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Monday, April 30, 2007

To Watch and Learn: Screencasts Online!

http://screencastsonline.com -
this is a weekly video podcast of computer based video tutorials. The video tutorials cover many different topics from week to week but predominantly cover mac related subjects together with the latest web based services, so there are plenty of shows for both mac and windows users.

The video tutorials are in the form of "screencasts" which are basically a video of a screen capture demonstrating a particular application or service, with a spoken commentary explaining what is happening on screen.

Since these are also "podcasts" it means that you can not only use your computer to watch them but also a video iPod!


http://showmedo.com - This is a collection of video tutorials made by kind peers for you to learn new skills. The main subject on these screencasts is open source tools and anyone can submit its videos sharing theirknowledge. An interesting feature of this website is the "video requests" option where people can submit ideas for new videos and vote them to test its interest by the community.


http://www.bestechvideos.com/ - Another website with the same style that also includes videos about Conferences and Companies. This one also features a nice search engine and definitely diserves a visit.

There are many other good website like these appearing and growing. Those are just 3 very good examples of it. Other good places to seek are:
http://www.youtube.com
http://video.google.com
http://video.yahoo.com

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A Ler

http://caradelua.blogspot.com/ - Um blog generalista muito divertido e com muita vida e muitas referências a cinema, futebol (em particular, ao S.L.Benfica), poesia e outras formas de arte . De uma amiga e colega de faculdade este blog inclui ainda muitas curiosidades, ideias polémicas e notícias interessantes.

http://www.havidaemmarkl.com/
- Este é o site pessoal de Nuno Markl que também conta com um blog reflecte muito da sua personalidade e do seu humor.

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Saturday, April 28, 2007

To Play

Test your knowledge of world geography alone or against another online player.

GeoSense is an online geographical quiz that runs in your browser and lets you challenge other players.

Geosense is not only a very fun game with no installation or registration requirements but also a very enjoyable way to learn more about geography. [More]

See how to play it threw this screencast.

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Friday, April 27, 2007

To Process: BOINC

Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing

Use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research.

BOINC is a open-source software platform for distributed computing using volunteered computer resources. You can choose a project and contribute with your computing resources or also create a project that anyone can join by contributing with their cpu cycles.

This project takes great advantage from the huge computing power given by distributed computing over Internet so that you can easily (and freely) elevate the performance applied to heavy tasks.


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Monday, April 23, 2007

Idiki: Wiki of Ideas!



This great project shares the most valuable part of any project which is its idea. Some ideas presented already have projects behind that implement them, sometimes partially others fully. Anyway, the interesting part is the very rich ideas you can find, take part of its related development or even use embrace your own project to implement them. Since this "encyclopedia of ideas" is maintained by a Wiki everyone can contribute with new ideas or simply develop the existing ones by presenting helpful tips to accomplish it or to improve the by applying a perspective which goes further than the original one.
Categories include Culture, Mathematics, People, Science, Society, Technology, Computer_Science and they can be simple sketchs of simple algorithms to advanced models about it. Your mind is the only limit for a good and creative contribution.

Read more about it

I really appreciate this project by Alpt and Freaknet. My Congratulations to them and all contributors that take part of the project even by just participating on it (like me).

I'm always looking to this kind of things... if you think you know one, know that i would appreciate a lot if you just shared it to me. Thanks in advance!

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To Play


Soldat is a unique side-view multiplayer action game. It takes the best from games like Liero, Worms, Quake and Counter-Strike and gives you fast action gameplay with tons of blood and flesh. Soldiers fight against each other on 2D battle arenas using a deadly military arsenal. This is what multiplayer was invented for.

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  1. siong1987 Says:

    A very cool feature. But, what can we do with this feature?

on http://seejay.wordpress.com/2007/04/11/firefox-inside-firefox/

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