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Re: iFixit teardown of 11-inch iPad Pro and Apple Pencil raises intriguing possibility

Nuno — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 13:41:44 -0000

I'm not disagreeing that this will inevitably make life more expensive for the end user, but also I think that this is a side effect of making devices more and more waterproof more than anything else, while progressively making them lighter and thinner.

Re: Thoughts on OnLive - Wolfire Games Blog

Nuno — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 14:17:46 -0000

If you sign up for the Founding Members program there's the option of "other" when you chose your OS, wonder what that is about.

Also, how important is it to use onlive natively under linux? from the post I gather that loading a VM with some other OS and playing it that way ins't an impossibility. if you're using wine to play games, it's already a travesty :D

I for one, as a linux and osx user who hasn't had a windows box in his house for over 10 years, welcome our onlive overlords.

Re: Memories of a Timex Sinclair 1000

Nuno — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:33:31 -0000

It was my first computer as well! I had the memory expansion (16k if memory serves me correctly).

I was 7 years old and I spent hours in front of that computer, tapping basic away in a keyboard that reminded me more of an old alarm clock's snooze button that anything else, in hopes to play some sort of pixel-ridden game. fun times.

Also, I'm portuguese, there were simply no games available back then in Portugal (there was a game boom when the Sinclair 48k came out but before that it was a wasteland), so instead of ordering games from abroad (uk or spain, usually) my parents ordered basic books with game print outs. smart of them, I sticked with it.

thanks for the flashback :)

Re: 4 New Mac Twitter Apps You May Have Missed

Nuno — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:07:21 -0000

curiously there was an update to echofon just today and it now supports lists.

Re: Notes: GTalk Videochat

Nuno — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:13:29 -0000

just tried, long distance. :)

It's a wonderful promise at this point.
The connection was between a mac and a pc, the picture is smaller, but felt somewhat higher-quality than skype's. The sound was regular google talk, no difference there.

now the problems: syncing was off by a long shot. the video was actually *way* ahead of voice, rendering it unusable.

The full screen mode has a bug on the mac, since the ever present apple menubar disappears. undocking the chat box on the lower right corner and maximizing it seems to get better results than the full screen (but I already preferred that method with skype, so it might be a very personal choice)

You can move your local preview box around the screen and I managed somehow to get a status bar on the top of the video screen (with resolution and fps), My contact on the other side (on windows) was unable to replicate it even after 3 minutes of out of sync "no, click the top, just the top - but where? - there, on the top - there's nothing there! - I know, there will be, click it!"

Re: The Tao of Mac - Reading Habits

Nuno — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:50:56 -0000

I'd really like to have filters on google reader, yahoo pipes is amazingly powerful, but it feels like an overkill when all I do is take out the weeds off aggregators. I can't think of anything I do with yahoo pipes that I couldn't do with less hassle with a google mail filter. maybe I'm just dim but there's too much trial and error on google pipes. it's a pain go go back to it every now and then.

Re: Alcides Fonseca: Take me to FOWA, FOWD or FOM

Nuno — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:00:41 -0000

yes, yes you are.

LOL

good luck mate :D

Re: Alcides Fonseca: Adobe Reader 9 will come with Adobe Air inside

Nuno — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:00:10 -0000

good thing for Mac OS's preview, huh?

by the time Adobe decided to get an RSS reader into Reader one could guess nothing of good could be in the horizon.

Re: Alcides Fonseca: IPTV and the Future

Nuno — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:39:29 -0000

Bit torrent is a different game but that's where the "mesh" comes in.

Services like youtube, vimeo, etc. spawned an entire generation right now that doesn't care much about TV...why would anyone subject him/herself to mtv's playlist when the video can be found online? why would you wait for "the league of gentleman" to be broadcasted on your local network when the BBC released it free on P2P networks? I say: add that to the STB. why can't you search youtube videos on your meo or smarTV? (talking about our own operators here in portugal) limitations on the STB are an issue, but I refuse to believe there isn't a solution. I admit, it can be hard. STB's aren't processing intensive devices (400~ Mhz CPU's are common) and flash videos aren't the easiest thing for a cpu to decode, but still... maybe it could be done.

Having into account that nearly every STB out there has a webserver that hosts the user interface and a harddrive, a P2P client wouldn't be anything impossible to implement. (A serious constrain would be the CPU necessary to do so WILE decoding video, browing UI, etc etc). It would require to get the STB to deal with the client's internet, which right now is an issue (STB's tend to use their own IP range in the network, separate from the "regular internet") that could create security problems.

still...there's so much room for improvement there...

it's eerie how you still can't upload stuff to an STB's hard drive and view your photos and movies on the TV. even more weird? why can't I share my uploaded photos with a friend of mine who is also a client of the service? hell..why not with the world? the webserver is already in there!