Check it out on Gtalks official weblog, about google talking to skype to make their networks works together. Great news, and this can be a real take of for this great messenger, cause no one can really really stand using msn everyday(lol).
Ok, everyone knew that Vivo was going GSM, but here you can see the news about ericsson being the infrascructure provider for that bold move. http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?ContentId=6592
This is so nice. I really want to see how much Qualcomm will loose in this movement. Vivo has around 25 million customers in it’s cdma network, and to see them smoothly turning to gsm will for sure have some impact on Cdma phones sales in Brazil.
Sweet.
So, here at INdT we ported some games and I’ve made them available a couple of times. Now Eduardo has changed them to use the newest hildon, and upload new packages to my website, ready to be used with application catalogue.
So, to install the games, just add the repository to your catalogue, hit refresh and have fun =)
deb http://marceloeduardo.com/apt mistral games
Brought to you by: INdT =)
Yeah, this is a huge hit for Nokia! Users are now able to download the firmware updater and they are even able to update it without a computer! How does it feels?
No more visits to technical support, no more 5-day waiting for just a simple flash and the best: no need to fight against them!
http://www.nokia.co.uk/nokia/0,1522,,00.html?orig=/softwareupdate
It seems that Nintendo is getting ready to shake the 3rd console generation pretty hard. To be able to buy one Wii + xbox360 + games for the price of one psp does sound incredible, and even more incredible is that the price of 1 xbox360 you can buy 1 wii + 2 games + accessories =) Yeah. yeah yeah! I think it’s time to prepare my wallet and get ready to enter the 3rd gaming era. Brazil really sucks for buying those consoles, but I will be riding one Wii as soon as possible!
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Well, I’ve just watched and it’s simple, fast and direct to the point : j2ee sucks for web application development. Ok We already knew it but when it comes from j2EE lovers like the folks at NASA… yeah it has some impact. The argument behind it all? Fast turnaroud. I can’t agree more with that.
so, point your browser to : http://oodt.jpl.nasa.gov/better-web-app.mov and take a look at a simple “fight” between the main options for web development available today.
If Trolltech releases this baby really opened as we expected, be prepared for some really incredible stuff to show up in the mobile world. All linux powered phones till now are only linux enabled, but not “open” for development what make them almost useless from the opensource perspective. Trolltech is releasing this beast as a developer’s tool, but I really believe this will turn out being the starting point to a revolution in mobile phone open source platforms. I really wish it could have a real X out of the box… but Qtopia’s approch is also great for embedded devices, and, if this green baby is really open to developers, nothing can stop us to put some things running there.
Lets wait! more details here and here in trolltech’s official website for the greenphone.
According to BBC uk, Iran policies for censoring blogs doesn’t stop the higher levels to do so, and now the president is online and starting pretty well with also a poll if US and Israel are trying to trigger a new world war. So sad for you, not able to read farsi. Kidding! There’s translation for french, english and arabic :p
It’s incredible how people can be stupid. Ok, macbooks have a crappy wi-fi range and need some tweak. But creating an AC powered antenna to solve it? Please someone kill me?
Check it out here, via gizmodo
For the Opensource or openformat freaks out there : Pocket ogg is a very nice Music player with ogg support for S60 3rd phones. Well, OggPlayer looked way better than this one… is it 3rd compliant already?
Well, we don’t need another acronym, like “FLUI” but I sure like the idea of using some vector based technology to create UIs, like IRiver clix and U10 media players, and now Phones are really starting on it. Check it out the 1st,2nd and 3rd level of LG’s chocolate user interface to see flash in action on a commercial mobile phone. Clicking here. My doubt: how much is it scalable? How far can we go with flash interfaces? Does it worth having a 3rd party software running all the time to provide the UI? Unm, sounds kind of risky to me.
Now, running in the opposite direction than sony, MS has announced it’s plain to release tools for homebrew development for the Xbox 360. I think MS got it PRETTY right this time. What is Sony thinking? PSP is only as big as it is today because of homebrew, and sony wants to get rid of it! Ok being able to load isos is not a good thing but, sony should come up with a developer friendly enviroment or sandbox and really push the homebrew scene further.
Some really cool stuff is going on in the Second life “world”. Starwood Hotels & Resorts version of a new unit in the virtual garden. It sounds great and I really want to see more of this coming up in the future.
Important stuff that needs to be posted here:
Apple’s growing pains : Arstechnica article about Apple’s sins on intel based products.
Meet your designer or programmer mate
the nokia 8800 sucessor : the sic
Digium receives 13.2 million dolars in it’s first venture capital funding round. They are de developers of Asteris. click to read more
For my friends, python enthusiasts : Yahoo launches Python developer center !
click to check it out
Take a second to at this very simple but nice accomplishment by brothercake’s owner. He used some oldschool css technics to create this nice “3d” maze demo.
Just a silly test to see how this thing works.
To make this post a little bit more useful here goes some nice links:
Well, I forgot to talk about the best thing that happened in Apple’s developers gathering. After all is a “developer’s” meeting right? So… The announced the new X-code, version 3 that at least in the screenshots do some pretty cute things with your code, and has some very cuty error dialogs. Not sure how useful is that, but for a wannabe developer like me it sure looks way more attractive than emacs or vim. (kidding, I’m using textmate right now for coding - great app ).
But What really got me whas: The x-ray debugger with the garage-band like interface. I’m really looking forward to use it. Nice to see some real UI love for such developer-oriented software. Developer do like nicely designed things. Other feature that I don’t know yet how to absorb is : Objective-C 2.0 with garbage collection. Please, I need more details on that, mainly performance details. Anyways, nice touch to really bring more developers onboard without letting them code using those awful java toolkits.
