Gmail - Labs Plugin for Drunk People?!

Posted on 10:19am 10/07/2008 by Bruno Silva in Funny, Web

When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you’re really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you’re in the right state of mind?

As you can read above and by the challenges bellow it really looks like a test to find out if you are drunk or under the influence of drugs. lol

This Plugin is kind of useless, but you can find some more with nice features. Learn about Gmail Labs in the official Gmail blog.

Sapo Code Bits está aí!

Posted on 1:31pm 10/06/2008 by Bruno Silva in Events

O Sapo Code Bits aproxima-se! Este evento conta com concursos, workshops e bastante animação e troca de ideias. O ano passado não estive presente, mas estou a fazer os possíveis para ir este ano!

Para tal registem-se no site apresentando a vossa candidatura. Mais informações através do site codebits.sapo.pt e para notificações de última hora sigam http://twitter.com/codebits

GPS Cycle and Google Earth - Keep track of your steps

Posted on 3:10pm 9/30/2008 by Bruno Silva in Freeware, My Life, Software

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. :-P

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).

Citizen Card based authentication @ IST

Posted on 3:52pm 9/29/2008 by Bruno Silva in My Life, Web

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.

Life without Walls

Posted on 8:47am 9/19/2008 by Bruno Silva in Funny, Microsoft

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. :P

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