Yesterday I assisted to the 3 E3 main press conferences by Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony.
Lately I haven’t been such an active video game player as I used to be some months ago, but now I’m feeling that during this year and the next one I’ll come to my roots 
Microsoft XBox 360
From Microsoft, as a XBox 360 owner I was glad to hear that XBox Live will have integration with Facebook and Twitter, my two main social networks. For gold membership owners will get full access to Last.FM through their XBox 360 systems.
But the best of all, that really got me crazy was Project Natal. My friend Marco wrote a post on his blog about it and it has 2 MUST SEE videos.
Nintendo
The news about Nintendo DS weren’t that appealing to me, since I don’t own a Nintendo DS, but it’s obvious that Nintendo is targeting young women with several games meant to them. The focus in user generated content is a great initiative. It doesn’t apply only to Nintendo DS applications but also video games with user generated levels.
As a Wii owner I really must buy Wii Sports Resort with Wii Motion Plus that is coming to stores in July.
As a fan of one of the best games I’ve ever played (if not the best) I was glad to ear that a Super Mario Galaxy sequel is coming. You can watch the trailer at GameTrailers.com
Nintendo also announced Wii Vitality Sensor which can read your vital signs and find out whether you’re anxious or focused, etc. I’m not really convinced, but I’ll wait and see.
Sony Entertainment
I own a PSP 3000, and I won’t buy PSP Go, but a new handheld video game console it’s always good news for gamers. And I didn’t pay attention to Playstation 2 and 3 news…
You can what the 3 press conferences though Gamespot at http://e3.gamespot.com/press-conference/
As a Firefox user, one of the extensions that I can’t live without is Userstyles. They allow me to remove tons of ads and format some webpages that I use in my daily life in the way I want.
A few months ago I started using IE8 as my main browser in my personal laptop. And very happy about it because it’s lighter than Firefox, and I don’t really need all the extensions outside work. But I missed Userstyles…
After searching for a while I found information about custom cascade style sheets in IE in a Microsoft article.
By following this step-by-step tutorial, you can set a custom css file for your browser. The changes are applied after browser restart, and it’s somewhat limited when compared with userstyles, since you can’t turn on/off setting on the fly and the css rules are global, which means that you change a class properties for a website, and you happen to navigate to another one that uses the same class, the css rules will also be applied.
Nevertheless, now I was able to remove ads from Windows Live Hotmail in IE8, remove the search bar that I don’t use and so on.
Posted on 3:01pm 4/01/2009 by Bruno Silva in
My Life
… because while reading my RSS feed subscriptions, there are a lot of news that are fake (clearly), and someones that I can’t tell if they are.
Edit: I just “hate”, not “have”.
Posted on 9:14am 12/19/2008 by Bruno Silva in
My Life
No outro dia fui ao Media Markt de Sintra para comprar um pack de 4 pilhas recarregáveis. Encontrei um pack da Duracell a 14 euros (ou 13.90 e tal, whatever). Ao lado estavam um pack de 2 pilhas a 6 euros.
Portanto,
- 6 euros x 2 packs (2 pilhas cada) = 12 euros
- 14 euros * 1 pack * (4 pilhas) = 14 euro
O senso comum não nos diz que os packs de maior número de unidades deve sair mais barato? Ou pelo menos ter o mesmo preço? O meu diz que sim. Ou é um engano de marcação de preço, ou stocks distintos em que um deles ainda foi adquirido com preço antigo.
Mas a hipótese que me parece mais interessante é ser uma estratégia de marketing para ganharem uns trocos. Se toda a gente pensar como eu que os packs maiores saem mais barato ou igual, imaginem os vários 2 euros que ganham em cada pack (já nem falando na poupança na embalagem).
Tive sorte de geralmente ter a mania de comparar os preços, e depois deste episódio vou estar mesmo atento.
P.S.: Contei este episódio a uma pessoa que me disse que numa qualquer superfície o mesmo acontecia com os sacos de areia para gatos de 5 e 10 kg. Não comprovei 
Today I got access to the new Hotmail interface. Pretty, but lacks the usual icons. I feel lost. The icons were a great help on finding what I needed. Now I just have to read the labels… I’m not feeling as a happy user right now… Keep it simple, but not too simple.
