The place João Bordalo calls home

Sikuli, laziness best friend

bordalix — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:24:00 -0600

Armed with a computer vision engine, Sikuli allows the average joe to program those tedious, long processes one is always doing in the Mac. This is huge, watch the demo:

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Creating "Smack my bitch up"

bordalix — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:07:00 -0600

What a great peace of music reverse engineering. Jim Pavloff uses some samples to re-create the classic music from Prodigy:

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App Store sizes

bordalix — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:07:00 -0600

Who needs words when you have numbers?

Lets do it Estonia

bordalix — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:24:00 -0500

What happens when some Estonians decide to clean up their whole country in on single day? Madness, some would say. But it was done, and now the idea is spreading like wild fire. Watch the video and get inspired:

The same video can be seen with portuguese subtitles (hint hint), and there's already a Ning group to do the same in Portugal.

Magic mouse

bordalix — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:34:00 -0500

Remember when I wrote about the future of the mouse by Microsoft? Well, today you can buy it in a Apple Store:

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Google Wave meets Pulp Fiction

bordalix — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:29:00 -0500

One word: brilliant.

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Candles that save water

bordalix — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:52:00 -0500

About 2.5 years ago, my friend Mário Silva ask me to help in the development of a solution that would allow people to transform used cooking oil into candles.

The basic idea was to develop a machine where one could store used vegetable oil (instead of trowing it into the drain) and by adding some chemical compound, the final result would be something valuable and fun, candles.

So, we built a prototype, found the correct mix of chemicals and patented the whole thing. After this, Mário dived into the VC world and armed with a strong business plan and a lot of enthusiasm, was able to rise the capital needed to fulfill the dream.

Mário created a company, oon solutions, which in a couple of months will start selling the Candle Maker. And because nothing is beyond Mário's dreams, he managed to present the whole thing in TEDx, which is now available to public viewing. Watch it, who knows, maybe you also will start loving your waste:

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10/GUI

bordalix — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:50:00 -0500

A very interesting video by R. Clayton Miller, with some concepts for multi-touch interaction and windows management. The basic idea here is that the mouse points to one point, but with your hands you can point (and use) up to 10 points at the same time. Confused? Watch the video:

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Mouse 2.0 by Microsoft

bordalix — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:22:00 -0500

While I use more and more the touchpad then the mouse, Microsoft is experimenting with new input devices that combine the standard capabilities of a computer mouse with multi-touch sensing. The future will something of this kind:

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I need a Google Wave invite

bordalix — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:26:00 -0500

If someone has one invite to spare, I would appreciate it. Please send it to my gmail account (joao.bordalo). Thank you so much.