Dude, I want a professor like this :)\ Courtesy of break.com

New cool Web 2.0 service - face recognition techniques in motion to identify which celebrity looks like you: http://www.myheritage.com/ Not bad :)

Due to the buzz, many companies claim/pretend to be “Web 2.0”. Are they? Tim O\‘Reilly describes the history of Web 2.0 and the main characteristics of a Web 2.0 service in his thoughtful article, summarizing the features of a Web 2.0 service in a nice list:\ “Core Competencies of Web 2.0 Companies In exploring the...

New iTunes was just realeased. I installed the update - it does look great and all but… I have two iPods (nano and a video one) and an iMac as well as a macBook (let’s forget Sony Vaio for a bit). So my question is - when the H… will it be possible to seamlessly...

OK, so I need this frequently enough to care (when I do direct JDBC for some data-mining, data-migration or any other mass-db operations) but not frequently enough to memorize (as I use Hibernate normally). Therefore, it seems like a good idea to post it here and be able to find it later, if I need...

Google Talk now has file transfer, FINALLY! Voice Mail and “View Past Chats” directly from the context menu are two more nice, new features.

Ok, granted, this makes sense :)

We went tubing yesterday with some friends. Of course, I was late to get my butt off home and ended up being an hour late to pick up Olga. She was pissed since other folks had left and supposedly were already at the destination . Yet, everything happens for a reason. To my luck, these guys managed...

Google launched open-source projects hosting site. It looks pretty good. I guess I will have to register something and try it out :)

I really do not like default Firefox theme. It look like a 5 years old kid\’s toy. Unfortunately, up until now alternatives were even worse. Most of them feel like lunatics were creating these terrible greeon-on-black-and-some-red nightmares. Fortunately, there is a solution now. Somebody had common sense enough to “steal” Safari skin. Oh, well -...

Since the rise of Google a whole cast of people emerged who do not get a simple fact: Wisdom of the universe is not contained simply in top 10 results of Google searches. It is annoying. Folks, you can not just google some crap and think you know everything about anything. Most of the time,...

JetBrains announced a new product for Java developers - TeamCity. According to the announcement, it is an intelligent team environment, extending upon the intelligent IDE from the same vendor (IntelliJ IDEA of course). Feature set looks really promising and knowing JetBrains\’ implementation excellence, expectationa are real high. Read more at: http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/

This happened to me today and I thought it was funny enough to share. So, I am doing a little research on cheap IP Telephony solutions. I know Vonage because they have so much advertising - it just sunk in my mind. But what I also know from the word-of-mouth, anecdotal evidence is that their...

Windows Vista Beta 2 Screenshot (Click to enlarge): Pros: Huge progress in user-interface design compared to Windows XP. More user friendly - I could not help a chuckle to find C:\\Users folder, but it\’s still good. Much richer functionality. Cons: I installed 64 bit version Vista (from my MSND subscription) on my AMD64 dual-core HP m7334n....

Webby awards is considered “the Oscars of the Web”. Now, not that I have much (or any) respect for Oscars but it still makes me sad to look at the latest Webby Awards: http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?season=10 I mean - come on, guys. The whole world just can\‘t stop talking about Web 2.0 aesthetics of simplicity and most...