tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-326331102024-03-07T12:36:44.098+01:00A little bit of everything"A little bit of everything" is my personal web log. I will talk, as its title says, about anything that comes to my mind: technology, sports, cinema, music...
I hope I can find the time and strength to write something once in a while.
By the way, this blog expresses only my personal feelings and thoughts. Do not take any of my points of view as necessarily shared by the organization(s) where I (have) work(ed).Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802102357803106909noreply@blogger.comBlogger189125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32633110.post-55281602083992216222012-01-03T18:12:00.001+01:002012-01-03T23:36:01.059+01:00Ayuda al desarrollo del DDR de CTICQueridos todos:
La Unidad de Movilidad e Independencia de Dispositivo del Área de I+D+i de Fundación CTIC Centro Tecnológico está preparando un Repositorio de Descripción de Dispositivos distribuído y colaborativo y os pide ayuda a todos. Por cierto, nuestro sitio web está en medio de algunos cambios serios así que disculpas si hay algún problema con alguna dirección de las anteriores o si hay Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802102357803106909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32633110.post-15565711016215615082012-01-03T17:06:00.001+01:002012-01-03T23:36:19.192+01:00Help developing CTIC's DDRDear all:
The Unit of Device Independence and Mobility of the R&D Department at Fundación CTIC Centro Tecnológico is preparing a distributed collaborative Device Description Repository and is asking for help to you all. By the way, our web site is in the middle of some serious changes so sorry if no English version is available or there is some problems with any of the web address above.
What Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802102357803106909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32633110.post-45418196573469876172012-01-02T20:49:00.001+01:002012-05-04T14:43:04.350+02:00Box.net client for Mac OSXI own a paid account in Dropbox and I do love it. The extra Rat-Pack allows me to have infinite versions of the file in my Dropbox. I have already accidentally deleted important files more than once and the Dropbox web client allowed me to undelete it. The 50 GBs of the account are great, although if you intend to keep back-ups of old email inboxes and some other old stuff, you can fill it. It Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802102357803106909noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32633110.post-75636703288604590092011-09-24T15:01:00.001+02:002011-09-24T15:45:48.239+02:00Converting NRG disk images to the ISO format in MacOSXFirst step: install MacPorts (Direct access to the latest .dmg file for OSX Lion at the very moment of writing this post is here). MacPorts is a set of software tools which allow distinct open source software from other POSIX-like systems such as Linux. These open source software pieces include command-line tools and X11 tools. It includes a software packaging system very easy to use.
So easy, Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802102357803106909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32633110.post-91287885065270037522011-04-13T23:37:00.002+02:002011-04-13T23:43:17.552+02:00Survey illustrates iPad's effect on PC marketTuaw has just published a post about how PC users spend less time after purchasing an iPad. It references a survey by AdMob and they say that "Among the 1,430 tablet own ers who par tic i pat ed in the sur vey, 77 per cent admit ted to spend ing less time with their per son al com put ers after buy ing a tablet, 43 per cent said they now use their tablets more than their per son al com put ers, Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802102357803106909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32633110.post-12342608041465926402011-04-11T22:52:00.001+02:002011-04-11T22:52:52.023+02:00Trying to post from Blogger app in AndroidSo that is it. Just my first try blogging from the Android Blogger app.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802102357803106909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32633110.post-76653163900604185672010-04-12T19:27:00.000+02:002010-04-12T19:28:25.267+02:00Microblogging killed the blogging starAin't that true? ;-)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802102357803106909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32633110.post-9090709746282458042009-12-08T21:24:00.003+01:002009-12-08T21:27:56.435+01:00New social network item: gdgt gadget list in the sidebarYou can see a new element in this blog's sidebar: my gadget list in gdgt. This is an awesome social web site specialized in gadgets. Get there and try it :-)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802102357803106909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32633110.post-77716883228488038322009-11-15T12:29:00.006+01:002009-11-15T13:03:46.789+01:00Solid State Disks: An important improvement for a computer systemI have just replaced the original Seagate Momentus 7200.2 320 GB of a Dell Studio XPS 1340 laptop with a Kingston SNV 225-S2/128GB from the SSDNow V+ Series.The new SSD disk allowed me to install Windows 7 64-bit in 15 minutes. This time includes the accumulated time spent in the final installation screen of the Windows 7 Install CD (from the "Copying Windows files" step to the "Installing Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802102357803106909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32633110.post-33262456951078923592009-11-08T12:40:00.004+01:002009-11-08T22:42:10.410+01:00Installing a proper Win32 developing environment on Windows 7I am playing a bit with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. So far, the experience has been awesome and I absolutely recommend changing to this wonderful OS if you are a Windows user. I have tried to install Visual Studio 2008 this morning and also the Windows 7 SDK. In order to be able to use the latter making use of the former, VS 2008 needs to be updated with its Service Pack 1.After downloading Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802102357803106909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32633110.post-53607741837959598542009-05-04T22:54:00.002+02:002009-05-04T22:56:04.400+02:00Google Latitude badgeActivated! You can check it on the left (this makes no sense if you read it via RSS... go to my blog) ;-)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802102357803106909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32633110.post-1252456467873958252009-04-26T19:59:00.003+02:002009-04-26T20:09:43.022+02:00Accessing an ext3fs filesystem from Windows VistaI was a happy user of the kernel driver for Windows XP made available from fsdriver.org (the so called IFS driver). It allowed me to mount an ext2fs/ext3fs partition as a drive letter in Windows and treat it as any other disk.After moving recently to Vista (not my fault, it was preinstalled in the new machine), IFS -which was supposedly meant to suppor the latest flavour of the Microsoft OS so Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802102357803106909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32633110.post-88105387342072590092009-03-06T22:28:00.002+01:002009-03-06T23:00:11.789+01:00New Eee PC 901 in my handsI recently bought an Asus Eee PC 901 in Redcoon. Great offer which made me buy it: 195 € plus 2 € and something (as I shared delivery fee with my colleague David).If you follow my blog, you know that I played with the Acer Aspire One A150 that I gave to my wife last summer. I find the AAOne keyboard much more comfortable but I am getting used to the tinier keyboard of the Eee little by little. OnAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802102357803106909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32633110.post-76536179405089848732009-02-20T22:57:00.002+01:002009-02-20T23:01:55.955+01:00A new lesson of Real Sporting supportersAnother weekend for Spanish Leaghe BBVA and Real Sporting supporters, "the big red-and-white tide" will be in big number in Villarreal to support their team.In these hard moments, "nunca irás solo".Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802102357803106909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32633110.post-18963801885680381982009-01-21T12:22:00.003+01:002009-01-23T14:36:19.593+01:00Playing with the G1In the 2008 W3C Plennary Week, Adam from Google was very kind letting me play with his HTC G1. It was my first experience with Android. The UI was pretty simple and easy to use although it lacked some interesting features like offering the on-screen keyboard when in landscape orientation.This post is pending since october 2008 and it is now the moment after just receiving both pics from Jonathan Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802102357803106909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32633110.post-38173861684097140092009-01-15T21:10:00.003+01:002009-01-15T21:21:52.888+01:00M.I.T. OpenCourseWareBy chance, I discovered this site where the people from the MIT leave for free some material of courses of different disciplines.I reached the site after googling and finding the initial course on Classical Mechanics by the Department of Physics. There are lots of video material (and no excuse if you are not experienced in the English language, because there is a transcription for the voice in Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802102357803106909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32633110.post-16336052164105415982009-01-10T20:48:00.003+01:002009-01-10T20:53:24.614+01:00Aren't AMOLED foldable displays lovely?And promising, in the field of mobility. Few to say, just watch the prototype in the CES in Las Vegas these last days.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802102357803106909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32633110.post-35096762562616283892008-12-18T20:18:00.003+01:002008-12-18T20:23:48.323+01:00Animation about concepts to be aware of when designing mobile user experienceI encourage you to watch this animation as seen on piksels.com. Funny and interesting!Designing for Mobiles: Users & Context from Niek Dekker on Vimeo.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802102357803106909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32633110.post-86312069001108281052008-12-09T01:14:00.008+01:002008-12-09T02:03:18.656+01:00W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0 becomes a W3C RecommendationNo, I am not transcribing the W3C News feed, if you also read the last post from some minutes ago. mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0, the specification whose authors are Sean Owen (Google) and Jo Rabin (dotMobi -and before, at Segala-), has been demonstrated by means of a main reference implementation: the W3C mobileOK Checker.Behind the web front end in that page, there is an open source checker that hasAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802102357803106909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32633110.post-6250172919934301592008-12-09T00:24:00.008+01:002008-12-09T01:10:51.615+01:00Device Description Repository Simple API is a W3C RecommendationThe DDR Simple API document has just become a W3C Recommendation. This work intends to provide a standard way for any stakeholder in the web ecosystem to access device information known "a priori" like screen size, number of colours, or image formats and markup supported. The document has been developed within the W3C Device Description Working Group and its editors are Jo Rabin (from dotMobi Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802102357803106909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32633110.post-12031067545002683642008-12-08T16:51:00.004+01:002008-12-08T17:00:43.824+01:00Mobile analyticsSome days ago I read a post in the Little Springs Design blog very interesting about Mobile Analytics. I forgot to post about it but a twit from Andrea reminded me that I had that pending task.It talks about how careless analytics engines for web sites are about mobile web and, given that mobile access is increasing on and on, something should be done about it. There seem to be some commercial Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802102357803106909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32633110.post-16274144470118856042008-12-08T01:36:00.003+01:002008-12-08T01:42:48.075+01:00Nokia Maps 3.0: Great improvements comingNokia Maps is the software that I use when I travel abroad. The best new feature that I have found in the news coming from the Finland is the integration with Ovi and, more particularly, the chance to plan your trip in the web and then transfer the results to your mobile. If one image is better than one thousand words, a video is much better than a googolplex words. There you have it:Available onAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802102357803106909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32633110.post-20897840106059019992008-12-07T20:29:00.003+01:002008-12-07T20:47:48.687+01:00Songbird 1.0Songbird is a new music player in town. It has recently reached its version 1.0. I started playing with it and all seemed fine. But after installing the LyricMaster extension, it stopped playing music files (no matter whether I disable or uninstall the extension).It promises a lot but it seems to still be buggy.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802102357803106909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32633110.post-59296577933176936122008-12-06T17:23:00.003+01:002009-01-23T14:36:19.611+01:00Symbian going openA lot has been written in what regards to Symbian becoming an open-source operating system. The scheduled moment for that to become true seems to be 2010. In the meantime, some facts prove that they are taking it really seriously.For example, the new Carbide C++ 2.0 has just been released for free. A bit sad for spending money this year on some Carbide Pro licenses, but a step forward into Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802102357803106909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32633110.post-53193901461693313192008-12-06T16:34:00.004+01:002008-12-06T17:11:47.036+01:00Google Reader and its revamped user interfaceGoogle has improved the UI of one of their most popular service: Google Reader, their web-based RSS feed reader. Besides the slight changes in the look and feel, CPU load when accessing the service has decreased a lot.In an Acer Aspire One, you can now really enjoy the site without your web browser becoming unresponsive once in a while. In an even less powerful device like the Nokia N810, your Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802102357803106909noreply@blogger.com0