chega esta notícia: SuprNova.org poderá estar de volta em breve!
Para quem não se lembra, o SuprNova.org foi um dos sites mais populares de sempre na história do BitTorrent. Ainda que não tivesse sido na realidade um tracker per se, era um indexador de torrents, muito ao estilo do que temos hoje nestes dois. Para surpresa dos mais incautos, o ressurgimento deste site - fundado em 2000 por um adolescente eslovaco, Andrej Preston - aparece com o suporte da “marca” The Pirate Bay. Muitos não sabem, mas apesar da batalha legal sistemática que este site trava com uma data de siglas (RIAA, MPAA, etc….), e de lhes terem sido há algum tempo apreendidos alguns dos servidores, continua a ser uma fábrica de dinheiro, advindo da imensa publicidade por todo o lado (thank you AdBlock+). E com o ressurgimento do SuprNova.org tentarão capitalizar ainda mais nesse domínio, dado o poder ainda existente da “marca” SuprNova.
De acordo com jornais suecos, o site The Pirate Bay, terão acordos publicitários com empresas de várias nacionalidades e terão rendimentos na ordem dos $100,000 por mês, só na Suécia…
A ver vamos o que vai sair daqui… Certo, certo, é que se adivinham muitos mais casos legais, ou seja… mais publicidade para os ditos sites! (será que a RIAA e MPAA não vêm isto?).
Hey! I‘m Levi Figueira, an ‘82 portuguese tech enthusiast a.k.a geek! My interests range from design, photography, multimedia, production and music to linux, networking and development! *Personal tastes are subject to change without prior notice* :p Enjoy! =)
