On this day...

July 22: Parents' Day in the United States (2007); Pi Approximation Day; Feast day of Mary Magdalene and also my birthday! yey me

Goodbye Veronica Belmont!

Homer erectus

A doughnut-brandishing Homer Simpson was painted next to the giant on the hill above Cerne Abbas, Dorset, to promote the new Simpsons film.

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The trailer of the movie The Simpsons which will be released on July 27.

HD

Google video loves porn

Like I said, sex will always attract people.

Lifted

I accidentally found the great Pixar animation shown before Ratatouille started.

iPhone for your grandma

Looks like Apple is working on some sort of an iPhone nano.

After all the success of the original iPod was based on it’s simplicity. It did just one thing - made your whole music library portable. But it did it real well.
So what if a simple iPod with lots of storage is enough? And what if Apple just added a simple phone capability to it, so you don’t have to carry two gadgets anywhere you go.

Just a simple iPod music player and a simple phone to make calls. Wouldn’t that be a great device?
Apple thinks so too and may just have such a device soon in an iPhone Nano form factor, as it’s recent patent filing called “Touch pad with symbols based mode” indicates.

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Engadget sort of confirms this:

DigiTimes sources are now reporting that the iPod's capacitive touch-screen will be "less complicated" than the panel used for the current iPhone. No multi-touch?

Apple is definitely cooking something up.

Here's a video of an iPhone being etched. Apple doesn't provide laser engraving for the iPhone yet.

I'm talking about Apple products today so I want to mention that I just bought another iPod. My first iPod was stolen but I bought another one exactly the same: 30 GB, black. The ear buds are the same color but the leather case is black now. I like it more because it matches the color of the iPod and when it gets dirty you can't really tell, unlike the white one I had. The iPhone is currently too expensive for my patience and it doesn't have enough memory + all other problems and bugs, so I'm waiting for the second generation.

Obama girl

Yey! vote for O(s)bama!

Google Trends and Google Sets

Google Trends is one of my favorite Google services because it lets me see what people care about, what they search. You can select the time frame, region and compare results.
Google Sets is also a great service from Google. If you want more examples of something just type in something.
Oh, and by the way, did you know porn is better than Microsoft and Apple? Sex will always sell.

omg! - from Yahoo

Yahoo launched omg! I'm sure they couldn't find a stupider name. It's mostly about celebrities and fashion so it's probably for girls no older than 13 so it doesn't really matter.

Ratatouille and Transformers

They were both magnificent and funny. Transformers was a little bit too intense in my opinion but the special effects were awesome. It had more humor than expected but I didn't really like the acting of Megan Fox. Ratatouille had a lot of funny parts but I think they should have made it more realistic not in terms of detail and quality of animation, it was awesome, but in logic. I wish they had a better idea for how the rat controls the nerd. The rat pulls his hair and he moves in that direction. I don't buy it. Otherwise it was awesome and funny. The audience clapped at the end of both movies, kinda lame to clap at a screen but definitely two movies worth watching.

Sunburn, T-mobile, iPhone and Good Luck Chuck

I had this severe sunburn on my feet and I couldn't walk yesterday and the day before yesterday. I spent too much time in the sun on the fourth of July. The sand was burning and the ocean was cold as ice. It was a weird day. I didn't feel anything but when I woke up next morning my feet were so red, heavy and hurt like hell.

I called T-mobile yesterday for some information about the new hotspots service and the guy that answered knew nothing about it. He had to look up the information and I waited about 20 minutes until he finally told me correct facts. 1 second please... 1 second please... 1 second please...

It’s called T-Mobile HotSpot @Home, and it’s absolutely ingenious. It could save you hundreds or thousands of dollars a year, and yet enrich T-Mobile at the same time. In the cellphone world, win-win plays like that are extremely rare.

Here’s the basic idea. If you’re willing to pay $10 a month on top of a regular T-Mobile voice plan, you get a special cellphone. When you’re out and about, it works like any other phone; calls eat up your monthly minutes as usual.

But when it’s in a Wi-Fi wireless Internet hot spot, this phone offers a huge bargain: all your calls are free. You use it and dial it the same as always — you still get call hold, caller ID, three-way calling and all the other features — but now your voice is carried by the Internet rather than the cellular airwaves.

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DVD Jon made the iPhone work as an iPod with WiFi, without AT&T activation. link


This one is a must see.

Whatch it in HD

What sucks at iPhone

I'm now working on madwh.headplug.com my first personal flash website but I ran out of ideas.

Here's a list I made from different reviews on the web about what sucks at iPhone.

- no cut/copy paste
- no instant messenger
- it has a 2 mega pixel camera but cannot record video
- no card slot
- no 3G
- only 4 GB, unlike an regular iPod with 30 GB, at least is more than a shuffle! :) but let's not forget it's flash so you don't need to worry too much about shaking or dropping it as if it had an HDD
- can't easily transfer contacts from another cell phone, you can do it only through a computer
- 2 year contract
- slow internet connection
- at&t is the only carrier for iPhone at least 2 years from now
- the only add-on software will run directly from the Internet
- although you have an iPod included you can't set song as ring tones
- the battery is not removable
- it doesn't have overall search
- you can't jump to the top or bottom of a page only in the browser
- if you listen to a song while you're in another program you must go back to iPod to stop the song
- takes more steps to call someone than on other cell phones with real keyboard
- you must switch the virtual keyboard when you want a comma or period
- can't view flash websites
- you can open word and pdf documents but can't edit them
- doesn't have any game
- can't directly access iTunes Music Store directly from the iPhone
- very expensive ($499 the 4 GB one and $599 the 8 GB one)
- my greasy hands would leave marks all over the screen
- you can't do anything without looking at it
- doesn't have GPS
- doesn't make chocolate chip cookies

And that's pretty much it. I'll get one anyway.

School is out... finally

I didn't write anything because I'm still incredibly lazy. School is finally out after a boring week. I'm now working on www.english.2fear.com a website for Web Design and for the English class. When I'll have enough knowledge in Flash I'll probably create a website for myself or a blog in flash. I hope this laziness leaves me alone so that I can write more often here. Oh, and I almost forgot, I'm now obsessed with Command and Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars. It's an extraordinary game. I've never been obsessed with a strategy game until now. I actually didn't play a strategy game for years. I'll write more about it if I feel like blogging.

Gates vs. Jobs

lazyness

Why am I so extremely lazy??

Another entry about school

This is a photo of... guess what, a prison? You're close, try again. If you said a school you guessed right. It's the school where I go every day, the place where I vegetate but where I also waist(ed) my time and my childhood. School is a nightmare. We're forced to study and I can't take it any longer... I have to do the BCP thing until Monday, it's a big project at Biology on which I was supposed to work since the beginning of the year but because I was lazy I now I have to finish it in 2-3 days. I have intense feelings varying from very sad to very happy in short periods of time. I feel weird, but I can't wait vacation, that's for sure.
Thanks to school I can now sit on a chair and do nothing for more than 2 hours. I can dream and think about many things that keep me awake (literally) while looking at a wall or even at the teacher explaining things. I can "listen" to the teacher for hours and if you ask me what was all about I have no idea. If something unexpected happens in the classroom I suddenly wake up and look around because lessons and all the boring things are on "ignore". Teachers are complaining because they have to read boring assignments/homework/projects. I don't care!!! School is stupid and boring. It's their choice that they're still in school.

Daxflame's friends

I forgot to post this photo. I found it at school on the network and I also posted a video on youtube with this photo. If you don't know who daxflame is watch one of his videos: Tape face.

Onion skin in Flash

I finally figured out how to use onion skin in flash. Flash has many advantages compared to fireworks when it comes about animations. Fireworks it's actually designed for editing pictures but flash it's very confusing and it takes a while to learn even the most basic things. I'm now working on a longer and much more complex animation and I'll post it here when it's done but until then take a look at my first animation in flash. To start the animation click on the picture below.

Earth like planet - Gliese 581 c

In my opinion the new discovery is simply amazing but I wouldn't send the workaholics I mentioned in my previous post to this planet. It makes you wonder if there really is life on other planets and if there is what kind of creatures live there? Where did those creatures come from? Where do WE come from?

Earth-like planet discovery 'may support life'
25/04/2007 - 07:51:11

An Earth-like planet that could be covered in oceans and may support life has been discovered outside the Solar System.

The new world, which is 20.5 light years away, orbits a region with the right temperature to allow liquid water on its surface.

Scientists believe it is only 1.5 times larger and five times more massive than Earth, making it the smallest extra-solar planet known.

But the really exciting discovery is that the planet inhabits the habitable zone of its parent star, Gliese 581.

Also known as the “Goldilocks zone”, this is the narrow orbit in which temperatures are not too hot, not too cold, but just right for surface water to exist as a liquid.

The habitable zone varies according to the heat output of the star, and Gliese 581 is much smaller and colder than the Sun. So even though the planet is 14 times closer to the star than the Earth is to the Sun, it lies in a region where rivers, lakes and oceans are possible.

Liquid water is one of the pre-requisites for life as we know it on Earth.

Dr Stephane Udry, from the Geneva Observatory in Switzerland, who led the European astronomers who announced the find today, said: “We have estimated that the mean temperature of this super-Earth lies between zero and 40 degrees Celsius, and water would thus be liquid.

“Moreover, its radius should be only 1.5 times the Earth’s radius, and models predict that the planet should be either rocky – like our Earth – or covered with oceans.”

The vast majority of planets already discovered orbiting stars outside the Solar System are giant gaseous worlds the size of Jupiter or bigger.

Life as we know it could not exist on these planets. But the new planet is highly unusual because it is so small, and therefore probably rocky. Given its size and location, it is also likely to have an atmosphere.

Two other planets also orbit Gliese 581, which lies in the constellation of Libra and is among the 100 closest stars to the Sun.

One, Gliese 581 B, discovered two years ago, is a Neptune-like planet with 15 Earth-masses so close to the star that it makes an orbit every 5.4 days. The other, Gliese 581 D, has eight times the Earth’s mass and completes an orbit in 84 days. The new planet, with a 13-day orbit, is designated Gliese 581 C, but as yet has no name.

The planet was found by Swiss, French and Portuguese astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s 3.6 metre telescope at La Silla in Chile.

They employed a method of long-distance planet finding that looks for the “wobble” on a star caused by the gravity of a large object orbiting it.

By measuring the wobble motion, shown as shifts in the star’s light spectrum, astronomers can calculate a planet’s orbit and mass.

Gliese 581 C is certain to be a key target for future missions dedicated to the search for extra-terrestrial life.

“Liquid water is critical to life as we know it,” said Dr Xavier Delfosse, a member of the team from Grenoble University in France. “On the treasure map of the universe, one would be tempted to mark this planet with an X.”

COROT, the first space telescope specifically designed to search for Earth-like rocky planets around stars other than the Sun, was launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) last December.

By 2020 at least one space telescope should be in orbit with the capability of detecting signs of life on planets light years from Earth.

Two such missions, Darwin and the Terrestrial Planet Finder, are planned by ESA and the American space agency Nasa.

Both craft will have instruments sensitive enough to spot water and oxygen on Gliese 581 C, should it exist.

Dr Malcolm Fridlund, ESA project manager for COROT and study scientist on the Darwin project, said: “This is a very important step on the road to finding Earth-like planets. The planets we’ve found so far outside the Solar System have all been different from our own Earth, and more like Jupiter or Neptune.

“If this is a rocky planet it’s very likely that it will have liquid water on its surface, which means there may also be life.

“There are caveats, one being that the environment around a red dwarf is very full of radiation. All red dwarfs have a lot of flare activity, but this doesn’t necessarily exclude life.”

Scientists have calculated that the planet has about double Earth’s gravity. Any creatures living there would therefore be twice as heavy as they would be on Earth.

Their bodies would probably reflect this, said Dr Fridlund. Weak, fragile animals would not be able to support themselves or move around on land.

“Life on Earth evolved to fit the environment through natural selection,” Dr Fridlund added. “With a big pressure you would need a strong skeleton, or shell, or to be soft and malleable.”

Since Gliese 581 is much older than the Sun, life on the planet may have existed for longer than it has on Earth. Tantalisingly, it could therefore be more advanced.

Scientists at the SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life) Institute in the US are understood to be taking the possibility seriously and turning their radio telescopes towards the planet.

A paper on the discovery has been submitted to the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.

SETI has already listened for intelligent signals from Gliese 581 on two occasions in 1995 and 1997, as part of a general sweep of stars within 45 light years of Earth.

Spokesman Dr Seth Shostak confirmed that SETI would be tuning in to the star again, using its new Allen telescope array in the Cascade Mountains of north east California.

The Allen array is still under construction but the first 42 of its 350 antennae should be ready for use this summer.

“We’ll be taking another look,” said Dr Shostak. “I suspect it will move to the top of the list.

“I am excited about this discovery. We have assumed all along that small planets will exist in great numbers, and some by chance will be in the habitable zone. But we haven’t been able to find them because the instruments favour big planets.”

He added that having an old star increased the likelihood of intelligent life.

“Life on Earth is four billion years old, and it’s taken all of that to produce us,” he said. “The older the star is, maybe the greater the chance that it has produced something that’s clever.”

Aliens living on the planet would be able to pick up 20-year-old TV and radio transmissions from Earth if they had a receiver powerful enough, he said, but it would be easier for them to detect military radar signals.

Further reading

Options

I don't know why girls like so many options but I certainly don't. I always listen to the same music, buy the same sandwich, wear the same clothes. When I see a girl or a woman that can't decide what to choose I don't get angry only when is about computers, it takes me longer. I do believe variety makes our lives a little better but sometimes instead of trying something new and assuming the risk that I might not like it, I just pick the same old things that I know worked for me and always will. I think the best advice to give to somebody who is living an black & white life, living the same routine, doing the same things over and over like a robot is to tell him or her to do something different everyday. It would probably work for me too but I'm way to lazy to do something else and interrupt my everyday activity of wasting time in front of the computer. As a final note, I hope workaholics become robots and go to another planet.

guy puts his phone number on youtube

I saw him on cnn.com.

Internet reporter Jacki Schechner talks to a guy who put his number on YouTube and didn't sleep for 36 hours. (April 23)

I called him and he doesn't answer, the voice mail tells me to leave a message or something like that.

Kinda stupid but it probably works when you're bored to death.

Stupid "hips" (ass) shaking in class

I'm very very lazy and that's why I didn't post anything. The spring break was great but something even greater is... I'M DONE WITH THE STUPID WASL!! :D
The English teacher turned the music on and wanted us, boys, to shake our asses, he said hips, in front of all the girls in the class while they grade us. I didn't do it but I think it was stupid what he told us to do. We are reading "The House on Mango street" and we're now at a chapter about hips and he really wanted to see us how we shake our hips.? I can't see any educational purpose in this. He is my favorite teacher ever because English is the period that seems like 2 minutes. He always talks about anything but what we should study. The truth is, boys can't shake ass like girls. Boys can't really dance, that's what he tried to prove us. We can't really dance, so what? If the English class was boring I would have probably talked to the counselor because what he does is completely non-school activity. The funniest part tough is when a classmate understood what he has to do he said: "I'm not shacking any hoochie coochie!"

Just for the record, these days happened:
- massacre at Virginia Tech College
- Basescu, the president of Romania suspended

about me and school

Although I hate many pictures/videos crowded in my last blog posts I didn't blog because I didn't feel like. School is harsh this month and I have the math WASL in about 2 weeks. I'm sooooooooooooo sick of school and I can't wait the vacation. There's a debate going on if failing the math WASL means you cannot graduate but I'll do my best anyway and I'm really glad the science WASL is not required for sure. I completely suck at math and I know the math WASL will be much harder than the English WASL I had. I've learned some things about me since my last post. I rarely remember something if I don't specifically think that I need to remember but I easely remember visual things. I can't learn a phone number as fast as I can memorize a scene from a movie and... hmmm I already forgot the second thing. I didn't specifically think that I need to memorize it. I guess I'm just tired. This is another thing but I've noticed it long time ago. I can't learn or do homework if it's a lot. I really can't. I look at it and I say: this is to much, I can't do it, and I'm not doing any of it. I'm like an computer to which is given to many tasks at the same time. I freeze, or something like that. It sometimes happens but I'm glad I don't always get that much homework or stuff to learn. I can't get school out of my head and I'm really stressed with all the homework and everything. I always say to myself: what did I forget now? Can't wait for the 1 week break coming next week...

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

Haha, it's a good game by the way.

Drive-thru

I can't remember where I first saw this...

done with WASL (english)

I'm finally done with the English part of WASL! :D

Test Drive Unlimited bug

weekend

I'm glad I'm finally done with the writing part of WASL. I had 3 days of writing and I have two more days of reading next week. Reading they say, I have to read a text but I still have to write, I have to answer some question... blah Tomorrow day off and hmmm I think no homework till Monday. :D I'll watch The Departed because I heard it's a good movie and I'll write something about it if it really is a good one. I watched Babel, a veeery good movie about all the suffering in the world. It's a sad movie but I love it. Many people compare it to Crash and they say both suck. I had the patience to watch Babel from the beginning until the end but it's really boring if you don't understand or you don't care about what's going on.

I came across this interesting video about a pillow fight:



and this one:



(I first saw it on ciops.ro)

The best video on the Internet

Who said I'm not good at hardware?

Dax Flame, awesome kid

I watched all his videos and if he's fake he's truly amazing but if he is not fake I'm really sorry for him...

He talks in one of his videos about a PEE FIGHT with a classmate. That's one of the funniest things I ever heard. Some people think he is "resmarted" :)) Someone makes fun of him in this video but he is not gay and I posted this only because it describes him so well. If you don't have something interesting to do I recommend watching his videos.

people

I can't understand those that shake their head without saying anything instead of saying hi. I walk into class and people shake their head instead of saying hi! It's absolutely idiotic!! Anywayz... this is something I wanted to post some time ago but I don't really have time for blog these days because WASL is coming up and I'm having some issues with the computer. I also can't understand people that don't mimic any smile on their face at very good jokes, jokes that make me laugh my ass off. They keep their face straight like they're at a funeral or something. What really concerns me is I can see more and more people like this. I know life is not fair, boring, sad and bla bla but they really need to cheer up. Among the reasons why I hate crowded places I have to mention this one. When I walk up the stairs I have a few options where to look at. One option is to look in the person's butt, another would be to look sideways but I can't really see where I'm walking, or I could look up but because I'm walking up the stairs it would be really hard to always walk with the head like that. Looking down is almost like looking in the butt of the person ahead. I also hate people that dance in front of me and can't decide which way to go. Tough days coming so I might not be posting too much.

Battlefield: Bad Company Tech Trailer

hello blog

I didn't feel like blogging and I was very lazy because of the one week break. I also lost my 30 GB iPod... I realized that right when I was free, the last day of school before the break, when I got home. I hate and I don't understand the ironic smile of my teachers right after I ask them if they know anything about my iPod. I also didn't blog because I was very sick. I'll blog more these days because I'm much more active when I go to school (probably the only good thing about school) and I finished F.E.A.R. so I have much more time.

World's Brands

How many can you recognize?

Are you sure you're supposed to be a boy/girl?

I had this weird biology assignment about a girl who was supposed to be a boy. The doctors discovered that while trying to find out why can't she have babies. Because of some chromosomes she was born a girl instead of a boy how she was supposed to be and she looks like a regular girl but she can't have babies and she doesn't have pubian hair. Click the images to read the article.

Valencrap's Day

Saint Valentine's Day is on February 14. It is the traditional day on which lovers express their love for each other; sending Valentine's cards, candy, or donations to charities, often anonymously. It is very common to present flowers on Valentine's Day.

But wait! what's love?

Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection or profound oneness. Depending on context, love can have a wide variety of intended meanings. Romantic love is seen as a deep, ineffable feeling of intense and tender attraction shared in passionate or intimate attraction and intimate interpersonal and sexual relationships. Love can also be conceived of as Platonic love, religious love, familial love, and, more casually, great affection for anything considered strongly pleasurable, desirable, or preferred, including activities and foods.

Oh really? Now I see why people fall in "love" so easily. I'm always and probably I'll always be amazed how indifferent and ignorant can people be about things from which they don't benefit at all. I don't mean donations and stuff like that, I mean every day behavior, small things. People simply don't care about anything that doesn't affect their life in a good way or in a bad way. People you think they have a good heart because of good things they do, they probably do them because they think someone sees them. I was so angry one day because of this and I wrote these thoughts because I saw so many ignorant people in a short time. It's an ignorance and an selfishness which I often associate with wickedness. I'm sooo sick of it. Can people really love with that attitude? I highly doubt that. Love. It's a strong word, isn't it? It's because it changes things not because it's a strong feeling. If, somehow, it's a strong feeling, it's a feeling given by what? It's a feeling given by what people SEE. It's a feeling based on something that a real feeling like LOVE could never occur because it takes time to discover all the reasons why a person potentially loves another person. The "love" it's based on idiotic things like: "OMG she looks so hot!", "That guy right there is so strong and handsome!! What's his name again?" I find absolutely idiotic how smart people "fall in love" with persons they know for 5 minutes. People need to learn how to love, they learn to love after they have some unpleasant experiences by falling in love with people for retarded reasons followed by knowing the person better and knowing it doesn't match you at all, it only matches your imagination and your idealism, until you know who you're really talking to. I'm ashamed of my way of rapidly judging someone by their appearance. This it's not fair, but it's so human - to judge things and persons so easily, we were born with it. It's not their choice if they look ugly in my opinion but if they don't match my fashion tastes it's probably because I don't understand it and because I haven't lived in the same environment as they have. Valentine's Day is rubbish until you truly LOVE a person and that involves knowing that person and knowing why you love him or her. I don't think it's necessary to remind the other reasons for which people "love" and I'm not even going to talk about "lovers", the persons who seek persons of opposite sex 24/7 - one of the most retarded category of humans, destroyed and broken-hearted. I almost dropped a tear. Girls have expectations from their "prince" like in fairy tales. You can't even imagine what expensive things girls expect and how far their imagination goes. Boys don't really care, they don't have money and time for that, another good reason to hate "love" as a boy. Enough said, Valentine's Day is rubbish for most of the people and will remain the same as long as people love for no good reason and as long as it's commercialized like it's not every year.

Khufu

My English teacher to the class:

Go home and khufu your mother!

We were talking about the Great Pyramid of Khufu and we couldn't pronounce that word.

Yahoo Messenger inside Yahoo Mail

If you don't have this feature you'll have it soon, it's now being tested.

Groping in front of the computer screen

I can stare at the computer screen for hours and hours and hours... The accumulated hours are since March, last year.

My English assignment

Deciding upon your future is not an easy task. Too many options make life easy and hard at the same time. It's good when you have many options and you know exactly what's your choice but many options are bad when it's hard to make a decision. The best way of being successful in life is choosing what you like and what satisfies you. If you chose what you don't like you make your life harder because people do a quality job and are more productive when they do things they like. These factors should be taken into account when deciding things that change your future.

Bush with a kid

nevas.blogspot.com

Firefox extensions

So, these are my favorite Firefox extensions.

All-in-One Gestures

Makes browsing much easier and faster. The only problem for me was when I accidentally closed or opened pages but I fixed that. I use more than one direction of moving the mouse. For example instead of UP for opening a new tab I now use UP followed by RIGHT.

Clicking buttons is overrated. This excellent hybrid of the old Mouse Gestures extension and a collection of tools for alternative navigation methods lets you perform almost every action in Firefox with a quick swipe.

Dictionary Tooltip

This is useful when you're not sure about a term, by clicking the little speaker icon it reads the word out loud.

When surfing the Web, sometimes you'll come across words you don't know the meaning of. Instead of reaching for a dictionary or heading to its online equivalent, use Dictionary Tooltip. With this extension you only need to double-click a word to bring up a window with pronunciations, definitions, and thesaurus entries.

GooglePreview

A really useful one, it shows little screen shots of the websites in google and yahoo next to each search result.

When you perform a regular Google search, your keyword turns up a list of links that fit your search, along with text snippets from each of the pages. But if you have the GooglePreview extension, Firefox will display a screenshot of each page in the list so you can see it before clicking the link.

MR Tech Local Install

Gives more functionality to Firefox.

For Firefox users who want to delve into the nitty-gritty of managing extensions, this add-on hacks the default extension and theme tools in Firefox to give you much more control. It also adds the invaluable "Restart Firefox" functionality.

Reveal

It's like alt+tab in Windows Vista.

Firefox Showcase is a strong competitor, but Reveal narrowly beat it out with its polished look and additional features. Simply hit F2 or Alt+~ to see thumbnail images for all open tabs for a window. Hitting the Insert key brings up thumbnails of the history for any tab or all of them, and the Back and Forward buttons also provide small thumbails of each link.

StumbleUpon

This one's my favorite, a great way of wasting time.

Most people tend to repeatedly visit the same Web sites, whether for news, sports, or shopping. StumbleUpon offers a new (and great!) way of browsing the Web by randomly picking high-rated sites from categories you select. If you like surprises, this extension delivers.

Tab Mix Plus

Great for tab customization and session saver. If you shut down the computer with Firefox open next time you open up Firefox it asks you: restore session or start new session.

There are a lot of Firefox extensions that customize tabs and a few good session savers, but none does both as well as this handy add-on. Edit everything possible about tab appearance and behavior, and also save Firefox sessions in case of a browser crash or unexpected shutdown.

The text that is not bolded and the images are from download.com. To see the rest of the Firefox extensions suggested by download.com click here.

"Invention"

A Romanian 'invented' a new way of using the emoticons in Yahoo Messenger. He copies and pastes on yahoo messenger the lyrics of a song and replaces the words that can be replaced by emoticons. He pastes the lyrics as the song plays to impress his girlfriend. Big deal. That's not an invention. He appeared on a online Romanian website for news and he was even contacted by a yahoo representative.

Romanian Student Invents Yahoo Messenger's Emoticoncert
7 Februarie 2007


Darius Groza, a Romanian student was congratulated by Yahoo! Inc bosses after inventing what he called Emoticoncert.

The Romanian’s invention consists in creating a video clip in which a song is played, based on a yahoo messenger window using Yahoo’s emoticons to depict the situations the song is about.

The Romanian student is 21 years old. He studies Journalisms and public relations at the Cluj University Babes-Bolyai".

'”Congratulations on your creation! It is truly original and very intelligent, said Francois Dufour, manager Yahoo! Messenger manager for the United States, in an email sent to Darius Groza.

''They told me they want to develop and integrate the concept in Yahoo Messenger , so that anyone can make an Emoticon on any kind of song, Groza said .

He added that he would like to collaborate with Yahoo and not sell his idea.

Emoticon is a brand created by Yahoo in the 90’s anii '90, using graphic signs to depict a certain emotion or state of mind.

evz.ro

Rainforest Cafe

I visited today the Rainforest Cafe and I thought it would nice to post some photos here. The restaurant is located inside a Nordstrom mall and they have pretty good food. Here we go:

Stumble Upon, school and the phone of the future

I'd like to talk about my favorite Firefox extensions but I'm sure I'll not have enough time. The reason? School. I HATE SCHOOL!!!!!!! Before I continue I want to add something:

It's okay to hate school:
There is nothing wrong with you.
If you hate school, parents and teachers might be quick to label you as 'troubled' or 'defiant' or diagnose you with a bunch of disorders. Nothing could be further from the truth.

There is nothing wrong with hating school, there is nothing wrong with hating being forced to go someplace you don't want to, and being "taught" things you're not interested in, in ways that would kill you if boredom were lethal.

You're not worthless if you don't get good grades, and you're not mentally ill if the mere thought of school scares you.

In fact, you're probably a lot more sane than someone who has a nervous breakdown if they don't get an A+.

They say school is for learning? Well, being bored is hardly any way to learn anything! No wonder hardly anyone remembers what they were forced to memorize at school. School isn't about learning, it's about training people to be obedient to those with authority over them.

Don't trust school to 'educate' you - only you can be trusted with that!

This psychologist has a message for kids who hate school:
I, as an adult and a psychologist, want to say to any children out there who hate school: you are not alone. Most people hate it too, but usually they don't feel entitled to say so, and many can't bear to think about it so they hardly even know how they feel. You are not mad – you don't have a Deep Psychological Problem (though you might develop one if you stay in school against your will!); and you are not bad for wanting to live your life the way you choose, doing what you think right – that is what everyone should be doing. You are not the problem: coercion is the problem. Being forced to go to school is the problem.

http://www.school-survival.net/

I hate all the workaholics I see everyday, they are so retarded that they love self-torture! A kid said these days: "It hurts so good!" They're insane! People who can't stop working are insane! and I see them everywhere! I HATE TO BE FORCED TO LEARN THINGS THAT I DON'T CARE ABOUT AND WHICH I'LL NEVER NEED IN MY ENTIRE LIFE! I HATE SCHOOL!!!!!

OK... now about the Firefox extension, Stumble Upon it's a really good extension because it helps you discover the internet like never before. First you choose what you want to know from various categories (unlike the school where you're forced to learn things you don't care about) and then you click the Stumble! button which is in the Stumble toolbar (installed in Firefox). It takes you to randomly selected websites from all the internet that fall into your categories. The toolbar also has two buttons "I like it" and "No more like this". You can spend hours and hours with all your favorite content on the internet. Stumble Video is pretty new and it's like the Stumble toolbar but it's a website and, obviously, displays video content. The videos are from Youtube and google video but you can't click them and go to their exact location but you can find them by their title and to make it even harder those from Stumble did something so that you can't even copy and paste the title, so you have to type it to find the video. Why this? Probably they want you to be loyal to their website. I'll write about my other favorite Firefox extensions next time because I need to do the homework. Did I mention how much I hate school? I HATE SCHOOL!!!!!!!

I found this interesting concept of the phone: Turn your fingers into a mobile phone! Maybe first users of this... phone will look pretty goofy but, who knows, maybe this is the future, right here, beyond touch screen.

The shutdown, restart, sleep etc. function in Vista

For all the idiots that still think Microsoft designed Vista with such a small button to get to all those functions just to get on your nerves I have to say something: Microsoft did that instead of the black & white screen from xp because they thought it's faster! In fact, it is! Clicks to shutdown computer in xp: 3. Clicks to shutdown computer in Vista: 2!! It IS small because they don't want you to shutdown the computer by accident! Got it?

The new ads

source: zoso.ro

My new girlfriend

She's sooo cute :) isn't she?

Underbed Video

For all the lazy people out there... Underbed Video. It's a TV that comes from right under the bed and it can be rotated as you wish.