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Blackberry Z10: Revival?

Feb 05, 2013 ~ Written by nightwind ~ Leave a Comment
I’m a self admitted Blackberry fan, although I have less than a year usage of a Blackberry Bold 9790. I like Blackberry for the way they managed to keep a physical keyboard cool and accessible, the inherent security of their system (which got their phones banned in some countries who love spying on their citizens) and the sheer function [...]
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iPage Hosting, useless hosting

Jun 29, 2012 ~ Written by nightwind ~ Leave a Comment
Once again I’ve been forced to move my hosting away. If in the case of A2Hosting the only reason was the outrageous pricing demanded for what is now a regular package (unlimited subdomains, ssh access and unrestricted php.ini), in the case of my recent host iPage.com the reason was … everything. 1. iPage reliability is nonexistent [...]
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The attack of the eco-PC

Nov 30, 2011 ~ Written by nightwind ~ 2 Comments
The Eco-PC is slowly becoming an new IT buzz. After all, we live in an eco-conscious world where the environment matters (or at least the new generation of eco-geeks think they have a better chance of getting laid if they claim that). Therefore, we need computing that’s friendly to the environment. We already have LED TFT’s that d [...]
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Luxury and being retarded

Feb 18, 2011 ~ Written by nightwind ~ Leave a Comment
A little luxury isn’t bad. Whether you’re Bill Gates and you can afford luxury as your daily style or you indulge it for a moment to boost your self-esteem, luxury can have a purpose. I understand that. But this works only as long as you choose it with taste and with a clear goal, otherwise you’ll come out as a retarded show [...]
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Browser Test: Acid 3

Jun 09, 2009 ~ Written by nightwind ~ 2 Comments
Note: For the rendering speed test, see here! The acid 3 browser test results currently for: Internet Explorer 8, Safari 4 Beta, Opera 9.64, Firefox 3.0.10, Chrome 1.0.1 IE 8: 20 ouf 100. Much worse than its predecessor Safari 4 Beta: perfect 100. Kudos! Opera 9.64: 85/100. 5 more than in Opera 9.5. Slowly, slowly it’s coming about Fire [...]
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Browser speed test – fastest br...

Jun 07, 2009 ~ Written by nightwind ~ 2 Comments
Rendering speed has long been a debatable matter and we all know there’s no completely fair and accurate method to discover the fastest browser. However, there are some tests which can be seen as the most relevant tests to see which engine is the most efficient at rendering pages, thus which one can be considered as the most efficient f [...]
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Contest! SuperBlog 2008!

Sep 09, 2008 ~ Written by nightwind ~ Leave a Comment
Apprently the romanian blogosphere is being challenged to a competition and I hope to be in it! I couldn’t tell exactly why I’m doing this, just figured it might be a good idea to go for a writing challenge. Apparently the challenge will be related to writing about various technology items, something that I’ve been doing any [...]
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