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A Media Center at Home 2 comments By AviPublished: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:39:38 +0000 Updated: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:08:28 +0000 Published: 25 Apr 2009 Updated: 27 Apr 2009 Published: 11:39 am Updated: 9:08 am Categories: Linux & Open SourceMultimedia Tags:
A Media Center at Home 2 comments By AviPublished: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:39:38 +0000 Updated: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:08:28 +0000 Published: 25 Apr 2009 Updated: 27 Apr 2009 Published: 11:39 am Updated: 9:08 am Categories: Linux & Open SourceMultimedia Tags:

Since we got a 52″ Samsung LCD TV almost a year ago as a gift from relatives, I knew it was time to attach to it a dedicated computer and have a full digital media experience in the living room. I’ll tell you here my experiences building and running this thing that makes all my [...]

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Como comprar e quanto custa um iPhone usado 0 comments By AviPublished: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:54:28 +0000 Updated: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:54:08 +0000 Published: 9 Mar 2010 Updated: 15 Mar 2010 Published: 8:54 am Updated: 2:54 pm Categories: Community and SocietyMobility Tags:

Furtaram meu iPhone 3GS 32GB na festa de aniversário fechada da minha filha. Fiquei chateado, principalmente porque usava até o último recurso do aparelho de forma muito produtiva.
Decidi comprar outro, desta vez no Brasil mesmo, mas eu tinha um complicador: minha linha é corporativa. Isso significa que minha conta tem tarifas muitíssimo baixas, tanto que [...]

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The Flash versus Apple War 0 comments By AviPublished: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:29:52 +0000 Published: 29 Jan 2010 Published: 12:29 pm Categories: MultimediaWeb 2.0 Tags:

This is my reaction to The iPad provides the ultimate browsing experience? that appeared on the Flash Blog.
I’m not an Apple fan but I tend to disagree with that campaign of Flash support.
Clearly, this is another platform war. The Apple platform versus the Flash platform. It is very strategic for Apple to keep the attention [...]

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Samsung LED TV with Medi@ 2.0 is not ready for me 2 comments By AviPublished: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:18:49 +0000 Updated: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:59:44 +0000 Published: 28 Jan 2010 Updated: 29 Jan 2010 Published: 7:18 pm Updated: 9:59 am Categories: Multimedia Tags:

Today I spent several hours testing the almost amazing Samsung LED TV on a local store. More specifically the UN40B7000 model.
The image quality is great and all but I was more interested in the digital multimedia features included in these new models, branded Medi@ 2.0 (or Media 2.0). You actually plug these TVs on your [...]

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Quanto Custa Não Ter Carro em São Paulo 15 comments By AviPublished: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:17:51 +0000 Updated: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:49:53 +0000 Published: 16 Dec 2009 Published: 1:17 am Updated: 8:49 am Categories: Community and SocietyEcology & Environment Tags:

Em abril contei para vocês que deixei de ter carro argumentado que minha vida ficaria mais verde e mais barata. Bem, vejamos.
Valorizo meu tempo e muitas vezes preciso chegar rápido aos meus destinos, então não penso duas vezes antes de chamar um taxi.
Mas cuidado. Não troquei um carro por um taxi. Esforço-me para encontrar carona [...]

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Drupal is Gonna Change Your World 0 comments By AviPublished: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:37:33 +0000 Updated: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:46:54 +0000 Published: 12 Dec 2009 Published: 9:37 am Updated: 9:46 am Categories: Linux & Open SourceWeb 2.0 Tags:

Forget expensive and proprietary MS Access. Forget about applications built on top of complex muiltitab spreadsheets. Drupal with Content Construction Kit, Views and Faceted Search are the right and way better solution for you.
Forget about building Flash-only web sites. Drupal and its modules is a better and semantically correct way for your Web 2.0 site.
Forget [...]

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