Попробую-ка вот этот инструмент для организации нескольких тысяч фотографий: http://t.co/776yJuvL
Дек 212011
Решил немного уделить внимание своему блогу. Надоел старый дизайн, захотелось чего-то свежего.
Что-то давно дизайн моего блога не обновлялся и уже, честно сказать, приелся немного мне. Ну а читателям, поди, подавно. Порылся я среди доступных тем, которые предлагаются WordPress и ничего меня не вперло. Наверное, к следующему году нужно сделать свою…
Сен 042011
Спешу поделиться новостью. Я установил на свой телефон мобильную версию wordpress. В теории это означает, что я чаще буду обновлять свой блог. Я стал активно использовать функцию распознавания речи. Это значительно экономит время и позволяет фокусироваться на мыслях, а не тупом наборе текста.
После суток использования я однозначно могу сказать что мне нравится андроид! И я не собираюсь использовать windows mobile в будущем.
FreeMind — прекрасная небольшая программа, написанная на Java (что автоматически означает, что работать она будет на любой ОС), которая позволяет немного освободить голову и «разложить все по полочкам», используя для этого представление данных в древовидной форме. Лично я активно использую ее при обдумывании каких-то важных вопросов типа «За» и «Против», размышлений на тему, и т.д.
Между прочим, программа совершенно бесплатна и позволяет сохранять данные во множестве форматов, включая PDF. К слову, на работе такая программа может неплохо облегчить процесс ведения проектов (Work Breakdown Structure). Да мало ли, какие ей еще найдутся применения?
И напоследок совет из серии GTD. Если в голове много мыслей, идей, тревог, которые мешают сконцентрироваться, вызывают дискомфорт, вылейте этот поток на бумагу. А потом структуризируйте в FreeMind. Вам тут же полегчает, потому что визуализируя эту информацию, мозгу будет легче работать с ней дальше и искать решения. Кроме прочего, это хорошая психотерапевтическая практика. 
Окт 282009
Ubuntu 9.10 is coming out tomorrow. I’ll take a risk and upgrade my home laptop immediately. It seems like with every release it’s getting better and better…
Окт 072009
After trying various free/commercial accounting software products I returned to MS Money and suddenly felt myself ‘at home’. What a great software! Nothing is as versatile/easy to use. It’s a shame that it’s no longer supported and developed — online tools totally beat this niche.
Апр 262009
Once Ubuntu 9.04 was released, I immediately upgraded my laptop and office machine. So far so good… No problems noticed. The upgrade process was smooth and easy!
The boot process became much faster. And in general, performance-wise there’s a good improvement. I recommend this upgrade to everyone!
Мар 192009
You may notice that logon sound plays perfectly fine, but other sounds (like window maximising, minimising, etc.) just refuse to work even though they may be enabled in preferences on fresh Ubuntu Intrepid installation. Here’s the solution. Works for me!
Мар 192009
This great article describes the process of getting your Samsung i780 (and any other phone supporting Internet Sharing via PAN) to work as a bluetooth modem in Linux Ubuntu 8.10.
The only thing that I have to note is that described steps didn’t work for me until I added one additional string to /etc/network/interfaces:
auto bnep0
After that I was able to connect to the internet through my phone flawlessly!
Мар 182009
Just wanted to let the world know what I think about MS ActiveSync: piece of s-h-i-t. Pediod.
I borrowed my wife’s computer (she uses XP), installed ActiveSync 4.5. Then somehow it needed to restart 3-4 times to start working with my phone. Whatever, I have a patience. But… When it ‘synced’ with Outlook, I was shocked. First of all, it created duplicates for my contacts in a random manner: some had three records, some had for and some of them were alright. Secondly, it ended up flooding my phone with tons of empty records that showed up as ‘Unknown’. Finally, even when ActiveSync said that synchronization was completed, I looked at Tasks in Outlook and there were none there. So I had to re-sync… Which doubled the number of duplicates. Ridiculous! :-\
Why does Windows Mobile let you synchronize your device with many computers and only one Exchange Server? Why does it only let you synchronize one Mail account, when you can have many?.. I can continue this list, but… I guess these are all rhetorical questions.
One thing is pretty obvious though: Microsoft is already an Internet loser. When Bill Gates was writing his books about how everything would be Internet-based, few young folks from Stanford University were doing their job of transforming the future into reality. It’s even ridiculous: why predict the future of technology and refuse to do something real valuable in that direction?
And Microsoft is already trying to catch up with their mobile OS technology (read about windows mobile 6.5, 7.0). Because at this point they are well behind their competitors.
I personally tend to think that Android is by far the most perspective system… We’ll wait and see.
Why does Microsoft always have to come up with their f-in’ proprietary formats so that it becomes hard to impossible to support devices and systems on other platforms? Now, I know why and so do you…
I’m talking about synchronisation of Windows Mobile devices with non-Windows platforms. Theoretically, it is possible, but… There are lots and lots of complications along the road. This creates poor user experience and a lot of frustration. Why not make ActiveSync an open protocol for an engineering world!? People have to hack and reverse-engineer things when they could just have a nice and complete specification. This way, Linux, Mac,
I wish Google Android had complete MS Exchange support. Once it happens, I’ll dump my WM phone and buy some nice Google Android device 
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Okay, so I’ve been desperately trying to make my phone (Samsung SGH-i780) work as a modem in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) and finally managed to! For those who’ll possibly stumble upon this post and who are interested to know how to make it work — here’s how to do it:
First of all, a small introduction. When you want to use the phone as a modem, you usually connect the phone via USB and then use it as a modem device to dial your ISP to get connected to the internet using pppd, gnome-ppp, etc.
Well, I’ve spent hours trying to define my i780 as a modem… But I was surprised to know that all you really need to do is:
- Connect the phone via USB
- On the phone: Start->Programs->Internet Sharing (Note: you must have at least one profile for connecting to the internet and this is usually being taken care of by your carrier. When you insert the sim card, you essentially receive all settings via Push-message)
- Choose internet connection to use and click ‘Connect’
And this is literally all you need — your computer should be connected to the internet. The phone is presented with one of eth devices (eth2 in my case) in the system. No pppd nightmare, no nothing — it’s that simple .
I don’t know why, but I’m usually procrastinating when it comes to updating/upgrading my blog. And it’s totally irrational because the process takes no more than 15 minutes of time. Well, congratulations, Artem, you did it finally!
Мар 152009
This is how my desktop looks. Very nice!
Мар 152009
I finally got sick of Vista and totally erased it from my computer. The new OS of choice is… (Guess what?) Linux Ubuntu! I find myself loving it more than anything else I’ve ever used. And so I decided to install it on my laptop as a primary and only operating system. I love the fact that everything is so easy to configure as you like. Mac OS X interface? No problem, few commands in the console, few clicks — you got it! The Ubuntu community is really cool — you can go to google, type the problem that you experience and you’re almost guaranteed to get a solution on ubuntu forums.
And what amazes me most — you install it and you’re ready to go, pretty much. It’s not that ‘do-it-yourself’ linux constructor that was out there say 5 years ago. It’s totally friendly for users.
Июл 242008
So I’ve started using a Desktop computer recently at work. I didn’t really want to mess my laptop’s OS with monstrous development tools like Weblogic, Oracle. Plus these sort of tools require a very powerful machine (even 3 gigs of RAM is like a minimal threshold). I made Kubuntu an OS of my choice.
What can I say after using it for a week? Very nice, really user-friendly OS with excellent packaging system and an interface based on KDE. Plus it’s still Linux — nobody had canceled CLI interface (in case something goes wrong)
Июн 182008
Yesterday Mozilla announced the stable Firefox 3.0 version available for downloading. I installed it today and I’m quite happy with the performance boost. Subjectively gmail works twice as fast as before!
I highly encourage everyone to install the latest version!
Nice features are:
- Full screen mode is a real full screen mode, like the one used in IE
- Zooming shrinks pictures proportionally
- General performance boost — switching between tabs is noticeably faster, gmail works faster, etc.
Go ahead and install!
Май 282008
I always wanted to have a desktop pager with virtual desktops for Windows just like most UNIX systems have. I tried some NVidia tool that came with drivers, but it was slow and not really usable. Finally, about a year ago or so I discovered this utility called VirtualWin. Since that period my windows experience improved drastically!
I can now have as many virtual desktops as I want and not overload my taskbar with tons of crap that makes it hard to use. Using this tool is a bliss, I really recommend it to all folks who have more than 5 windows opened simultaneously. Navigation is really simple — you can use keyboard shortcuts to switch from one desktop to another or use your mouse. In this case you just need to move your mouse pointer to the edge of the screen and «push beyond the screen» — it takes you to another desktop. Although, it’s such a small utility — I love it!
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