Windows product key sticker

Windows product key sticker

When you post your review on YouTube be sure not to capture the Windows OEM product key. And if you do be sure not to upload a High Definition video.

Dumb Picasa Installer

Dumb Picasa Installer

Me: Hi, I would like to install you.
Picasa: OK, great. This installer will automatically use Romanian based on you location. Who cares if your default language is English. Heck, I won’t even give you the option to switch languages.
Me: Oh well, I’ll just change that later.
Picasa: I’m done installing. Let’s run Picasa for the first [...]

Laptop rants

Laptop rants

After 2 years of being the owner of a Dell XPS M1330 here are some thoughts about it and about laptops in general.

Autoformat MXML and AS in Flex Builder

Autoformat MXML and AS in Flex Builder

Adobe Flex Builder does not come with an autoformat feature by default. There is a nice eclipse plugin for this.

New Chrome version

I updated Chrome after reading on techcrunch about the new version.

Travian is using Age of Empires screenshots

Travian is using Age of Empires screenshots

I came across a somewhat familiar picture inside an advertisement on Facebook:

What is your webiste worth?

What is your webiste worth?

There are some useless (yet fun) websites that try to calculate a website’s value based only on the domain name. Let’s see how much would a random website (ylipsis.com) cost:

New Gmail features

New Gmail features

Gmail is switching to https by default.
Also, there are some other cool features I found out about just now: http://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en/about_whatsnew.html. You can also buy storage starting from 5$/year for 20GB that is shared between Docs, Gmail and Picasa (higher packages have a proportional price, so no discounts there). Imagine sharing all your photos with everybody. [...]

Edimax NS-2502 review

Edimax NS-2502 review

A couple of weeks ago I’ve bought a Network Attached Storage (Edimax NS-2502) with 2 additional HDDs (WD10EAVS). The complete tech specs for the NAS can be found at http://www.edimax.com/en/produce_detail.php?pd_id=272&pl1_id=18&pl2_id=75, so I’m going to jump straight to the review.

GeekMeet Timisoara, August 23rd 2009

GeekMeet Timisoara, August 23rd 2009

A few pictures and a video from GeekMeet #7 Timisoara: