Category Archives for Computers
Thank you Mr. Jobs, a personal story
I didn’t want to write a post about Steve after his passing, I felt it wasn’t appropriate. The web was —and still is— talking about him, writing thank-you posts, eulogies, opinions and all. Yet, here I am writing about for … Continue reading
The importance of being free
Being able to create is one of the utmost and fundamental axioms of the computer culture. The importance of being free, also. Free not as free beer, but rather as the right to mess with with the hardware and software … Continue reading
How To: Download torrents on your Mac (and Windows) remotely from iPhone
I’ve been playing today with Transmission’s WebUI settings, trying to figure out it’s potential and in the meantime I found a very cool life-hack to download any torrent from anywhere in the world on my Mac.
How to: install Diaspora on Mac OS X
If you don’t happen to know already what Diaspora is, let me say this: Diaspora is the distributed, privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network. I already have written a word or two about it in a Facebook … Continue reading
DeskShade & Locksreen bug/hack
You know, there’s a cool Mac OS X app out there called Deskshade with many great features and enhancments for your desktop. Although it comes with plenty of smart time-savers and other small thingies I use it only for it’s … Continue reading
Why I prefer the Macbook Air way more than my netbook
Today I got back my Macbook Air after a two and a half weeks of service. See, the monitor had something like dead pixels and then it evolved to something like a complete monitor failure. All was black. Anyway, everything’s … Continue reading