an app to store my passwords

What I was looking for: an app to store my passwords

I stuck with Lockbox Lite for a long time on my iPhone. Then I got fed up about not being able to have the same data available also on my two Macs (not to mention the stupid ads). So …

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ipad and photography

I am wondering about the next iPad. What is available now is certainly enticing and must be a joy for light computing / intense internet reading. I do have limited budget, however, and think that probably the iPhone 4 is a better way to spend my money. But I look at …

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ipad and crufty interfaces

iPad and crufty interfaces

Why the iPad is a potentially groundbreaking platform, despite the accusations of being 'only a large iPhone'.

Just read this old piece written in 2003 by a (very smart) tech blogger; it's about user interface defects as heritage of early computer hardware limitations, such as the …

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espansione ram macmini

Metti che vuoi potenziare il tuo macmini che hai comprato con quattro soldi (G4 1.25ghz con 512Mb di ram).

La cosa migliore ? Aumentare la ram. Al massimo possibile, cioe' 1Gb.
Pero' ti hanno detto che aprire il macmini non e' cosa proprio facilissima, insomma non serve semplicemente smollare 4 …

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no more safari

Ho appena scaricato flock, il nuovo "social browser" sviluppato sulla base di Firefox/Mozilla, e sono davvero senza parole: integrazione totale tra web browsing, blogging e photoblogging !

No more Safari or Firefox ?

Sembrerebbe il destino di Flock... peccato che tutti i browser basati su Mozilla siano un po' troppo pesanti …

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to convert ape audio files

Lots of sites nowadays offer digital music as .ape or .flac files; what's wrong with mp3s ?

I should include a technical note here together with a bit of history, but since I'm not the most qualified for this sort of thing I'll keep it short and simple: mp3 is a …

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italian gtd

Some time ago I stumbled upon this thing, the Getting Things Done thing, aka GTD. How do you wanna call it ? A geekish obsession ? A lifestyle idea for nerds ?

Anyway, the Hipster PDA post was pretty cool (and fun to read). I have experienced myself the pleasure of having a …

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