How Evolution REALLY Works, Part I

The Darwin's birth is completing 200 years. I found this very interesting video.

How Evolution Works the GAME. A must see!!!

KevinPluck has
turned this simulation into an interactive game. You are the predator
and the squares evolve to avoid you eating them.

See it here.

Did You Know; Shift Happens - Globalization; Information Age

I found this video about globalization, information and knowledge evolution, and education.

Created by Karl Fisch, and modified by Scott McLeod; Globalization and The Information Age

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edit; This video was not on youtube during the time I uploaded it, and
now, it has become a very popular topic of comments. I hope you enjoy
the work of these fine gentlemen's video presentation.

Music Credits:
(1992)
"The Last of the Mohicans" off the soundtrack the song is (Elk Hunt/The
Kiss), which appears at the end of the film during the cliff scene. [if
you haven't seen the film, you should watch i.

See the video here.

Information R/evolution

Another video about the new ways information can be managed by people in the Internet.This video explores the changes in the way we find, store,
create, critique, and share information. This video was created as a
conversation starter, and works especially well when brainstorming with
people about the near future and the skills needed in order to harness,
evaluate, and create information effectively.

See the video here.

We Think

Intertesting video. It's simple in the form of presentation, but the concepts are profund. A new book by Charles Leadbeater, 'We Think' explores the potential of the latest developments of the interne.

See the video here.

Introduction to Chemical Engineering

I found these 20 videos. They are classes from Professor Channing Robertson of the Stanford University Chemical Engineering Department. They are very nice for anybody interested in this matter as I am.

See the 1st. video here.

Become A Master Twitter With Twhirl

eddale shows another video, about how to use Twhirl, probably the best Twitter client today. It looks like a video course.

See it here.

How To Use Twitter For Business

Another interesting video, about how to use Twitter for business. Looks like a quick seminar.

See it here.

How To Use Twitter

I found this video about how to use Twitter. The general ideas are good, but the video is something large.

See the video here.

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

Very interesting video about the Web 2.0, its features, and some of the tools available to the users.

See it here.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

I found this interesting website with the complete story. A post for everybody who likes to read.

See the Website here.

Linux Replacements for Your Favorite Windows Apps

This article presents 18 open-source applications to substitute the most known Windows applications. As a Linux user, the substitution is not exactly the same, but as a free platform it is better than use unlicensed software.
Some of the Linux applications pointed in this article are interesting, but some of them not. For example, I don't like Evolution. Of course it depends on the user. Maybe some guys will tell me I'm speaking some herectic statement.

Oirignal post.

Don't Fear the Penguin: A Newbie's Guide to Linux

I found this tutorial to new Ubuntu users. It is interesting, and very useful. The author, Neil McAllister, talks about both principal Linux interfaces: Gnome, and KDE. It remembers some of the principal Linux applications, some system configuration, hardware, patterns, and getting help in the Web.
A nice text.

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Internet population passes 1 billion

In fact it is already much more than a billion because comScore, the firm responsible for this research, did not consider accesses from public computers nor mobile phones. China is the country with the large population of Internet users (180 million, almost the brazilian population). Brazil is in the 8th. place with 28 million (~ 15% of the total population). It takes 40 years to achieve this number. The actual expectation is that will be necessary much less time to have two billion online.
The same research shows the most accessed websites. All the Google address come in 1st. place, followed by Microsoft sites.

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Fears grow Steve Jobs may step down from Apple for good

There is a living drama in the technology world about Steve Jobs's health. In my opinion, it's not a real relevant problem, just because Steve is a man, and like everyone else, he is mortal. The real discussion for me is how the share holders alowed this situation to come to this point. Apple needs a succession plan, and it's more important than any divinity some people give to Steve Jobs.
He is important to the history of Apple, and the computer market as well, of course. He is responsible for some of the most interesting cases of innovation in the last years. But some of this cases are not so spetacular as people think. It's just because it's him, and because it's Apple.
For example, iPhone is not such a wonderful gadget. A friend of mine published in his blog an article comparing iPhone to a Nokia, and also to a choko! See the post here.
I'm looking for changes in the Apple policies in the next months, or maybe we will have bad news about it.

Google stays strong amidst the gloom

The world economy is going down, but Google's earnings are going very good. The total of revenue had an increment of 18% on year, and 3% since the previous quarter, a total of $5,7 billion. Not bad!

The original story here!

Microsoft slashes 5,000 jobs as recession hits

The crisis arrived at Microsoft's headquarter. The global crisis reduced the demand for PCs, and it brings down the Windows sales. This is the first wide cut in all its history.
Last night the price of Microsoft's share was $17.35, down 2.03. It is 11% close to its lowest level since January 1998.
The sales of Windows Vista are not very good, antecipating Windows 7 launching.

See the original story here.

Video shows the moment of the Renascer Church falling in SP

The article is in portuguese, but the images and graphics are very understable.

See the original posting here.

Stanford iPhone Class Apps

I saw this interesting text about Stanford students that developed iPhone applications. This site shows some of them:

• Site Saver: it saves websites locally in the iPhone allowing later consults;
• HaveaSec: it alows to start polls to personal contacts;
• iDiscover: it finds articles, videos, and applications specific to the user interests;
• Air Guitas, a guitar simulator;
• Abodi searches Craigslist ans saves interestings results for later access, including on the go;
• Stress Bust, a video of ocean waves and sounds to relax;
• Qingwen, a chinese-english dictionary, and vice-versa;
• Heydar, an application to meet interesting people.

Some of the applications are free and others are payed, some of them waiting approval by Apple.

10 Web Sites That Will Matter in 2009

Mark Sullivan from PC World suggested 10 sites that can make difference in 2009. From these 10 sites, I noted power.com for now. Of course this is an idea.The future belongs to God Himself.

Original post here!

Man was catched by Google Search

Very interesting news. A man had hit a guy with his car, and did not stopped to help. He said he thinked it was a deer, but he did not see anything. Some witnesses said they did not see the driver in the accideent scene. The police found some suspicious tags in Google searches in his computer, like hit-and-run.

Original story here.

Many places to watch Obama's inauguration

How many sites were showing the Obama's inauguration? If you include TVs, cell phones, and cameras, some people is talking about 200 million people watching. But what is the best place to watch videos today? Many people chose CNN + Facebook transmission, as you can see in this post:

Facebook + CNN = Future of TV

Users Petition to Save Google Notebook

Just yesterday I was talking about Google has the intention to terminate the Notebook. So there is this news talking about people sending a petition to Google asking them to don't do it. some guys a talking about paying to use the service. It's very amazing. I like the Notebook, and I hope Google listen their users, different from the tvs managers when they decide to finish some shows.

The Crowds on The Mall

So it finally happened. Obama is the 44th. president of the United States of America. Interesting the people on the streets, and not only in Washington. TV showed people crying, and talking about a historical moment. I'm sure it's a dream moment. However, tomorrow when people wake-up there willbe only the reality.

Love and annoying

This is an interesting article abou things we love, and why we love them, and annoying things, and how they can be unannoying.
When Chrome was launched, I changed my browser. I always used Firefox. I use to have 20 plug-ins installed. But as a professor of the operating systems course in the computer science department of my university, I was atracted to some news improvements Google developed to Chrome. Specially the memory management. So I changed my browser. After six months I'm back to Firefox. And as I saw this is a movement choosen by a lot of people. Why is that? Well, Chrome is not exactly a wonderful software. It is something dry. It needs some spice. Firefox has all the plugins, so it is not in fact a finished product. It can be extended, and some of the available functions to extend Firefox are lovely. for example, I use Foxmarks to synchronize the bookmarks of my home PC to my work PC. Google Notebook is very useful to me, and it's a shame Google is thinking to terminate it. Abduction! is avery powerful tool to save pictures from the websites we visit. And so on.
How about the Firefox problem with memory? I don't know exactly why, but as we use the program, it increases the ammount of memory it is using. I decided to do a simple thing. Before I changed to Chrome I used to keep some sites with pending issues opened as tabs. Of course it encreases the Firefox used memory. Now I decided to keep all these sites in the bookmarks toolbar. I have other tips, but I will wait another post. Eventually I close Firefox to open a new program next time, with reduced used memory.
Right now, I am keeping Chrome in my PC, but Firefox is the principal browser I use. And Internet Explorer? Wait a future post.

10 ways to get rich from night to day

Some years ago I found a column in a brazilian newspaper talking about the ways to get rich very fast, specially cases from night to day. Let's see them:

To win a lottery prime - This is the popular system to dream about getting rich. Depending on the country we can find similar systems, like roulette, poker, horse races, etc.

An inheritance

When you have a real estate, or a property that suddenly is very well located for some announcement. F. ex. something important will be constructed very near a building of your own

When you are some sport player and suddenly you get very important results

An artist that suddenly produces some work very well evaluated. F. ex. an actor, actress, a singer, a painter, a writer. This is a very interesting way of getting rich because any kind of person can achieve an impressive result in some fields of art

When you find something important in your property. F. ex. oil, gold, antiques, etc.

When you have an idea for something very interesting that a lot of people will want to buy. F. ex. Bill Gates

To marry rich people

To win a monetary award for suiting against someone, if it is a great case

To born rich

Of course it's generally speaking, and only legar systems. Depending on the country, the local law can have other possibilities.
I'm sorry if you don't belong to some of these categories. You are like me! In this case you have to get money essencially working and investing.

Why Google Employees Quit

Interesting text about problems in the giant of the Internet. We have an image about Google that it's all good, everything is fine, everything is money, but a little time ago the 1st. news about probably financial problemas start to appear in the press.
Google suspended some benefits, the earning is not so good as everybody thinked, nor the management. In the crisis moment, Google does what any kind of business does: cust cuting, firing people, closing programs with low return, and so on.