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 [...]

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 [...]

This process will let you build custom topography maps based on freely available map tiles. These maps can be then uploaded to your Garmin GPS receiver, along with the maps you’ve already got (CitySelect or CityNavigator, for instance), providing a transparent layer with contour lines. The process has been know to work in a number [...]