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Roadie is live
January 5th, 2010 • 9 comments Blog, Other, Web
Tags: experiment, roadie, ruby on rails, thinkorange
With Christmas and the new year’s eve behind us, I realized I didn’t post much lately, that’s because there was much to be done in the past month and I could direct my attention here (sigh).
Anyway, just a quick reminder to tell you that our first experiment at Think Orange went online last week: Roadie.
Roadie is a free service where you pick the artists or bands that interest you and we’ll generate a customized RSS Feed or iCal with their new releases.
Unboxing Samsung i7500 Galaxy
October 29th, 2009 • Comments Off Blog, Other, Web
Tags: android, phone, samsung, tmn
So I finally managed to get my hands on the newly released (here in Portugal anyway) Samsung i7500 Galaxy from TMN and capture some shots from the unboxing.
The phone is the first Samsung carrying the Android operating system (Android OS v1.5 without customizations) and has a nice3.2″ capacitive AMOLED touchscreen (but no multi-touch gestures), Wifi, 3.5mm headphone jack, 8GB of onboard storage, Accelerometer and lot’s of other fancy characteristics. All this on only 116g of weight.
Açores
October 12th, 2009 • Comments Off Blog, Other
Last week I went on a trip to the Azores (island of São Miguel) for a little vacation time. The island is beautiful and truly unique.
There’s no amount of pictures and videos that could capture the fantastic scenery and peace of quiet you get from visiting this wonderful place.
Anyway, here’s some photos I posted on Flickr, but I recommend you go there for at least 4 days. ;)
Apple responsible for 25% of US music sales
August 20th, 2009 • 2 comments Apple, Blog, Other
If you needed more proof that the music cd is dying and record companies should accompany the the shift in consumer preferences then maybe the next amazing numbers by the NPD Group should convice you:
* Apple is generating one quarter of all US music sales (25%). And Apple is also responsible for 69% of all online music sales.
* 65% of all music sold during 2009 are still in CD format.
Times are changing. Apple managed to stay ahead of the game by thinking forward and not fighting change. But as the music industry is now paying more attention to the situation, the TV and newspaper mediums are starting to face the new dilemmas from digital distribution and most are choosing to fight the trend. Let’s see how well they’ll do.
