Always Right: Stefano Forenza

A step back from the open source

By Stefano Forenza on January 22, 2012

One month ago, I created my first Android app.

While the app was a paid one, the reception has been outstanding. I've gotten a fair amount of mails from the users, encouraging me and thanking me ...

Posted in ubuntu | Tagged Clip Ninja | 3 Responses

Facebook shuts down EventPress development.

By Stefano Forenza on December 26, 2011

When you're a big company, especially one that makes its money on free web services and advertising, it's very easy to say you love open source. Open Source will get you nice PR, and you may even release parts of your code to ...

Posted in ubuntu, wordpress | Tagged free as in your butt, ok it's true i'm angry, wordpress, Yet another rant | 1 Response

Why Android is laggy

By Stefano Forenza on December 6, 2011

Great post from Andrew Munn explaining some key differences between Android and iPhone/iOs, especially when it comes to rendering and smoothness of animations and why Android lags sometimes. Some of the highlights include:

Android project started before the release of the iPhone, and was designed to compete with Blackberry
Android wasn't originally designed primarily as a touch ...

Google Plus keeps your data as much as Facebook does

By Stefano Forenza on December 2, 2011

When you delete an account from Google+, Google promises you to delete all the data associated with your G+ profile. Well, I deleted mine some time ago, but while trying out the new Youtube homepage the first thing I saw was this:

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged free as in your butt, google, ok it's true i'm angry, Yet another rant | Leave a response

Rapache returns ?

By Stefano Forenza on October 21, 2011

Not without a certain pleasure I announce that I got Rapache fixed and working again.

Rapache is a graphical user tool to help you configure Apache2. It allows easy creation of virtual name hosts and modules activation without prior knowledge of configuration files.

I still ...

Linux on Javascript

By Stefano Forenza on October 11, 2011

It may very well be an old news already, but it's so amazing I just have to share it. Fabrice Bellard wrote a more or less full PC emulator in Javascript. And, unsurprisingly, Linux can run on it ! I'm not talking about ajax or some kind of client-server communication. Linux runs entirely in your ...

Steve Jobs passes away

By Stefano Forenza on October 6, 2011

Steve Jobs passed away some hour ago. Love or hate Apple products, you still have to admit he had a big impact on the world. He proved that passion for beauty and simplicity and nicely crafted objects pays off, no matter ...

Wikipedia Italia closes up.

By Stefano Forenza on October 5, 2011

Just a quick notice to let you lovely foreigners know that the italian version of Wikipedia just closed everything down in sign of protest against yet another attempt to censor the Internet by the Italian Government. Try the following link for info, or any other ...

Read more » Wikipedia Italia closes up.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ok it's true i'm angry | Leave a response

Script to enable disable panels auto hide

By Stefano Forenza on August 3, 2011

You may remember about an old post of mine where I show a little trick to make gnome panel auto-hiding actually usable. I have been pleased, today, to find a script automating the whole thing, so I thought I'd share. The code belongs ...

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged [HOW TO] get the damn thing working | Leave a response

SparkleShare, the new iFolder ?

By Stefano Forenza on April 21, 2011

Like already stated, the only thing Mono is really worth for, is creating DropBox competitors. Jokes aside, I came around this repository, today: https://github.com/hbons/SparkleShare Will this work, will it not ? The first to give me good informations on SparkleShare will win ...

Posted in ubuntu | Tagged nice but don't ask me to try this, two is better than mono | 3 Responses

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