Do you know what's this thing in the image? I'm sure you probably didn't seen one of those in some months.. Yes, we now use CDs, or even DVDs to save our data. So, I wonder, why the Save file icon is still being a Floppy disk in 99% of the programs out there?! Who had the brilliant idea of using a floopy disk as an icon? And why everyone is still following it nowadays?


Would be fun if in 5years we're still using that icon as for Save file option..

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Never create/use a variable/object with "3d" in the begining of the name ("3dXX"). It won't work.

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Looks like the site is going quite well, isn't it? I'm quite pleased with how is it going, and all the feedback the people is sending encourages me to keep it improving it daily. There are great features in the oven that I expect to release soon. Also, at some point we should spend one weekend cleaning the site's code and making it tableless.

It's basicly being a great experience where I'm learning quite a lot! :')

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Once a while mss.sole surprise me with a very interesting software. First time (that I remember) was with AVG Free Edition that just ends with the virus/antivirus headache, as it just updates daily with the latest virus information. It's just useful and free.

This time was actually a folder she had in her old ACER laptop that I when inside thanks to my curiousity. It was called last.fm and it had a kind of music player inside. It didn't took me too long to realize that with that player I was able to listen music similar to what I wanted to hear. For example, as usual I tried searching for brothomstates but which was my surprise when the program found the artist and provided me with an station with similar artists. I just started to listen a lot of new music in the same style of my choice but all new artists to me. Tried again with mr.oizo, infected mushroom and orbital, and had good results with all of them..  a shame the player didn't found Ronny Pries and Midi Miliz ;)

Nice tool anyway, give it a try (you need to register to be able to download it).

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Seriously! Internet Explorer sucks, my life will be easier if this browser wasn't the default one in windows. In the case you're wondering.. why? Well, just a very easy example.. If you define a box in a website with 200px of width, and 20px of margin, Firefox, Safari, Opera, ... will show the box with the same size, Internet Explorer, won't! So, to fix that you have to do SHITY fixes that make your website code to be dirty and can take extra problems in other browsers. Luckily, that'something that is slowly changing, a 60% of the users that visit this site does use firefox now, one year ago was just a 5%. So, please, Kill Bill's browser now, or better destroy it!.. if you don't like violence, just switch to firefox. Inspired by sole's.

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http://www.google.com/ig After adding the custom RSSfeed feature, this is just what I was looking for. Perfect! Thanks google! How long will take to MSN to copy that? :D

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And now is free!! o/ I don't know if that one was the first widget thing, but at least was one of the first I've seen. I'm these days testing it and seeing how useful it is.. You can have the same like on mac, that pressing f8 appears all those widgets, or you can change the preferences of each one and have them floating the desktop. By now, looks like a clean, cute way to have your todo list in the screen. I'll look for rss stuff now.. :)

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Everyone was blabling about the power of the bloggers, but.. all those people writing in those phpscripts with those basic design templates around the world.. What's the point of it? Do you have to subscribe to 1000 different RSS?, do you have to browse all of them eveyday?.. Doesn't makes sense.. Some days ago, sole show me technorati. Technorati is just THE IDEA, there is no a lot of work behind, but the value of it is mainly the idea. Technorati depends of all the bloggers, but as they were (if not the first) the cleverer/commercial of the firsts they got the power now. They got the power of all the blogger community. Nice movement!! To make it short, when somebody, using blogger or so, updates his blog, it probably will send a fast notifiction to technorati about it. And technorati will update in realtime. So, for example, if the day of the bombs in London, there was no enough info on the newspapers yet, you could search on technorati and you would find a lot of bloggers writing about it, and if there are a lot of bloggers, perhaps you could find a guy that was inside one of those trains. Can the newspapers/TV compete with that? Now the fight will be probably about that, Google, and MSN doing their own technologies for that. But that would be interesting.. Looking forward to see how all that moves.

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This week Macromedia released the beta of flash8 player for browsers. It will have a lot of great new features. ClearType rendering, dynamic loading of png and gif with alpha channels, dynamic shadows, blur, rendering blendings.. And as I was able to experiment very early, it is really faster. So, looks like finally the people of the player is not doing just bad fixes to the player anymore, they are improving it a lot. And here is the funny thing. The people is hacking somehow the new features of the player, coding in flashmx and modifying the .swf to make it work with flash8 player. Check out the early experiments the people are doing with the new features. No idea of when they are going to release the editor tho. Enjoy!!

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Probably everyone that is reading that post is aware that Microsoft just released a beta version of his new program Acrylic. This is just a vector program, something like Illustrator. So why are they moving to that sector now? As far as I know this is just to get rid of flash as a resource to do rich applications for Windows (not for the website). But looks like that is going to be the tool to design the next applications layouts for Longhorn. What really piss me off is that you have to fill a lot of forms to download the beta. Anyway.. better than Paint :)

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