hey Apple Fans!

Actually, I’m not going to talk about Apple today, although all attentions must be set at Steve Jobs keynote at WWDC 2007 for the next day or two. (c’mon, I was expecting more for the iPhone!)

I’ve been truly busy in the last few days and haven’t given much attention to the blog but I’ll put some effort in the next days.

Anyway, I recently discovered Google Patents and decided to list the top 5 most interesting patents I’ve found.

1. Electrified table - cloth

Reading Fred Oliveira’s post on desktop experiences made me think about all those little gems we have installed on our computer (or could have) and deserve more attention.

One of those applications on my Mac that I simply adore and is not related to work is Delicious Library. You see, it’s simply fantastic.

Delicious Library lets me organize all my stuff, like books, video-games, videos, comics and I can later browse, sort, and search through all that information in lists or digital shelves. This is the best part, It’s simply amazing to see, for example all my comic covers organized by series in a wooden background. :)

Adding information is also easy since I can use the iSight camera from my Macbook to scan the barcode at the back of the book or just simply search using the ISBN or title, it doesn’t matter because Delicious Library uses the Amazon API to search and give you recommendations based on it’s database. You can even sync the library with the iPod or print a color catalog.

It’s the kind of experience that I find very difficult to mimic on a web application but works flawless and smooth on desktop, there’s a “gratification” as Fred stated that you can’t (yet) get on the web because of responsiveness and other problems.

Fortunately there’s efforts being made to diminish the gap between desktop and web environments, let’s see what Apollo, Silverlight and Firefox 3 will hold for us.

What about you, what’s the desktop app which you can’t live without? What application makes you all happy to boot up the computer or make your life easier. Tell us about it.

I’m posting this on the new version of Reinventar, the redesign is more or less finished and all the essential stuff are here (but expect some tweaking in the next days).
I think it’s more clean and some visual bugs are now gone, although I would like to hear from you and know what you think.

Someone sent my this handy guide to keep near you Apple computer or in the bag of your new Macbook, with only small 8 pages you have all the steps necessary to reanimate your Mac from not booting up or at least to copy all necessary data to another hard-drive. :|
Actually this could have been handy a few days ago when my Macbook Pro suddendly died on my hands and with no more options I had to return it to the store for repairing (whatever the problem it has).

This of course made things more difficult for me since I have a presentation scheduled for next week at Takeoff 2007 and alot of my files on weSpendmoney were on the hard-drive (not to mention other stuff).

Good thing I have a plan B for the conference that doesn’t envolve juggling, stand-up comedy or flying monkeys.

On another note, if you happen to be in Lisbon I recommend you visit BDMania, which is in my opinion one of the best places to get international comic books or other interesting/rare merchandise.

Spider-Man 3 is coming and it’s shaping up to be fantastic, in the meantime, here’s some juicy content from the extended fight scene with Doc Octupus on the train from the second movie on Youtube.

Posters for the upcoming Transformer’s film are up at SuperHeroHype.