Archive for the tag 'apple'

Jan 30 2010

Six comments worth reading about iPad

Published by Stef under business

Saturday morning is the best day to read more in depth analysis. I collected six articles that amused me, largely from the HBR blogs (one of the best source of food for thoughts, IMHO).
If you, like me, are fascinated by innovation and by the physicality of objects I suggest you to read Apple iPad’s Product [...]

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Jan 28 2010

iPad DRM endangers our rights

Published by Stef under community, fsf

The Free Software Foundation guys are ready to remind us the real threat that iPad furthers:
The iPad’s unprecedented use of DRM to control all capabilities of a general purpose computer is a dangerous step backward for computing and for media distribution.
Yesterday a group of FSF volunteers set up “Apple Restriction Zones” along the approaches to [...]

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Jan 12 2010

How to sync Mac OS with Funambol (part 3)

Published by Stef under community, eng, funambol

I noticed that my posts about using Funambol on Mac part I and part II are two of the most viewed posts on my blog, so I decided to update them with a new tutorial using the official Funambol Mac OS Sync app. Since I was at it I decided to test also Prezi, a [...]

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Jan 10 2010

Why that thing on Nexus One?

Published by Stef under business, eng

I can’t get my head around one feature of Google’s superphone: why did they put that scroll-click-button at the bottom of the phone? Shouldn’t the touch screen be enough to use the phone? Besides, being so close to the bottom edge, can it really be used? If anybody is still thinking that Google wants to [...]

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Oct 17 2009

How to avoid frustrations with BlackBerry and Mac

Published by Stef under community, eng

Just don’t buy that combo: Mac and BlackBerry are two very closed environments, they don’t want to be interoperable, they hate each other and their customers.
Not that I would make such mistake, never. But I have friends that do this kind of stuff and then I’m enough of a friend to share with them the [...]

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Mar 17 2009

Will Nokia become FLOSS best friend?

Published by Stef under business, community, funambol

Google’s power is making more people concerned that their motto ‘do no evil’ is not reassuring enough. Fabrizio Capobianco’s blog post summarizes the concerns of the Winston Smith Project. Google is scary because it controls the access point to the internet for 90% of users and because it’s expanding its reach to the mobile network. [...]

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Oct 17 2008

How Apple will dramatically increase revenues

Published by Stef under business, eng

My architecture professors repeated ad infinitum that an image is worth a thousand words. Following is a pictures that clearly shows how Apple will dramatically increase its revenues in the next year:
It’s not (only) the cool design or the (un)cool software: it’s mainly the reduced (~60%) bill of material you see in the picture (compare [...]

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Oct 04 2008

Mac OS X vs GNU: my personal summary (3/3)

Published by Stef under community, eng

After two days bashing Apple, here is the good stuff as promised.
iWorks is good stuff. Keynote is simply amazing: everything is where it should be, the templates are gorgeous, animations are fluid, automatic aligning of pasted items is superb. Pages is beyond any wordprocessor out there. I haven’t used Numbers enough because I don’t have [...]

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Oct 03 2008

Mac OS X vs GNU: my personal summary (2/3)

Published by Stef under community, eng

Yesterday I described the bad things I found with my year experience with a Mac. Today it’s the day of the ugly stuff.
The ALT-TAB (or CMD-TAB, in Mac world) has the stupidest behavior ever. It cycles through the open applications, not the open windows. For being an OS based on the documents, not the apps, [...]

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Oct 02 2008

Mac OS X vs GNU: my personal summary (1/3)

Published by Stef under community, eng

When I started working at Funambol, Hal asked me what kind of computer I wanted, PC or Mac? At that time I had suffered some frustration with my usual setup, using GNOME. I was especially frustrated by the mail program Evolution while using GnuPG encryption and its lack of support for ‘discussions’ like Gmail. Also, [...]

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