Use your cell phone as a remote control on Ubuntu

Finally I bought a USB bluetooth adapter to use on my Eee PC.

Sometime ago, I saw some tips on how to use the cell phone as a remote control. As my cell phone has bluetooth, and as I never used it for something useful, I was willing to test this feature.

I heard about amora, but it seems to work on super cell phones (not my case). I didn’t test it, so I don’t know if it will work for me, but before buy this adapter, I saw this post, talking about bluepad. It sounds like a good solution for mortals like me…

So I installed BluePad on Hardy (Ubuntu Beta) on my desktop and on Gutsy (Current Ubuntu) on my Eee PC. In both it works good. On Ubuntu I sent to the cell phone the part that runs on it.

The Gutsy bluetooth support is very good, but on Hardy it’s even better. I’m using bluepad + Ubuntu on class and speeches. Maybe I’ll record bluepad running on my Eee PC and put it on youtube… :)

I won an Eee PC!!!

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I won an Eee PC!!!!!

This morning I received a call from 4linux, saying that I am one of the winners!!!

Thanks to everyone that helped me voting on my phrase… Now I can see better the power of our community…

Now I’ll only wait it to let it to FISL!

find Chuck Norris

This one I received on my mail, but it’s worth to be here…

1. Go to Google
2. Type “find Chuck Norris”
3. Click on I’m Feeling Lucky

So this is Christmas

Christmas

So this is Christmas…

Time to give and receive gifts. A big big table with all the family…

I like this time… My wish is that in this Christmas time we remember the one who birth on this date… That “little child born in Bethlehem” who became the divisor of the history…

Remember that baby who became the man that carried over his shoulder the weight of the sin and died for we live…

A very merry Christmas for all and may Jesus be on every party tonight…

Image: José Vitor’s Blog

Why two standards? And now PDF?

Avi Alkalay translated to english the Jomar Silva’s Post about standards, ISO and etc. It’s a very good post.

It seems that all the mess Microsoft made about “ODF or OOXML” will repeat on the question “PDF or XPS”. Remeber: ODF and PDF are already standards, but Microsoft wants to force the use of their formats.

Microsoft has released Windows Vista along with a new standard for non-editable electronic documents, called XPS (XML Paper Specification), which uses the same packaging concepts of OpenXML (OpenPackaging Convention) to represent non-editable documents. Who guess where XPS is standardized as another “Open Standard” wins a gift… ECMA… A lot of creativity is not needed to understand that this standard will also be submitted to ISO through a FasTrack in the coming months, just following the OpenXML opened path to that.

I'm helping Andre Noel to win an Eee PC

A different Christmas

I’m helping Andre Noel to win an Eee PC

On this Christmas, instead of receive gifts from Noel, help Andre Noel to receive a notebook Asus Eee PC.

Just vote on my answer (translated to english by google translator). I’m near 500 votes.

Also help me to share it. Include a banner on your site typing this:

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To get a vertical banner like this:

Help me to win an Eee PC

or this:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://eeepc.andrenoel.com.br/andrenoel2_en.js"></script>

To get a horizontal banner like this:

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Celebrate.

Celebrate.

Yesterday me and my wife went out to celebrate our “dating anniversary”. “Uhn?” – you may think – “why to celebrate a ‘dating anniversary’ if you’re married?”

Here goes my simple tip: Celebrate.

It all begins on that dec 6th, when I knew I would like to live all my life on her side. We knew that God was joining us for a beautiful romance and on that day I ask her to marry me!

“Uhn?” – you think again – “Didn’t you tell that you start to date on that day?”

Exactly. But I also told that I knew I would like to live all my life on her side.

We married two years and four months ago, but happy for six! And every “dating anniversary”, marriage anniversary, or birthday are a new reason to thank God for the wonders of this years…

Have you already looked through your window at morning, saw that it was a beautiful day and thanked God for this?

Celebrate.