Weblog of Fernando Reig Matthies

Nicolás having fun

Had a great time in El Sauzal. Félix invited us to his parents house and Nicolás had great fun swimming in the pool and playing with the toys.

BMW presents GINA

BMW presents GINA, a new take on car design, materials, and flexibility.
The GINA replaces the traditional metal/plastic skin with a textile fabric skin that’s pulled taut around a frame of metal and carbon fiber wires.
Even the shape of the car can change. Fascinating and creative design study.

Bankinter outage

My bank here in Spain seems to have some problems, as their online banking service has not been available for a few hours now.
After calling there call center a few minutes ago, they didn’t gave me any solution other than wait. They didn’t tell when they expect the service to be Online again.
It seems their [...]

How I built my family a windmill

When he was 14, Malawian inventor William Kamkwamba built his family an electricity-generating windmill using spare parts and plans he found in a library book.

SUNW ticker rename to JAVA

Java needs an overhaul: “I like Jonathan Schwartz a lot, but I think that unless some drastic changes are made to Java, the move to JAVA as Sun’s ticker symbol is going to be as relevant as changing it to COBOL. I’m using Java less and less as time goes by, not more – the [...]

Microsoft and Yahoo, Sitting in a Tree

Great John Gruber posted the following thoughts a few months ago. I had this in my Drafts folder, waiting to have some time to discuss some ideas I had about it.
But you know what? I waited too much now it’s not going to happen but wanted to share this with you anyways.
In essence: A Yahoo [...]

Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo

Blaise Aguera y Arcas, an employee of Microsoft Live Labs, gives a talk at the TED2007 (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference about the much (and deservedly so) hyped Photosynth:

bgcolor follies

If you forget to set your site’s background color, your visitors may do it for you. A mini-photo gallery. Collect your own!
In three minutes, he found three sites that forgot this basic rule of web design.
Apple seems to have forgotten it’s background color at the Safari page. Don’t forget to check your own site as [...]

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Steve on iPod, iTunes and DRM

Steve Jobs has posted an essay over at apple.com where he discusses the reasons of the current DRM implementation on the iTunes store, the numbers behind music sold with and without DRM and three scenarios of what could happen in the future.
In a nutshell Apple’s alternative to DRM:

The third alternative is to abolish DRMs entirely. [...]