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Ecco a voi “the amazing new way to tie your shoes” ovvero il nuovo fantastico modo per allacciarsi le stringhe.

E se poi a ricamarci sopra son quelli di rocketboom (consiglio vivamente di vederlo), l’originalit� non manca…

da Punto-Informatico:

Questo l’accorato appello diffuso dagli esperti della societa’ di sicurezza Sophos secondo cui e’ il momento di lasciare la piattaforma Windows. Per evitare grane informatiche. Microsoft: niente paura

Si però se Parallels avesse i driver nativi delle schede video, se ci girasse .dotNet (o mono) decentemente e se i Macbook scaldassero meno.. bhe dai ci siamo quasi

…”dai becchiamoci che facciamo il punto della situazione”, da Signal vs. Noise:

It’s no mystery that we’re meeting averse, but here’s another reason why we think meetings are toxic: There’s no such thing as the one-hour meeting.

If you’re going to schedule a meeting that lasts one hour and invite 10 people to attend then it’s a ten-hour meeting, not a one-hour meeting. You are trading 10 hours of productivity for one hour of meeting time. And it’s probably more like 15 hours since there are mental switching costs associated with stopping what you’re doing, going somewhere else to do something else, and then resuming what you were doing before.

Is it ever OK to trade 10-15 hours of productivity for one hour of meeting? Sometimes, sure, but it’s a heavy cost. Meetings are expensive when you think about the opportunity cost. On a pure cost basis, meetings can quickly become liabilities, not assets. So when you schedule that one-hour meeting for 10 people think about the 10-15 hours lost. Is it still worth it?

Sembra che stia arrivando la tanto desiderata nuova versione di Skype per Mac OSX con supporto video. Gli utenti mac sono alquanto spazientiti dal fatto che la versione win sia gi� alla 2.5 con supporto video mentre la versione mac sia ferma alla 1.4 o poco più anche se qualcuno fa notare che in alcuni casi il supporto alla videoconferenza era migliore nella 2.0:

Forget Mac Video for a moment ….. the Skype Forum is chuck full of people whose video worked fine in version 2.0, but has quit working in 2.5. It would be nice if someone from skype were to recognize this in an announcement and let us know that our forum posts aren’t falling on deaf ears. The polls show 50% of users of 2.5 no longer have operative video!!

Su un blog della stessa azienda si parla di attesa che sta per terminare, e si viene invitati caldamente a non scaricare la versione beta che si trova sul mulo cercando “skype beta dmg” Non resta che seguire la scia di notizie sulle nuove release. Dimmi quanto tu verraiiiii ? dimmi quando quando quandoooo…

da Macity Sorpresa: Microsoft dimostra Windows Vista usando un MacBook Pro. È la conferma che il nuovo sistema operativo di Redmond sarà compatibile con l’hardware Apple e che le macchine di Cupertino sono migliori di quelle della concorrenza Pc anche quando si tratta di farci girare sopra l’Os della concorrenza.

.. qui trovate il link alla prove, forse.

Sono sotto Parallels, ed ecco che mi appare un bel messaggio (mai visto) con su scritto “YOU NEED TO RESTART YOUR COMPUTER…..ecc. ecc” : cos’è ? windows sta contagiando Mac OSX con le sue “cattive abitudini” oppure alla Apple con l’ultimo aggiornamento 10.4.7 han trovato il modo di rendere più gradevole la schermata blu ?

via digg:

More and more Apple MacBook users are complaining of a “squishy” or unresponsive trackpad button. Some of the Apple Macbooks have a very crispy and responsive feel when you click down the button on the trackpad, however some Apple Macbook owners are unfortunate to be stuck with a button that doesn’t press down quite right. A recent visit to the Apple Genius Bar proved to be a completely unhelpful. After waiting 15 minutes past the time my appointment was scheduled for, an Apple “Genius” looked at my issue.

After I explained the issue to the Apple “Genius”, he proceeded to rather vigorously push down on my Macbook’s trackpad button repeatedly. After performing this 10 seconds test, it was his professional decision that there was nothing wrong with my Macbook. He asked me to show him how it was not working. I tried to explain to him that it felt different, and that it didn’t “click” quite like the rest of the MacBooks I had played with. Once again, he starts to push down on the button repeatedly, and finally tells me that it feels just right to him, just like the rest of the MacBooks. This was my only experience with the Apple Genius Bar. I felt like it was a complete waste of time, as the “Genius” didn’t bother to try to understand my problem. I felt very rushed, and the whole experience was very unprofessional and disappointing.

Now, on to the custom solution to this annoying problem. Screw you Apple, we figured it out ourselves!
Someone on the Apple discussion forums posted a solution. Place a piece of paper underneath the battery cover, where the trackpad button is. After testing this solution out with various lengths and widths of paper, I believe we have found the perfect solution.