Archive for June, 2007

Desktop search on GNU/Linux

Friday, June 29th, 2007

With yesterday’s launch of Google Desktop for GNU/Linux, I decided to take a look at the desktop search options again. I tried Beagle on the past, but I always found it too slow and ram consuming, and it never seemed to index stuff right. So here’s my new comparison of three desktop search options for […]

Peti????o contra o formato OOXML

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Eu assinei. E voc??s ?
Para mais informa????es sigam este link, e ajudem a que o nosso Governo n??o se curve perante a Microsoft…mais uma vez.

Snap…don’t !

Monday, June 18th, 2007

Dear Interwebz:
Please stop using the snap.com plugin on your blogs/websites/whatever. It’s irritating.
Thank you.

Careful with the gears !

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

Gears is beta indeed. Usually, most of the “beta” stuff that comes out of Google is relatively stable, and most people trust it really easily, but be careful with Gears in this early phase.
As I’ve mentioned yesterday, I decided to try Google Reader again. I had also installed Google Gears some days ago, when it […]

Google Reader

Friday, June 8th, 2007

I decided to give another try to Google Reader. I use Bloglines, but lately I’ve heard so much about Google Reader and how much it improved that I just let myself get taken by the hype.
One thing i really like: on Bloglines, when you are viewing a folder (therefore viewing more than one feed on […]

Anneke van Giersbergen leaves The Gathering

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

It saddens me to know that we won’t have another The Gathering album with Anneke. The Gathering has been one of my favorite bands since I heard them some 6 or 7 years ago, mostly because of her great voice. And of course, all of us geeks have to love that album called “If Then […]

PrintScreen

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

And there it is. The old blog aggregator Planeta Asterisco (on which my blog was aggregated) is now known as PrintScreen and you can find it at http://prt.sc. So update your bookmarks, feeds, whatever, and take a look at that shiny new look :)