Posts Categorized: Technology

I couldn’t agree more. It simply doesn’t make sense and the 1st of April is still far from now, so everything seems awkwardly true.

There’s some truth in the article. I’ve been into that in the past and I will surely be in the future.

This is by far one of the coolest and smartest use of the device capabilities by a mobile developer. It might not be one of the most useful apps out there, but it shows how brilliant some developers can be by making the most of the limited hardware features available on a smartphone, as some others… Read more »

The link above points to a Tumblr blog which is a great collection of skeuomorphic interfaces from the real world, such as websites, apps and others. Discussions about skeuomorphism being a good or bad thing in the design world never get old, especially on Hacker News, as you might have noticed. I personally love it and… Read more »

Flightradar24 is one of the best web app I’ve seen in a while. It allows to live track every aircraft equipped with an ADS-B transponder, which for Europe is about the 70% of all airplanes, much less for US and other continents. It’s easy to use, clean and it doesn’t require so much effort from the CPU,… Read more »

Insightful article from a former Mozilla developer who explains how Firefox is losing users for the benefit of Chrome, and his interesting perspective on software updates in general.

Cloud9 IDE is a great online editor that stays in the cloud, so it’s available everywhere and has some interesting features like realtime collaboration. I’ve quickly given it a try adding the FTP account of this site and it works great, it’s like Coda in the cloud, with all the advantages that come with it.

Duolingo is now open to everyone (my review here). Let’s see how far the power of crowdsourcing can get.