Month: July 2015

PS3 vs AppleTv


So, I have a broken PS3 (the slim version, similar to the one above this lines). And I didn’t have the money to get a new PS4 but instead got a new PS3 for half the price of the PS4.

I also have a Nintendo Wii wich we use basically as a Netflix player; I actually bought the first PS3 and the Wii at the same time, nintendo knows how to make thigs that lasts. The other PS3 is also a netflix player but is were I usually play my games (I don’t do PC gaming, sorry).

The problem with Wii is that it supports 480p video output only and the Netflix App is old and lacks of features that are present in the PS3, like the auto play in series; also the cache is pretty small so repeating an scene requires it to reload that chunk. So, I’ve been thinking in replacing the Wii as the default Netflix player. read more

Mexican hypocrisy

Nothing but the true, many of the people that I know put their facebook avatar with colo stripes showing their support to what in the moment was the gay proud. They don’t remember or even feel embarased about that.

Note, this doesn’t happen only with LGTB, there are many other cases, like the native people victims of racism. Most people publish in their facebook wall that they support local business but they won’t stop buying at oxxo (something like 7 eleven). Other people “support” using bycile for transportation but they use the bike lanes for the cars and get mad if someone asks them to move. Or people that support fitnes and healty way of life but drinks one or two liter of soda a day, eat hamburguers, mexican fast food and no exercise at all. read more

Accelerate your macports upgrade/install by using ramdisk

The main problem when compiling is the tons of disk access that compile involves from compiling, linking, stripping etc… if you have a regular hard disk you know this may take a lot of time, most if the project is large. If you have an SSD the problem is not the speed, but still the lots of read/write access even when SSDs are pretty much more reliable that they were years ago. read more

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My wishes on iOS

I’ve been an iOS user for not that long time, I come from using OS X in the desktop and Android in the mobile, but now I have an iPhone and an iPad which completes the triplet and it’s true, they are better together, although iOS can’t compare with OS X there are some things that can make it easier for many people to handle, this are again the things I don’t like and my wishes on iOS:

Let me choose my default Browser

With iOS 8 it was really a delight to be able to choose my default email client. I no longer use the Mail app, which is fine, works great but there are better options, more if you take in count that the others offer push notifications on Gmail accounts (on which I heavily depend). I won’t deny it, I like Safari, but probably if I could I would use Chrome as my default browser, and I remark “probably” because I have to admit that I like Safari, it works great but having the choice is better. read more