If you’ve been watching the news lately, you’ll have noticed that the PlayStation Network, which provides online gameplay and digital game shopping for owners of PlayStation 3 and PSP devices, has been down since last Wednesday. Their on-demand streaming service, Qriocity, is also down. There’s been a huge buzz about it for the last week, but it’s hard to cut through the buzz to get the actual information. I’ve done a little digging, so here are some of the basics.
Month: Abril 2011
Visión “Viernes” bajo una luz diferente
If you want a break from the tech talk…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last month, you’ve probably heard of (and had the misfortune of listening to) Rebecca Black’s Friday. Sabes, that song with the 13-year-olds driving cars and the nasally teenager wondering where to sit? That one.
After a shocking experience (more about that later), I’ve had to start questioning why I (and pretty much everyone I know) hate the song. Breaking it down:
- The lyrics are junk, but most pop songs have meaningless lyrics anyway.
- The tune’s pretty catchy, no faults there.
OpenOffice está muerta
Los chicos de Oracle poner una declaración en algún momento la semana pasada acerca de su suite ofimática libre y de código abierto, OpenOffice. Adivina qué? Están haciendo un “proyecto comunitario”; es decir. que están dejando morir.
La parte triste es que OpenOffice era muy popular: muchos usuarios de Mac lo usaron (ya que Office para Mac cuesta una tonelada) y un montón de usuarios de Windows lo utilizó como bien (la mayoría de la gente no va a utilizar todas las características de Microsoft Office, que los costos, qué, $100?) Pero no se desanime, que no es tan malo como se podría pensar. Siga leyendo para ver.
Nueva estrategia de lanzamiento de Firefox
Back in the day (and by that I mean a week ago), new versions of Firefox were released “when they were ready” – es decir, when all the features they wanted to put in were in it. That’s called feature-based releases, and most developers use that strategy.
But there’s another release strategy that focuses on releasing new versions every so often. Some features might not make a version, but that’s OK; a new version is coming in x weeks so it’ll be included then. This is called fixed releases.
Yet another rant about Bcc:s
I just got an email addressed to no less than 78 personas, and all 78 people’s email addresses were in the To field. You’d think the sender would put all our emails in the Bcc field since, bien, the recipients don’t really need to know the emails of the other 77 people who got the email. (In its defense, putting all the emails in the To field makes stalking easier, but isn’t that what Facebook’s for?)
I can understand why Cc isn’t that popular: it does the same thing as To, except it carries a different semantic meaning. Most teenagers (and a bunch of adults too) couldn’t care less about the fancy schmancy semantic meaning, so they just use To.
La búsqueda de una página de inicio decente
I’m not sure why home pages were even invented in the first place. Quiero decir, sure, you need a page to open when you boot up your browser, but they just make things, bien, awkward. Plus they’re not very useful: most of them just serve as a landing page; you don’t really use them except to read news about how kids can’t bring bagged lunch to school (*cough* Yahoo *cough*.) And when you do that kind of stuff, you just get distracted from what you were originally meaning to do all along.
I want to know why that is and how I can help fix it.
DuckDuckGo – la mejor cosa desde Google
Que estaba buscando en la página de mi analytics (seguimiento de visitantes en el sitio) y se dio cuenta que alguien vino a hathix través DuckDuckGo. Estar aburrido, Miré DuckDuckGo y me impresionó de forma automática. Es una gran motor de búsqueda. He aquí por qué.
Zero-Click info
DuckDuckGo tiene a esta gran función que permite ver algunos rápida información de fondo sobre un tema cuando se busca que. Si yo quiero saber que Nelson Mandela es sin tener que leer un largo artículo sobre el apartheid, Sudáfrica, y ese tipo de cosas, No puedo simplemente DDG y miro lo que me pasa: