By Giedrius on August 30, 2010
I have read Frédéric Beigbeder article about paper books dying and losing the battle to electronic books, and the grim promises that this is very horrible. Beigbeder compares it to Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451″, and argues, that lack of paper books will make the world worse. However, I strongly disagree with him. Gutenbergs invention was created for [...]
Posted in General | Tagged books, kindle |
By Giedrius on July 19, 2010
People do not want to buy copies that cost that much as original. The same is true for the web. There are plenty of copywriting sites, and each year it is easier and easier to create another copy of website and try to get some market share. For example blogging. 10 or so years ago [...]
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By Giedrius on May 26, 2010
I was pleasantly surprised by seeing Android phones in stock at Lithuanian Omnitel store last week. They weren’t marked as Android phones, and their capabilities were unlisted. However, I am really happy that they have started selling more modern Smartphone’s than Iphone. However, there is no sign for paid applications in locally accessible Android Market [...]
Posted in General | Tagged Android, Lithuania |
By Giedrius on May 18, 2010
I am firm believer that knowing about places of common speed traps is a good thing. Thus I relied on trapster application on my android phone to report for the stationary and mobile traps in area I am driving. Sadly, it had far for complete speed camera map for Lithuania. Vilnius is marked quite well, [...]
Posted in General | Tagged Android, KML, ndrive, Speed Cameras |
By Giedrius on April 9, 2010
Yesterday there was a change made in Apple’s developers terms and conditions prohibiting cross-compiling Iphone and Ipad applications. This addition is related to announcement of Adobe CS5, which should be able to convert Flash to Iphone application and open Iphone application development to Flash developers. This is not a huge step for Apple, however it [...]
Posted in General | Tagged Adobe, Android, Apple |
By Giedrius on March 20, 2010
One of the most important drawbacks of my Nexus One is the limited choice of applications if you are outside US and couple other countries. Android Market sells for couple countries only, and native free Turn by turn navigation application is available in USA only. That is a shame, as I need navigation in my [...]
Posted in General | Tagged Android, nexus one |
By Giedrius on June 29, 2009
Yesterday I tweeked my blog’s feeds and looked for a plugin to integrate feedburner seemlesly. This appeared a bit more tricky than thought: Upgrade to wordpress 2.7 made some feedburner plugins inoperable. This includes most popular FeedSmith plugin. Some other Wordpres feed plugins are not working too. I am not sure if it is wordpress [...]
Posted in General | Tagged feedburner, wordpress |
By Giedrius on January 8, 2009
So, you lost your domain. Maybe due to credit card fail during renewal, maybe the mail address of domain got hacked. Or maybe you lost a case on domain to competition. Happened to our rivals once. After lots of screaming and slapping yourself the question comes what to do next. So, a quick check list: [...]
Posted in General | Tagged domains, websites |
By Giedrius on April 11, 2008
April is the season when you have to fill your tax information and, in my case, pay the taxes for the year before. Overall, it was not a bad year once I have calculated everything. Some things could be better. As a true geek, I wrote a wp plugin for calculating my taxes, though it [...]
Posted in General | Tagged taxes, wordpress |
By Giedrius on March 3, 2008
Today took time to upgrade wordpress to version 2.3.3. It was not seamless process, as somehow new tables were not created and thus lost all the categories. Had to re-create missing tables by hand and same goes for categories. At the moment everything is working, but will have to check the logs later on.
Posted in General | Tagged wordpress |
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