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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 …
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:
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 …
http://www.atlassian.com/en/angrynerdsAbout the source
Wonder why the main JSON website ever prefers to link to xmlsucks.org over xmlsucks.com ? Well, it’s all about the source.
Debugging AndroidX86 with Adb
If you running Android X86 inside a virtual machine (such as VirtualBox) and would like to use it to debug your apps with ADB but still cannot connect you may find useful to do what follows: Open the terminal inside your emulated device (alt+f1) and …
How to fix HTC Desire HD lag
Htc Desire HD (Android Phone) is probably the best smartphone around, but unfortunately it suffers from an unfixed bug that from time to time, busts the init process to take approximately 80% of the CPU, making the whole experience extremely slow and frustrating. While …
Frogs cast social founding into the future
I have been in France several times, and I’m very happy to see a french website being first to adapt a relatively new paradigm like Flattr. Flattr, co-founded by Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde, is a service which enables users to vote things up and have their (arbitrary) monthly fee shared among all things voted. You can think [...]
