Acer website usability FAIL
How can you be a huge PC manufacturer and not have a usable website for your potential customers? Acer will show you exactly how.
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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
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 [...]
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
Adobe Flex Builder does not come with an autoformat feature by default. There is a nice eclipse plugin for this.
Travian is using Age of Empires screenshots
I came across a somewhat familiar picture inside an advertisement on Facebook:
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:
Coding habit
Q: How can you tell you’re coding too much? A: You try to hit autoformat (ctrl+shift+F in Eclipse) after each line you write in Microsoft Word.
Breaking news stereotype
Concerning every tv station worldwide that had a news report about the recent death of Michael Jackson, this comic written by John Campbell is pure genious: http://stereotypist.livejournal.com/131545.html.
WiredTree VPS 384 under load
One of the first question I had prior to moving to WiredTree’s VPS 384 plan was how much traffic would it be able to handle. An answer came on June 14th when someone submitted a page from a website I have on this VPS to reddit where it stood on the first page for almost [...]
