20090702 “Codecolors” sources released

As they always say, good things always come in threes (or in Spanish: ¡No hay dos sin tres!). So here’s the third batch of demo sources! This time it’s the turn for PPG05: Codecolors. The only demo that will fully test your monitor’s ability to display the full gamut of colors, by showing them all [...]

20090528 Seven: not Apple’s lucky number

My laptop is running Mac OS X 10.5.7 –i.e., the seventh revision of their overhyped operating system– and Apple still doesn’t know how to deal with network issues properly. If it’s not the dreaded “Your wireless network has been compromised” error, it will be this new and absurd behaviour: you close your laptop’s lid, leave [...]

20080131 DIY: Replacing my powerbook’s hard drive

It is a natural-born traveller: I had owned it for less than one month and was already travelling to Barcelona with it; next came several more visits to different cities, in Spain (Madrid, Valencia, Seville) or in Europe indistinctly (Frankfurt, Helsinki). It even was my commuting companion during the month that I was working in [...]

20050127 ¿Mac o dell?

Desde hace unos meses hay una duda que me asalta y me quita el sueño (o casi): ¿Mac o dell? Toda la culpa la tiene la apertura de la tienda Apple en Londres, y mi visita a ella. Aquello fue la perdición… Yo había pensado, antes de ir allí, que mi próximo portátil sería un [...]