Fábio Caparica

URLs vistas e salvas no Del.icio.us entre 03/07/2007 e 09/07/2007:

1. Teams, How To Manage Meeting Malcontents
   When leading your next meeting, here are some methods you can use to handle difficult people who try to seize control of the discussion.
2. Top 15 Ways to Extend Your Laptop’s Battery Life
   Laptops tend to lose their charm quickly when you’re constantly looking for the nearest power outlet to charge up. How do you keep your battery going for as long as possible? Here are 15 easy ways to do so.
3. How To: Control Ubuntu from Windows – Lifehacker
   Linux weblog Ubuntu Switch demonstrates how to control an Ubuntu computer from Windows using SSH and VNC.
4. Como implementar uma metodologia de design centrado no usuário
   A autora – que lida com design de interação, arquitetura de informação e design gráfico – dá alguma dicas interessantes de como ela fez para implementar uma metodologia de design centrado no usuário.
5. PC World – iPhone Stress Tests
   Can you scratch it? What happens when you drop it? PC World’s Eric Butterfield takes the iPhone through a grueling set of tests to check how the device handles abuse.
6. How To Create A Technical Presentation That Makes Steve Job Green With Envy
   Like me, you will be impressed with both the effectiveness and effortlessness of explaining such an elusive term.
7. iPhone Hacked! – InsanelyMac Forum
   Yesterday, Jon Lech Johansen reported that he successfully activated the iPhone by bypassing iTunes’ subscription process, without having to sign on to a two year contract with AT&T.
8. New virus travels in PDF files
   Adobe’s popular PDF file format–known to anyone who’s ever called up a tax form on the IRS Web site–has generally been considered immune to viruses. But a new virus carried by programs embedded in PDF files raises concerns that the format itself could b
9. Produtos Inteligentes » SlideShare
   Apresentação feita na Faculdade de Comunicação Social da UERJ
10. Teorias da aprendizagem @ Wikipédia
    As teorias da aprendizagem que predominam nas tendências da educação contemporânea são aquelas desenvolvidas por Jean Piaget e as desenvolvidas por Vygotsky, porém muitas outras teorias encontram-se presente nas práticas educativas desde (…)
11. 20 Tricks to Nuke a Bad Habit @ zen habits
    Are you letting bad habits rule your life? I started learning how to change habits a few years ago.
12. How To Initiate Conversation @ lifehack.org
    However, it is a big mistake to go about life not making the first move and waiting for someone else to do it [in conversation or anything].
13. 50 Ways to Become a Better Designer
    Sure, you can’t teach good design, but it never hurts to learn a few new tricks, or simply make the most of your talents. So without further adieu, here’s 50 ways to be more successful as a designer.
14. Eu quero trabalhar em um lugar feliz assim.
    Trabalhar em um lugar bacana é o que todos querem: um ambiente legal com pessoas divertidas.
15. Unlocked iPhones coming in one week or less, hacker says
    Hackers may successfully unlock an iPhone in as soon as three to seven days, according to a representative of one effort that aims to unlock Apple’s new handset.
16. Trabalho duro
    Agora o grande lance é esperar o próximo post ensinando como, usando macros do Excel, você pode criar um jogo de paciência!
17. Essa eu preciso contar.
    Ta vendo porque tinha que trazer um designer?
18. Norati
    Tantek Çelik is leaving Technorati, no word on his blog about the move yet. This is surprising, to say the least. Excited to see what he moves to next.
19. MP ganha liminar e suspende show Live Earth no Rio
    Falta de segurança pública foi o motivo apontado para o cancelamento do evento. Segundo a promotora de justiça, efetivo da PM está à disposição do Pan.
20. Axure RP – Axure Software Solutions – Products – wireframe, prototype, functional specification
    Axure RP enables application designers to create wireframes, flow diagrams, prototypes, and specifications for applications and web sites faster and easier than creating static mockups with their current tools.
21. Prototyping
    I have recently been involved in a project where it was difficult to articulate the needs of users in the requirements specifications, because the users did not really know what they wanted.
22. Main Page – The iPhone Dev Wiki
    This website is dedicated to finding additional uses for the iPhone by (legitimately) enabling its potential capabilities, and is a place for the community to share ideas, discoveries and solutions.
23. Theory: separating good prototypes from the bad
    Why is it that some people can produce good system prototypes and some can’t?
24. Apple iPhone, Personas, and Matthew-centred design
    As an information architect, user-centred design is the philosophy on which alot of my work is based. It suggests that users needs and wants are important in working out how something should look, feel, and work. Does the iPhone meet my needs?
25. 11 Principles to Design a Great Wordpress Theme
    After a couple weeks of reviewing Wordpress themes I have established the following guidelines for creating an awesome Wordpress theme. At the very least, following these guidelines will get a stamp of approval from picky designers.
26. Time Management, Simplified: How to Be Productive With No Worries
    Focus always on simplifying, reducing, eliminating. And keep your focus on what’s important. Everything else is easy.
27. Film Techniques of Alfred Hitchcock – suspense, camera angles, style, editing, basics
    This page is mostly for filmmakers who are sad and depressed because their movie is so average that nobody will watch it. Stop crying and pay attention.
28. Falta de sono ‘afeta dois terços das mulheres’
    A carga de atividades em casa e no trabalho e os hábitos da vida moderna estão arruinando o sono de duas entre cada três mulheres, revelou um estudo da Fundação Nacional de Sono (NSF, sigla em inglês) dos Estados Unidos.
29. Justiça proíbe (de novo) vídeo de Cicarelli
    Decisão desta quinta vai contra liberação anunciada nesta semana. Sites que descumprirem podem ser multados em R$ 250 mil por dia.

URLs vistas e salvas no Del.icio.us entre 27/05/2007 e 31/05/2007:

1. Bill Gates e Steve Jobs trocam elogios em conferência tecnológica
   Gigantes do universo tecnológico participaram de encontro na Califórnia. Gates é o homem mais rico do mundo, enquanto Jobs está no 132º lugar.
2. Microsoft Surface Virtual Pressroom
   The launch of Microsoft Surface marks the beginning of a new technology category and a user-interface revolution.
3. Gmail Attachments Now Up to 20 MB
   Gmail increased their permitted file size for attachments from 10 MB to 20 MB.
4. List of cognitive biases @ Wikipedia.
   Cognitive bias is distortion in the way humans perceive reality
5. Vai um corte de cabelo aí?
   O nome da técnica é Binaural recording que utiliza pequenos microfones na altura dos ouvidos para simular um ambiente real.
6. iFixit: iPod, iBook, & PowerBook Parts and Accessories
   We enable you to repair your Apple PowerBook, iBook, MacBook or iPod yourself.
7. Princípio antrópico @ Wikipédia
   "Vemos o universo da maneira como ele é porque, se fosse diferente, não estaríamos aqui para vê-lo".
8. Protótipos navegáveis no OmniGraffle
   Para Arquitetos de Informação que usam Macs: um screencast mostrando como criar prtótipos navegáveis no OmniGraffle.
9. Capitalismo @ Charles? Que Charles?
   Rolou essa semana um evento bastante inusitado, onde a Microsoft Brasil convidou uma série de blogueiros que falam sobre tecnologia para conhecerem o Windows Vista, além de outros produtos.
10. FreeHand no longer updated; moving to Illustrator
    After a long and storied career, Adobe (neé Altsys, Aldus, and Macromedia) FreeHand has reached the end of its development road.
11. Anakin Skywalker: Borderline Personality, Bipolar or Narcissist?
    Anakin Skywalker, aka Darth Vader, suffers from a controversial mental condition and could use some couch time in a shrink’s office, a team of researchers declared this week.
12. Live Free or Die Hard – Film – New York Times
    Next month Lieutenant McClane will try to hurdle a new kind of obstacle. He’s about to find out if the summer movie audience still has a taste for cinematic red meat.
13. Homem dado como morto reaparece e assassinato vira mistério
    Um crime está envolto em mistério em Pernambuco, levando o delegado Marciano Bezerra, de Vitória de Santo Antão, na Zona da Mata, a enviar à Justiça o pedido de exumação de um corpo.
14. Reef Stash Sandal | Be Sportier
    The Reef Stash Sandal lets you forget your wallet at home.
15. Apple secrets: iPhone, Leopard, and market strategy
    Rob Mead at Tech.co.uk shared some of the "secrets" that were revealed at the Apple shareholder’s meeting at Cupertino, California.
16. How to Pirate a Vinyl Record
    So you thought you’ve pirated everything huh?
17. Poul Anderson @ Wikipedia
    was an American science fiction author of the genre’s Golden Age. Poul Anderson has also written several works of fantasy.
18. Gmail: Help Center – What’s the maximum attachment size?
    With Gmail, you can send and receive messages up to 20 megabytes (MB) in size. However, the precise amount allowable will depend on the attachment.
19. Novas Tecnologias no E-learning: Desafios e Oportunidades para o Design
    Este artigo define três aspectos tecnológicos dos modernos sistemas de E-learning, descreve sua importância para a eficiência de tais sistemas e examina como estes desenvolvimentos devem ser levados em conta no processo de design de produtos eficazes
20. Yamagato Fellowship
    The Yamagato Fellowship is dedicated to the study of these heroes – to highlight their courage, their passion and their intellect.

URLs vistas e salvas no Del.icio.us entre 22/05/2007 e 27/05/2007:

1. FreeHand no longer updated; moving to Illustrator
   After a long and storied career, Adobe (neé Altsys, Aldus, and Macromedia) FreeHand has reached the end of its development road.
2. Anakin Skywalker: Borderline Personality, Bipolar or Narcissist?
   Anakin Skywalker, aka Darth Vader, suffers from a controversial mental condition and could use some couch time in a shrink’s office, a team of researchers declared this week.
3. Live Free or Die Hard – Film – New York Times
   Next month Lieutenant McClane will try to hurdle a new kind of obstacle. He’s about to find out if the summer movie audience still has a taste for cinematic red meat.
4. Homem dado como morto reaparece e assassinato vira mistério
   Um crime está envolto em mistério em Pernambuco, levando o delegado Marciano Bezerra, de Vitória de Santo Antão, na Zona da Mata, a enviar à Justiça o pedido de exumação de um corpo.
5. Reef Stash Sandal | Be Sportier
   The Reef Stash Sandal lets you forget your wallet at home.
6. Apple secrets: iPhone, Leopard, and market strategy
   Rob Mead at Tech.co.uk shared some of the "secrets" that were revealed at the Apple shareholder’s meeting at Cupertino, California.
7. Article Detail – Gadgets news – QJ.NET
   So you thought you’ve pirated everything huh?
8. Poul Anderson @ Wikipedia
   was an American science fiction author of the genre’s Golden Age. Poul Anderson has also written several works of fantasy.
9. Gmail: Help Center – What’s the maximum attachment size?
   With Gmail, you can send and receive messages up to 20 megabytes (MB) in size. However, the precise amount allowable will depend on the attachment.
10. Novas Tecnologias no E-learning: Desafios e Oportunidades para o Design
    Este artigo define três aspectos tecnológicos dos modernos sistemas de E-learning, descreve sua importância para a eficiência de tais sistemas e examina como estes desenvolvimentos devem ser levados em conta no processo de design de produtos eficazes
11. Yamagato Fellowship
    The Yamagato Fellowship is dedicated to the study of these heroes – to highlight their courage, their passion and their intellect.
12. New Software Restores Shredded Documents
    Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute’s Production Systems and Design Technology lab have created software designed to take scans of shredded documents and PIECE THEM BACK TOGETHER.
13. Tango Desktop Project – Tango Desktop Project
    The Tango Desktop Project exists to help create a consistent graphical user interface experience for free and Open Source software.
14. simplicity
    SIMPLICITY is an experimental research program at the MIT Media Lab, focused on developing technologies for design-designs that are simpler to understand, easier to use, and, ultimately, more enjoyable.
15. Optimus Maximus: Teclado ‘milionário’ esgota no primeiro dia.
    Primeiro lote para encomendas acabou 12 horas após início de reservas. As teclas com displays permitem personalização. O produto custa cerca de US$ 1.536.
16. The Effects of Line Length on Children and Adults’ Online Reading Performance
    Adults, as well as children these days often read an extensive amount of information online. For example, of the 25-to-34-years-old age group, it is reported that 25 percent read online newspapers, compared to only 19 percent who read from printed newspap
17. Jesus Rodriguez Velasco
    This is the weblog of UC Berkeley professor, researcher, writer, and photographer…

• Adobe announces Photoshop CS3 Beta.
• OS X users – Photoshop CS3 beta crack.
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• First Screenshots of Adobe Photoshop CS3.
• Adobe Announces Photoshop CS3 Beta.
• Photoshop CS3 Public Beta Tomorrow.
• Adobe releases public beta of Photoshop CS3.
• Lynda.com announces Photoshop CS3 Beta One-on-One Preview.
• Want an even faster Photoshop CS3?.

How to create graphs in Adobe Illustrator.

Adobe: GoLive and Freehand development will continue.