http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/

I really can’t remember a time when the MacRumor’s buyer’s guide showed all orange, red warning without a single Apple item with the green, go-&-buy, logo at its side.

Most notably MacPro is at the point of be terminated or completely revamped for Pro usage, but given Apple’s trends with servers and storage i fear the first option is forthcoming.

In a months or less, I hope, everything will be settled out … I’m waiting with anxiety to buy a top of the line iMac for my wife’s studio, and given the €2000+ cost and the 6 days estimation for the new line announcement I have to wait, even if this means loosing a good sale deal ending at the end of the month!

kinda revival for who, like me, has lived the ’90 mp3 boom…

(more in the comments)

What I can say with a reasonable degree of certainty is that I do my best to write original essays and observations with professionalism, avoiding superficiality and, most of all, avoiding covering things I don’t know much about. I do what I do here because I love it and because I want to provide quality content. This, not leaving comments enabled, is what drives my writing and what keeps me humble, honest, accurate. And judging from how some readers have reacted after I closed comments here — they kept writing me via email or Twitter — I can say I haven’t lost touch with my audience.
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via Riccardo Mori » Whose humility?.

Riccardo’s has smashed down, with this paragraph, the ridiculous concept of one-side humility/respect for others claimed as a need for blog authors, and never for commenters.

Thus said until the volume of comments doesn’t grow exponentially and/or causes me “pain” moderating it, I’ll have all my webspaces open to comments. Even Tumblr (with it’s Disqus integration).

Commenting let me interact in first place with people I read/follow and made me ‘known’ to them and their follower, gathering attention and – hopefully – some consideration on my writings and person.

Since Lion‘s release, with it’s different Java virtual machine, ipernity members using the latest release of the Mac OS X were left out of options in terms of desktop tools to use to upload their documents on the popular photographic social network.

While the official team is at work on this aspect, after the general system upgrade they made which I’ve reported in previous posts, some users decided to take this task on their own hands. The fruit of this work has resulted in ipxUploader.

After a period in closed beta, in which I had the chance to participate and submit some bug, now with the release of the version 0.9.7 of the software this beta has become public.

So, if you’re on ipernity and use a Mac like me, take your time to download, install and use this tool!

First I fell in love with the (free) Ari theme. Then, while helping my friend Stef(igno) to update his (italian’s) blog we decided to invest  12€ in the Nilmini theme. Last week I provided (for free) to Ellen and Manuel an italian translation of that theme.

Then I’ve brought their Piha theme too just in time to see the previews, and later on the final release, of Nori. Nori aims to be (and probably is) the first WordPress theme out there developed mainly and in first place for mobile devices’ browsers, and later ‘adapted’ to normal ones.

Since they put their money were their mouth is they’ve adopted it on their website and so I had the chance to see a real deployment of that theme and not just a 5 post wide demo. Here are the screenshots!

(the last one is what you see enabling the Reader feature in Mobile Safari). What do you think of the theme?

Let me know in the comments…

Things have changed last dec, 19th when a new announcement was made on the official blog:

We are pleased to announce that the important work done on the ipernity technical plateform is now **completed**. Phew! This work was necessary to enable ipernity evolve while ensuring a high quality service.

We can now start again working on improvements and new features that everyone expects.You can already see some changes on the site that will make your life easier.

For instance :

1. a new uploader. It launches faster and doesn’t need any plugins (to try it, click the “Upload” link at the top left of ipernity pages, then select “New uploader”). We’re also going to replace the old uploader software iperUpload by a new one, more efficient and compatible with most of PC configurations (including Mac OS X)
2. High Definition video. You can now upload HD videos up to 90MB each if you have a free account and up to 500MB if you are PRO (a very good reason to become PRO!)
3. Automatic geotagging: new content with GPS data is now automatically placed on your world map.

… and many other improvements and bug fixes here and there that we invite you to discover.

BTW, ipernity is now available in Russian. Polish is coming soon.

Well, this is just a beginning but we wanted to share it with you for Christmas.

We take this opportunity to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year, and look forward to seeing you in 2012 for another good news …

The ipernity Team at your service

PS: this new update may require fine-tuning. If you’re experiencing problems, please let us know.

So, in brief, if I want security I can use https connection, but if I have a Windows Mobile device, a Nokia or plan to use MSN Explorer I will not be able to see my datas.

If I say #fail do I do any wrong ???

3192 bookmarks collected, with over 500 tags surely can testify that.

This has come to an end last october when, reading Barbara’s post (in italian, you’ll need to translate it) and following the bad Avos moves in managing this social bookmarking platform as reported by Nicola I’ve decided to follow them and jump on the PINBOARD.

Pinboard is a bookmarking website for introverted people in a hurry.

The focus of the site is less on socializing, and more on speed and utility. The goals of the site, in order of priority, are:

Never lose data
Be ridiculously fast
Offer useful features
Our users pay a one-time signup fee that goes up by a small amount with each new signup. In return, they get a fast, spam-free service and prompt support.

We also offer archival accounts, at a cost of $25/year. An archival account will store a complete cached copy of every bookmark you save, and enable full-text search for your account. (The one-time signup fee counts towards your first year’s subscription.)

You don’t have to make the mistake to really believe on that “introvert” slogan. In fact PINBOARD let’s you use your bookmarks in the way you want. If you don’t believe me just look in the footer where you can find the RSS of my bookmarks collected over there.

For example needing a free (like in beer) file renamer for the Mac OS X platform to suggest to a friend I found NameChanger by MRR Software. Then I’ve begun to dig the website and discovered that:

MRR Software is composed of one guy (MRR) writing OS X software in his free time. I’m learning by doing, and my software has come a long way since my initial effort.

In fact he also wrote Curb.
Curb is the proverbial golden egg. It offers a functionality long needed and before never found.

Curb is designed to facilitate emptying the trash from removable media such as USB Keys.

When files are deleted on removable media, it is stored in a special trash folder on the media. These files take up room, robbing your drive of free space. Ordinarily to remove these files the user must empty their own trash, which includes files you’ve deleted on the local system. This is not always desirable.

With Curb, emptying trash from a USB key becomes as easy as drag and drop. Drop any number of mounted USB keys onto Curb and each one will have the trash removed, all without losing your local trash.

Are you exited on this like me? Well go to MRR Software website and download the apps! And donate to the author, it’s Chirstmas time too!!!