Manual do Usuário
Rodrigo Ghedin
Technology blog in Portuguese and English maintained by Rodrigo Ghedin.
July 2026
August 2026
September 2026
Top Words
- cool
- week
- meta
- phone
- apple
- android
- people
- users
- tech
All posts (232)
Major redesigns of graphical user interfaces (GUI) always provoke surprise and complaints. With Liquid Glass, Apple’s new visual language, it’s no different. The good news is that beneath the new buttons, unreadable text blocks and modernized effects, the way you use systems like iOS and macOS hasn’t changed. People...
LinkedIn changed its terms to share more data with Microsoft for advertising purposes. It’s routine — nothing dramatically new or alarming — but I liked that, in the explanatory document, LinkedIn included direct links to the three settings that, when turned off, stop that data sharing. Thanks…? Just click the links...
I’m not in a hurry to update my Apple devices to the 26 “crop” of OSs, but Safari on macOS… why not? Every year Apple ships the big update to its browser for older macOS releases. It’s an exception to the rule of updating native apps only with the OS. The list of changes is […]
In December 2023, this blog joined the fediverse (pt_BR). Thanks to a WordPress plugin — the publishing platform used by Manual do Usuário — it became possible to follow updates here without leaving Mastodon, Pleroma, GoToSocial, or any other application compatible with the ActivityPub protocol. Over nearly two...
Since the early days of this Manual, my goal has been the “slow web,” which here translates to being the last to cover a topic. Even so, I didn’t expect I’d ever write about something eight years late. Anyway — here we are. Let’s talk wireless earphones. I resisted them for two reasons. First, I […]
What’s your name and what do you do? Leonardo, 40, southern Brazil, makes educational videos on the internet and has been a regular reader of the Manual do Usuário for years. Which phone and operating system do you use? iPhone SE (2022). Tell us a bit about your wallpaper. My lock screen wallpaper is a […]
Googlevia Search Engine Roundtable
Sam AltmanCo-fundador e CEO da OpenAI If only we knew who was the “genius” who started all this mess…
For roughly 20 years, from the 1990s to the 2010s, the family computer (always a desktop) was the household symbol of modernity in Brazil, a prerequisite for promising futures and the only gateway to the internet. It competed for space with the TV or, in larger homes, earned its own room where residents did...
Page 23 of 24