Cristian's blog

Moo Minicards

Cristi — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:49:11 +0000

My first batch of Moo MiniCards arrived a couple of weeks back.

Drinking coffee

Cristi — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:41:05 +0000

15 Things You Didn’t Know About Coffee

And yes! I am a coffee addict.

Now let’s talk about Picasa

Cristi — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:10:44 +0000

Another Google product, Picasa Web, had an update today. The biggest update: face recognition to help you tag and find people in your photos. The technology comes from NevenVision, company acquired by Google in 2006.

They’ve also added an Explore page for browsing new uploaded photos, featured photos and popular tags. Or you can play a nice little game called “Where in the world” (you’ll have to guess the place where random photos were taken).

Other small updates that I’ve seen: upload photos by emailing them to your Picasa Web account and the possibility to add Creative Commons licensing to your photos.

First impressions GoogleChrome

Cristi — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:42:24 +0000

You can now download it here. First impression: IS FAST, VERY FAST. And he uses less memory than Firefox. But there are no extensions, and I haven’t found how to configure a proxy for intenet access(so I can’t use it at work) In the Options - Under the hood tab there is a big button called Change proxy settings (me blind sometimes :| ).

So there you have it, the first impressions after 10 min or so of using the Chrome. I’ll be back with more

Google Chrome browser

Cristi — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:24:52 +0000

So today we’ll have a new browser, from Google: Google Chrome based on the open source browser engine Webkit and including a JavaScript Virtual Machine nameb V8. For more info go to the official Google Blog.

Lightning photos

Cristi — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:40:55 +0000

15 Spectacular Lightning Images

In the sun

Cristi — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:58:26 +0000

London at night

Cristi — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:39:35 +0000

An amazing set of photographs London from above, at night - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Inní mér syngur vitleysingur

Cristi — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:10:29 +0000

The official video:

WTF Orange?

Cristi — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:43:47 +0000

The title says it all… Orange has launched the iPhone in Romania and the prices are HUGE. We have 2 plans: first 46.41/month and the iPhone at a price of 409 EUR for a one year contract and 249 EUR for a 2 years contract and the second plan 70,21 and the iPhone at a price of 369 EUR for a one year contract and 179 EUR for a two years contract. These are the prices for the 8 GB model, the 16 GB … I’m not even gonna tell you. Fuck it, why? Why in Romania we have the biggest price for the iPhone in Europe?

P.S. If you are a Orange customer and you wanna buy the damn phone it gets even uglyer: from 209 to 419 euro(for the 8GB model also) depending on the type of contract you have. For my type I’ll have to pay 419 euro. Oh… and I’ve asked if we will have access to the App Store and the person from the customer service asked back: “What is App Store?”

So… as a conclusion THE FUTURE ISN’T BRIGHT ANYMORE. IT’S A COMPLETE RIP-OFF.