Posts from ‘Life-Hacker’

Mar
08

The world’s largest stock imagery company, Getty Images, released a mashup (I just stumbled upon it) that leans on the company’s vast stock image and audio assets. It is a flash application called Moodstream that draws on Getty’s photo, video, and audio collections to create what the company calls a

Powerful brainstorming tool designed to take you in inspiring, unexpected directions.

Moodstream streams music and images along with video clips to create a sort of audio-visual mix. There are manny other applications for desktop or mobile that are trying to impose the same effect, like StereoMood or Sourcetone, I for example use on my iPod touch RjDj, but none of them have incorporated a visual element (yet).

Moodstream is able to adjusts its output based on settings users input via some sliders that should describe their state of mind. Happy to Sad, Humorous to Serious, etc. Also the type of transitions between image assets can be controlled by the user, the amount of color vs. black and white imagery, and the type of music.

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Jan
25

Ergonomics Definition

In speranta ca marea majoritatea dintre voi petrec foarte mult timp in fata calculatorului si pentru ca multi nici nu stiu cum sa isi faca viata mai usoara din punct de vedere al sanatatii incercati in primul rand cand ajungeti la birou sau acasa in fata computer-ului din dotare sa va acordati cateva minute sa reflectati asupra conditiei voastre

Ma simt sau nu confortabil pe scaun in fata calculatorului?

Raspunsul trebuie sa fie simplu DA sau BA!

Aici intervine Ergonomia. Desi poate suna ciudat Ergonomia spatiului de munca este o stiinta care se ocupa cu design-ul jobului si echipamentului pentru a se potrivii cu muncitorul. Astfel ca de ce sa nu facem ceva in privinta acestui lucru reusind in acest sens sa ne imbunatatim viata si productivitatea in munca (cat de corporate suna, dar sa nu pierdem din vedere esenta).

Lista punctelor esentiale

Daca cautam putin pe net despre ergonomie si exemple gasim o gramada, unele mai detaliate altele mai simple, ce pierdem noi insa din vedere este faptul ca cele mai importante le putem face fara prea mult efort, astfel ca am agregat o lista cu cele mai importante si usor de facut aspecte in ceea ce priveste ergonomia noastra la locul de munca sau acasa…

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Dec
27
Evolution of Programmer

Evolution of Programmer

High School/Jr.High

10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
20 END

First year in College

program Hello(input, output)
begin
writeln('Hello World')
end.

Senior year in College

(defun hello
(print
(cons 'Hello (list 'World))))

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Dec
19
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Wordpress

I’m the Administrator on my WordPress site but my name doesn’t show up as an Author option when posting. This what happened to me one day, when I have checked all my posts.

Well occasionally, WordPress gets stoned and loses the Administrator’s name in the Author dropdown menu. I really do not know why and to be honest I never tried to figure out what is the reason for this bug.

The fix for this one is actually quite simple (although it could look like your are scratching your right ear with your left hand). Here is what  you need to do to fix this bug: …

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Nov
22

Chiar daca se pare ca este de ceva vreme :) eu sincer acum am mai intrat sa iau o noua versiune pentru aceasta aplicatie absolut minunata. Se numeste Shape Collage si din doar cateva click-uri poti face colaje din colectia ta de fotografii.

Exemplu:

Dar se pare ca acum au si o versiune online care poate fi folosita cu o multitudine de servicii gen Flickr, Youtube, Google etc. Va recomand aceasta aplicatie, eu o folosesc mereu si este nemaipomenita :) (exemplu colaj)

Nov
09

orangeblog.ro este cel mai bun exemplu de site corporate ASA NU. Este un dezastru total din toate punctele de vedere. O sa va dau doar 3 exemple pentru ca nu vreau sa le fac reclama :)

1. Oricine isi poate face blog, ca de exemplu Nu Stiu

2. Merge sa comentezi folosind cod javascript :) exemplu la articolu lu ala cu sex-u de mai sus

Orangeblog Disaster

3. Intrebarea cheie de pe pagina este daca un Trifoi are 0 1 sau 2 foi ;)

Nu mai punem in calcul toate celelalte gaurele de securitate pe care le mai are si faptul ca iti ofera nici un fel de user experience…

Una peste alta Bravos domnilor ;) ati reusit sa faceti un rahat portocaliu.

Sep
17

A few days ago I realized that Ubuntu doesn’t have “direct support” for ADSL modems so after long searching and internal tweaking I found a way to make this two work together without any problems.

I tried all these on the latest distribution of Ubuntu as of 17 Sep 2009 wich is 9.04.

Step 1: Download all these files libatm1, br2684ctl, speedtouch_ng – ZIP

Step 2: Install them in the following order:

All the files are in DEB format so there is no need for the terminal just yet (they work as setup exe files in Windows)

1. libatm1 – it should be a new version already in Ubuntu, if this is the case skip the installation

2. br2684ctl

3. speedtouch_ng – Here you will be presented to enter your credentials and some info about your connection. When prompted what connection type to use be very careful to chose PPPOE / ATM then enter your user name (for example 02141xxxxx@SIP1), your password and the values for VPI/VCI (for Romania are 0.35 – google or check your contract for other countries). Also don’t forget to check Connect at startup option here also.

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Feb
12

Se pare ca au inceput sa aplice alte metode de Phishing:

cancan_phishing.png

La fel ca si data trecuta desi acum GMailu s-a prins ca este SPAM poate nu suntem toti asa norocosi, asa ca mare grija unde dai click.

Jan
31

Users BEWARE, au inceput baietii destepti sa se joace cu cei de la Raiffeisen si trimit mailuri de tip Phishing:

Raiffeisen_Phishing.png

Eu personal am primit 3 pana acum si de fiecare data link-ul acela duce catre o adresa diferita. Deci cel/cei care a/au inceput curatenia de primavara a conturilor (un prieten a patit-o si se pare ca prin Mexic au ajuns banii lui) nu este amator si are mai multe sisteme infectate unde isi tine scriptul :)

Daca ne uitam in sursa vedem si linkul cu princina:
<a href=”http://dentistejura.ch/home/pdf/zzz/rzb.php.htm”>https://www.raiffeisenonline.ro/eBankingWeb/login</a>

Plus ca mailul vine de la o firma de avocatura :) – Received: from kretschgust.com

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Mare grija pe ce dai click.