After a long period of inactivity, we are back in force with some changes, cosmetic and content-related ones. First, a new look for this blog.  The 3-column digg-like seems better than the more austere two-column (one sidebar) contempt used before.  The picture above is from the town of Kalamata and was taken in late...
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A while ago, blackcover started a series of posts in order to find the best alternative to our favorite moleskine cahier, journal, notebook. The site has moved to a new domain, although links remain in place. Because of this, and because Rhodia has come with a new notebook, they (blackcover) run a contest to...
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Image via Wikipedia Tomorrow Tuesday June 17th, the 3rd version of Firefox will be available to the web.  Firefox, the browser that was reborn from the ashes of Netscape and came to occupy a significant portion of market share (there is no doubt that Internet Explorer has the largest share) has reached a major...
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An experimental extension to edit pdf documents in open office is now available at the extensions repository. It is only available for the beta version of openoffice (ie, it will not work with openoffice 2.x) and is fine if you want to manipulate small pieces of the pdf text (and the source is not...
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As reported in the gullfoss a new development snapshot for the upcoming open office 3 has become available through the usual channels. In past postings, I have also mentioned that upcoming releases will be available for the amd64 platform, too, and this release is no exception. Go ahead and download and of course enjoy!...
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Until the new iphone 3G that the Steve announced the other day become available, I use this small but comfy Mio P550 Pocket PC for my pda/gps needs (I am a needy person, I know). It’s very functional, and above all, it does exactly what I want a pda to do. Plus it offers...
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