Twitter: Traveling :) Cool time with family
It looks PowerPoint will have a great competitor now. People will start thinking twice before paying for Microsoft’s Office. Programmer Shane M. Mathews made great slideshow effects using 3D-OpenGL’s library.
You can take a look of how it looks:
This feature will be available for everyone on the next OpenOffice.org 2.4.
Right now on São Paulo is happening the Campus Party Brasil, it’s the biggest entertainment event that started back in 1997. During seven days, millions of people come with it’s own computer from everywhere and willing to exchange curiosity, share knowledge and do everything related to computers, community and tech things.
It seems that the totally new default theme for ubuntu that was going to be released in the Hardy Heron version has been deferred to the next release (8.10) that will be out on Cctober.
“You are kidding arent you ?”
Some really clever windows user, made a funny but sad post on ZDNET’s forum saying that Linux can’t run on any computer without Windows underneath it.
You can read what he says HERE at the forum.
While Ubuntu 7.10 is still quite new, you can already take a look on some ideas about how the next version of this amazing OS will look like. I can’t wait until the next release, I believe this time it will come with so many new things, and surprises!
Went to check my email and just now I realized that it have now more then 4GB of storage, it rocks! 
Take a look!
Today is the day many people were waiting for. Ubuntu 7.10 codename Gutsy Gibbon was released, with several improvements. Ubuntu for those who don’t already know it, it’s a Linux Distro for Humans, which means that even you who don’t know much about computers can use it. It’s totally free and runs on Pcs and Mac. So if you are up to the challenge, you can Download the .ISO file from here, request by mail or just upgrade.
If you’re interested, I’ve selected some links for you:
- A Look at Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon” RC1
- Ubuntu’s Power Consumption Tested
- UbuntuSwitch.com
- 13 Things to after installing Ubuntu
The American campaign “Got Milk?” was created to incentive milk consume between Americans, and got known by showing famous faces like singers and actors with milk mustache.
The new campaign have stars like Hiro and Claire, from Heroes. Here you can see other examples of TV/Movie characters, like from the Fantastic Four and Superman.
ReviewMe is a new service that have a different way for advertisers to show their product, and bloggers to get some extra cash. It uses the massive power of blogs to spread some product, by paying bloggers to write about it. But not everyone will make money, because when creating an account and setting your site url, it will analyze things like Technorati rank , Alexa rank and numbers of RSS subscribers to see if you passes the minimum requirements and will set a price for your reviews.
It seems like Youtube has updated the flash based look of their video player!
The new one looks glossy, and using the red color on the time bar, actually I didn’t like very much, I think the old one was better. Another feature is that now you can browse video by it’s category, like Music, Entertainment, Sports, People and many more. And under the Video Tab, now they’ve added Most Linked videos, which is videos viewed under other websites using the embedded code. Video quality seems to look better now, new uploaded movies don’t loose as much quality as before, I think they are making this improvement for the future features projects, like to host all music videos on earth and things like this. Keep good things coming YouTube.