After nearly 4 years since I bought my desktop computer and after complaining about constant thrashing I finally decided it’s time to give it a little upgrade. It now sports 8GB of memory instead of just 2, and the improvement is noticeable. The big culprits for the thrashing turned out to be Eclipse and Unity. [...]
I’ve been using Google+ for a couple of days and have been very happy with it. It’s really a great social network, but I’ll refrain from rehashing the same things everyone has been saying. You can Google it yourself. One of the things Google+ has been slated to be is a Twitter replacement, in which [...]
Here’s what I got trying to say “Amit Schreiber” into Google’s Voice Search using my netbook and Google Chrome: sperm tribe sure I burn ami schreiber what the f*** chile I’m yours driver tommy shaw rugs how many shriver short send me to a boot striper Oh, well… I guess it goes through a relevance [...]
Yesterday I called a friend of mine who is visiting from the US and is staying at her parents’ place. My mind struggled for 2 seconds before I remembered how to say “may I speak with…” It’s been years since I’ve uttered this request. And today my father called to tell me about an interesting [...]
… but then why do I get Venus women’s razor ads on YouTube? Maybe it’s a “knowing the future” kind of thing. EDIT: OK, this is not funny. Now I got an Always pads ad. What the hell, Google?
I gave Unity a good chance, but it was simply torture. Maybe it’s the over 3 years old hardware I’m running Ubuntu on, or maybe it’s the servers I’m running on my machine for the project I’m working on, but the hard drive kept thrashing to a point where it was unbearable. Sometimes just clicking [...]
If you installed Ubuntu 11.04 and after a while the launcher stops auto hiding as it should, it may be because you did some dragging and dropping in an application. For example, if you use Konsole (like I do) and you drag one of Konsole’s tabs to reorganize their order, the launcher will suddenly pop [...]
… don’t use interpreted languages. You know… because of the extra CPU cycles. I had to get it out. Sorry.
What’s going to happen when text-to-speech-to-text is perfected? Phones can already read text messages well enough and soon you’ll be able to input text messages to your phone just by talking to it. Then, instead of texting, you’ll be: Talking to your phone (entering a message.) Waiting for a reply, entered by your friend by [...]
Not too long ago I wrote in a post (How can we take back our privacy?) about the option of expiring our online data, and now some Germans decided to provide software called “X-pire!”, which expires images after a period of time. Still not solving the problem of saving the image and re-posting it, but [...]