Ok guys this is warning. Lots of iPhone related posts will follow. I know it’s sick and you’re not interested but there’s just too much fun going on here, sorry. This is your chance to unsubscribe this feed or drop this blog. This post is dedicated to João Pavão and João Pedro. These two (img1, img2) images are self-explanatory. :p Two nights struggling with pre-alpha software, sparse docs and a couple of problems due to my “non 10.…

I just joined the club of those in Portugal who have an iPhone and can actually talk about it, sort of. This is not a review, I’m tired of pointless opinions about the device. No matter how many defects you find, this toy is truly amazing stuff, specially the software and the OSX foundations. STILL, the one only thing that really pisses me off is that it does not support 802.…

I’m a huge retro-gaming and arcade machines fan. Put that together with my passion for hacking and electronics, and this is gold for me. I just shed a tear. wget –mirror rocks.…

This is me using rfc2397. It will work if you’re on >Firefox2, Opera or Safari3 and IE7 if you install this plugin. Won’t work with IE6, like if anyone with this virus would visit my Blog. What’s the point of this and what’s the relation to iPhone ? Two points: Here at SAPO we recently struggled to get a way to dynamically generate inline images on a web page, in all browsers.…

If you live in Germany, from today on you might just get arrested for making an Hacker Tool. And pretty much anything call fall into this category, even “ping -f” functionality could get ping’s author into trouble. Amazing. But don’t get too amazed, in Portugal a very similar law was introduced recently. It came and was approved so smoothly and so under the radar that it makes me think about the whole law approval process in Portugal, the lobbyists, and how people are disconnected and uninterested in politics.…

Quando tudo parecia perdido eis que de repente se dá um milagre e em semana e meia se vai tentar recuperar a Campus Party mais histórica de .pt. Suddenly powered by SAPO/PT. Ajudai-nos :p update: “Caros amigos: Infelizmente não vai ser possível realizar o BragaCampusParty, previsto para os próximos dias 25 a 29 de Julho. Conseguiram-se alinhar as vontades institucionais necessárias, incluindo os apoios da PT e do Sapo, cujo empenhamento era naturalmente auspicioso.…

Everything has been said about Hackday London already, so I’ll skip the detailed description bit. This is just a quick note to say that BBC and Y! rocked. We had loads of fun and learned a lot too. The hack that we submitted didn’t won any prize, so we were clearly robbed there (maybe if the timer guy hadn’t shut us down during our presentation, bah…) but still a very big thumbs up to anyone on the list, to the jury, the winners, and to ourselves too.…

Bought the iWoz book in London last weekend and read it all during my trip to Seattle (more on this later, I promise). The book is sort of a biography from Steve Wozniak, his relationships and life, entrepreneurship, and a big emphasis on the Apple I and the Apple creation. The book is as easy reading as it gets, and because of the simple and sincere way Woz exposes his personal fears and secrets it’s really passionate reading for geeks of all ages.…

Eu confesso que sou pro-”qualquer um que em vez de se lamuriar meta mãos à obra” mesmo que o dito cujo acerte ao lado uma vez ou outra. O saldo dos determinados é sempre a média dos seus sucessos e insucessos, e normalmente é sempre positivo, é sempre melhor do que reclamar e nenhum fazer. E é por isso que não sou de políticas. Mesmo sendo deformado por uma educação mais à direita do que à esquerda (seja lá o que isso for), é com a maior das naturalidades que entre amigos tenho elogiado uma série de medidas do actual governo e de alguns ministros que têm tido a coragem de executar decisões difíceis e impopulares nas mais diversas áreas da nossa sociedade.…

Today, a particularly stressful day at work, a came across several E-Mail and IM threads about Google Gears with my friends and colleagues. I finally had the time to look into it more seriously and I feel I should point out that I don’t share the global excitement everyone seems to suffer from. Google Gears anticipates what browsers should have already and clones what Zimbra envisioned months ago, I fail to understand the wow effect, really.…