Archive for the 'Hobbies' Category

Lightroom 1.2 is out

Adobe LightRoom
From John Nack:

I’m pleased to report that Camera Raw 4.2 (download for Mac|Win) and Lightroom 1.2 (MacWin) are now available for download from Adobe.com, and via the Adobe Update Manager (choose Help->Updates within Photoshop or Lightroom).

(via Daring Fireball :: Adobe Releases Lightroom 1.2 and Camera Raw 4.2)

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.com.pt Domains for Sale

I have the following Portuguese domains for sale:

inbox.com.pt
debian.com.pt
3glab.com.pt

The price for each one is just what I’ve been paying to DNS.pt since 2001: 7 years * €58 = €406 for each domain.


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XHTML is Dead, long live HTML!

In fact, the vast majority of supposedly XHTML documents on the internet are served as text/html. Which means they are not XHTML at all, but actually invalid HTML that’s getting by on the error handling of HTML parsers. All those “Valid XHTML 1.0!” links on the web are really saying “Invalid HTML 4.01!”.

From “Understanding HTML, [...]


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Tags & Food = ?

RecipeThing (beta like everything is nowadays) combines the usage of tags to … keep an online cookbook. And don’t tell me you guys don’t cook, looks like most of this site’s community is male ;)

RecipeThing is a new web-based software app. The point of it is to allow [...]


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Konika-Minolta Over?

It looks like it:

Konica Minolta Photo Imaging, Inc. ceased the camera business on March 31, 2006.

This basically means that today there are only two relevant players on the market, Canon and Nikon, and some niche ones like Leica and Sigma Lenses. (Yes, I consider any other brand as a joke, namely “Sony”, “HP”, “Epson” and [...]


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Managed Anti-Spam Service

After reading Pedro Fonseca’s recurrent complaint about blog spam, I’ve remembered something I’ve been thinking about writing about for some time.

People like me (and probably most people at Planeta Asterisco) like to have our own servers at home (or maybe hosted in a data centre, but still with full access to the operating system). We [...]


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Babblemouth, moi ?

yes, and now there’s just the perfect place to practice :D

Babble, the ultimate word game is one of my latest online addiction. Never was a sudoku fan but more of a scrabble one and had been playing online scrabble from time to time.
But with Babble, you get a new [...]


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Google Mars

After Google Moon, today we are presented with Google Mars. Nope, this is not a joke with the chocolat bars ;)

Google Mars

This map of Mars, published by Percival Lowell in 1895, was the result of many years spent carefully studying the Red Planet through his telescope. Now [...]


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Back in the old days

there was tinfoil toys, hand made cars. what is trash tou you can be a treasure to a child. Like this cool Coke-can Aeroplane Model!

check http://www.arvindguptatoys.com out for more.


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Kittens

Kitens
More kittens at Pete Bevin’s Kittens page.

PS: if you know who took those pictures, please contact, via email, kafkaonline on the gmail.com mail server.


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