DriveNet’s Mac App Picks: Favorite Open Source/Free Guitar Apps for the practicing musician (2010)

Undoubtedly, one of the bigger benefits of going to grad school is the large amount of time that one can invest in constructive procrastination. As panamanian PhD Comics author Jorge Cham puts it:

So get out there and procrastinate. Procrastinate with purpose and with pride.

And this is exactly what I do when “I am suposed to be doing research”, I test Open Source/freeware mac applications compulsively until I find something that I like and I can make good use of

Mac Icon for Panasonic FZ35 Camera

Drivenet's Panasonic(c) FZ-35 Mac Icon Preview

Alright, since I am really into Mac Icons and I could not find a mac icon for my newly acquired FZ-35, I made one for myself and now I am sharing it with the world….

The following icons should be used for non-commercial personal purposes only.

Solved: a Snow Leopard bug that blocks Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail when activating Parental Controls

Snow Leopard is great… Maybe not. It has a few weird and annoying bugs and drawbacks that really hurt its functionality. There are graphic glitches on my macbook (2007) when running Plex and XBMC, the creepy data loss bug,and no parallels 2.5 free upgrade support, just to mention

NOFX @ Skatedra, Panama – Part 1: The Opening Bands, A critique in Spanglish

Skatedra @ Panamá 2009 - NOFX!

In this first part of my review of the Skatedra @ Panama, I will briefly go over of the opening bands that I saw: La Mojiganga, Capitán Ponche y 2 Huevos y 1 Camino in spanglish. Yes in spanglish because the gringos already messed with my brain and I think I can use both languages at the same time to better capture the essence of what I wish to

Dragon*con 2009

Gambit and Rogue

Howdy geeks of the universe! I took some hot pictures from Dragon*con 2009, enjoy 8)
Please help out to complete the names of the superheroes (or super villains)

How to open a wine bottle without a corkscrew (and how it may explode)

Continuing with the second video of Drivenet’s Quasi-Suspense series, we proudly present a thrilling video that shows how a bottle of wine may or may not explode while trying to open it without a corkscrew. Enjoy!

GT Buzz Icon Set for Mac

After frustrated attempts of finding a cool GT-Buzz Mac Icon on the web, I decided to make my own.

The following icons should be used for non-commercial personal purposes only.

Ever deaf, ever blind, forever numb…

Sick planet, sick humanity, stop!
the pleasant illusion, our consciousness rots
time repeats itself, in a fast spiral, downwards it goes

Jumping High – recurring dream

Caballitos de Totora. Huanchaco, Perú

Ever since I started skating, when I was an adolescent, I always had this dream that I could make the craziest tricks  when I would jump using my skates. It felt as if my jumps lasted so long that I would gain consciousness of those instants and would allow me enough freedom to move as I pleased. So being conscious of this ability, I jumped, spinned, did flips without the fear of falling in the ground and hurting myself. During the dreams I would perform several jumps consciously in locations that I frequent in the real world.

Now I am older and have stopped skating. But in one than more occasion I have had this dream where I can perform jumps similar to those I had during my skating days, this time, without my skates. One day I dreamed that I was in a highway, in a section that looks a lot like the section between Divisa and Penonome, with long straight roads dissected by rivers and with green trees on the sides of the road. This dream took place in a highway section nearby a river, and in the middle of the road, there were long vessels made out of woven straws,  just like the peruvian “caballitos de totora” except that these where really long and very flexible.  

Fix xterm launch from Terminal.app in Mac OS X 10.5 (display error solved!)

Ok, so recently I started playing with ported apps on Leopard using Fink and Macports. Specifically, I installed the ARB Package as indicated in http://greengenes.lbl.gov/mlds/.

In one of the steps of the painful procedure it is suggested that launching xterm from the Terminal.app should be enabled, so this is how I came across this techie challenge. After upgrading to the latest version of X11 from Quartz, and after installing Mac’s Xcode tools. I proceeded to launch the X11 Terminal window from the Terminal.app command line, by issuing the following command:

xterm

But I got the following error: