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My name is Pedro Alvarez and full time working designer and web-developer

I have in all my life ben intresting in computer and software. I bought my first computer when I was 16 and the year was 1984. In this time the computer had 1mb ram and the graphics was 256 colours, which at that time was fantastic... Click here to read full story

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Magic With iPad

We all know that iPad is a fantastic pad.

Even android fantaster agrees with that, even if there always are complains that flash cant be used on apples mobil devices.

Charlie Caper and Erik Rosales on d1gits have done a very nice presentation for Stockholm City with iPad

Can Appel computer get virus?

YES THEY CAN….

I was reading an article in a Swedish IT-magazine today about virus attacks on Apple machines, and I could not help but smile, as they say, “malicious joy is the only true joy.”

Not that I have anything against Appel, im self a proud owner of one iPad and up til 2 months ago I was using iPhone, and have done for almost 4 years.

But I had a discussion with a close IT friend a year ago, which made very clear to me that linux and Appel as he runs, will NEVER have a virus attack.

Self I run Linux and Windows, and Windows has these problems, we all know that. But I also mean that any system can be hacked, and I also said I do not think it takes a long time before we have a virus for Appel machines because of the increased popularity.

The discussion ended up, more or less, that I was a compleat idiot when it came to security. In the last 6 month it have happen a lot….
In September last year Linux Foundation shout down Several of the ITS sites, Including Linux.com, after Discovering suspicious activity on the ITS servers. That Appear to Be related to the Trojan that was found on kernel.org, and later, the same year a virus attack against Apple machines was a fact.

We are still very good friends, but he would not discuss the safety of his machines with me anymore

First systemupdate on Sony Experia P

The I have got the first system update

just installed a systemupdate for my new Sony Experia P, will see if its get more stable and less battery consuming.

The phone have had 2 kernal crashes the last 2 days, and as I have said befor the battery is not lasting a day with normal use.
Yesterday I talked to cheif developer for the model, and he inform me that the new system update will solve lots of problem, we will wait and see.

My new toy

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This is my new toy

I have as developer got a new phone, Sony Experia.
And people that follow my blog know that I have for the last 4,5 years been a big lover of iPhone, I dont know if this is on the way to be changed… But I must say, I am very impressed of the phone. Thue its have one problem, the batteri-time is not the best, but I need to have in mind that this telefon is not on the market yet, and the developers of the phone are still working on the hardware and software… Will keep you updated about this issues

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Why are people so naiv

Today I needed to logg in to a clients Facebook to connect he’s blog with with the same. I told him to change he’s password and give it to me to enter.
He told me that itwasent nessesary he trust me, and gave me his password directley over the phone. This wasent the worst, the worst was that hes pasword was hes name following of 123456. I asked him checked that if he thought that was a good password, and hes answer was ofcourse with that number-combination its not easy.

I have sad it before… A good password IS atleast 8 caracther and a combination od lower case, upper case, number and a specialsign.

The ironic of this client is that he have special looks in hes house he pay for alarm, and then something that easy and FREE he dont care about.

Mobil World Congress 2012

Then I am in Barcelona and on the expo Mobil World Congress.

And yes, this year its even bigger then last year.
As expected, Android and App-Market are the big things even this year, but its lot more here, and I am glad that I will be here 4 days, it wouldbe impossible to go thru everything in less days.

I will update WebAlvarez from this event

IT over 15 years from April (2011)

Much has happened since we started using the data and the Internet regularly.

Here are some history………..

March 5 years ago.

  • Apple celebrates 30 years.
  • Apple releases the software “Boat Camp” that makes it possible to install Windows on Intel-based Macs.

March 10 years ago

  • The company Gatekeeper announces a competition where they promised up to $ 10,000 to anyone who can get past their firewall.
  • Intel comes out with a new and faster processor, the Pentium 4 at 1.7 gigahertz.

March 15 years ago

  • Microsoft has delivered 30 million copies of Windows 95.
  • Apple comes with a quarterly report showing a loss of $ 740,000,000.
  • Yahoo shares are introduced to a value of $ 13, when the day is over, they have rise to $ 43
  • Palm begins to deliver Palm Pilot

Previous months

Be careful with your Twitter

This is not my article, I find it on a Swedish site, CS Jobb, and has just translated it. I also would like a send the credit to the author Rebecca Guzman for the article.

Today Twitter is a strong medium for companies to hire people, or to check on their employees. This has led to problems for many, today young people publishes all sorts of things online without thinking, this can, and has made problems for people, that twittering or posting things on their Facebook.

Here are five people who did not got the job or was fired from their jobs after twittering


1. Comedian Gilbert Gottfried, who was the insurance company AFLAC voice for decades, made it distasteful choice to make jokes about Japan-disaster on Twitter. One of the jokes was “What the Japanese have in common with @ Howard Stern? Well they are both radioactive “. Aflec, which has 75 percent of its market in Japan, chose to kick Gottfried.

2. CNN editor Octavia Nasr was fired in July 2010 after she ruled on the controversial Muslim leader Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah on Twitter. In connection with his death, she twittered “I am sorry Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah death … One of Hezbollah’s major leaders who I respect.” It was a big uprising in the media and her credibility as a journalist was questioned. As a result, she eventually got fired.

3. 22-year-old Connor Riley tweeted about a job offer from Cisco: “Cisco offered me a great a job! Now I have to weigh a fat paycheck to commute to San Jose and a job I hate. “A Cisco employee saw the comment and replied:” Anyone who intends to hire you is probably interested to know that you will hate the job. ” The result was obvious that he got the job.

4. That was when the consultant, who worked for the Detroit-based automaker Chrysler, once again stuck in a traffic jam on the way to work that he lost patience, logged onto his employer’s Twitter account and wrote “Ironically, that Detroit is known as” motor city “when no one here even manage to run a f *** ing car “. To top it all was consultant adviser in social media for Chrysler, which immediately reacted to the consultant’s Twitter comments and the consultant fired.

5. Attorney Jeff Cox, who works in the state of Indiana, called the police on Twitter to “live rounds” against demonstrators in Wisconsin. It all led to a Twitter debate with journalist Adam Weinstein, who works at the news magazine Mother Jones, where Cox, inter alia, the demonstrators called for political enemies. Weinstein chose to publish details of their discussion in an article the following week. Then got Cox to leave his post.

Google get smalller in China

Google loses market in China…

China’s largest Internet portal Sina have replaced Google’s services with its own technology. This is a real setback for Google’s presence in the country.

Google has lost market in China since January last year, when the company that it will not longer agree to censor the content to comply with the Chinese government’s rules. Google have also accused China of blocking the e-mail service Gmail, which, however, is denied by China

Google is one of the few companies that have stood up to China, but according to Google, it is not just China that censor, they claims that more than 40 governments worldwide use of large-scale censorship of information via the Internet.

Related, post about this:
Google will not censor any longer
Google is challenging China
Internet is not open
Facebook And China = ?

iOS bigger then Linux

Those of you who follow me here knows that I came in contact with Linux by a friend back in 1993.

At that time the installation was not graphic, and I have said before that Linux ‘Will Never” grow strong for the home users as long as this not was sorted.
In late 2004, the first vesionen of Ubunto came and it have graphical interface.

Linux began to grow, got more and more users, but it never went that big as I thought it should be. And now, many years after has iOS for Apple iPad passed Linux all distrubation in less then one year

As I’ve written before, Windows 7 is the most widely used OS in the U.S. by 32%, followed by 31% for Windows Xp, Windows Vista, with 19% and Apple Mac X by nearly 15%
Linux has only 0.7% and is then passed by the iOS for iPad with 1.20%. Another thing we should have in mind, is that the IOS is only used by iPad (mobiles are not included) while the other OS is used on both laptops and desktops


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