After my test week with the N900, I was pretty sure that I just needed a basic smartphone able to do Google Sync. I’m a dirty cheap bastard, and I don’t like long-term commitments with carriers, so I decided to buy the HTC Snap. It’s Windows Mobile 6.5 based with qwerty keyboard and it works [...]
Category Archives: Nerd
The Whoa Amazing CellPhone That Runs Linux
August 22 10
About one month ago, WOMWorld sent me a Nokia n900 for a week, so I could test it. For those who are unaware, the N900 is not exactly a smartphone: it’s more like a portable, pocket-sized computer, which also happens to have a cell phone. The Good If you’re a geek, in any level, you’ll [...]
The Netbook Experience
April 20 10
About one year ago I bought an Asus eeePC 900, and was totally impressed with the size, weight, everything. But, you know, experience changes everything. From the beginning: eeePC 900, the old model, features two SSD disks – 16GB and 4 GB. It uses a Celeron M ULV 353 900MHz Processor and I upgraded the [...]
Social Networks
April 5 10
Everybody loves Facebook, some people can’t live without checking in at foursquare or gowalla, brazilians are crazy about Orkut and tech-savvy professionals have always their profile at Linkedin up-to-date. But, the truth is: only a few people know how to use properly Social Networks. The Basics: Adding People Just Because Can someone please explain me [...]
Social Media in Toronto
March 27 10
This is one of my first social media attempts in Toronto – the WordCamp Toronto 2010, or simply #wcto2010. Waking up at minus something before 7AM means I was really interested. I did almost everything right – ok, I forgot my business cards, I’m still not used to carrying them. I arrived at the pickup [...]
Google Developer Day
June 30 09
Eh, eu fui ao Google Developer Day. Não devo ser uma pessoa deslumbrável. Ou minha personalidade de diva resmungona realmente chegou ao ápice. A falta de internet me incomodou (tinha wireless do hotel, mas custava uma pequena fortuna), a falta de chá/café me incomodou (tava frio, pô, eu sei que lindas modelos distribuíram picolés loucamente, [...]