Archive for January, 2009

Selling your ad space

Selling your ad space

A couple of months ago I’ve decided to start selling a part of my advertising space directly. My initial price was pretty low, but still higher than what I would normally get with Adsense for that particular ad block. Overall it was a good choice. Of course there are some disadvantages: you have to talk [...]

Why Gmail is better than Yahoo! Mail

Why Gmail is better than Yahoo! Mail

… or why I use gmail for business and yahoo mail for fun.
1 – Detailed popup messages
While using an instant messenger (either Yahoo or Talk) you are informed each time you receive a new message. While Yahoo chose to give dumb messages such as X new emails, on Google you can read the title, sender and [...]

DELL XPS M1330

DELL XPS M1330

I’ve been wanting to write a review for this toy for some time. Apparently I am either too lazy or don’t have enough time for it.
Let’s keep it short and structured:
Configuration

Intel Core 2 Duo T9300
HDD 250 GB
3 GB RAM
nVIDIA 8400 GS
13″ LED display
fingerprint reader
0.3 Mp web cam
Windows Vista Business OEM
wireless G (nope, my model does [...]

Google’s new favicon

Google’s new favicon

Ever wandered what success is?
It’s when everybody blogs about you when you change your favicon.
So here are the ones I know of:
Later edit: post on google blog

PHP: sending emails whenever an error occurs

Problem
PHP, by default, displays an error directly in the user’s browser. Something like this is common around the web:
Notice: Undefined variable: name in /abc/public_html/index.php on line 29
This is not so useful because if someone else caused this error you have no way of knowing about it and because potentially sensitive information about your PHP code [...]