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Skype has just released an “official” preview of its new version with Video, which is a major thing, at least for me, since that a fully compatible mac/pc video conferencing system didn’t exist up until today, and believe me, I’ve tried quite a few of them! What exists don’t actually classify for multi-platform! 
Well it’s still a beta, but sure seems great! 
Great timing also… It wasn’t a completely new to me, for some weeks now I’ve had access to a non-oficial preview… but as all the betas it had problems… and for the sake of my address book I’ve kept my old version running.
July 25th, 2006
I’ve just returned today from some well deserved (short) vacations, some days spent offline with a lot of interesting stuff to be made. Today while going thru the tons of emails that were waiting for me in my inbox, one from a friend pointing a serie of videos from Apple, one of which is for now one of my favorite so far:
Check the remaining ones here.
May 2nd, 2006
Junior just sent me a link to this funny image about the last 28th Apple event, it sure sums up the feeling:
March 2nd, 2006
FlyakiteOSX, is a yet another transformation pack for Windows XP, lately seems that there are a lot of people out there that wish to experience the MacOSX interface.. without having to buy a mac. I could say a whole about why you should by a Mac, especially now that the new MacIntel’s are a reality, but I’ll restrain myself and just talk about this transformation pack.
According to it’s creators, FlyakiteOSX is able to transform an ordinary Windows XP+ to resemble the looks of a MacOSX. Basically what it does is theme the all thing up, from cursors, sounds, visual styles, etc.
You should really give it a try, and may be, I mean MAY BE you’ll understand why I’m using macs…
January 17th, 2006
It’s one of those unexpected findings! Today when I arrived at work the usual television in the boss’s office had been replaced by a nice plasma screen, pretty much everybody notice the huge package left on the hall, so you couldn’t actually manage to pass it without noticing it. Anyway, later on that that, as the tribe suspected Celso connected it to his mac mini, well we thought there it goes, we had a Apple Media Center at work, but not only did he wanted that, we wanted to get the plasma to keep constantly showing off information about SAPO portal, stuff like stats, latest photos uploaded, latest queries, etc, but we search over the net for something that might do the trick, nothing!
That’s when I figured out that in my laptop I had the answer: Quartz Composer, this little application that comes with XCode (Developer/Applications/Graphic Tools) does a hell of a job and pretty much easy to get into too!
I’ve used it to build a simple screen-saver for Mac OSX that would show the latest photos uploaded to our photo-sharing site: fotos.sapo.pt, the source would have to be the site RSS feed.
In the end it was incredibly easy to make it with Quartz Composer, the user interface is simple, although the composer lacks a bunch of nice and more powerful functions that would make it simply great! For instance, the feed of the site comes with URL’s for the page photo, not for the photo itself, so I wanted to strip down the last slash, that would make the difference, you don’t have a patch (the name of the available functions in the composer) for extracting substrings, so I had to use 3 different patches (string length, math for subtracting and truncate) to do the same job.
Here’s the result, it ain’t suposed to be pretty (I still haven’t fixed the problem with large images), but it’s a proof of concept rather than an actual product!
October 28th, 2005
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