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		<title>The Qt Ambassador Kit and my first impressions of Nokia C7</title>
		<link>http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/2011/03/25/the-qt-ambassador-kit-and-my-first-impressions-of-nokia-c7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 04:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Esdras Beleza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, I submitted my personal audio player project Audactile to the Nokia&#8217;s Qt Ambassador program. They seem to have liked it and I was accepted into the program. The good surprise is that they sent me a Qt Ambassador kit: a t-shirt, some stickers and a Nokia C7 mobile phone. The pictures [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">A few months ago, I submitted my personal audio player project <a href="http://audactile.esdrasbeleza.com">Audactile</a> to the Nokia&#8217;s <a href="http://qt.nokia.com/qt-in-use/ambassadors/qtambassador/">Qt Ambassador program</a>. They seem to have liked it and I was accepted into the program.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The good surprise is that they sent me a Qt Ambassador kit: a t-shirt, some stickers and a Nokia C7 mobile phone. The pictures I took aren&#8217;t very good, but here they are:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/IMG_0045.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-281" title="Qt Ambassador Kit" src="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/IMG_0045.jpg" alt="Qt Ambassador Kit" width="360" height="480" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/IMG_0048.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-282" title="Nokia C7" src="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/IMG_0048.jpg" alt="" width="286" height="361" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/IMG_0047.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-283" title="Nokia C7" src="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/IMG_0047.jpg" alt="" width="312" height="356" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The stickers are beautiful and I&#8217;m thinking of where I&#8217;ll put them. <img src='http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  The most attractive item is, obviously, the <strong>Nokia C7</strong>. It runs <strong>Symbian^3</strong>, and it was the very first time I could use a device with it. My first impressions:</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify;">The capactive touch screen is very good. I already test devices from Apple, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and HTC, and I can say that it&#8217;s very sensitive. It has support for pinch zoom on images.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Symbian^3&#8242;s UI is way better than its predecessors. It&#8217;s like a mix of the old Symbian (since it&#8217;s still Symbian&#8230;), iOS and Android. You have non-intrusive alerts at the top of the screen (like a desktop) instead of the old ugly rectangles that older versions of Symbian used for their notifications. The menus still are a bit confusing, but are better than my old Nokia E71&#8242;s menus.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">The AMOLED display is very sharp, its colours are brilliant and the images look great. You have an ambient light detector that changes the display&#8217;s illumination, like my MacBook does.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">The stereo sound from its back outputs are clear and powerful. Nokia knows how to put a good sound into its devices.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Its camera has 8.0MP, dual flash and face recognition. It can record videos in HD resolution, but I haven&#8217;t tested it yet.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Nokia C7 has a very powerful hardware. Its software is pretty cool and as friendly as Android IMHO (unfortunately Nokia will use Windows Phone instead of Symbian in some time&#8230;). The mobile phone was given to me with a short letter asking to develop for it, so that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ll do. I&#8217;ll try to write some Qt application for Symbian, and I&#8217;ll report any progress here. <img src='http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Firefox 4.0 pre-beta released</title>
		<link>http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/2010/07/04/firefox-4-0-pre-beta-released/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 02:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Esdras Beleza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lifehacker shown a screenshot of the new Firefox 4.0 pre-beta for Windows. Here it is (Mozilla names Firefox beta versions &#8220;Minefield&#8221;): Nice, isn&#8217;t it? So, I downloaded the new beta for Linux, and it looks like the screenshot below. I had to set the tabs to be on top; Windows version brings this for default [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Lifehacker <a href="http://lifehacker.com/5575931/firefox-4-pre+beta-candidate-brings-tabs-and-top-and-other-changes-to-the-fox">shown a screenshot of the new Firefox 4.0 pre-beta for Windows</a>. Here it is (Mozilla names Firefox beta versions &#8220;Minefield&#8221;):</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-233" title="Lifehacker's Minefield Screenshot" src="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/lifehacker_minefield.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="321" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Nice, isn&#8217;t it? So, I downloaded the new beta for Linux, and it looks like the screenshot below. I had to set the tabs to be on top; Windows version brings this for default (at least the one that I installed using Wine).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/firefox-4.0b2pre1.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-235" title="Firefox 4.0 pre-beta on Linux" src="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/firefox-4.0b2pre1-300x220.png" alt="Firefox 4.0 pre-beta on Linux" width="300" height="220" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Compare. The screenshot below is Firefox 3.6.4.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/firefox-3.6.4.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-234" title="Firefox 3.6.4 on Linux" src="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/firefox-3.6.4-300x203.png" alt="Firefox 3.6.4 on Linux" width="300" height="203" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It&#8217;s a little far from <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/4.0_Linux_Theme_Mockups">the mockups of Firefox for Linux at Mozilla&#8217;s site</a>. I hope I can see it soon. <img src='http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Haiku OS R1 alpha 2</title>
		<link>http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/2010/06/28/haiku-os-r1-alpha-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 02:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Esdras Beleza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading about Haiku OS for some years. Haiku is an operating system inspired by the extinct BeOS, and for me it&#8217;s like an Unix clone with a good and clean interface, like Mac OS, but free. Some months ago its developers released their first alpha, that I&#8217;ve already talked about and shown some [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">I&#8217;ve been reading about Haiku OS for some years. Haiku is an operating system inspired by the extinct BeOS, and for me it&#8217;s like an Unix clone with a good and clean interface, like Mac OS, but free.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Some months ago its developers released their first alpha, that <a title="Haiku R1 alpha 1, in portuguese" href="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/2010/01/21/teste-do-haiku-os-alpha-1r1/">I&#8217;ve already talked about and shown some screenshots</a>. Some days ago they released a new version, <a href="http://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku/release-notes">Haiku R1 alpha 2</a>. The interface is even better than before and the new features are great. My favourite one is WebPositive, a WebKit-based browser:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/haiku-r1-a2-1.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-194" title="WebPositive" src="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/haiku-r1-a2-1-300x225.png" alt="WebPositive" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I maximised the WebPositive window and its menubar became like a Mac OS apllication menubar:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/haiku-r1-a2-2.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-192" title="WebPositive's menubar" src="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/haiku-r1-a2-2-300x225.png" alt="WebPositive's menubar" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Something I didn&#8217;t notice in the latest release: Haiku has support for desktop applets. And OpenGL support is already there too:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/haiku-r1-a2-3.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-193" title="Haiku Desktop" src="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/haiku-r1-a2-3-300x225.png" alt="Haiku Desktop" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
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		<title>Why I chose Qt</title>
		<link>http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/2010/05/13/why-i-chose-qt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 14:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Esdras Beleza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, I planned to learn some graphic toolkit. As a GNOME user, GTK was my natural choice. Although I&#8217;m a Python lover, I chose C++ because I just wanted to learn a new language and stop being afraid of pointers. So I started to read the gtkmm documentation, like tutorials and API, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">A few months ago, I planned to learn some graphic toolkit. As a GNOME user, GTK was my natural choice. Although I&#8217;m a Python lover, I chose C++ because I just wanted to learn a new language and stop being afraid of pointers. So I started to read the <a href="http://www.gtkmm.org/">gtkmm</a> documentation, like tutorials and API, and to program a simple music player. I was learning gtkmm and it all seemed okay.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" title="Qt" src="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/qt.png" alt="" width="200" height="238" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But I read a little about Qt and, after talking with some friends about the pros and cons of GTK and Qt, I decided to do with Qt the same things that I&#8217;ve already done with GTK up to that point. So I would know <strong>what choice was better for me</strong>. Notice that I&#8217;m not saying that Qt is better for everybody and that GTK must die, but that Qt looked better <strong>for me and my personal project</strong>. After this disclaimer, and can tell my reasons:</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li><strong>Look &amp; feel.</strong> I&#8217;m a look&amp;feel fanatic, and sometimes I move from GNOME to KDE only to check its new features. But I hate how GTK applications look in KDE. You can use <a href="http://code.google.com/p/gtk-qt-engine/">gtk-qt-engine</a>, but you&#8217;ll still notice the differences. You can set GTK to use the excellent <a href="http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/QtCurve+(KDE4,+KDE3,+%26+Gtk2+Theme)?content=40492">QtCurve</a> theme, that have identical versions to Qt and GTK, but you&#8217;ll get tied to a theme. But look what you have if you run a Qt application in GNOME (<a href="http://projects.gnome.org/gedit/">gedit</a> is a GTK-based application and <a href="http://musicbrainz.org/doc/PicardTagger">Picard</a> is a Qt-based application):<br />
<a href="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/gtk_qt_look_and_feel.png"><img class="aligncenter" style="margin-top: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px;" title="GTK vs QT look &amp; feel in GNOME" src="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/gtk_qt_look_and_feel-300x231.png" alt="" width="300" height="231" /></a><br />
Thanks to <a href="http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2008/05/13/introducing-qgtkstyle/">QGtkStyle</a>, Qt applications detect if you are in GNOME and your Qt application gets an almost perfect GTK look &amp; feel. And yeah, it includes open and save dialogs.</li>
<li><strong>Documentation. </strong>Qt has a very, very rich and well-organised documentation, with <a href="http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.6/tutorials.html">tutorials</a>, <a href="http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.6/index.html">API references</a>, and <a href="http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.6/examples.html">examples</a>. gtkmm also have all these items, but they didn&#8217;t look very friendly to me. And the documentation of Qt 4.7, still in development, <a href="http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7-snapshot/">will be even better</a>.</li>
<li><strong>A simple, but good IDE.</strong> A good programmer must not be dependent on IDEs, but they really help you. I tried to use Anjuta (unstable sometimes), MonoDevelop (very good for .NET platform, but not a good IDE for C/C++ development) and Netbeans as IDE when I was using gtkmm, and I was not satisfied with them. But Qt has its official IDE, <strong>Qt Creator</strong>:<br />
<a href="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/qtcreator.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-139" style="margin-top: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px;" title="Qt Creator" src="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/qtcreator-300x177.png" alt="" width="300" height="177" /></a><br />
Qt Creator is clean, simple, and complete. It has quick access to documentation, breakpoints, project configuration, native support for CVS, Subversion and Git, good code completion, a good GUI designer (like the GTK&#8217;s <a href="http://glade.gnome.org/">Glade</a>), among other features.</li>
<li><strong>Runs well on many platforms.</strong> Qt is smart enough to run well &#8211; and with native look &amp; feel, I really like this &#8211; in Linux, Mac, Windows, and others.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But Qt still has some cons:</p>
<ul>
<li>Users should have it installed to run Qt applications, and this is not very usual in Linux environments based on GNOME, neither on Windows systems.</li>
<li>Qt is free only if you&#8217;re using it in a free project. For commercial applications, <a href="http://qt.nokia.com/products/licensing">you must obtain a commercial Qt licence</a>. <strong>Update: </strong>this is not exactly a con. You still can use Qt under LGPL in commercial applications, but if you make any change to Qt you must publish them or purchase a commercial Qt licence <em>(thanks, krok, for the comment)</em>.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If you&#8217;re beginning to learn to program for graphical environments or you&#8217;re looking for a good graphical library to use in your project, you really should give Qt a try, implement some examples and feel which option is better for you.</p>
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		<title>GNOME 2.30</title>
		<link>http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/2010/04/02/gnome-2-30/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 06:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Esdras Beleza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[O GNOME 2.30 foi lançado nesse 1º de abril, e os pacotes rapidamente foram disponibilizados pro Arch Linux. Assim que atualizei o sistema, aproveitei pra conferir algumas das novidades. A maioria delas, na minha opinião, foram discretas. Talvez a maior exceção seja o Nautilus, de interface renovada. Agora é possível dividir a visualização em duas, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">O <a href="http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.30/" target="_blank">GNOME 2.30 foi lançado nesse 1º de abril</a>, e os pacotes rapidamente foram disponibilizados pro <a href="http://www.archlinux.org/" target="_blank">Arch Linux</a>. <img src='http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  Assim que atualizei o sistema, aproveitei pra conferir algumas das novidades. A maioria delas, na minha opinião, foram discretas.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Talvez a maior exceção seja o Nautilus, de interface renovada. Agora é possível dividir a visualização em duas, o que facilita muito a troca de arquivos entre dois locais diferentes. O Konqueror faz isso há alguns anos, e era uma funcionalidade que fazia falta no Nautilus.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/nautilus.png"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-99" title="Nautilus com 2 pastas abertas" src="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/nautilus-1024x583.png" alt="" width="450" height="256" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Dois bugs que me enchiam o saco há algum tempo também parecem ter sido resolvidos. Ao usar dois monitores, alguns applets trocavam de lugar ao iniciar o GNOME e o papel de parede da área de trabalho era esticado entre os dois monitores. Agora o papel de parede é simplesmente replicado para os dois monitores.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.30/" target="_blank">Mais detalhes das mudanças na nova versão </a>estão presentes no site do GNOME. Como todo mundo gosta de screenshots, aqui vai um da minha área de trabalho:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/desktop_gnome_230.png"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-100" title="desktop_gnome_230" src="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/desktop_gnome_230-1024x640.png" alt="" width="450" height="281" /></a></p>
<ul>
<li>Tema GTK: <a href="http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Equinox+Radiance?content=121883" target="_blank">Equinox Radiance</a></li>
<li>Tema do gerenciador de janelas (Metacity): <a href="http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Karmic+Lucy+D.?content=120409" target="_blank">karmic Lucy D.</a></li>
<li>Ícones: <a href="http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/nuoveXT?content=26448">nuoveXT 1.7</a></li>
<li>Painel inferior: <a href="https://launchpad.net/docky">Docky</a></li>
<li>Papel de parede: <a href="http://www.socwall.com/browse/wpDL.php?wp_id=013208" target="_blank">Stop that t-rain</a></li>
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		<title>Computador de baixo custo para pequenas finalidades</title>
		<link>http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/2010/03/13/73/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Esdras Beleza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[De 2008 pra cá, aposentei meu desktop e meu notebook virou meu computador pessoal. O problema é que em algumas noites ele ficava ligado baixando coisas, o que não é legal para a vida útil de notebooks. Pensando nisso, ressuscitei um antigo gabinete meu, um HD e uma placa de rede sem fio que arranjei [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>De 2008 pra cá, aposentei meu desktop e meu notebook virou meu computador pessoal. O problema é que em algumas noites ele ficava ligado baixando coisas, o que não é legal para a vida útil de notebooks.</p>
<p>Pensando nisso, ressuscitei um antigo gabinete meu, um HD e uma placa de rede sem fio que arranjei com o <a href="http://www.sorumbatico.info" target="_blank">Eduardo Falcão e Marcelo Pazzo</a>, respectivamente, e mais algumas peças antigas. Para completar o kit, comprei uma <strong>placa-mãe Intel D945GCLF2D</strong>.</p>
<p>Essa placa-mãe traz um pequeno adicional: um processador Atom 1.6GHz 64 bits já instalado, e custa cerca de R$ 250 por aí. Não é o computador mais poderoso da atualidade (longe disso), mas para pequenas finalidades quebra um galhão.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-75" title="D945GCLF2D" src="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/D945GCLF2D.jpg" alt="" width="267" height="175" /></p>
<p>A placa vem com 4 portas USB traseiras e suporta mais 4, um slot para memória RAM DDR2 de até 2GB, um slot PCI, placa de vídeo integrada Intel Graphics Accelerator 950 e uma placa de som HD 5.1 da Realtek. Ou seja: um ótimo custo/benefício.</p>
<p>Pro meu brinquedo novo, escolhi como sistema operacional o <strong><a href="http://www.freebsd.org" target="_blank">FreeBSD</a></strong>. Fazia tempo que eu queria aprender a mexer mais a fundo nele, mas faltava uma finalidade pra me incentivar. Até agora não consegui configurar a placa de rede sem fio, uma D-Link DWL-510. O jeito foi deixar o gabinete do lado do roteador.</p>
<p>Aguardem dicas de FreeBSD e gambiarras pra puxar torrent. <img src='http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Delicious no Chrome</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Esdras Beleza</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chrome]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Até pouco tempo atrás, quem queria usar Delicious no Google tinha que criar botões na barra de bookmarks com gambiarras em JavaScript. Agora temos uma extensão (não-oficial do Delicious) que já nos livra desse serviço. No momento, ela só faz o que está descrito na figura: adiciona um novo bookmark no Delicious e mostra links [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Até pouco tempo atrás, quem queria usar Delicious no Google tinha que criar botões na barra de bookmarks com gambiarras em JavaScript. Agora temos uma <a href="https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gclkcflnjahgejhappicbhcpllkpakej" target="_blank">extensão</a> (não-oficial do Delicious) que já nos livra desse serviço.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-62" title="Delicious para Chrome" src="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/delicious-para-chrome.png" alt="" width="282" height="190" />No momento, ela só faz o que está descrito na figura: adiciona um novo bookmark no Delicious e mostra links para seus bookmarks e inbox do Delicious.</p>
<p>Não há integração dos bookmarks do Delicious com o Chrome, por exemplo. Como nunca gostei de misturar os bookmarks, achei suficiente: simples e funcional.</p>
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		<title>Transmission</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Esdras Beleza</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BitTorrent]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eu estava procurando, esses dias, um bom cliente para baixar torrents.  Queria um programa mais leve: eu estava usando o Vuze, mas para uma tarefa simplória de baixar torrents usar o Vuze é matar mosca com canhão, já que ele tem muito mais recursos do que eu realmente usava. O próprio site do Vuze já [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eu estava procurando, esses dias, um bom cliente para baixar torrents.  Queria um programa mais leve: eu estava usando o <a href="http://www.vuze.com/" target="_blank">Vuze</a>, mas para uma tarefa simplória de baixar torrents usar o Vuze é matar mosca com canhão, já que ele tem muito mais recursos do que eu realmente usava. O próprio site do Vuze já o descreve como &#8220;o mais poderoso cliente BitTorrent do mundo&#8221;, mas eu não precisava de tamanha munição.</p>
<p>Queria um programa que pudesse rodar em background e ser controlado de outro computador, assim eu poderia, por exemplo, pôr um torrent para baixar usando o computador do trabalho e encontrar os arquivos quando chegasse em casa. No meio dessa busca, o <a href="http://www.silveiraneto.net/" target="_blank">Silveira</a> me sugeriu o <a href="http://www.transmissionbt.com/" target="_blank">Transmission</a>, e também me mandou um <a href="http://xisberto.blogspot.com/2009/02/cliente-torrent-em-background.html" target="_blank">artigo do Xisberto</a> tratando do programa.</p>
<p>O Transmission pode rodar de várias maneiras: como daemon, assim que o serviço inicia, ou como um programa comum, com interface gráfica (Qt, GTK e Mac). As interfaces são simples, porém funcionais. Abaixo, o screenshot da interface em GTK:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Screenshot-Transmission.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-57" title="Screenshot - Transmission" src="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Screenshot-Transmission-300x238.png" alt="Interface GTK do Transmission" width="300" height="238" /></a></p>
<p>Também há uma interface web que pode controlar o daemon ou o cliente gráfico que você estiver usando. A interface é similar à do cliente gráfico, e baseada no look &amp; feel do Mac:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Screenshot-Transmission-Web-Interface.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-58" title="Interface web do trasmission" src="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Screenshot-Transmission-Web-Interface-300x217.png" alt="Interface web do Transmission" width="300" height="217" /></a></p>
<p>O site do Transmission possui uma <a href="http://www.transmissionbt.com/resources.php" target="_blank">seção de add-ons</a> que vale a pena consultar. Há várias maneiras alternativas de controlar o Transmission à distância, e um <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/wintransmission/" target="_blank">porte do Transmission para Windows</a> a caminho.</p>
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		<title>Lista de celulares com Linux</title>
		<link>http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/2010/01/30/lista-de-celulares-com-linux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Esdras Beleza</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mobile phones]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tenho feito uma pesquisa de smartphones por aí, já que pretendo adquirir um celular um pouco melhor nas próximas semanas. Acabei me deparando com uma seção do site Linux for Devices apenas com telefones celulares equipados com Linux. A lista, que parece ser atualizada com frequência, contém fotos e reviews de cada aparelho, como o [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tenho feito uma pesquisa de smartphones por aí, já que pretendo adquirir um celular um pouco melhor nas próximas semanas. Acabei me deparando com <a href="http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/Linux-For-Devices-Articles/Linux-Mobile-Phones/" target="_blank">uma seção do site Linux for Devices apenas com telefones celulares equipados com Linux</a>. A lista, que parece ser atualizada com frequência, contém fotos e reviews de cada aparelho, como o Nokia N900 (com Maemo) e Motorola Droid (com Android).</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-43" title="Motorola Droid" src="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/droid.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="374" /></p>
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		<title>Análise do Haiku OS R1/alpha 1</title>
		<link>http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/2010/01/21/teste-do-haiku-os-alpha-1r1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Esdras Beleza</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[BeOS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Já faz um tempo que acompanho a trajetória do Haiku, o projeto que tenta fazer um clone livre e aberto do finado BeOS, sistema operacional encerrado quando a Be foi comprada pela Palm. Desde então, vários projetos surgiram para dar continuidade ao BeOS, dentre eles o OpenBeOS, que acabou se tornando o Haiku. A primeira [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Já faz um tempo que acompanho a trajetória do <a title="HaikuOS" href="http://www.haiku-os.org" target="_blank">Haiku</a>, o projeto que tenta fazer um clone livre e aberto do finado BeOS, sistema operacional encerrado quando a Be foi comprada pela Palm. Desde então, vários projetos surgiram para dar continuidade ao BeOS, dentre eles o OpenBeOS, que acabou se tornando o Haiku.</p>
<p>A primeira versão alfa do Haiku <a href="http://www.haiku-os.org/news/2009-09-13_haiku_project_announces_availability_haiku_r1alpha_1" target="_blank">foi liberada em setembro</a>, e há downloads disponíveis de imagens ISO e máquinas virtuais para VirtualBox e VMware. Para poder tomar conhecimento do procedimento de instalação, acabei baixando o ISO mesmo para testar no VirtualBox.</p>
<p>O procedimento de instalação é bastante enxuto, pelo menos por enquanto: há apenas um particionador e um botão para prosseguir.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Screenshot2.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14" title="Particionador do HaikuOS" src="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Screenshot2-300x225.png" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Screenshot2.png"></a><a href="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Screenshot3.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15" title="Instalação em progresso" src="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Screenshot3-300x225.png" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p>O boot do Haiku é bastante rápido, mesmo numa VM. O desktop padrão traz atalhos pro HD e documentação na área de trabalho e a deskbar, que é onde temos o menu que nos permite acessar os aplicativos e configurações, além da barra de tarefas. A parte gráfica do sistema está bem trabalhada, com fontes TrueType suavizadas e look &amp; feel confortável.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Screenshot6.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16" title="Desktop padrão do Haiku" src="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Screenshot6-300x225.png" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p>O Haiku já traz suporte nativo a teclado brasileiro ABNT2, sem a menor dor de cabeça para configurar:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" title="Configuração de teclado brasileiro no Haiku" src="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Screenshot7-300x225.png" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></p>
<p>Ele também já acompanha o Firefox, devidamente portado para o Haiku com o nome de BeZillaBrowser, para evitar problemas de <em>branding</em> com o Firefox. Infelizmente é uma versão quase jurássica, a 2.0.0.22pre. Mas vale lembrar que estamos numa versão alfa e nem todos os aplicativos são atualizados, alguns estão lá apenas para mostrar que eles existem e podem ser portados.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Screenshot7.png"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Screenshot8.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18" title="Firefox no Haiku" src="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Screenshot8-300x225.png" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p>Mas aí vem aquele velho teste cheio de frescuras: o Haiku já roda Flash? As pessoas não podem viver sem o Youtube. Uma simples busca no Google e descobri que já há <a href="http://adek336.republika.pl/haiku-gnash/" target="_blank">um porte do Gnash para o Haiku</a>. Consegui instalá-lo e abrir um vídeo no Youtube. No entanto, conforme o site do porte informa, o som só funciona em alguns nightly builds, e não funciona na versão alfa que baixei para testar. De qualquer forma, já nos mostra um progresso no desenvolvimento do sistema para usuários finais.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Screenshot12.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23" title="Flash no Firefox/Haiku" src="http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Screenshot12-300x225.png" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<div><strong>Conclusão:</strong> essa versão alfa R1 do Haiku mostra um sistema operacional simples e promissor. Ele me lembra bastante o Mac OS: um Unix (embora o Haiku ainda não tenha suporte multiusuário) simples de usar, fácil de configurar e já integrado a uma interface gráfica. Já temos em progresso <a href="http://br-linux.org/2010/beos-haiku-ganha-port-do-koffice-e-diversos-componentes-do-kde/" target="_blank">aplicações do KDE rodando no Haiku</a> com look &amp; feel nativo. Acredito que, em médio prazo, teremos mais um sistema amigável e cheio de aplicações para escolher.</div>
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