Programas utiles

I’m sorry guys, but this post I have to do it in Spanish for some of my friends, but I’ll try to translate asap

Bueno, de vuelta al castellano (quieras o no, echaba de menos el escribir en mi idioma…). este post tiene todos los programas y curiosidades de los ordenadores que he ido encontrando a lo largo de los años, haced con ello lo que os plazca. NOTA: creo que todo lo que hay aqui esta en español, si el link a algun programa esta en ingles, buscad la opcion para cambiar de idima o durante la instalacion os dejará.

 

Internet:

Os recomiendo que dejéis el internet Explorer… tiene muchas brechas de seguridad y a la larga es por donde se suele meter la mayoría de la basura que viene de internet, por ello os recomiendo el Mozilla Firefox.

El Firefox tiene otra gran cosa (aparte de velocidad y seguridad) que son los Add-ons (complementos creo que se llama en Castellano) los cuales permiten un nivel de personalización del programa bastante amplio. Ya escribí un post hace tiempo sobre mis add-ons de firefox, pero si queréis os explico los más destacados en español:

• Adblock Plus : este maravilloso Add-on te permite eliminar los anuncios que molestan en las páginas que visitáis a diario, ya sean imágenes o animaciones. Para bloquear algo (por ejemplo la foto de publicidad del Tuenti cuando carga) solo hay que hacer click derecho en la imagen y a “Adblock plus: bloquear imagen” ¡ya está! ¡Olvidaos de esa foto que siempre consume ancho de banda!. También os encontrareis a veces con otra opción que pone “bloquear macro” (por ejemplo en youtube) esta lo que hace es eliminar el cuadro donde estaba la foto junto con la foto, asi que en youtube por ejemplo, se quita la publicidad y se sube la información del video y todo lo demás para arriba, evitando molestias de tener que ir para abajo en la pagina y eso.
• BugMeNot: este no es necesario instalarlo, porque se puede hacer desde google. Lo que este add-on hace es evitar tener que registrarte en páginas y foros solo para ver una cosa puntual. Por ejemplo, si quieres ver una cosa en Vagos.es pero te pide registrarte, le darías a botón derecho donde pondrías tu nombre de usuario y a “log me in with bugmenot” y el programa solo te logea con una contraseña y un usuario que alguein ha decidido compartir, evitando molestias a los demás. También se puede hacer desde google escribiendo “bugmenot vagos.es” (o lo que sea) y el primer resultado suele ser la página de bugmenot con el listado de nombres y contraseñas.
• Skipscreen: este lo que hace es automáticamente baja archivos de megaupload y rapidshare y todos esos sin tener que esperar y elegir servidor y toda la chorrada, además si tienes que esperar te pone el tiempo que falta en el titulo de la pestaña.
• Google Toolbar: pues eso, la barra de google, que elimina los pop-up y todo eso
• Compact menú 2: si estáis en un portátil y queréis salvar espacio en pantalla, podéis evitar una barra entera con este add-on que comprime todo lo de “Archivo, editar, herramientas….” En un botón desplegable que luego te muestra esas opciones
• VideoDownload helper: para bajar videos de youtube o cualquier sucedáneo, simplemente darle a botón derecho en algún lado en la pantalla (ojo, que no sea el video!), a “Videodownloadhelper” y en la pestaña de “Media” esta el video para bajarse!
• Xmarks: este lo que hace es permitirte sincronizar los marcadores (favoritos) en internet, así nunca los perderéis! Hay que instalarlo y luego crear una cuenta para sincronizarlo!
• Download Statusbar: una barrita abajo en la que saldrán las descargas, muy practica para evitar la molesta ventanita de descargas de firefox

También os recomiendo que el buscador de arriba a la derecha lo cambiéis a youtube, para hacerlo, escribir “Firefox Search engines” en google y el primer link os lleva a una página con un montón, luego veréis que hay 10 favoritas, pues una de ellas es youtube

 

Programas del ordenador

• Songbird: este programa es in iTunes pero mejor, porque permite el uso de Add-ons (es de los mismos creadores que el firefox) para mejorar su uso, por ejemplo el add-on Lyric master te bja las letras de las canciones automáticamente, y hay tropecientos add-ons para que descubráis! (y si, sirve para el iPod)
• Voipbuster: para mensajes y llamadas desde el ordenador. Cada mensaje cuesta 5 céntimos (ha subido desde la última vez que lo mire) y tiene la ventaja de que lo escribes con un teclado normal. Luego las llamadas a fijos en España es gratis (si no me falla la memoria) y costaba nosecuantos céntimos el minutos móviles, pero aseguraos primero.
• Ccleaner: para limpiar mierda del ordenador, solo abrirlo y darle a “ejecutar el limpiados” y ya veréis. También permite la opción de desactivar programas del arranque de Windows, lo cual os recomiendo hacer.
• Avast: mi antivirus por excelencia, gratis de bajar y solo hay que registrarse y escribir una licencia que caduca cada año (pero da igual, porque se vuelve a pedir en la pagina y 3 segundos después la tienes renovada) y por ahora no me ha dado nunca un problema. NOTA: cuando se instala te da la opción de pasar un escaneo antes de que se ejecute Windows, si aceptáis lo cual os recomiendo, dejad el ordenador tranquilo hasta que acabe”)
• Fences: permite crear cuadrados en el escritorio para organizar los iconos de forma mas fácil y limpia, muy muy recomendado.
• VLC: ¿Cuántas veces habéis tenido problemas de codecs? Pues se acabo, porque este programa lo lee todo! Y es sin duda el mejor reproductor de video jemas (y permite hacer capturas de pantalla!)
• Jdownloader: para bajar links de internet, solo hay que pegar la lista de links y el se encarga de bajarlos y de escribir el captcha y todo.

Paginas Web:

• Dropbox: esta página te ofrece 2 Gb de disco duro en internet, al cual puedes subir archivos desde la pagina o bajándote su programa y en una carpeta que te crea en Windows, una autentica maravilla! (si alguien está interesado que me lo diga y yo le invito, porque así nos dan 300Mb mas gratis a los dos!)
• Taringa y Vagos: pues eso… todo lo que necesitáis de pelis y eso suele estar ahí
• Mi blog: ¿qué? ¡Hay que hacer publicidad corcho!

Ale, eso es todo, ¡espero que os haya sido útil!

Berlin, days 5 to 10

On day 5 we went to the Berlin zoo and Aquarium. It was not really all that amazing overall, the zoo was big but the aquarium tiny (compared to Valencia’s…) during the evening we went to the Hard Rock Cafe next to the Zoo.

on day 6 we went to the Berlin wall… now THAT was interesting! we even had a chance to participate in that historical monument!

  

Day 7: Leisure at youth hostel… not much to do

Day 8: in the morning we went to church (at least some of us), then to checkpoint Charlie where I finally had the chance to buy my “you are leaving American sector” plate and in the evening we had the blueman group show which was SUPERB! I mean… really, it was pure awesomeness taken to the next level, I had so much fun watching those guys doing stupid stuff and in the end we had the toilet paper fight…. oh god AWESOME! (I know this might sound weird, so check the website for more info)

Day 9: we had waterskiing! and seems that I am extremely good at it since I was, together with two more people, the only one that didn’t fall ONCE! it was all in a lake 5km from the nearest train station 4 stops away from Wandlitzsee. we had to go there from the station to the place by van and RUNNING on the way back… on our barefoot

Day 10: Visit to the German Reichstag! also incredible, it was lots of fun being in there and the design was also great!

Berlin, days 2, 3 and 4

On the second day in Berlin we had the introduction day, getting to know the youth hostel and walking around the place. we also had the international groups put together (Group C!) and had some introduction games so we get to know each other.

That's pretty much for the day because it started raining at night after the other Spanish group leader arrived and had a swim at the lake, which meant that no BBQ as scheduled (instead of great German meat we had crappy sandwiches which NONE of us liked…)

Day 3 and finally some interesting activities! at morning we took the train to Karow and then the underground to Gesumbrunnen. there we had the Bunker tour, which was a one hour long tour in a WWII bunker. it was really nice even though the guide was quite a weirdo…

During the evening we had the “Berlin by boat” activity in which we had a tour in the river  Spree on a German marines boat. Really, really nice! mainly because we had a chance to “taste” Berlin and have a first look at the main important buildings that were around the river. The pic on the left is me after the boat ride on out way back to the train station

Day 4 was boring… its not just my opinion but also most of the kid’s opinions. this is because we had the town rally in which we were slit in teams of 4 or 5 and then given a sheet with lots of questions to fill. it was nice in a way because we had a chance to go in the underground by ourselves (Potsdamer Platz and the Sony Center are AWESOME) but other than that it was WAY too long and tiring (from 11 until 16).

Berlin, day 1

As in the post below, I’m still in a plane on my way to Berlin, and we’ve already had some problems, like… I don’t know… almost missing the plane!

Today morning I woke up at 09:00 or so, prepared everything and left for the airport at 12:00 or so. got to the airport, met everyone, had lunch and started running because we didn’t realize we were late.. really late.

At any rate (yeah, I’m no longer at the plane) we got there in time and we managed to fly to Berlin with no problems concerning luggage but one small bag that we had sent to us a few days later.

So yeah, we’re in Berlin! back to central Europe! on my way to the youth hostel (40 minutes or so) I got really nostalgic, I kept on remembering my days back in Holland and how different everything is back in Spain.

Once at the youth hostel, we had a lousy dinner all of us were complaining about, a small briefing about how the camp was going to look like and us leaders had some time for introducing ourselves. around midnight I met my roommate Pino, an Italian guy with a hilarious sense of humor.

Here are some pics from that day:

Spanish Team!

 

The youth Hostel! my room was the first from the right in the upper floor.

And that was it for day one!

Santoña ICC

I am currently in a plane on my way to Berlin as I write this, so I am not really sure when I’ll be able to post it. anyways.

Santoña ICC! yes! it was awesome, had a great time, everyone was really nice there, everything worked out the way it was supposed to…great. now lets go on the detailed explanation

Day 1: Madrid, 09:00 AM. We supposed to be all one hour early than the departure time to Santoña by bus, so there I was, at 9, ready to start my first summer camp as a group leader. to my surprise (well, not really), we left at 11:00 or so because this one girl was late… really late. the main problem arrived when I was told that I wasn’t going to the camp in the bus like everybody else, but instead, I had to go to the airport with a Spanish guy and a girl to pick up the Bulgarian, German, Czech and Polish with four huge-ass bags full of sandwiches and water bottles (roughly 100).  so there I was, on a cab on my was to Barajas airport with 4 humongous plastic bags. the Spanish guy (Pablo) stayed in Terminal 1 waiting for the German and Bulgarian, while the girl (Alejandra) and me left for terminal 4 in a bus to pick up the Polish and the Czech. they all arrived at the correct time so we all left in a Bus to Santoña. we got there late… like really late, had dinner, attended the welcoming meeting and off to bed.

Day 2: group leaders were assigned to each different group and as for me, I stayed in the camp working as a Staff member and joining random activities every now and then in case there were people missing and so on. we showed the kids around and they had a few introductory games. that's pretty much it.

Days 3, 4, 5 and 6: kids had some activities and we basically did the work behind the scenes. I must admit it was fun.

Day 7: on the 7th day we all had a trip to “El Soplao” caves in Cantabria. the experience was great and the cave was awesome, although we had some problems with the guide. You see, her English was crap, and some guy in the group I was going with mocked her once. then she got mad and started to shout at us group leaders and staff members, so from the moment she explained in Spanish while I translated for the whole group. I think I did pretty well, but the thing is that I don’t know all the geological terms for everything (at least not right away, I have to look them up in the dictionary) so whenever I made a mistake or couldn't come up with the right word, the woman will start correcting me, but whatever.

Days 8, 9, 10 and 11: pretty much the same as 3, 4, 5 and 6 but this time I joined twice for diving and kayaking, once to Karts and… some other stuff.

Day 12: I love this activity, I really do. kayaking down river Deva. This activity consist on getting a Kayak, a partner and a rowing pad, get to the river and start rowing for 8 Km, which is awesome. also, the good thing is that when you are a group lead, you become a pirate, which means you can take on ships! so I started jumping from boat to boat in an attempt to make all canoes flip. and I made it! it was a lot off fun and I’ll try to do this activity as many times as possible.

Days 13: Today we had the medieval fair, which is pretty much getting everyone dressed as a middle age character and have some games around, it was also lots of fun.

Day 14: packing up and saying bye and so on, also cleaning day.

Day 15: Everybody home!

I’m really gonna miss this camp, I had lots of fun.

Apologies (yes, ONCE again)

Hey there everyone!

Yesh, I’m back. In a way at least, because tomorrow I’m leaving to Berlin! (woohoo)

Everything's been a little messy these days, maybe too messy. for instance, I was told 3 days before leaving to Figueras summer camp that I was going to another different camp. and I was told 6 days ago that I was going to Berlin summer camp!

apart from the whole organizational issue, my summer’s been great! I will explain how the Santoña ICC went in the next post (yes, it deserves it’s own post).