Marcelo Toledo

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If you can’t beat P2P, join P2P!

“MTV Networks, the biggest division of Viacom Inc. has announced plans to make every South Park episode available online for free as part of a plan to make the show available to a larger audience.” This is hapenning everytime more, imagine the amount of content that has been published in the past that you would to see again. How many content become obsolete in one day? The fact companies will share this specific content will not hurt their business, actually I see this as a healthy new business.

Amazon Kindle

Three years ago Amazon set out to design and build an eletronic paper display, a convenient, portable reading device with the ability to wirelessly download books, blogs, magazines, and newspapers. The result is Amazon Kindle, just launched. There is no doubt that this is the future, specially when it is pushed by such a strong company like Amazon. They had the content, but not the device, why not doing exactly like iPod/iTunes. At first sight, the gadget doesn’t have an interesting design, it’s white, ready to get dirty, has a 15.2cm display, a keyboard that steals screen’s space and the…

How to use your iPhone on Linux

You will need windows or Mac for the first moment and then you’ll be free. I have a VMware image in my computer and I could never make it work with USB, this time I had a chance to look after this issue and found out why. Linux’s VMWare doesn’t work with USB 2.0, to workaround this you can either change it to 1.1 through software (Kernel or BIOS) or you can use a USB 1.1 Hub, another option is using a temporary machine with windows, I have one at work and that’s what I did. You need to install…

Microsoft aplies for mind reading patent

Microsoft has just applied for a mind reading patent, two engineers are responsible for this patent, they are specialists in Human-Computer Interaction and Brain-Computer Interfaces. Asking people to execute specific tasks in the computer, video recording and asking questions later might not produce reliable answers. “Human beings are often poor reporters of their own actions,” Microsoft says. The patent application details how this interface would work. Secret sources points that Google is writing a plugin to search your brain.

Wi-Fi detector shirt

Thinkgeek team created a shirt to display Wi-Fi signal, the glowing bars on the front dynamically change as the surrounding Wi-Fi signal strength fluctuates. It shows signals in 802.11b or 802.11g and it’s 100% cotton. The animated decal is removable (with hook and loop fasteners) for easy washing and the baterry pack is concealed in a small pocket sewn inside the shirt, works for a few hours with 3 AAA batteries.

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