October 27th, 2010

How to: Read Kindle books while charging on Vista nd Windows 7

I have not written for a while – it is a pity. I will try to be more active in the coming weeks and will put the start with a useful post for all Kindle owner Today I got pretty frustrated as my Kindle’s battery was needing a charge, while I wanted to read at [...]

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March 21st, 2010

BitDefender Screwed Big Time

The supposedly peaceful weekend of the 12th week of 2010 turned to a hellish experience for many users of Bitdefender around the world. The famous once (more like notorious now) antivirus solution played a bad joke to all of its users, that had 64bit OS. In the late afternoon on 20th of March the AV [...]

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January 4th, 2010

Deviant thumbs – gone

I used to like the deviant thumbs plugin for wordpress, but yesterday I found out that it was slowing my blog page. And by slowing, I mean giving at least 4 seconds difference in loading time with fast internet connection. This caused increase in my bounce rate and that’s why I noticed the problem. As [...]

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November 18th, 2009

2 Free Online Survey Tools

This week I had to prepare a survey to be presented to our clients. I have created a draft of the survey long time ago and after some comments- the official launch had to take place. I had a large list of sites, offering free online surveys, yet all of them had pros and cons….so [...]

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October 30th, 2009

Google Wave – Here I come

Thanks to my colleague Martin, I have been officially added to the Google Wave preview. At first glance the new idea of the googlers is really cool. Let me point out some of the features that I liked the most: Freedom of composition of the screen Interactive approach towards the communication between the people Interesting [...]

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October 29th, 2009

SQL Server 2008 – Database Diagram Support

I was pretty frustrated when my diagram was not present when I restord a database of mine in MS SQL Server 2008 Express. The error shown was: “Database diagram support objects cannot be installed because this database does not have a valid owner. To continue, first use the Files page of the Database Properties dialog [...]

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October 25th, 2009

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (Express) on Windows 7

As I am working on my senior project in CS for a while now, I had to install MS SQL Server as my DBMS. I have selected it as it allows me to work iwht LINQ and avoid the stored procedures and stuff. Still, when I began installing the server I did not know that [...]

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July 23rd, 2009

Firefox 3.7 – Exclusive Pictures

A few days ago, the discussed-by-many pictures of Firefox 3.7  in the Firefox wiki were updated once again. Recently Mozilla proved that they can offer much more than it’s expected when they released version 3.5 of their famous browser. Now they work on some goodies for the user’s eye. To me, it looks more like [...]

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July 7th, 2009

Skype 4.1 – back to basics

A few days ago I installed Skype 4.1. The new version includes all features that were removed with the release of Skype 4.0 and were missed by all of us. Contacts sharing, birthday reminders and Contact groups are back. Still there are many new things added. Have a look at the Skype 4.1 changelog below:

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June 23rd, 2009

Windows 7 to offer XP downgrade option

Today I learned that Windows 7 will offer downgrade option to Windows XP. This is really amazing, when we have in mind how old this OS is, still it proved so stable and liked by the users. Of course, the “Downgrade to Vista” option will be presented, too…but this is not so good news I [...]

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