Author Archive for Bruno Rodrigues

DRM Sucks (what’s new?)

kill appletv
In short words:

The Apple TV won’t let you play Rental Movies unless you do have a pristine DRM activated Apple TV, and much more worrisome, it doesn’t work without a proper DRM-enabled HDMI connection cable.

Yes it’s true. And I’m not even talking about HD movies.

It doesn’t work [...]


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Nacht der Museen 2008

Saturday, the 19th, is the “Night of the Museums” in Düsseldorf. For €11, visit all the museums you can, from 19h to 2h in the morning. Read more on the Nacth der Museen website.


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Blu-ray for Mac

blu-ray
Dear lazyweb (yes, every day I’m getting lazier and more overwhelmed with the amount of information out there), can you please advice us on a Blu-ray burner that is proved to work in the Mac? It’ll connect to a Mac mini intel. We don’t care if it plays [...]


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Javascript madness - link list

Mario
* Super Mario in 14kb Javascript (blog.nihilogic.dk)

* Time Machine Javascript (jovianskye.com)


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DTM Düsseldorf 2008

DTM presentation is back to our hosting city, for the third year.

Update: Videos: Audi Donut, Burning Stunt Car, Stunt preparation, Blue and more Blue Stunts, Moto Stunts, No driver Stunts, Roof driving Stunts and More burning. Photos: here and here.

DTM Düsseldorf 2008

The program:

13.00 pm: start of the DTM presentation at the Königsallee, [...]


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Microsoft Maps do not exist!

Dear lazyweb. Let me re-do the same question I did six month ago:

Is there anything like Google Maps, or Yahoo Maps, but from Microsoft? I heard about some kind of Virtual Earth or something, but I still can’t find what it is and what is the URL to access it.

I’m trying to find out a [...]


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Assorted Links

Just cleaning up the bookmarks toolbar of my Safari…

* Practical PHP Programming (hudzilla.org/wiki)

My original book has been online over two years, and in print as PHP in a Nutshell for one, so now I’m taking it a step further: all the content is available on this site as a wiki. Not only will this make [...]


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Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei

Alarm für Cobra 11, according to Wikipedia (Alarm für Cobra at English Wikipedia), is a long lived series (1996?) about two cops and a lot of car explosions. For our Portuguese friends, it’s like the Austrian “Rex, the dog police”, also with Gedeon Burkhard, but with more destroyed cars.


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Apple TV Take 2

Apple TV Take 2
Get your hacked Apple TV 1.0 (without YouTube) or 1.1 (with YouTube) and follow the simple instructions at Awkward TV Wiki :: Take 2 Safe Update.

Advantages compared to the official upgrade:
- SSH keeps working.

Disadvantages:
- Lack of airtunes working. I’ve managed to get it [...]


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Jar Inspector and Java Decompiler

Jar Inspector

Jar Inspector is an easy to use yet powerful jar file editor. It allows you to effortlessly view, edit and decompile the contents of jar files.

Wow!

Link at Codeland :: Jar Inspector


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