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Archive for April, 2011

My selection of top iPad 2 apps

After buying my shiny new ipad2 I, like most other tablet enthusiasts, devoted a fair amount of time in search of the coolest and most useful apps to install. The major problem in most results that google returns is that they all mention the same list: twitter, IMO.im, friendly, dropbox, etc. (for a list of [...]

Apple store delivers orders to the past

So apparently my iPad’s smart cover will be delivered on the 6th of April. Today is the 21st… But i’m not complaining. Not about that, at least. You see, they split up my order in two because the iPad is to be shipped later (25th of April). The problem is that an iPad cover is [...]

Pooping: you’re doing it wrong

Ever found yourself sitting  in the toilet and, when it’s that time to do some pushing, instinctively getting on your toes to help the process? Well, it turns out that there is a reason for that: Humans have an easier time pooping in a crouching position. So when you get on your toes you are [...]

Earthquake information in Ruby

Here’s a little script to get the latest earthquakes worldwide (1 hour). Sorry, Ruby purists, for not using RSS 2.0 and hpricot for a cleaner extraction of the coordinates, but my xcode installation is messed up and i can’t build any gems require ‘rss/1.0′ require ’rss/2.0′ require ‘rss/atom’ require ‘open-uri’ require ‘cgi’ source = “http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/catalogs/1hour-M1.xml” # [...]