A few days ago, just to do something, I wandered on launchpad.net putting my nose in the Ubuntu bug: it always gives me a good feeling to see how the faults are not hidden but rather exposed and solved with the help of the […]
Author: mcastel
Google Reader, still growing…
Step by step, Google Reader keeps growing and evolving.. recently I noticed a small but useful improvement, in the “mark read” section. Namely, it’s now possible not only “mark all read”, but also to mark as read all the feeds older that one day, […]
Playing Monopoly, online…
Finally, after several tries that revealed themselves as nothing else than frustrating, last night I managed to interact with the servers of the new online game Monopoly City Street at a speed good enough to really play (by the way, I am in the […]
My G.ho.st desktop
via flickr.com Just played a bit with my account on G.ho.st account, yesterday. Well I got the impression that Virtual Computing is getting more and more “usable” each day: it’s not a simple experiment any more, it’s something that you can really start to […]
Jolicloud, a cool new OS for your netbook ?
via jolicloud.com Still looking for a good linux distribution for my eeepc 701 4g, since unfortunately it seems that the native Xandros OS does not offer automatic upgrade to recent releases of many important softwares (as Firefox, Openoffice…): too bad that Asus now is […]
The observation of the Perseids
Today even the homepage of Google presents a very special image, because this is the proper time to observe the Perseids meteor shower. Indeed, though the period in which you can see them in the night sky extends from late July to about August […]