July 23, 2010
Designing Style Guidelines

It’s a great article! Very useful to work in team and also as a self-reminder :)

July 19, 2010

Paul Rouget on Mixing the web! (Mozilla Summit 2010)

A really interesting video with some examples of what you can do with HTML5, CSS3, SVG and so on ..

July 11, 2010
Vodafone Mail (bis)

In the last post I told you why I hate Vodafone Mail. Yesterday I updated firmware of my Nokia E71 (after the update I have to re-install Vodafone Mail application) and (no surprise for me), the application does not install on the new firmware! There is a problem with certificate!

I told you before “don’t choose Vodafone Mail” and I’m here to repeat it! DON’T CHOOSE VODAFONE MAIL!

I hope to get a solution soon or I’ll have to come back to the old firmware :(

But I decided .. after the summer I’m going to change my phone, I have still not decided if it will be an Android phone or a Blackberry, but I give up with Nokia + Vodafone Mail .. it is not acceptable anymore!

June 25, 2010
I HATE Vodafone Mail

My mobile is a Nokia E71, I was one of the firsts buyer of this phone. It is not so bad, it has some troble to get network (as every Nokia I had) but it works “not bad”.

With my work I have to receive email 24/7 so I called Vodafone Italia and I took the fabulous “Vodafone Mail” (aka mail push). I had to install a small client “Vodafone Mail” in order to use the service. Every version of this software had some problems (from when I enabled the service I think I updated it 7 or 8 times).

Yesterday I had a new powerfull update available to download (yes I’m ironic), I updated and everything was broken. The phone cannot connect to Vodafone Mail, I tryed to uninstall and re-install, re-update, I tryed everything but nothing worked.

I’m really tired to this situation, I have to update the software because every version has many bugs, but the update process NEVER goes smoothly!!!

So if you need email and you have Vodafone (I don’t know if this is just a problem for Italy or if every Vodafone in the world uses this shit of software) DON’T CHOOSE Vodafone Mail. Take a Blackberry or iPhone or some Android phone!

June 23, 2010
Wordpress 3

I read anything many time ago, recently Wordpress released his version 3 and I’m curious to try it a bit :)

The new version has many improvements and Wordpress did a short video to illustrate them, it’s short and interesting, you have to see it :)

Olaf & Stern - Spazio Forma (Milano)

Un interessantissimo articolo del Corriere della Sera riguardo due mostre allestite presso lo Spazio Forma a Milano. (Grazie Fede)

June 22, 2010
iOS 4

Today Apple released iOS 4 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Sadly my first generation iPod touch is not in the supported devices list :(

June 16, 2010
Aviary

It’s by long I know Aviary, I used it sometimes and I was always happy to use it.

Recently they have released a new tool, a tool to create music, it’s incredible what they do :)

It’s just a pity that they use flash and not html5 :)

June 8, 2010
Apple Mail.app vs Mozilla Thunderbird

When i switched to mac (more than 5 years ago) I changed computer, I changed operating system and I changed email client too. In linux and windows I used Mozilla thunderbird and I was satisfied with it, when I switched to Apple Mail.app I didn’t notice any problem so I decided to use it in the last years.

Now I’m thinking about to switch again to Mozilla Thunderbird. In the lastmonths I’m having troubles with Mail.app, it looks don’t like too much IMAP server. I mean .. it worked for years but in the last months I’m having problems with crashing, slowness in general and it is becoming quite frustrating.

I suppose that it’s slow due the huge amount of mail I have (I have an archive with all ‘non spam email’), but I cannot accept to do not use email client because I have many emails!

The switch is not really confortable, I have to migrate all emails from Mail.app to Thunderbird so if I will decide to do it I have to decide with attention.

We will see .. by now I’m trying Thunderbird with my IMAP accounts and we will see how it works :)

June 7, 2010
Second feedback of my new Mac Book Pro

Some days ago my new Mac Book Pro 17” (i7) arrived, so now I can give you my feedback after some day-to-day usage.

First of all I’m really happy of this mac, it has ‘the good’ of the old (17” core 2 duo), it has some new ‘good’ but it has also some bads.

Some thinkings:

- I love the improved battery life (I really got a HUGE increase of battery life respect my old mac)

- I love the higher resolution. I’m a photographer in my free time and I play often with Aperture. The new resolution (1920x1200) is really great to see and manage photos. It’s also a quite bad thing for some situations. At work I have my mbp on a stand and near it a display 22” (1680x1050). In this situation I cannot use Terminal on 1920x1200 without increasing much the font size of the Terminal. It’s not a big issue .. but I want to advice you about that :)

In general use the high resolution is not a big issue, but sometimes you will use trackpad multitouch to increase font size beacause your eyes wants more size :)

- I love/hate the trackpad multitouch. I love it because in some situations it’s really confortable .. but I really hate it because often I zoom/rotate/do anything without want it! And it happens quite often (but I’m trying to get used to it .. I don’t want to disable this feature) :)

- Another thing is that all the ports are on the left side, I would prefer the configuration of my old mac (some on the left and some on the right) :)

In conclusion, it’s really a good computer, I really like it and I can suggest you to buy one! :)