San Francisco Cab Tracker

10 April 2006 ⋅ 1 min read ⋅ review

Oh my, it’s been a long time since I wrote something in my blog last time. The last few weeks were the busiest time this year. At first, I had my laptop BIOS killed. Then it was successfully restored even though it required to unsolder it from the motherboard, reprogram and solder back. No, it was my father, the magician, who did all the job. Big thanks again, dad! Then there were some other minor troubles here and there taking all my focus and time.

To catch up with the news and, for a start, here’s a nice and magic service — San Francisco Cab Tracker. Never before had I seen anything like that as well as little did I know that it’s even possible to track the location of each specific cab in the area. Is that GPS-tricks?

Next time I promise to publish some cool photos from some factory in our Crimean mountains. It’s building was never finished, but what was built impresses.

Until next time!

What I Played In Late 2005

6 January 2006 ⋅ 4 min read ⋅ review

Yesterday I finished playing one wonderful game — Mystery Case Files: Huntsville — and decided to quickly outline what interesting on this front happened in my late 2005 life.

Bubblewrap or How To Kill Time

5 December 2005 ⋅ 1 min read ⋅ review

Here’s another time-killer for your consideration - Bubblewrap.

Personally, I’m not addicted to this kind of entertainment, but I know several companies where the job stopped for couple of days, thanks to flying penguins. Let me know if you need a link. :)

Geominder

5 December 2005 ⋅ 1 min read ⋅ review software

Sometimes the ideas are floating on the surface, but for some unknown reason no one sees them. This time is no exception.

Pixen 2 - Pushing Pixels To The Limit

6 November 2005 ⋅ 2 min read ⋅ review

Those of us who are into graphics design sometimes complain about the complexity of graphics packages they use. While giants, like Adobe Photoshop and Corel PhotoPaint provide enormous selection of tools and features, for some applications they are definite overkill. And that’s exactly why some of my friends look for alternatives. Here’s one of them for your consideration and, I guess, it is good one for those who think on a pixel level. :) Take a quick look…

Columba: E-Mail Client

22 October 2005 ⋅ 4 min read ⋅ review

The other day I made a test-drive of another E-mail client written in Java — Columba 1.0. At a glance, it appeared very friendly and well-though out, but soon… Here come my (unpleasant) notes, so if you a fan, you can skip the rest of the post as it won’t add any confidence and make you proud of the product.

Science Fiction Podcasting

22 October 2005 ⋅ 1 min read ⋅ interesting review

Couple of days ago I saw a link to Escape Pod science fiction podcast. At first, I didn’t pay enough attention to it, although, I still gave it a quick look. It made its way somewhere deep into my brains and didn’t show up until this evening. You might know that I’m studying English (or, perhaps, polishing it) and always looking for good opportunities to extend and improve my communication skills.

Today I’ve got an idea. Why not give it a try and combine learning with a pleasure of listening to some science fiction? So, that’s how I decided to review the site again and download some issues. I’ve downloaded two of them (#19 Implications and #24 The Death Trap of Dr. Nefario) and, now that I’ve finished listening to them, I’m definitely going to get the rest of them. It’s so wonderful and exciting that I would recommend anyone out there to give it a whirl on the off-chance. Yeah, it’s something special!

I promise, you would find it time well-spent for sure!