Posts Tagged tech
My list of must-have apps on your Mac
In the forthcoming weeks I’ll substitute the Apple MacBook I’ve been using in the last 3 years with a brand new Apple machine (reason for this change can be seen here); during the intense usage of these years I’ve collected quite a bunch of software (most of which are opensource) that I WANT to have on my next machine because I found it really useful or personal productivity enhancer.
Free wi-fi in Italy
Story 1: My parents recently returned from a trip to the Greek islands. We’ve been able to arrange a Skype video chat nearly every night at aperitif time: every bar had a free wifi connection. Every bar.
Story 2: my friend Gianfranco Chicco recently returned from a 6 month stay in Amsterdam (he’s the PICNIC conference marketing manager) and his main problem in Milan (!!) was to find open wifi networks (let me stress it: not FREE networks. OPEN. He was ready to pay for a connection.
How could you explain this?
The internet of things in my bathroom
I’d like to thank Paolo Guglielmoni for asking me to write a guest post on his Geek Advertising blog; Paolo is Creative Director at LeoBurnett and has created this fantastic idea of merging his Advertising background with his Geek passion. The site is really worth a look.
If you can read Italian (or if you can stand the Google Italian to English automatic translations) you’ll find my thoughts on Internet of Things and how oure children will laugh at non-connected objects the same way we laugh at audiotapes.
Oh, and I also speak about the Withings, a superbly designed wi-fi scale that has found its home in my bathroom.
