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Archive for December, 2010

Review: TotalFinder – Finder on steroids

Today i want to tell you about the best thing since canned tuna: a fantastic application that extends Finder’s functionality to provide you with features like tabs, cut-and-paste, dual-mode, and more. You know, the things that all of us have missed in Finder, one time or another. It’s appropriately named TotalFinder (in honor, i’m guessing, [...]

Learning to sit-fly

Free flying is hard work, i’ll tell you that. It’s always very easy to watch guys like the Skywalkers, Omar Alhegelan, Tim Porter, and other skydiving idols and think: “hey, i could do that”. But what we tend to forget is that, like most things in life that are worth doing, it takes time, dedication, [...]

Spring and hibernate: Lazy loading collections in desktop (swing) applications

So here’s something you can’t find on the internets. Or at least i couldn’t, when i was trying to find a way to do this. The problem: Traditionally, spring and hibernate have been mostly used in web applications. In this case, you can easily define your domain objects to have lazy collections because spring/hibernate will [...]

Lighter naval ships made of aluminum foam

I can’t believe this is so hard to find on Google. Someone sent me a documentary video (in Portuguese – unfortunately – but, if you understand German, the creators of this idea speak in their native language) and i can find hardly any references to this online. It’s basically about using a special aluminum powder [...]

Is your Safari 5 slow? Here’s a probable problem and solution.

I could not figure out why the hell Safari 5 was running so slow in my personal mac, when compared with the one i use for work. Until i read some nice tips on the subject, namely this one article. To make the story short: I had installed (a long long time ago) a couple [...]