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cesare··on Change your Last.fm password
Last.fm also has an affiliate program for labels (http://www.last.fm/uploadmusic).

By gaining access to these accounts you can do a lot of damage (eg. steal money from people accounts or destroy a label presence on last.fm).

cesare··on Google's HTML/CSS 3D Buckyball
HTML/CSS + JavaScript.
cesare··on Ask HN: Limited Liability Company while operating in another country
AFAIK, you only need to deposit 2500 euros (you'll never have to deposit the full minimum starting capital of 10k euros).

And you can take it back a couple of weeks after incorporating.

cesare··on Ask HN: What smartphone to get right now?
I have an HTC Desire and I'm really happy with it.

Recently, the Google Maps Navigation has been activated here in Italy (with voice search, which I thought was available exclusively on the Nexus One).

Last week HTC released an OTA update with android 2.2, which also added an app for tethering over wifi (tethering via USB was already available) and 720p video recording.

cesare··on Why we need to abolish software patents
Somewhat related:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1583938

cesare··on An interview with Hans Camenzind (the designer of the 555 timer IC)
Q: What patents are related to the 555?

A: There are no patents on the 555. Signetics did not want to apply for a patent. You see, the situation with patents in Silicon Valley in 1970 was entirely different than it is now. Everybody was stealing from everybody else. I designed the 555 Signetics produced it, and six months, or before a year later, National had it, Fairchild had it, and nobody paid any attention to patents. The people at Signetics told me they didn’t want to apply for a patent, because what would happen if they tried to enforce that patent, is the people from Fairchild would come back with a Manhattan-sized telephone book and say “These are our patents, now let’s see what you’re violating”. It was a house of cards – if you blew on it, the whole thing collapsed. It took about ten years to change. I guess it was some new companies that didn’t have ancient history and did have a strong patent, and started enforcing, and that changed to whole situation. It is very intense now. The same thing – I have a patent on the phase locked loop, and that would have been a very strong patent, but no enforcement.

cesare··on Cory Doctorow: What I Do
Let's say you want to color the messages you've read, like he says he's doing:

1 - Message -> Tag -> New Tag... call it 'Read' and choose a color

2 - Tools -> Message Filters.. click 'New' and give the filter a name (eg. color read messages)

3 - select 'Status' - 'is' - 'Read' from the first row of drop down menus ('For incoming messages...')

4 - select 'Tag Message' - 'Read' (under: 'Perform these actions:')

cesare··on IPhone 4's supposed signal woes aren’t unique, and may not be serious
http://www.viddler.com/explore/engadget/videos/1633/70.817/ (skip at 0:55)
cesare··on Apple letter about iPhone 4
What a strange coincidence.

Just after releasing a phone that uses a metal ring all around the chassis as an antenna (which is something that perplexed every engineer living outside of the reality distortion field as soon as they saw the first pictures of the phone), they discovered that they've always used the wrong algorithm to calculate the signal strength.

cesare··on TI releases Launchpad, a $4.30 (shipping included) microproccessor dev kit
http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/
cesare··on Droid Incredible saves browser screenshots to secret hiding place
It's always better to do a hard reset before selling your Android phone anyway.

Edit: Ops! Missed this part: "... and even a full reset to factory settings failed to eviscerate the indiscreet imagery."

I believe that these screenshots are cached to appear as previews for bookmarked sites. But a full reset should wipe everything. If this is not the case, it could indeed be an issue.

cesare··on IPhone 4: Who cares about pixel density? It's about interface definition.
I switched from the iPhone to an Android phone too. And I disagree.

Copy and paste on Android works just the same, if not better. On Mobile Safari, for instance, I always select some text when I just want to scroll or zoom in some part of the page. This doesn't happen on my Android phone (but this could be just because Android waits a bit more before acknowledging the gesture).

Apple does a lot of choices that are aesthetics over functionality. A physical trackball/trackpad or arrow key pad, for instance, is invaluable when you need to move to some specific point in text. But Apple touchscreen devices just have the home button, to look more futuristic. And revolutionary.

cesare··on IPhone 4: Who cares about pixel density? It's about interface definition.
Care to elaborate?

Not to mention that without multitasking copy/paste is much less useful.

cesare··on IPhone 4: Who cares about pixel density? It's about interface definition.
Video calls is another one.
cesare··on Oil reaches Louisiana shores
I can't tell if you're serious or not.
cesare··on Sitting straight 'bad for backs'
I forgot to mention that I've used a cheap knockoff (and even goofier) model of these chairs for a couple of years. And it was quite comfortable indeed.
cesare··on Sitting straight 'bad for backs'
So, what about those stokke kneeling chairs (http://www.amazon.com/Varier-Variable-Balans-Kneeling-Natura...)?
cesare··on The Death of Files
I just ditched my iPhone 3G and got an Android phone just to have files back. Seriously.

And I've never been happier with a phone (it's an HTC Desire, FWIW).

The death of files is the death of freedom.

cesare··on My MacBook Pro runs JavaScript 26.7x as fast as my iPad
I got 12961ms on my HTC Desire (Android, 1Ghz cpu).
cesare··on My MacBook Pro runs JavaScript 26.7x as fast as my iPad
17559/347 = 50 times faster.
cesare··on Hearing prayer shuts off believers' brain activity
There was a smiley at the end of my comment, though.
cesare··on Hearing prayer shuts off believers' brain activity
Wrong! The effect is exactly the same because Apple is a religion. :-)
cesare··on [dead]
This is a spam blog. Please flag.

The text is copypasted from the official arduino home: http://www.arduino.cc/.

cesare··on ADAM - An iPad-like device from NotionInk, India
The transflective display is definitely a plus.

I can't believe Apple didn't put something like this on the iPad.

cesare··on 3 Weeks of iPad: Some observations
"Syncing and transferring documents is a pain. At the moment the best bet is to email documents around. Apple should buy Dropbox, or come up with a (better) solution for cloud storage. This is probably the clumsiest part of the iPad user experience."

Or maybe just have a shared directory or, even better, a microsd card, where you can get/put stuff via usb like you can do on an android device.

cesare··on Android 2.2 (Froyo) features
It's a hardware limitation. The touchscreen used in the N1 is a Synaptics ClearPad 2000 (http://www.synaptics.com/solutions/products/clearpad) which is capable of dual-touch at best (can't really differentiate the two fingers).

Still a great phone, though.

cesare··on Please... No rockstars
C'mon. Who didn't dream of becoming a rockstar.

The recording industry has used the same manipulation techniques to screw ingenuous people for ages.

cesare··on WePad
Does anybody know if the battery will be user replaceable?
cesare··on WePad
Here in Europe the iPad will cost 499 Euro. So 449 is actually cheaper for us.
cesare··on WePad
They're cheaper to make and they look better at a first glance or when compared side to side with glossy displays.

Of course they look crisper. The matte finish is the necessary compromise to avoid reflections.

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