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Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0 Teaser, by Thiago Costa

Marc Pampols — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:18:10 +0000

I found an interesting demostration video of a new fluid simulation framework called Lagoa Multiphysics, from the company Lagoa Technologies Inc.

Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0 - Teaser from Thiago Costa on Vimeo.

Mac Lleida, new group, new website

Marc Pampols — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:20:00 +0000

Mac Lleida presents their first web site: maclleida.org

The Mac Users Group (also known as, in Catalan: 'GUM: Grup d'Usuaris Macintosh') of Lleida, to which I belong, has presented its new website coinciding with the first anniversary of the Facebook group. Last saturday we had a great dinner with the entire crew after a public presentation of the website. (Keynote speech at the bar :D)

With Mac Lleida we want to create a place to share opinions, articles, questions and experiences with the world of Apple and Macintosh. Today the group has over 100 friends in facebook group from the region of Lleida.

Our main goal is, of course, to know new and great people that use Apple products in they everyday life, work, or wathever, and share lots of beers (but also breakfasts) with them.

So... join us! www.maclleida.org

Insanely Great Tees, how to treat customers well

Marc Pampols — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:56:47 +0000

I want to share something that happened this week, because not many shops will have such a good response with their clients, and they deserve a mention.

Insanely Great Tees is an online store where you can buy some funny and "geek looking" shirts, so we made an order some weeks ago with some friends and we received a wrong shirt, one we wanted was the "Steve Jobs for President" and we received the "I'm a Mac", so we sent an email to the customers support and the answer was really fast, they told us we could keep the wrong shirt and immediately sent us the good one.

We live in Spain and this store is in the US, our shirt arrived in only 2 days.

How to install extensions on Google Chrome

Marc Pampols — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:59:24 +0000

Although it's still under development and you can only use them with the Dev channel version, I find them very promising! oh, and you can install, activate and use them without restarting the browser.

In my case I installed Google Wave, GMail, Facebook and Google Reader notifiers, and here's how you can do it:

Google Chrome with extensions

Follow this easy steps:

1.- Install Google Chrome Dev Channel
2.- Go to Chrome Extensions website and search for your favourite plugins
3.- Click the "Add to Chrome" button, and it's done!

You can also activate, deactivate and setup extensions with the chrome://extensions/ link

Official Leopard wallpaper in a TV ad? WTF?

Marc Pampols — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:24:10 +0000

I've seen this one today in a national tv channel... if you look carefully at the second 00:17 of this medicine ad called "EspidiDOL", you'll see the Mac OS X Leopard official wallpaper.

Oh my Jobs!

Great Pixar parody from College Humor [Video]

Marc Pampols — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:43:51 +0000

Sadly and funny! watch this Pixar parody by College Humor, really, don't miss this one.

A bug in Snow Leopard capturing maximized windows?

Marc Pampols — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:57:43 +0000

I have a MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard 10.6.1, and if I try to make a screenshot of a window with cmd+shift+4+spacebar, and the window is maximized, the image appears a few pixels cropped in the right and bottom parts... it seems that Leopard is making a screenshot at the same max resolution (1280x800 in my case) but there's no space when adding the border shadows.

As some friends reported, if you take a screenshot using Preview (File - Take Screen Shot - Window) it does the right thing, but without the border shadows, and it seems to be working in Leopard

Are you experiencing the same issue?

Original capture (cmd+shift+3)

Window capture (cmd+shift+4+spacebar)

Preview Window capture

100 Snow Leopard Tips, Tricks, and Features from Mac|Life

Marc Pampols — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:33:13 +0000

Mac|Life collects 100 tips and tricks for the new Snow Leopard released by Apple a week ago.

A must-read article if you're running MacOS X 10.6

Link: 100 Snow Leopard Tips, Tricks, and Features

Some photos from my trip to Berlin

Marc Pampols — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:07:23 +0000

Building Projections

Marc Pampols — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:01:36 +0000

I've never seen one of these in live, but it must be interesting...

There are some different companies playing with this technique, they are playing motion videos, 3D animations and games directly to the buildings!

Take a look at this example from easyweb.fr

There's also a video in Video Gallery section with a demo of what they are doing these days in Madrid, in the Telefonica building in Gran Via

Building Projections in Telefonica Gran Via (Madrid)

Link: Easyweb.fr