Some weeks ago i found this website called “Programming Praxis“, where you can find exercices to practice your programming skills. So every week they post a new problem and a possible resolution (it’s better if you only see it after you’ve done yours), and people try to solve and add a comment with their solution […]
Game Graphics: the road done so far
Today i was amazed when i found a trailer of the upcoming “Tomb Raider” video game. It got me thinking about how awesome computer’s 3D graphics are today and how they were when i got my first console. Nowadays i don’t have the time (neither the computer) to play any game but from time to […]
A message to my Portuguese fellows
I know that we are in a deep hole and will be very dificult to get out of it, but we will have to do it. So here is a little message to give you some hope:
Dark Matters, …
… is the name of the animation that i found in aindaapensar.blogspot.com while reading today’s posts at Planet Geek. It’s very educational and the creators made a very nice job turning those contents into something understandable for us, common mortals. So for those who think that everything already have been discovered, here it is:
Gulf of Mexico oil spill
While i was surfing on the web i found a video, in a blog post, which was published 3 days ago to remember the environmental disaster that was the last year’s oil spill. It’s a short animation that gathered the estimated amount of oil that went to the sea and tries to split it in […]
E-mails: hours to seconds
I remember those old times when i didn’t know nothing about computer programming and i was a member of the organization of the National Meeting of students of physiotherapy and after a conference about physiotherapy and spine related problems. At that time when we had to send some hundreds or even thousands of emails for […]
When UC website gets confused
Bug or not, this is what happens when i try to access my university’s new website with two common browsers: Both browsers, at the time of the screenshots, were with their latest version and the message doesn’t always appear, that’s why i called it “confusion”. But the fun part is:
It seems to be a nice event and a well spent weekend with lots of things to be learned. I don’t know if i’m the kind of participant they are hoping for or even if i’m ready, but nevertheless i’ll stay tunned for more information.
Teleconferencing: The Kinect Way
Well, i was reading some of my usual blogs and news websites, when i found an article about this new MIT Media Lab project, the same “guys” that brought to us the Sixth Sense idea (this one I posted in my old blog). I first saw the video in this engadged article and it looks […]
LCD monitor, How it works?
Recently i was reading ‘Geeks are Sexy‘ Blog and found this awesome video made by Bill Hammack ( “The engineer guy”) about LCD monitors. He unmounted one of them and explained the main components, their physical properties and how they work. I will leave here the video and i can assure that if you ever […]