The problems: you want to collect data about visits to your Wordpress powered blog, but you don’t want to count visits of yourself or any authenticated users (that, of course, contribute to your blog). This problem really exists for small to moderate blogs where Google Analytics not cutting this out can really influence your stats. [...]
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16 Jan 10
The iPod
So, I am the owner of an iPod Shuffle. I have it for more than one month so I guess now I can express an informed my opinions about it.
The device is great because of its size (very light) and the its autonomy (plays 10+ hours of music when fully charged).
It came with just a [...]
12 Jan 10
Great Abandonware
From Wikipedia: Abandonware is a term used to describe computer software that is no longer sold or supported, or whose copyright ownership may be unclear for various reasons. While the term has been applied largely to older games, other classes of software (such as productivity applications or utility software) are sometimes described as such.
Here are [...]
27 Dec 09
Pictures from Multiple Cameras in Chronological Order
Small annoyance I’ve run into: Having 2 photo cameras on a field trip, taking pictures in parallel with them, needing to put pictures in a chronological order (scenario is applicable, for example, in case you go on a trip with some friends and everybody takes pictures using personal camera. You want to create a web [...]
11 Nov 09
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
Just finished reading Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt, a book that I found to be a little confusing to say the least. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed reading it, found certain parts of it to be of value but personally I don’t think anyone today has a complete understanding [...]
22 Oct 09
Watermarking your photos, the free way
This started as looking for a easy way to watermark some photos that I was going to expose to the whole world. The first thing that came into my mind was that I could use a specialized photo editing software (like Photoshop for example) to apply the watermarks. This had the drawback that you actually [...]
13 Sep 09
Chrome Commercial
Just saw (on hulu) a brilliant (in my opinion) Google Chrome commercial.
Here it is:
It’s brilliant (everything that uses cats is), I’m sure it didn’t cost shitloads of money and it makes you want to try the new browser. Mission accomplished.
16 Aug 09
District 9
Every once in a while to theaters near comes a movie that just blow you away. District 9 is such a movie.
I went to see the movie out of curiosity. Saw the trailers before, didn’t except much except some random violent acts between human and aliens in a fight for supremacy. I couldn’t have been [...]
28 Jun 09
The USB Charger Project
So, let’s say that you’re more of an outdoor type.
Also let’s say that you kinda of geek and like recording things.
For example, recording an path that you walk on through the woods and rebuilding it in an itinerary in Google Earth.
No problem. You have a GPS unit and you have the option (through factory installed [...]
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