Andre Noel

This post is an adaptation of one post I made on my portuguese blog. It may contain some write errors (especially on manicurist part).

One day I was talking with my friend (and GSoC Guy) Lucas Veloso, and I solved a problem that bother many Linux users: the use of “win key”.

May we call “ubu key”?

Step-by-step for win key “removal” e ubu key “install”:

• With a nail sandpaper, sand the top of the key until you see no image there (be careful to don’t damage the key).
• Alternative: According Lucas, if you use a transparent nail polish on the key and remove it using acetone (after a while), the image can be erase easily.
• After remove the image, pass nail polish on the key.
• Print the image you want to put on the key on a normal sheet (i made it 0,6cm x 0,6cm).
• Pass transparent nail polish on both sides of the sheet over the image. The sheet will become a little “plastic”.
• Cut the image carefully, using a knife.
• Paste the image on the key (you may paste with the nail polish) and pass more nail polish to fix it and protect.
• The end.

Wow, I’m talking like a manicurist…

Below is a picture of Lucas’ keyboard, in a different version, as you can see:

Another keyboard that I like is the one of Jose Vitor:

His girlfriend made it for him, inspired by my portuguese post.

PS: Here goes the template made with inkscape to create the “ubu key”.

PS2: Yesterday I saw one “Ubuntu keyboard” for sale. It looks nice…

I’ve just bought an ogg player (the box says MP3 Player, but I will use it to play ogg…). As many others, it doesn’t say that it plays ogg, but it do (look the picture above).

Funny part: Look the page of manual (translated below)…

Red part: Important: For unknown reasons some Windows XP doesn’t open automatically the window Removable Disk.

Go figure…

The Google Brasil’s Blog announced here the Android, which, they say, “is the first cell phone platform trully open. It includes operating system, user interface and applications – all in one software which runs on the cell phone, but without the barriers of proprietary software that hindered the innovation on the segment”.

The post also shows a video (from where I got the picture above) and call the developers to work on applications to this platform.