Author Archives: Luca Candela
I can sing, but I don’t want to be a singer.
I get asked almost weekly if I’m available to take this or that design gigs. I keep trying to explain that, although I’m a pretty decent designer, I enjoy product management work a lot more. It’s nice to be able … Continue reading
The Nexus One was a big mistake
Anybody cares about the customers? Everybody that knows me even a little bit knows how much respect I have for Google as a company, but with the Nexus One they messed up BAD. I’ve been reading a lot about revenues, … Continue reading
The iPad: so easy it takes 5 geeks to make it work!
Today at at WhereCamp 2010 in Mountain View, somebody TRIED to use the iPad to give a quick presentation, and “it just didn’t work”. Continue reading
Disable “Press and Hold” in Windows XP SP3 and Wacom Tablets
The “press and hold” for right click is driving me up the walls while using the Adobe Creative Suite at work, so while it’s pretty easy to find a solution for Vista/Win7, the solution for Windows XP SP3 is bit … Continue reading
Dear Facebook, please fix the duplicate names bug NOW. XOXO :-) LOL
It would be very cool, borderline awesome if Facebook decided to fix the annoying problem they have with duplicate names. Let me clarify: there’s a guy in Italy called Luca Candela, just like me, and he’s uploading videos of his … Continue reading
Fix sound volume issue on MacBook Pro running Windows XP SP3
Apple doesn’t seem to care too much about the “experience” we’re having running Windows XP on their EXPENSIVE laptops. With OSX 10.5 and 10.6 they ship a sound driver that is simply NOT WORKING PROPERLY, and again, they don’t seem … Continue reading
San Francisco and new site design coming soon!
This is a quick update just to say that San Francisco didn’t swallow me (although it’s been a very intense week since I moved here) and that so far I’m happy about how many contacts I’m establishing in the area. … Continue reading
Get the favicons back on Firefox 3.5 for OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard
I don’t know why the Mozilla team decided not to show favicons in the bookmark toolbar, but it’s a BAD idea: the toolbar becomes instantly hard to scan and a lot less useful. Luckily there’s an extension for Firefox called … Continue reading
How to install Service Pack 3 for Windows XP on a MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard
This post is more of a “note to self” than anything else. I spent good part of today fighting against my MacBook Pro, trying to install Service Pack 3 for Windows XP (Bootcamp partition). After a few hours of frustration, … Continue reading
“Generalizing Specialist” Is The Definition I Was Looking For…
I have been trying to define my professional profile a little better, and after a few hours of research, I stumbled on this incredibly clever definition of “generalizing specialist“.