Probably I haven’t mentioned before, but after my Qtek S200 crashed a few months ago, I’ve bought an HTC Diamond. At first it was a little slow and battery consuming, but 3 days after I bought it, HTC released a new ROM for TMN customers which solved those issues. Great timing I had. 
Yesterday I tried a new version of a tool I didn’t know about. It is called GPS Cycle and it uses your built-in GPS receiver to track your position and draw a graph.
But the feature that I really like, is the ability to save your path into a file which can be read by applications such as Google Earth. This way you can review your tracking, if you go for a walk by foot or bicycle , or something like that.
If you enable the geo-referenced photographs in your phone, you can decorate your path with those pictures (with some additional work).
GPS Cycle is available at the XDA Developers Forum. You can enable the geo-referencing in your photos in HTC Diamond using Diamond Tweak. (Other devices that have builtin GPS have similar tools that change some register keys).
Posted on 3:52pm 9/29/2008 by Bruno Silva in
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Today I was amazed to realize that my University systems allow you to use the new Portuguese Citizen Card!
I’m pretty sure that almost no one will use this feature, but it is a nice initiative to embrace this new authentication mechanism.
A new Microsoft marketing wave has started with the motto “Windows Without Walls” as I read int Windows Vista Blog. Pretty nice concept and nice wallpaper. But from a developer perspective the image is pretty funny. Take a look at the image bellow.
It seems that Windows is about getting some construction tools and hack our house around and using a hammer to get a hole where you need a hole.
Ontem necessitei de fazer uma encomenda no site da FNAC, mas não foi propriamente fácil. Fiquei frustrado o suficiente para lhes enviar um e-mail para o Apoio a Clientes.
Bom dia.
Acabei agora de realizar uma encomenda na loja online, e há algumas coisas que não percebo. Primeiro tive bastantes dificuldades em realizar a encomenda devido a questões de usabilidade: Ao seleccionar como local de entrega uma loja FNAC, as caixas de texto para expedição (morada, código postal, etc) ficaram inactivas (o que é espectável). No entanto permaneceram com preenchimento obrigatório, o que me obrigou a mudar o local de entrega para "Morada", preencher tudo, e só aí escolher a loja para entrega…
Quando é aberto o formulário para expedição, no envio para morada apenas aparece a opção de recepção das 9 às 18 horas, só preenchendo os diversos campos aparece a opção das 19 às 22h. Ora além da falta de
transparência para o utilizador, ainda se arriscam a perder encomendas por falta desta informação. Finalmente no pagamento, é-me pedido o NIB, o qual copio da minha aplicação de e-banking e colo na caixa de texto.
Recebo uma mensagem de "NIB incorrecto" à qual não é anexada qualquer informação do formato esperado, depois de tirar espaços, o código do país e os digitos finais de checkdigit, lá consegui submeter o pedido.
Têm sorte que não desisti a meio. Por fim em vez de uma mensagem de "Compra efectuada com sucesso, vá ao seu e-mail" tenho o carrinho vazio, levando-me a pensar que tinha perdido o processo de encomenda.
Aconselhava seriamente a uma revisão da usabilidade do vosso site.
Com os melhores cumprimentos,
Bruno Silva
Foram simpáticos o suficiente para responderem a pedir desculpas e a dizerem que se encontravam com “problemas técnicos”… Era o que esperava, mas pelo menos despejei a frustração! 
Também achei curioso dizerem que estavam totalmente disponíveis para mais esclarecimentos, e de seguida me fecharem o ticket no sistema deles. lol
As promised, the public betas of the latest version of the Windows Live suite of PC applications are now available for download. Go to http://download.live.com/ and get the newest Messenger, Mail,Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Writer, Toolbar, and Family Safety.
in Windows Live Wire
So far I’ve only tested Windows Live Messenger, generally I like the new look. I love the "Favorites List" feature, since I already had a favorites group in previous versions of Windows Live Messenger. Another feature that may become useful: creating groups of users as a single contact. This way in a single click you can begin a conversation with multiple contacts, almost like a mailing list or a chat room channel.
Something I would like to change is the size of the avatars in the conversation window. It is pretty cool that now you can get a minimalistic conversation window if you hide the toolbar in the top and the avatars.
Make sure you restart your operating system after installing, because I was getting some strange window behavior previous to that. One feature that is a "little" buggy is the theme customization. You can try to change your windows color to black, but even if you set it as your default color, after restarting Windows Live Messenger it will be reset to the default blue, even the main window will get the default color…
Next step: keep on testing and try the other applications also.
This release represents the beta of Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.0, which enables hobbyists, academics, and independent game developers to easily create video games for Windows and the Microsoft Zune digital media player using optimized cross-platform gaming libraries based on the .NET Framework.
The XNA Game Studio 3.0 Beta is a chance to get an early look at XNA Game Studio 3.0, and provide feedback on the product that is currently in development.
in XNA Creators Club
Now it supports Zune with the 3.0 software version. The CTP version didn’t have support for XBOX 360 development, now it is fully supported Finally we can use Visual Studio 2008 for XBOX 360 development! Other features that please me are the Rich Presence support (that message in XBox Live that tells you what are your friends playing in the context of a game. eg: level, dificulty,etc.), and Invites for joining you in a multiplayer game.
