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The Nameless Decade that was

OsoMarron — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:15:11 +0000

Happy new year 2010, and happy new decade. I wonder if the previous decade will ever get “officially” named. For now, I rather stick with “the ohs”, even though that only works in english. I hope the media does end up calling it something, because for better or worse, it was a meaningful decade. At least the naming gets easier from this point on.

RIP GooSync

OsoMarron — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:02:54 +0000

At least as a free service. GooSync is killing the free version of their service, which was decent, since I could at least sync the next 30 days of my google calendar account. I guess too many people found the free version appropriate, or didn’t think the paid version was even worth it, so they resorted to this. Now to look for another way of keeping my Nokia and Google up to date.

Nokia S60 Calendar + Google Calendar = WIN!

OsoMarron — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:31:09 +0000

A much ignored feature of my cellphone suddenly became vital as I started my work/college life a month ago. First thing I looked for was a way to sync the cellphone calendar with an online service (no Outlook or any desktop application, that’d defeat the purpose of portability). First thing I thought of was Google Calendar, and also checked out the OVI service. Ended up choosing the Google interface over OVI, but the problem was Google was not offering a syncing solution for S60.

After trying a rather expensive program in its demo format, I ended up going for a free solution that does a decent work, except that it only syncs within the span of a month (the paid version syncs up to a year).

Didn’t bother mentioning names because the point of this post was to actually mention that Google came through and started development on a syncing tool for S60 calendar.

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/05/google-sync-beta-now-for-s60_20.html

As I read the comments on the blog, this seems to be a beta in all the sense of the word. Still buggy, so I’m not gonna try it myself yet, but I’ll definitely keep an eye on news about this and snatch a copy as soon as a stable version comes out.

Joining the bandwagon

OsoMarron — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:26:43 +0000

Well, I had to join the fad sooner or later… A twitter account has been created.

And with widget and all, as you can see on the far right ————>

Merry Christmas Everyone :D

OsoMarron — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:20:10 +0000

Panetón :g

A bear in Lima Hot Festival 2008

OsoMarron — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:28:57 +0000

Almost a week late posting this, but better late than never. A couple of clips from Lima Hot Festival from November 14th 2008. Performances by Travis and REM were simply awesome.

Travis

REM

CNN Projection : Barack Obama elected President

OsoMarron — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:10:03 +0000

Nice :D. November 4th is over and now it’s time for change!

/me grabs remote and changes channel

edit : http://www.isobamapresident.com/

Google Chrome – Day 2

OsoMarron — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:53:45 +0000

The first thing to remember is, this is still beta. That said, the browser seems decent. It holds true to Google’s pursuit of starting with minimalistic features and building up from there. The interface is clean and responds fast. Threw an acid2 test on it for the hell of it. Passed it fine (as any other nowadays browser worth mentioning). A few issues I’ve noticed would be the noticeable lack of an ad-blocking feature (much needed in today’s internet browsing), and the fact that the installer was not proxy-friendly. Not an issue for me at home, but at work I had to resort to an offline setup file (not provided by Google yet).

And from what I’ve read around, there’s already a new security bug for it (or rather an old bug that resurrected due to Google Chrome being based on an old version of WebKit. Nothing to worry about if you’re smart enough not to fall for silly social engineering tricks.

All in all, this is a good first step for Google into the browser world, but there’s still a long way to make it a viable alternative to Firefox, Opera, and that other browser that once hogged almost all the market. :P

Oso goes HDMI

OsoMarron — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:06:18 +0000

So, in one of the fastest buying decisions recorded in Oso’s history for expensive products, I bought a 32″ LCD TV; a Samsung LN32A450 to be precise.

All specs on link, but bottom line, it’s big, it’s awesome, and I’m currently typing this from it, for the hell of it

Firefox 3 out

OsoMarron — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:49:54 +0000

Finally, FireFox 3 is out. Links haven’t updated on their site yet, only the banners, though. :kuma:

An officially unofficial europe site has them in Spain Spanish and British English (the bizarro languages of their american counterparts XD)

English (British)

Español (España)

I’ll wait till I get home to see if the official site has them by then. And probably a few days to install, until there are available add-ons for the new version. :P

UPDATE : Just as I finished this, the official site brought the links up.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html