The Plan Avanza, standing

September 1, 2010

This weekend I posted an entry on Blogoff, speaking on the Avanza Plan. I had written before, but had left for publication later. There are days when you write more and if they are issues that are not highly topical, can be left in reserve.

The fact is that a few weeks ago I did a couple of consultations on the Plan Avanza, I remembered the entry draft and sent it to publish. And out of date. In the time between writing and publication, the government had decided to terminate the Plan Avanza, kill him and bury him. That if, without the presence of their relatives. Because for the birth, or who took photos and asked us all, but to go to the cemetery, the fewer the better.

So the line was closed Ico Avanza Plan 2010. On the website of Ico, a line that makes funds exhausted and if you’ve seen I do not remember. I said that the least they could do is publish the statistics of the funds invested. The line of funding of the Plan Avanza was how little the government made by the new technologies from the standpoint of the citizen. I do not mean those subsidies that nobody knows where they go. Here was help for purchase of computers for individuals and small businesses. For all buttoned up, which is well to collaborate with people.

But of course, other programs of the Plan Avanza, those if you will, I imagine there are too many vested interests to stop them. If we turn to the figures they published, we will see the evolution of expenditure. So in 2009, had granted a total of 100 652 loans, amounting to 534.473 million Euros. And what makes Ico is subsidizing the interest, the capital is returned, so his cost is much less than that amount. And in the first two weeks of 2010, had granted 16.688 million Euros, which would follow the ratio at year end would have spent 200 million Euros. (Which is not such an expenditure, but the interests of three years of that amount, we should remember that the citizen who requests help return the capital). Then I doubt that with this funding line is exhausted. Also every year borrowed capital is recovered in other years.

So the most visible part of the Avanza Plan, which has more capillary to reach more people, which focuses on students and young … that was canceled without explanation. As Bacon said: “Money is like manure: it is not good unless spread.” As the subsidies is the same. The more spread better and if there are many of little amount, much better than little amount. The preceding sentence, the Chesterston completed in another way: “Money is like manure or spread it right, if accumulated smells”

So now, without knowing the reason, we ignore one of the few measures that really collaborated with the increase in the information society in Spain.

Priority Mail in Gmail

August 31, 2010

Google announces a new feature in Gmail, and are the priority in the post office, or what they call Priority .

Inbox

When active, it produces a kind of positioning in your Gmail inbox, where Google sorts the mail supposedly more important to you in the top, and the least important at the bottom, and, supposedly, always you will have the emails that interest you at first glance.

This email management is done using emails that you have read earlier, you’ve answered emails or mails you’ve marked as favorites, and on the other hand, have added two icons mas gmail or menos gmail with which you can mark if one mail is important or not for you.
The priority mail the you can activate from this link if you’re logged into your gmail account

Here’s an explanatory video:

I personally prefer to keep watching the mail in order of arrival, but the idea posed gmail is not bad … will open new avenues of positioning ?

gmail

Critical applications for your Mac

August 31, 2010

If you just bought your first computer, Apple probably the first steps will be difficult, but everything is worth it if then the end will be for other interesting. So today we bring some applications necessary to get started in the Mac world

The myth that Mac does not have the same programs or most Windows programs do not exist for this operating system is just wrong, and today we showed you at least a good percentage.

Surely the first turn on your Mac will be a long time looking at the graphics quality, its interface and all the eyes will thank Apple.

But once you start using your Mac productively home you will see that the team does not bring many Windows programs that seem basic.

Today we give you a little help to start on this system a little easier.

List of applications :

Adium – This application is one of the foundations of Mac in terms of instant messaging in general is the MSN Messenger for Mac .

At the same time has thousands of plugins to use while endless accounts, Twitter accounts, Facebook, Skype, etc .

Then I really do not want to use Adium anymore Msn Windows test.

UnRarX – Another existing program for Windows that is present for the Mac, is able to decompress files of many types.

So easy and very simple, it is much faster than the popular applications for other platforms.

AppCleaner – A key application when beginners and advanced users, it is able to erase completely any record or stop sign installed applications and then we want to delete.

To use it simply must drag the application within the same AppCleaner and delete it immediately.

Secrets – On Mac panels are very simple and many Windows users feel the missing can change options, parameters, etc.

But this shortage is very simple to set off the same Secrets is a preference pane in which you can enable hidden features in Mac OS X.

VLC – Finally my favorite, if there is something I see despair in Windows is just a video in the format in which it went down.

How many times in Windows after download a file that we go to the player and says “format error” or something like that … And as much as you download codecs packs always get a video the day that we can not see.

VLC is a very simple player which can read so far 100% of the formats that I in my case I wanted to see.

Discovered in a Quicktime vulnerability that affects Windows since 2001

August 31, 2010

Descubierta en Quicktime un vulnerabilidad que afecta a Windows desde 2001
Almost 10 years. This is the time it takes to “loose” a parameter called _Marshaled_pUnk within the code of QuickTime. Well, would not be something from another world were it not that can be used as backdoor to run malicious code on Windows 7, Vista and XP .

has been discovered by Rubén Santamarta, the Spanish company Wintercore security . The parameter was used back in 2001 to draw the contents into an existing window instead of creating a new and, although this functionality was removed in later versions, the parameter was there. And gave Santamarta that could be used maliciously.

As has told The Register HD Moore, chief architect of open source security project Metasploit (creators of the Metasploit Framework), has every appearance of being an oversight more than anything else. But in Metasploit and are developing modules that exploit the vulnerability attack . “Apple will hear news soon about

Via | Download Squad> The Register

Design Agency Sites

August 30, 2010

A good collection of 45 sites of agencies, for your inspiration.

45 Inspiring Design Agency Websites

Arcade Fire and an interactive video with Google HTML5

August 30, 2010

The great Canadian band Arcade Fire and went to work at Google recently, in concert form transmitted by YouTube . Now they have teamed up to launch an interactive video “ We Used to wait ” one of the songs from her new album, along with the director Chris Milk , done in HTML5 . As they say in the official Google Blog:

To build this project on the Web and the browser allowed us to develop an experience that not only personalized but also deeply personal for each viewer.

Arcade Fire experimento HTML5 con Chrome

And how is it that is personalized and staff are asking? The Wilderness is “ “ Downtown serves as a journey through the streets where we grew up courtesy of Google Street View .

When you start the video, we must enter the address of the house we grew up, then after seeing the beginning of the action, which presents a video in a window running a hooded child, we will see are opening new windows on the browser , choreographers as music, for example one with a flock of animated birds (which responds to the movements of mouse ) which is then a kind of common thread between all other windows.

When we receive a map, this is the part of Street View for the address entered the home, and

is where the streets of our childhood are interwoven with the song . Well, the streets of our children is one that for some, in my case it was not possible, because my beloved Buenos Aires has not been relieved by the big G little cars, so I chose a California street to take advantage of the experience highest since the Street View images that provides this experiment.

After several integrations between windows (the birds fly over the map at a time, while we see a small shadow of a little person running down the street we chose), finally, the

videoexperimento is proposing that write a letter to our self at that time , either by drawing the letters with the mouse or Trackpad , typing, while three windows below show some sort of mechanism that moves only when we writing. The final product can then share what we want, by mail, social networks or directly to a custom URL.

As an innovative way to present a video, I found quite attractive, and although had a few programs running, and several tabs open in Chrome (the site recommends close as possible)

The operation was quite fluid ( auqnue took a while to load at first), demonstrating the power that carries this from HTML5. In addition to the place where all this magic happens, we at the site of experiments Chrome explained each of the windows and their effects.

I like this trend is one more tool for creators of media art that will make things interactive, interesting and innovative, adapting to the times (chau HTML5 Flash … hello!). To see who the next to experiment with web music videos now.

Via: Wired | Bitelia

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Email Hotmail.com.ar auctioned off in Free Market

August 30, 2010

Hotmail

through Free Market Auction 40 email of type tunombre@hotmail.com.ar to raise funds for Unicef between 31 August and September 6 in the url especially created for the opportunity www.mercadolibre.com.ar / subastaunicef (Only available from tomorrow), and also waiting for the date you can see a preview in www.tuhotmailayuda.com.ar

Among the names listed were found alberto@hotmail.com.ar, julieta@hotmail.com.ar, doctor@hotmail.com.ar, tucuman@hotmail.com.ar, naranja@hotmail.com.ar. Given that not all names but are mixed with some of the most requested words.

Via | Infobae

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Aliens Ellen Ripley 1986 Reebok venderá las zapatillas de Ellen Ripley en Aliens

Do you remember a few days ago we talked about that Nike was experimenting to create a shoe that fasten themselves like those of Marty McFly en Back To The Future II ? It seems that Reebok do not want to be left behind and will do the same by selling a special edition of the leading Sigourney Weaver in the unforgettable role of the Lt. Ellen Ripley in Aliens , the sequel to Alien (in Spanish translated it as’ Aliens ), released almost a decade after the first.

Could spend hours arguing why the second movie seems to me a thousand times better than the first (hours, not kidding) but not irrelevant. Did you know that Ellen Ripley is considered the eighth best heroine of the twentieth century by the American Film Institute ? The first is Atticus Finch of Killing a Mocking Bird , which I do not understand much, and the best villain Hannibal Lecter yes, this is also not coming to tell but since we are not hurts to know.

As I said I love movies, but honestly I think are horrible shoes. Those of Marty McFly it seemed much more stylized but these are to adorn the museum of horrors, not to mention that cost $ 125 and currently only marketed in Japan, so resale values in eBay and other sites for collectors and fans are expected to be quite high. Seems to be becoming fashionable shoes revive mythical films of the 80s, first Back To The Future , then Aliens What I would like the following

Reebok Ellen Ripley Aliens Reebok venderá las zapatillas de Ellen Ripley en Aliens