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If you aren’t aware of this, the Portuguese language is going to change. Not the way we spoke it, but the way we write it. Eventually some words will change it’s sonority, but It will remain almost the same.

I have recently found something about this here:

The Portuguese parliament voted last week to change its national language to reflect the more popular Brazilian Portuguese, the language used by about 80 percent of the world’s 230 million Portuguese speakers. In the next six years, European Portuguese will be phasing in three new consonants – k, w and y – and dropping confusing hyphens and silent consonants. So from now on, when you are IM-ing a Portuguese beauty, the correct style is otimo, not optimo, when she suggests meeting for a drink.

I’m not sure if this is what is passing from this change, but I really think this will confuse people.

How can Brazil, as a Portuguese colony, change Portugal Portuguese to Brazilian Portuguese?

It isn’t, but reading the article that is the idea you get from it, And it’s wrong.

The new orthographic agreement was build accordingly to the 8 countries that use Portuguese. Only Portugal is hesitating on implement this, but I don’t see it as a bad choice, and the government hopefully will be leading the right way on this.

Jim Marggraff, CEO of Livescribe, shows off the 2GB, Java-capable Pulse Smartpen at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco. The pen records audio as the user takes handwritten notes, then synchs up the sound with the writing. Audio can then be played back when someone taps the pen on paper. The device also converts languages instantly, playing translations out loud through the embedded speaker or displaying the word on its LED screen.

source: news.zdnet.com

Maybe not, but close. The Google folks released a new service where you can store your medical information.

In the Google Health you can create a profile for your condition and even for the procedures on taking care of it. You can also save tests results, and have a list of your allergies.

At start I was thinking this was a very odd service to offer, but thinking about it, this is really helpful. You can even find detailed information of your sickness/condition, or medical terms.

Just remains to know what is the Google plan by creating this variety of services.

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The book is called The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques, and has been released free for a limited time, so go and grab you copy, while you can.

Today I discovered this day, and decided to post about it, since I know a lot of people doesn’t even know RSS, and to warn them that on May 1st the topic will be related to RSS.

The objective of this day is to incentivate blogger’s to post an article about RSS, and that way expose more people to the existence of RSS and it’s benefits.

Like others I will post something about RSS. I will explain what it is and will do a little summary of its history.

So don’t forget on May 1st come here to read what I want to say about RSS.

More about the day on http://www.dailyblogtips.com/.

UPDATE: The official RSS day page is located at rssday.org, and you can get more info here.

Do you ever heard of RSS? What do you think it is?