(Portuguese) Ler Manga ou Comics no PC ou “O melhor leitor de manga para PC: MangaMeeya”
Aug 30th
Sorry, this entry is only available in Portuguese.
Some music found on Indy.tv
Aug 9th
There used to be a site called Indy.tv that was basically a radio that went on playing music submitted by independent artists.
A user would rate music, and indy.tv would try to play stuff he/she liked. This was similar to last.fm and a multitude of other more recent services.
Well, I found out some awesome music through that service, and I haven’t seen these bands resurface, so I decided to start uploading videos to youtube with these songs that used to be available on Indy.tv.
My taste is not, by far, universal. But for me these are memorable songs, so I’m going to hope someone out there discovers them through this effort.
Enjoy!
People Skills – Good
Read full article for the other songs. (click below)
(Portuguese) A originalidade das palavras. Uma análise especulativa.
Jun 12th
(article after the comic is still only available in portuguese)
Cleaning Hotmail / Messenger / Windows Live Contacts
Mar 11th
Tutorial:Cleaning up Windows Live Messenger (or MSN Messenger or Windows Messenger) contacts.
May 31, 2010
Abstract
Overtime, MSN Messenger contact lists get cluttered.
Usually because of spammers, friends that change or lose their e-mail, or contacts you no longer talk to.
Yes, you can organize them into groups, and you can block them. But the MSN protocol and all the evolutions it has suffered have left some serious room for messiness.
This tutorial tries to explain the basics for cleaning your MSN contacts.
Preparation:
You should login to your Live Messenger account and change your password (for safety reasons, but you can skip this step)
Login to http://home.live.com and click options. Then account options or change password. Change your password into something temporary for this tutorial.
The Steps:
1 List Rebuilder Tool:
Go to http://www.msngeeks.com/msn and use their List Rebuilder Tool
screenshot of list rebuilder tool
From the site: «This tool will delete all unnecessary contacts in your allow and block lists. Unnecessary being contacts you’ve deleted from your forward list, and who have also deleted you from their forward list.»
2 Miranda IM Contact Tool:
2.1 Download and install Miranda Instant Messenger:
Miranda is a MultiProtocol IM that comes with a useful tool.
Internet tidbits
Feb 17th
Little online lessons in the form of pictures. Screenshots from here and there.
1 – Information easily hides subliminal messages. Find the hidden message;
Information comes in all forms and usually in very small packages. It’s very easy to get lost and to loose things.
2 – The internet is something with a global character. A more and more evident character;
Chinese, so easy!
Feb 16th
Was watching a chinese movie when this caption came up. Here’s the result.
using-boxers-with-swimn-trunks-fashion: Explained
Sep 19th
Kids wearing boxers inside swim-trunks. Why do they do it. This explains why. Sort of.
The Fourrier Transform
Sep 19th
This one is a bit far fetched, so for an explanation: it’s a pun on the European military rank Fourier and the mathematical Fourier Transform.
Song Translations: doismileoito – Acordes Com Arroz
Aug 5th
Inside me something
Keeps me from loving the sun.
I see it merely as light,
Merely as sun.
I want the rain and the cold
So in given time,
I’ll value your warmth.
Afraid of the early nightfall.
When I feel the cold,
I fear not feeling at all.
Who cares what’s good,
If there is no evil.
Just as faces in a postcard,
Don’t want it like this
But I am like this.
I fear the evil, but want it again.
More than a worn shoe,
I feel this is the end.
Bury all the pain and bones in your garden,
Ask the sky for some clouds to harden.
Online Radio – usage and alternatives to last.fm – A guide for Europe
Jul 31st
The story goes as this:
last.fm was a very cool website. It was free, it was hip, it kept getting better.
Add a few years and the free part is dropped out, as it often happens.
What does this wonderful site have that makes it so wonderful and worth me writing about it?
All it did, or its core fuction is to gather information about its users listening habits. What do you listen to and when do you listen to it. From that it does the following:
- Customized radios: you can pick a genre, friend, yourself or an artist, and it will play either songs that are related to what you picked or simply popular concerning what you picked. This means that with the click of a button you can listen to your friends music collection. Or even, you could listen to a radio composed of your favorites songs. Or even just listen to radio that plays music you don’t know, based on your tastes in regard to other similar users.
- Recommendations: As mentioned before, last.fm can pickup what you like. It then finds similar users and recommends to you the stuff that they like, and that you don’t know about. It’s likely that this way you will find new music that you enjoy. Also, it will recommend concerts of band, based on your taste. A very popular feature, specially for Erasmus students and the like :O
And its basically this that makes last.fm so cool: costumized radios and recommendations.
The Portuguese flag tryout
Jul 23rd
Was here pondering about this problem. You see, there are these things called flags…
and i was wondering about them. In particular about flags i am familiar with.
Are flags important? You bet they are. As Eddie Izzard puts it, “no flag no country“. You can’t declare you are a nation without a nation flag or something of the sort.
From here, i could go on and debate (or whatever you do when you talk to yourself) on what exactly is a country. But i’ll stick to flags as a symbol of a country.
And since there is a whole scholarly study dedicated to flags, I’ll restrict myself and stick to a flag i am familiar with.
Presenting, the Portuguese flag:
Interesting isn’t it?
Organize your mp3 collection – tutorial – in works
Jul 23rd
Fullmooninu Tutorials – Music (but mostly MP3) Organizing
Well, i was messing around after purchasing MusicIP and figured i should alter this massive wall of text to something less scary.
So i was thinkingi should make two versions.
So… here’s the thing, im gona actually produce a light tutorial on music organizing, all centered on MusicIP. MusicIP is like, ossum, and puts everything else the web has to offer out on a corner.
I’ll try to explain why. As in the previous version of this tutorial it had little exposure.
Alpha Quick and Dirty Version
Okay Guys, I was telling some of you folks i would write some tutorials for this and that.
So here’s what, im going to do one right now… watch it grow while i use this forum as an excuse for the hiatus
This tutorial is for anyone who has a large (messy) music collection and wants to learn the basics to keeping such a collection organized, and use all that organizing to your personal benefit.
It’s mainly directed to the organizing of MP3 files, mostly because thats what the gross of my collection is, and because MP3 files, still present a very good quality/size ratio – specially when you are speaking about a LameMP3 encode at 192kbps 
(which is what i consider the current “sweet spot” for audio files, by the way)
First post
Jul 23rd
I do much stuff on the interwebs. Me and a couple of other people. It’s mostly useless stuff.
Well, some of it is very far-fetched, and i recon we have amassed some useful knowledge.
This is the place where we will post some of that stuff.
There are a couple of rules we will use:
1) we don’t do it for popularity
2) don’t’ post about posts
3) original articles first
4) avoid reviews
5) avoid talking about recent events
6) avoid the hype
new rules will appear