March 2010
1 post
Somewhat better YouTube experience
How cool would it be if only you could get HQ YouTube videos off YouTube without actually having to visit YouTube itself? Say, you get a link to YouTube video, you open it up in a media player of your choice. I mean, the Web 1.0 way — without troublesome Flash player, buffering, stupid comments and advertising punching you in the face. Now that would be really cool, wouldn’t it....
December 2009
6 posts
Wordpress blows. All the cool kids switched to...
Haven’t posted in a while. Actually, it’s been over a year since I posted anything here — hell, I wish I knew why. And I get a long-lasting impression that it isn’t just me, latterly most of my favorite RSS subscriptions either went offline or fell into some kind of idleness.
See, taking a break usually helps but when it comes to blogs, it’s a different story: when...
How many people use Firefox, Safari, Opera...
Recently Opera’s market share increased from 0.87% to 0.99%, I was discussing about it with a group of fellows and one person stated: “with only 1 percent of share Opera has no importance at all!”. Dude… I wish you knew the number of all internet users at first!
Here’s the chart showing the current Browser Market Share (provided by Net Applications).
Web browser market share...
Evolution of Web Browsers, from 1991 to the...
Today I found a chart depicting the evolution of web browsers. In this picture you can see a very interesting look at the past and how far we’ve come. For instance, honestly I didn’t even know that Netscape Navigator is older than Internet Explorer! For those who cannot view Scalable Vector Graphics, here’s a picture converted to the PNG format.
Evolution of Web Browsers
Well, I’m afraid I...
Compiz Fusion – An Amazing Video Demonstration of...
Compiz Fusion is a collection of plugins for Compiz, an OpenGL based window manager for the X Window System (read: available for all Linux distributions, natively build in Ubuntu) that uses 3D graphics hardware to create fast compositing desktop effects for window management.
Compiz Fusion, collection of plugins for Compiz
Most of you have heard about that great piece of free software, and I...
Firefox Girl — the story of Alexandra Ansgar
Photoshopped picture of the girl in a Firefox t-shirt I added to one of my postings got a warm welcome (not as warm as Ubuntu Girl, mind you!), so I decided to hit on an idea and seek for more information. What’s her name, where is she from, and — before anything else — what on Earth does she have to do with the Firefox browser.
Alexandra Ansgar, the Firefox Girl
Here’s what I found so far –...
Ubuntu Girl — Spread the Linux with a chick
Don’t waste your time on listing all advantages of switching from Windows to Linux, there are at least a few better ways to evangelize. For instance, I’m sure this picture will be much more successful than any other right-minded strivings!
Ubuntu Girl
Photo was made by Ubuntu fans from Hungary, the caption says something like: “if yours is micro and soft, my t-shirt never drops”.
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November 2009
10 posts
Volleyball Girls — What Would You Give to Date One...
Volleyball is an Olympic team sport in which two teams of six active players, separated by a high net try to score points against one another by grounding a ball on the other team’s court. The complete rules of volleyball are extensive, but in general, play proceeds as follows… OK… forget the rules… as if anyone cares who the winner is anyway!
Instead, let’s focus on the real benefits volleyball...
Go Daddy Girl — Candice Michelle. And the true...
Everybody knows Go Daddy, it’s the largest domain name registrar in the world. The company is mostly known from pulling shitloads of dollars into the booby Super Bowl marketing campaigns filled full with sexually suggestive material, which get always rejected a number of times before being accepted to air in the television. See, I was just stumbling around; trying to find what made Go Daddy the...
HP Girl — Outstanding Beauty of Another...
When I was checking out the stats today, I noticed a number of people coming here from DailyTech article. Then, following the discussion that was taking place on one of the other articles — I found something really special.
HP Girl, promotion of energy-saving HP products
This photo was taken during promotional campaign of energy-saving set of HP products – i.e. HP Pavilion S3260, a...
Digg Effect — 2635 of Diggs, 85k of unique...
The Digg Effect, as seen in Google Analytics
Five days ago my post about Ubuntu girl was dugg, few folks requested some report, so there it is. The picture above my writings shows a chart of traffic that was brought by submission upvoted 2635 times. Ubuntu girl was one of the most popular stories on Digg service for that day, I guess perceptive analysis might be quite interesting.
83,790...
Friendly URLs — Possibly all of what makes a good...
Long story short — I strongly suggest following the convention of organizing files and directories in a file system. This is what users are already familiar with, and since majority of them aren’t willing to learn, you’re better keeping your URLs this way. Among all other things, friendly URLs have one additional benefit — when an URL address is easy to read, people are more likely to click. For...
Janet Cho — Does one Korean Model have three...
Janet Cho, posing with a fancy arcade game controller
Well, isn’t she pretty? Here’s the i4u gadget model gallery page, that’s where I that picture. The girl is described as Korean model Janet Cho. That’s fine, but when I type that phrase into search engine, not so many photos are showed. First thought – Janet Cho is just an alias. Great, this means I’m unable to...
Mashup of posts on your Wordpress Homepage
I’m starting to think that idea of showing a bunch of full posts on homepage isn’t always the best solution to choose, so I think we can do something with it. The goal is clear – I want to show complete content of newest posts, and only excerpts of older writings. Wordpress engine offers 2 appropriate template tags that provide showing our expected result. You can find them somewhere in your main...
Use "nofollow" to enjoy the better rankings
Some time ago I promised to write about my approach to use of nofollow for blog comments. Personally I do think that all comment links at dofollow blogs have no SEO value, and now I’m gonna clarify my thesis.
Being out of the “context”
If you are interested in SEO, you know well that links from sites topically related to yours can offer measurable boost for your rankings. So if you do SEO for a...
Five reasons why I don’t use Reddit for social...
Reddit Alien vs the Digg Shovel Guy
When I started writing this post, I was thinking about listening ten reasons, as you see finally I decided to share only five major ones. Let’s say the rest might be a little bit discussing. You know there’s a opportunity for Reddit fanboy to appear so it will be better if I don’t give him good arguments to start the fight within comment discussion below my...
Hello world
I’m moving my blog to tumblr, and I thought it wouldn’t be such a bad idea to take a chance to post a conventional Hello World in here. I’ve been thinking of getting rid of all old posting of mine once and for all.
Eventually, I decided to move selected ones to a new home. Since the archive needs a bit of fixin on it, the process may take up to a couple of days.
Stay tuned.