Author: Artur Ventura

Just got this email from MyFonts. It made me smile. Typography is such an interesting field. I could spend all day reading about how people make glyphs look the way they do to convey some kind of emotion or state of mind. λ

At least someone try to slap some sense into Nokia. I doubt Windows Phone 7 is any kind of solution but … Hey, its better than 3 competing operating systems. λ

Another rant about how Native apps are better than Web based. I agree, the experience is better but from there to say they are obsolete? I personally like how he calls himself a “entrepreneur, engineer, and social hacker”. Classy. λ

A wonderful movie celebrating the 100 years of IBM. I wish i lived in the beginning of the computer revolution when System/360 was designed, or when the Macintosh was created. Back then everything was undiscovered. It would be like having a daily sense of novelty. I envy that world.

A DOS emulator, complete with its own app store. The perfect useless nerdgasm app. Available for free on the App Store. Seeing a DOS prompt on a iPhone is just wrong: λ

I’ve always seen 3D video as a gimmick, especially using those funky glasses. This video captures the entire stupidity about 3D in a well shot movie. Like lonelysandwich said it is 3D without glasses but with nightmarish disfigurement. via lonelysandwich.

This morning while I was walking to my job I saw some hideous car parked and remembered Steve Jobs talking about car design back in the day. And then I got this crazy idea: What if Apple designed a car? This is actually a running joke for fans of the brand but seriously, think about…

My current job is at Project Fenix, the academic administration tool for managing Instituto Superior Técnico – from student grades, occupation requests up to parking access. Fenix is a very large application with almost 1300 entities on a rich domain. I started working on this project when I was in college, and back then I…

Quoting Gruber: Step 1: Click on an app. Any app, just pick one. You’re going to love step 2. λ

I was needing a cloud based todo application with support for the iPhone, preferably native. I need something that I can adapt to my workflow and doesn’t change it completely (as for instance OmniFocus). After evaluating several web applications I decided to use todoist . I thought about Things for Mac & iPhone but I…