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I have two internet connections at home, mainly because I’m an Internet addict and any minute without Internet generates lots of frustration and secondly because I cannot afford to have any problems while connecting to the office network. Now, one of my providers had some problems lately and I guess that’s just because of the [...]

Yesterday I installed Office 2010 beta on my laptop and started using Outlook right away. Some new features caught my attention: – the way to install it through Click-to-Run streaming technology, that is you just download 2 MB and start using it right away, the programs will get downloaded in background but you’re able to [...]

Time passed since the first release of Internet Explorer and version by version new features were added. While I’m writing this article, the latest version is 8.0 but still, after all these years, Microsoft did not manage to find the right way to parse an URL and extract the file name. Ordinary bugs keep showing [...]

Gift certificates are good when you want to give discounts to your products. It’s a nice way to give presents around Xmas or other holidays. You can call this concept Gift certificate or Discount card or Discount coupon or whatever you want, but the idea behind it is that someone buys one certificate and gives [...]

It’s a fact that the movies shot by Canon cameras do not play on most DVD with DivX capabilities due to codec incompatibility. This is of course a problem. Another problem is that the shot movies are hardly encoded so the size is quite big for the number of minutes. Here is my guide to [...]

I’m using a lot of free software tools to accomplish various tasks at home and I do not always remember what I used last time. This is why I have decided to write it down here, to use it later for reference. I had a simple task: to join several mpeg 2 files that were [...]

After a 2 weeks vacation with access to company email either from my laptop or via my iPhone in a browser (webmail), I have decided to make the step of upgrading my 1.1.3 iPhone to 2.0 and test the Exchange connector, cause I’m done with all the refresh in the browser. After almost half an [...]

I have been using my iPhone for quite a while now and got used to it. I didn’t had any big issues with it so far. I even got used to do some particular things on the way back home from work, while sitting and waiting in traffic. What can you do with your iPhone [...]

twitter.com, digg.com, linkedin.com, xing.com, hi5.com, myspace.com, facebook.com … all these websites seem to be quite trendy. You hear about them each day, people are using these websites as a way to communicate, to get in contact, to share thoughts. All of these, plus blogging is just a part of what is generically called web 2.0. [...]

Two weeks ago I’ve bought an iPhone. Although I do not use AT&T as my mobile carrier (I do not live in US), I knew that the phone software can be hacked. Of course, you can buy already hacked phones via eBay but I took my chances and purchased a new one directly from an [...]