Sure, the Mac is exciting. I have nightmares about living in a world where laptops have no backlit keyboards and large shiny screens, sleek user interfaces and some other nice details. I must admit these guys do things the right way. But then…

For those with ADD: Why, oh why does leopard insist on storing entries […]

Tired of listening to Kenny G throwing up the usual Xmas tunes every single year? Gregorian chant is so last century. And the classics? The classics are boring.
There’s an alternative for us enlightened ones. The 3rd edition of Santastic is out. 22 bizarre and unusually cool Xmas mashups and remixes. Here’s a sample from […]

This post is based on a usability rant I shared with Pedro which in turn ended up on one of his posts about the Mac Finder. My initial take on the subject was based on my daily use of Ubuntu (with Gnome as the default Desktop Environment) when compared to Windows (probably any flavour).
Say […]

Yesterday, as I was leaving work, I plugged the 4th gen iPod on the car, set it to random and started driving. 10 minutes later, I noticed it was skipping some songs. I’ve seen it happen before (a long time ago) and was lucky enough to:
a) have it within the warranty period
b) have the […]

So one day one wakes up and thinks about getting hat about a “new” operating system? So I installed OpenSuse. It was the worst two days of my life.
So, back to Ubuntu Dapper Drake. It seems that both Edgy, Feisty and all other distros featuring the latest crappy Xorg server don’t play along with the […]