So here’s the deal: I had planned to purchase a honeycomb-based tablet as my sabbatical leave of absence going away present to myself. I was carefully considering all the pros and cons of both the Motorola Xoom and the new 10″ Samsung Galaxy Tab. Between the two of them discovered the latter has a better [...]
Super fun at the best DZ in the world: Skydive Europe.
Remember Noah Kalina, the guy who took a picture of his face for 6 and a half years? Well, he still continues to do it. I’m guessing he wants to have a complete record of what he looked like through all his life. In his website you can see all the photos, by year. It’s [...]
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Scientists have found a compound that creates new Mitochondria structures inside aging cells. This can lead to the reversal of cellular aging, the main reason why you die As we age, our tissues’ mitochondria start to get damaged (you can think of it as the tail of a long chord, that gets ripped progressively as [...]
Need to be able to remotely add torrents to your secure machine at home? Don’t want to expose any ports to the world in order to accomplish that? Solution: Use Dropbox and uTorrent. How? Setup uTorrent to automatically download any torrent files found in your Dropbox folder (like the picture says). After that, any torrent [...]
There’s a lot of hype around the potentially upcoming Google Circles, the fancy new social networking website by the search giant. But – as it turns out – Lycos tried exactly the same back in 2004. Judging by the number of people who know this, they failed. From their press release at the time: “Lycos [...]
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While reading my morning web comics, i noticed this error in wulffmorgenthaler: Guru meditation error. Apparently this is the default way the Varnish HTTP cache shows errors and – as it turns out – it comes from the old Commodore Amiga times. It’s always refreshing to find more developers with a sense of humor
I’ve always been an apologist of sleeping at least 8 hours per night/day and – except for my brief experiments with other types of sleep cycles – i have always tried to do so myself. I am one of those people that feels better when i manage to sleep around 8-9 hours per night, otherwise [...]
The problem For a while now, i have been searching for a way to stream videos from my living room’s Mac Mini to my other Macs across the house. Especially to my laptop (or in the future to my tablet) when i’m laying in bed. Yes, i know i’m lazy, but one has to take [...]
A while back i changed my blog domain name from diffract.me to pedroassuncao.com. However, i was dumb enough not to redirect the traffic to the new name – in a transition period. The result? A drop from 100+ visits per day to less than 20. I have to admit that it kind of bummed me [...]
If you’re trying the new developer preview version of OSX (10.7 – Lion) and find that the default sound output (headphones) is misbehaving, there is a quick fix for it. According to OSX developers, if you go into the Audio MIDI Setup (under /Applications/Utilities) and change the output format from 2ch-16bit to 2ch-32bit (like in [...]