Archive for the ‘General’ Category

I'm sure that by now you've heard all about Gmail's recent downtime, but this one's new for me. Today I logged in on my Gmail account as usual and got this weird error message. By clicking "OK" all seems fine except for a few buttons that look a bit weird, until you try to click a message and do the ... Full story

The Pirate Bay foursome, founders and administrators of one of the biggest Bittorrent trackers in the world, were handed today a guilty verdict with 1 year in jail included. "The Stockholm district court has today found guilty the four individuals that were charged with accessory to breaching copyright laws," the court said in a statement. "The court has ... Full story

Walker, Texas Ranger star actor and martial-arts master Chuck Norris says that the Texans want an independent state and that he's the man to run the place! After being the Texas Ranger Norris volunteered to run as Texas' first president, after discussing the possibility of the state seceding from U.S. control during a rant on CNN.com's political ... Full story

As you may have noticed by now the blog recently (like 5 minutes ago) got a new face, which I hope pleases all current readers and new-comers. In addition, the new interface should provide a more useful access to the information provided here, as well as a log to the Authors' twitter accounts, which brings me to ... Full story

Some kids playing a LARP game were spotted on Google Maps and surprisingly enough, they're still doing it on a regular basis (at least regularly enough for two separate photos to exist)! LARP, or Live Action Role-Playing is a game where people usually wear costumes to represent fictional characters they created and take part in an agreed fantasy world. This can ... Full story

Twitter Gadget for Gmail is a twitter client embedded right in Gmail, allowing you to have one more service focused in just one browser tab/window. Instructions to install this gadget are quite simple and information is provided in the gadget's website, which needs a bit of a face ... Full story

Google announced today Game Themes for the iGoogle interface, featuring games like: Zelda, Tomb Raider, Mega Man, Dungeons & Dragons, Donkey Kong, Street Fighter IV, and more, much more! Click here to browse through a game and choose it as your iGoogle theme! ... Full story

This is why I love twitter: 10 seconds after shouting about the latest post I got a reply about it, which made me investigate a bit more and it seems that my source (BBspot) played a trick on everyone.. Thank's @ruimoura for warning me! :-) Anyway, ... Full story

GTD guru David Allen shows off his workspace and demonstrates exactly how he gets things done, all the way from capture techniques to the filing system! I must say, I falling more and more in love with GTD each day... Also, I digged up a bit around youtube and found this presentation he gave to the ... Full story

Mobile Crunch was kind enough to release some screenshots of Apple's new version of their mobile operating system! As you can see the requested Copy&Paste feature is present, along with some of the new features announced by Apple last week. Full story