Marcelo Toledo

startups, empreendedorismo e tecnologia

Tag Archives: apple

Documentation for a successful evagelism

Forgetting the fact that rms can be a complicated person, I admire him for various reasons, he was capable of bringing together with his ideas, a revolution. It was impossible to measure what his actions was capable of back then, but even though he worked hard to achieve his objectives. He acted small, starting with one step, but thinking big, knew he needed many parts to create a completely free operating system, a text editor, compiler, shell, documentation tool, kernel and much more. Creating all of this would take a bunch of time and people to help, that’s where documentation…

iPhone 2.0 is now boring

And suddenly after upgrading to 2.0, iPhone got boring. Almost all my applications came from installer which is now cydia and is basically empty. So why did I upgrade then? Well, I really wanted to have mobileme working, actually, I wanted to have wireless syncing of contacts and schedule, but apple is smart and didn’t add this resource to charge you with mobile me. Fortunately it is free for the first 60 days, so I didn’t spend any money at all, and it is working well for me, differently from what people is saying, but if you have push enabled,…

No more OS monopoly

I remember the first time I wanted to install Linux, 15 years ago, I had a Compaq laptop where Linux would never work, but I didn’t know that, so I tried over and over again, I knew so much the slackware installer steps that I could do it without looking at the screen. One day I got tired and changed the approach, sold my laptop and built my desktop computer with the pieces I knew would work, it was the fastest computer I ever saw with Linux working like a charm. After this day, I never stopped using Linux. And that’s…