Kostadin Luchansky

Muambeiras eufóricas num voo da TAAG de Cabinda para Luanda - hilário! (audio)

Caros leitores,

Na semana passada tive a sorte e o prazer de conhecer Cabinda durante um "photo assignment". Noutro post irei descrever em mais pormenor a minha boa e inesquecível estadia naquela província Angolana, como também as excelentes impressões que deixou em mim, mas agora este post está relacionado com algo diferente...

Trata-se de uma gravação que tive a sorte de conseguir fazer com o telefone no voo da TAAG DT125 de Cabinda para Luanda.  Um audio de 15 minutos no qual se ouve a confusão criada por um grupo de quatro Muambeiras eufóricas que transportam mercadoria entre Ponta Negra e Luanda via Cabinda. O audio é também bastante "educativo" para quem quer actualizar o seu dicionário de gíria ;)

É hilário! Espero que gostem também e que se divirtam! Estão bem vindos para deixar os vossos comentários na secção "comments" em baixo! 

Boa audição e um abraço para todos.

PS.: Quem não conhece o termo "Muamba"/"Muambeiras" pode ler este artigo da SAPO:http://noticias.sapo.ao/info/artigo/1079149.html 

01 Voo Dt125_ TAAG Cabinda _ Luanda

 

Good surprises in Lion Mail for Mac - Lion OS X has borrowed even more from iOS

Just discovered, occasionally, some more iPad & iPhone (iOS) functionality in Lion Mac Mail.

If you type in Portuguese but have no PT keyboard, you can correctly write the word "coração" just by pressing down the keys of letters "c" and "a" and consequently stroke on the keyboard the corresponding digit or select the correct character from the pop-up dialogue, just like in iOS.

Example: see the image below...

Click on Ã with the mouse or strike key 6

Great, hein?

 

How to install Mac OS X Lion on your other authorized Macs without downloading the 4GB App over and over again.

Do you have more than one Mac at home? Do you want to update all your Snow Leopards to Lions

Unfortunately, after you upgrade to Lion, the installer is deleted automatically and you have to re-download 4GB of data over the Internet again. Here in Angola with the low bandwidth speeds this is a huge pain in the a**.

But in less than 24hrs a guy figured out how to retrieve the Lion Installer App using Time Machine to create a bootable DVD. 

Here is how:  

Enter time machine and go to your .../Applications folder. Go back to a place in time & space between the time you finished downloading Lion from the Apple App Store and before you upgraded to Lion. There you will find a 3.6GB application called “Install Mac OS X Lion.app”. Select it and click on restore.

This will copy the file to the current point in time, a.k.a. today, inside the …/Applications folder.

Now follow these steps to burn the image:

1. right-click the Lion file and select “Show Package Contents” from the drop-down menu;
2. drill down, find and open the “SharedSupport” folder and locate a disc image file called “InstallESD.dmg”;
3. copy “InstallESD.dmg” to your Desktop. This is the Lion disk image and from it you’re going to create the bootable DVD; 
4. launch Disk Utility, pop in a blank DVD, select the “InstallESD.DMG” file, and click on “Burn”. Once completed, your bootable DVD should launch as a new volume on your desktop.

That’s it! You should now have a bootable install disk of OS X Lion to use on all of your authorized Macs! This is not illegal as Apple by default lets you buy Lion once for $29 and then download and install it on all your Macs.

Do make sure all the machines are trully yours!

 

The #1 top rated photo at World Photography Organization is Angola Image Bank's foggy evening shot of the road at Serra da Leba

The World Photography Organisation (WPO), which proudly supports professional, amateur and student photography and lends a global platform for the photographic industry to communicate, network and showcase current trends in Photojournalism, Fine Art and Commercial Photography, is showcasing the top rated 500 images from the 2010 Sony World Photography Awards 2011 competition and, for now, the first place is taken by Angola Image Bank's foggy evening shot of the road at Serra da Leba taken by Kostadin Luchansky in January of 2010. The competition ends on January the 15th, 2011.

This photo and many more fine art images from Angola can be licensed at Angola Image Bank's web site with rights managed, royalty free or personal use licenses.

Skype for iPhone gets video chat/calling, works over Wi-Fi + 3G and with computers.

Talk face to face with video on Skype

Share that spectacular sight... show off those new shoes... include others in the big event... speak to clients face-to-face... Now Skype for iPhone lets you get more out of the moment with friends, family and even colleagues.

With other Skype users you can:

• Make free Skype-to-Skype voice and video calls over 3G and WiFi.
• Share video calls on Skype with people on iPhone, PC or Mac.
• Talk face-to-face or show what you're seeing with front- and rear-facing cameras.

Below is the official Skype video commercial...a bit too gay, but anyway: