Jan
05
2010
2

Nexus One came out, Kudos Gooogle.

It’s suppose to be the iPhone killer everybody talks about.

A cell phone  which is very fast, very slick in design, interface should be awesome and so on and so forth.

Yeah I get it, direct integration with google services, all nice and fun.

But, it’s website, well it just looks like someone @ google forgot to make it, and they did it in 1 day.

Google, a corporation to whom a user interface is at most importance, the innovators and inventors of game-changing interfaces eg: gMail, gWave, etc, show you their new awesome phone, with flash video.

You have interaction of course, you can click buttons, but only the first ones, after that,everything is video, and not that good a video at that, too fast for my account, I could barely keep up with it.

In comparison to google , Nokia decided to do it properly.

I am of course talking about the NokiaN97 simulator I built a while back in the summer.

We manage to build all the gfx, and interface in a week’s time. All work and no sleep of course, but I mean, it’s a tiny company. in Total we had 4 people working on it.

I could bet that google had twise as many people, thrice as talented as we are, and…well it’s just sad in comparison.

Plus you can see the endgadget nexus on introduction m which is a very cool demonstration of how successfully the nexus crashes while trying to change totally useless video backgrounds

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Dec
12
2009
0

My first blog post with the iPhone

iPhone, iPhone and again iPhone
I just love this thing, as much as I hate apple, this is the best phone out there, what’s more, my old phone kind of was telling me to buy an iPhone.
It got stuck and turned itself off too many times for me being comfortable with it.

I installed a bunch of applications naturally and I have to say, they make my life easier already
Even the smallest thing like syncing my contacts! Was very hard with my old phone.
BTW this whole post was written using the iPhones keyboard and with the help of it’s autocorrection with is freacking me out how good it is!!!!
it’d like it’s reading my mind and puts stuff there that I wanted to type! Cudos steve jobs. Cudos

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Oct
11
2009
0

Unexpected Error : success! (microsoft sending very spesific error messages)

Here’s a little funny we found out today @ work.

When my colleague tried to save a file on a windows server through sbm://

He encountered in a very strange error message :

unexpected error-success

unexpected error-success

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Jul
02
2009
2

Windows 7 on Aspire One 150 installed with USB – a little how to

I have finally managed to get some time in order to complete this.

I’ve installed the RC of windows 7 32bit on my little netbook. And I must say, it’s wonderful.

The netbook doesn’t seem to have any problems with the Aero theme nor with several application running and behaves beautifully

Steps to transfer iso to bootable usb:

  1. backup all of you files  on the disk-on-key. (this is optional but very very necessary)
  2. Format your thumb drive with Hp format utility (download link) – choose NTFS partition for faster installing.
    This step is key, because HP formats the drive with bootable options, windows formatter DOES NOT
  3. Find your win7 ISO, and extract it’s contents to a folder. You can use a wide variety of tools for this (7zip,winrar,another method)
  4. VERY IMPORTANT STEP : Change the file “bootmgr” to “NTLDR”
  5. Your USB is now BOOTABLE !!! enjoy.

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Jun
19
2009
2

IE8 is BETTER that firefox and chrome together.

This is weird.

Internet explorer, is apparently better that all other browsers.

isn’t InPrivate browsing is exacly the same as crome’s incognito mode?

thanx to igor and and always right blog

IE8 is better

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Mar
28
2009
0

Light Drawing videos

It’s back!

I’ve posted pictures of my new hobby(light-writing,Light-painting,light-drawing) in the previous post.

And since then I upgraded.

I used stop-animation and created these :

and This was before it :

Hope you like

-alex

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Mar
21
2009
0

Picasa

Light Drawing!

this is my newly found hobby….I set the exposure on my camera to 15 seconds and in a dark room I stat to play with LEDs :) more pics after the jump

(more…)

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Feb
26
2009
1

Cross-Browser Inline-Block

Ah, inline-block, that elusive and oh so tempting display declaration that promises so much, yet delivers so little. Too many times have I received PSD files like this:

Gallery Design

and begin to cry.

via Mozilla Webdev » Blog Archive » Cross-Browser Inline-Block.

Wow…Finally I have a clue how to do this properly(with some hacks of course….)

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Feb
17
2009
3

Flash to Javascript (mootools) ?

Ok, so if you still haven’t checked my “flash site” yet, you really should.

I’s a consept website, in flash, I created some time ago and didn’t finish.

It has a couple if nifty things to play with (draggable birds, media buttons in form of floating balloons,a very unique panoramic background)

And I decided to port this whole thing into JS with MooTools and it’s FX.Scroll function.

So in the next couple of days I will be posting the results here and the code also.

Cheerz

Feb
15
2009
0

www.next-episode.net – Organize your TV experience.

First off all, I would like to say, that I watch a LOT of tv.

I don’t really know where I get all the time for it, but I follow regularly atleast 10 shows.

Most of them are aired on American TV.

And that’s where NEXT-EPISODE comes in.

It show’s me when  all of  my shows will air next, a short summary about the next to be aired episode.

And one HUGE feature is the “stuff to watch” feature. It’s gold for everyone who wants to follow a series.

You just add a series to your list, and you get a list with all the episodes in that series, devided by seasons. It helps you keep track of that series in case youre doing a marathon or just watching it and don’t want to miss an episode.

one last thing, you can generate a forum signature with all of you favourite espisodes

Mine looks like this :

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