Posts from category Software

Opera Mini, solution to subscriptions without unlimited data plans

Opera Mini, solution to subscriptions without unlimited data plans

Not everyone has a subscription with an unlimited data plans (not even all the guys with iPhones) so it's important to keep an eye on your bandwidth usage. I'm not gonna tell you how often you should check your monthly bandwidth usage, but I'm gonna present you a little piece of software, the Opera

Future of automatic translation: where I want it to go

I'm thrilled about Michael Schumacher's comeback to Formula 1, and past week I was watching all news about this subject. Today I've found some video clips, on Youtube of course, about his first practice yesterday on Ferrari's Mugello racing circuit. There was also an interview, but the problem was a

My experience installing Ubuntu as a typical Windows user

My experience installing Ubuntu as a typical Windows user

I'm always looking for new software and gadgets to install and test, I'm not the type that can keep a Windows install for more than a few months without reinstalling a new version, cleaning the system and so on. Yesterday I've decided to install Ubuntu on an older notebook hard drive I've had. I was

Windows 7 after 6 months of personal use

Windows 7 after 6 months of personal use

It's been almost six months now since I'm running Windows 7 on my main machine. I wouldn't go back to Vista, let alone XP even if you'd pay me for that? But let's see why, why did Windows 7 made such a good impression on me that I've installed it on my desktop and my laptop. Let's start with the

Interfaces of the future: how will they look

Interfaces of the future: how will they look

Remember the first software interfaces 20 or 30 years ago? I do and the tag line is that I can hardly call them interfaces, compared to what we have today. Things evolved, not because of the knowledge people started to accumulate in fields like usability or design, but because things needed to chang

Plan to do it right at least the second time

Plan to do it right at least the second time

Wordpress's founder just turned 25. Imagine how many people got to do something in their early twenties that's being used by 80% of the product's target, bloggers that's it. I don't know anyone like that in person. Congrats Matt, but that's not what I want to write about in this post. I want to w

SyncToy: free backup software from Microsoft

SyncToy: free backup software from Microsoft

Microsoft isn't exactly a freeware lover, but from time to time they release small software packages that make our lives a little better, like LiveWriter, which I use to write this post. Today I've came upon a little piece of software, SyncToy, a backup utility for synchronizing folders between t