Stefano Forenza
Google this is ridiculous
Google you’re doing it wrong. Very wrong. This is utterly ridiculous. It’s a screenshot with a standard Firefox browser, in the standard screen resolution (1280×800), on a Ubuntu machine with only the OS top panel showing (the bottom is hidden, to reproduce more …
A step back from the open source
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 …
Facebook shuts down EventPress development.
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 …
Why Android is laggy
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 [...]
Google Plus keeps your data as much as Facebook does
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:
Rapache returns ?
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
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
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.
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 …
Script to enable disable panels auto hide
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 …
