Emanuele Bartolomucci

Android App Patterns

Emanuele Bartolomucci — Fri, 25 May 2012 09:58:00 +0000

Nice collection of different Android application layouts for an injection of inspiration. Needless to say, this lack of a standard UI library (compared to the one used by Apple on iOS) is one of the major factors that contribute to the Android’s ecosystem fragmentation. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, but this is why iOS... Read more »

Ask for anything

Emanuele Bartolomucci — Fri, 18 May 2012 09:27:00 +0000

Flipboard for Android leaked

Emanuele Bartolomucci — Wed, 09 May 2012 13:39:00 +0000

Awesome, awesome, awesome application that works like magic. Smooth experience, beautiful interface, ability to save an article to the read-it-later application of your choice (Instapaper, Pocket or Readability), fantastic and optimized use of the screen real estate that makes the big display even more gorgeous. The app overshadows all the other news readers in the Android... Read more »

Please stop supporting IE

Emanuele Bartolomucci — Tue, 08 May 2012 07:58:00 +0000

Kudos to them. I’ve always been on that side when it comes to develop a website or a webapp. Supporting IE always means spending some extra hour to make everything work on that shitty browser, and there are always problems with the newest CSS features that are not entirely supported, so custom rules must be added to... Read more »

Restyling

Emanuele Bartolomucci — Tue, 01 May 2012 18:09:00 +0000

The 2-3 readers of this blog might have noticed a slightly change in the layout of my site. In fact I finally found a bit of time to build up a fresher, responsive theme that adapts to every screen size, just try it out by resizing the browser window. Aside from the visual aspect, I... Read more »

Facebook Plus

Emanuele Bartolomucci — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:04:50 +0000

A war is clearly brewing between Google and Facebook for the social network domination and is mainly fought with features and redesigns that are constantly added to their products. A few weeks ago Facebook sported a new layout to visualize photos, very similar to the photo viewer in Google Plus. Only four days ago Google+... Read more »

Meetings.io

Emanuele Bartolomucci — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:23:56 +0000

Yesterday I discovered, through an article on TechCrunch, a new tool that allows video chat and videoconferencing up to 5 people: it’s called Meetings.io. Totally free, the product looks really awesome: it works right inside the browser using Flash and users don’t need to install any kind of software, extension or plugin and even register... Read more »

System folders

Emanuele Bartolomucci — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:10:40 +0000

Renaming system folders in Mac OS X is actually pretty simple, the file SystemFolderLocalizations.strings located in System -> Library -> CoreServices -> SystemFolderLocalizations -> en.lproj contains a list of the main folders that can be found in the left sidebar of the Finder, like Applications, Library, Documents, Desktop, etc. Full path: /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemFolderLocalizations/en.lproj/SystemFolderLocalizations.strings Changing one of the strings with something different will take... Read more »

Web filter for Android

Emanuele Bartolomucci — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:36:25 +0000

These days I’m trying to cut down my Facebook addiction, and let’s be honest: everybody has it. Visiting it only on week-ends, i.e. only on Saturday and Sunday, would already be a great achievement. On my Mac, the geekiest way to prevent access to it is by blocking the URL inside the /etc/hosts file, adding... Read more »

Duolingo

Emanuele Bartolomucci — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:35:15 +0000

I’ve been an early adopter of Duolingo for a while, and I can say it really can be a game changer in language learning and really give a boost to the translation world online. Duolingo is yet another project based on crowdsourcing, born from the mind of that genious of Luis Von Ahn. For those who... Read more »