Plazes reDesign (beta)

Plazes is still in beta, but today i just noticed they launched a new website with a whole lot of new features.

For those who might not know plazes yet, Plazes is a geo-reference serviced based on ip, meaning that you don’t need to have a gps for pin-pointing your location on the web, you can just trust on the connection points that you hang to (to be more precise, it uses the mac-address of the router you’re connected to, to save your location at plazes). If the “plaze” is unknown plazes asks you about details on that particular location, otherwise it just saves your locations based on the information others have submitted on that precise location!

Here’s where I am right now:

Rather nice, don’t you think?

Add comment July 5th, 2006

BumpTop

Well, it might as well be the revolution that personal computers might need, I certainly like it, but might just be the geek side in me. On the site you can read:

BumpTop aims to enrich the desktop metaphor with expressive, lightweight techniques found in the real world.

In might opinion this prototype rocks and they might as well be right,just check out the demo video at YouTube, or if you prefer with better quality on the company website.

1 comment June 23rd, 2006

“One Laptop per Child”: part II

I’ve talked about it here in the past, but seems that the first pictures of a working model have just made it to flickr, check them out at this photoset.

Add comment May 24th, 2006

Apple’s event post-traumatic disorder

Junior just sent me a link to this funny image about the last 28th Apple event, it sure sums up the feeling:

Add comment March 2nd, 2006

iPod Hi-Fi and the new MacMini Intel

All this hype, and all we got was a MacMini Intel based and and iPod Hi-Fi. It’s true that they’re important products forthe majority of mac consumers, and that the mini has been more or less sprouting everywere. Now with the Front Row integration I hope I’ll see it over my TV soon enough:

The iPod Hi-Fi  I find it however, well how should I put it a bit more or less useful, what’s supposed for us to do with our state of the art Hi-Fi systems? Ok, it’s probably for those who don’t have them yet, sure… but that box for as much as it might do, it won’t be a replacement for a nice HiFi system, right?

I might sound a bit unsatisfied, but I’m really missing having a tablet like mac! So Jobs, please do hurry up, ok?

Add comment February 28th, 2006