Celso Martinho

Bit on Wheels (via Melo, via Rui) is a Bit Torrent client for the Mac. It's fully Cocoa/Objective-C native and has the most amazing 3d visual representation of all the leechers and seeders on your .torrent download. It will certainly give you that "wow, must get a mac" effect from your friends and colleagues. And it's free.

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I just tried to compile speirs's Fotobilder iPhoto Plugin to use a modified version of our internal (SAPO's) API, and translate it to Portuguese. So I downloaded the beta from XCode2.2 and gave it try. The last time I used a graphical IDE was on the glorious Amiga days, with the famous SAS/C compiler. I long adopted the trusty portable gnu utils/bash/gnumake/vi IDE. So I was relutant. But XCode is beautiful. Apart for not being able to use "vi" decently, it just rocks. Without reading a single document or book, just out of common sense and knowledge I was able to install it XCode, the needed extra packages and frameworks, get the source code from speir's SVN, change the target for 10.4, edit the widgets to Portuguese, compile everything and run the program. I even tried to build a universal binary for the new operating system spreading on the black market, which would work fine if it wouldn't depend on Iconara DOM's PPC only framework. Next step: learn Objective-C. The FAQ was a good start but any good book recommendations ?

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Há uns meses que tinha a ideia de fazer isto. Aproveitei o aniversário de um bebé de uns amigos nossos para fazer o famoso Life Poster (na realidade fiz dois, um para nós com o 1º ano da Beatriz e outro para eles). Sem rodeios nem muitas explicações, até porque são simples e já estão todas online, peguem nos scripts, escolham 96 fotografias para o tema do vosso poster, gerem o jpeg e imprimam-no. Pessoalmente fiz a impressão na Foto-Flash. A qualidade do papel é muito boa, eles têm experiência em impressão em grandes formatos (fiz em 50x75cm), o atendimento é muito bom e o preço é razoável. Enviei o jpeg por E-Mail (tem cerca de 12 Megs) para a Foto-Flash, liguei-lhes para saber quando estava pronto e dois dias depois fui buscar o poster e fazer o pagamento. O resultado ? Muito bom. Dá uma excelente prenda, muito original.

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Tinha estas pérolas guardadas desde da festa do meu aniversário num Restaurante na Tapada da Ajuda dentro do Instituto Superior de Agronomia.

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That's right. Like cellphones, the iPod has long entered the accessories scam market. In fact, the iPod it self is not even Apple's big profit but instead the economy that lives around it. Proof of it is that the accessory count as reach 1000! Don't you just hate when all your investment goes down the toilet when that new cool cellphone or iPod just suddenly changes the PC connector or battery charger adapter for no other reason than to revitalize a whole new series of gadgets and make money out of our vulnerable pockets ?

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