Giovanni Piller Cottrer, only when he want's to..

Really busy, but still alive

No Comments yet. posted in personal. 14th Apr.

I'm writing this post because some people sent me email wondering if I was still alive.
Well, the answer is YES, and let me add something more interesting before I go away again :)

Totally busy right now
Why did I Photoshopped it in this totally ugly way?
Because... I'm busy DSE :)

In these days I'm really really busy: a lot of things to study and some designs/sites to deliver.
I'm so busy/lazy that I don't event twit the way I used to (at least on my english profile, on the italian one I'm quite active).

BUT. let me update you on some things:

I've got some projects in mind (like usual..), and some of them should be fast to develop and show to the world
I've bought an iPhone (2G with 16GB) and sold my iPod Touch
I'm planning a secret trip outside europe so, don't tell anyone
I still love twitter!
I've got a couple of designs in mind that should rock
I'm developing something with symfony
I've discovered a bug on my notification system
I'm looking forward to record another episode of "The Macbiters Podcast" with Grendizer (sorry, only for Italian people)
tonight I'll stay at home since, unlike my friends, I've got a lovely and totally awesome cold!

oh, and maybe I'll fall in love with something these days. But I'm still not sure.

Well, see you soon guys! At least I think.. :)

And that’s my wordpress theme!

No Comments yet. posted in design. 2nd Feb.

As many people should know, I spent a lot of hours in the making of nowseriously.com, and that's because I wanted to start with a brand new website, new contents (before this blog I've always blogged in italian), new projects, and something cool to show.

During the first days of september, I came out with me.nowseriously.com: an "experiment" of making a personal website using only Open Source products (such as Inkscape, Gimp and the powerful/awesome/the-best PHP framework, Symfony).
This has been a sort of personal success, with comments from some international bloggers and designers, and some subscriptions to the notification list too.

Nearly a month ago I came out with this blog, and today, after a few posts and tons of twitter updates, I ask you one question:

What do you think about my WordPress Theme?

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New macbook + beers: the perfect union!

3 Comments. posted in personal. 30th Jan.

Tonight I went out with Clood to have another friend switch to mac, and I have to say it: Macbooks and beers are perfect together!

We set up a wifi network (the easiest I've ever seen), got a bit drunk, and laughed a bit about the Safari's "integrated porn-mode".

Unfortunately the "switcher" had ordered a mac just before the release of iWork and iLife '09 so, you know, he'll miss guitar lessons and the awesome iPhoto's face-detector.

That's not my case obviously!

Apple cables really sucks!

3 Comments. posted in this sucks. 21st Jan.

I love Apple and I like almost all of their products but, have to say this: their cables really sucks!

2 iPod's usb cables, 1 pair of headphones and 1 mag safe broken this month.

What about power over wireless Apple?

Tweetie: the way I like to twit (from iPhone)

No Comments yet. posted in touchable things. 20th Jan.

Tweetie is probably the best Twitter application on the iPhone.
It gives you access to almost every single function of twitter.com, and even more!

There's no need to explain this interface because it's really easy to understand but, in the new version, the developers added some new really appreciated tricks:

flick along a twit to use some quick actions like: public reply, user profile and favourite
follow discussion with "in reply to..." buttons
twitpic.com has now an integrated viewer
instapaper.com integration during browsing
optional lanscape keyboard (I keep this disabled)

Besides those new things, I'll show you my favourite features :)

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