Lidl...please, save us all!

Being a student these days is craziness, working part time and studying full time doesn't leave you time to do anything else.

One of the biggest problem right now is the money.
This period of huge inflaction with a new term in our dictionary: Credit Crunch, is not helping us, so we need to survive somehow.

Our daily shopping is very important, we need to chose wisely every single thing and go around from supermarket to supermarket searching for bargain. Tesco and Asda are the middle way, Sainsbury's is expensive and Marks and Spencer is untouchable.

But, yes there is a but, the germans saved us: they brought LIDL!

Cheap prices and a lot of different stuff to buy. Is the house of every wise student, ok, maybe you can argument the quality of some products, but in general is not bad at all. Today 4 brave guys showed up in the store...Go LIDL Men, go save all the poor students around the world, show them the way!



P.S. the worst cheap halloween dress ever...

Apple Event: Macbook

Everything as predicted?

Probably yes, maybe the Steve Jobs' blood pressure is the real news:



New Macbook and Macbook Pro, a new Apple cinema Display and a bumped Macbook Air. A little bump for the processor frontside bus and a new graphic integrated chip thanks to Nvidia.

Here are the Macbook Pro combinations:

$1999: 15.4-inch LED backlit display. 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 3MB L2 Cache, 2GB 1066MHz DDR3 Memory, Nvidia 9400m and 9600m GT 256mb, 250GB hard drive and SuperDrive, Glass Multi-Touch Trackpad.

$2499: 15.4-inch LED backlit display. 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 6MB L2 Cache, 4GB 1066MHz DDR3 Memory, Nvidia 9400m and 9600m GT 512mb, 320GB hard drive and SuperDrive, Glass Multi-Touch Trackpad

Engadget's Hands on
Gizmodo's Hands on


Here are the Macbook combinations:

$1299: 13.3-inch LED backlit display, 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 3MB L2 Cache, 2GB 1066MHz DDR3 memory, 9400M GeForce, 160GB hard drive and SuperDrive, Glass Multi-Touch Trackpad.

$1599: 13.3-inch LED backlit display, 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 3MB L2 Cache, 2GB 1066MHz DDR3 memory, 9400M GeForce, 250GB hard drive, backlit keyboard, Glass Multi-Touch Trackpad.

$999: The old white Macbook.

Engadget's Hands on
Gizmodo's Hands on


Here are the Macbook Air combinations (Available on November):

$1799: 13.3-inch LED backlit display, 1,6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 6MB L2 Cache, 2GB 1066MHz DDR3 memory, 9400M GeForce, 130GB hard drive, Glass Multi-Touch Trackpad.

$2499: 13.3-inch LED backlit display, 1,86 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 6MB L2 Cache, 2GB 1066MHz DDR3 memory, 9400M GeForce, 128GB SSD, Glass Multi-Touch Trackpad.


The New Apple Cinema Display (Available on November):

$899: 24-inch, LED backlight, Built-in iSight, 1920x1200 resolution, stereo speakers, 3 port usb hub, A built-in multi cable (magsafe connector, usb, and mini display port).

Engadget's Hands on
Gizmodo's Hands on


The final Q&A gave us a good point, Jobs Said:

Blu-ray is a bag of hurt. I don’t mean from the consumer point of view. It’s great to watch movies, but the licensing is so complex. We’re waiting until things settle down, and waiting until Blu-ray takes off before we burden our customers with the cost of licensing.

My point is: the Blu-ray won the format war but the numbers are not going in the right direction. Why Sony do not team up with Apple? Could be a good move in this complicated chess match versus the market, or not?

New MacBook, the day before. Brick, Blu-ray, new Nvidia chip and low prices.

Are you ready?

Tomorrow is the big day, Apple will end all the rumors around the new Macbook.
Actually seem that everything as been shown, from the chinese pic of the new skin with the new manifacturing process (Brick):







to the new MCP79 platform chipsets from Nvidia predicted by the technology journalist Ryan Shrout that will replace the actual Intel X1300 integrated graphic chip.

A new Blu-ray player with the blessing of Kevin Digg Rose and the obvious bump of the processors.

Seem that this time the price will significally slow down with 899$ for the entry level.

As usual, we will see.

MacOSX music videoclip

Long time ago I saw this video and it was pretty impressive, today I went trough it again and still the same sensation.
Just watch it, I think it worth the effort:

Nokia goes Touch!

Is the 5800 Xpress Music the new Touch screen phone made by Nokia.
It has to fight against the obvious iPhone (yes, is impossible to do a post about mobiles without mentioning the Apple phone. Boring, I know).
The price is very aggressive, 279€ at launch (plus vat).
It has a 3,2 megapixel camera with Zeiss lens and a dual led flash. Is entirely touch screen and has a modified version of symbian (not the Sony Ericsson UIQ).
It's support 3G HSDPA, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. It has a 3,2" screen with a resolution of 640x360 (16:9 aspect ratio) up to 16 millions of colors.
The memory is external, you can go up to 16gb with MicroSD HC.

Here we have a video (found on youtube) that shows a bit of functions (sorry for the music...):



Official 5800 Express Music (Nokia) Site

Official press realease Nokia 5800 Xpress Music

The Engadget's Hands-on of Nokia 5800 Express Music


Is not bad, I like it. It's a bit too laggy but I like it.

Useless or not?

The line between a Useful thing and a Useless one sometime is sooooo thin:

The Metronome:



A canvass with tons of funky brush:



A Psychedelic flight between nowhere:

Nintendo DSi

At this Tokyo Games Show Nintendo formalized the new DS model: the DSi.



It got a 3 megapixel camera, a new online service called "DSi Shop" and bigger screens.
Nintendo kicked off the GBA slot (someone will cry probably), added an internal browser and the possibility to use an SD card.

Here we got the full spec compared to the DS lite (Thanks to Qj.net):

- Screen Size
DSi: 3.25 inch
DS Lite: 3.0 inch

- Screen
Both TFT LCD with 260,000 colors

- System Size
DSi: 137 x 74.9 x 18.9mm
DS Lite: 133 x 73.9 x 21.5mm

- Touch pen
DSi: 92mm length
DS Lite: 87.5mm length

- Power source
DSi: DSi AC adapter and special battery pack
DS Lite: DS Lite AC adapter and special battery pack

- Weight
DSi: 214g (battery pack and touch pen included)
DS Lite: 218g (battery pack, touch pen, GBA connector cover included)

- Charge time
DSi: 2 hours 30 minutes
DS Lite: 3 hours

- Battery life (** listed by screen brightness, lowest to highest)
DSi: 9-14 hours, 8-12, 6-9, 4-6, 3-4
DS Lite: 15-19 hours, 10-15, 7-11, 5-8

- Compatible software
DSi: DS software, DSi software
DS Lite: Game Boy Advance software, DS software

- Input method
DSi: DS card slot, SD memory card slot, AC adapter connector, stereo head phone/mic connector
DSLite: DS card slot, GBA card slot, AC adapter connector, stereo head phone/mic connector

The third incarnation of an amazing portable console. A geeky gif around the net say "It prints money!", I think it's true. Nintendo is playing the perfect match this generation, well done!




The sad thing is that we are not going to play with it so soon, we have to wait the 2009...