http://projects2.12ga.com/weblog/blogs/wordpress Entrepreneurship, Technology, Productivity and more... Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:55:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm having trouble to understand why there are so many good opinions about Google Reader. Often, these are opinions expressed by bloggers, and who if not us - bloggers would know better what RSS feeds has been created for. I've really tried hard to get to like it, found a couple ... http://projects2.12ga.com/weblog/blogs/wordpress/google-reader-not-that-useful/ The finalists of this year's crunchies have been announced. Over 110 thousand internauts voted in 20 categories. I've taken a quick peek at the list and the first impression is that a) it is questionable whether companies like Digg or Facebook should be considered - they've been on the market for ... http://projects2.12ga.com/weblog/blogs/wordpress/2007-startups-recognized-by-crunchies/ For all Palm OS enthusiasts there is no good news. The company that used to lead the world's handheld and smartphone markets still cannot find its way of out the trouble. In April 2006, Palm's CEO officially announced that they would deliver new Linux-based OS platform along with new products ... http://projects2.12ga.com/weblog/blogs/wordpress/palm-late-again/ According to www.aclu.org (American Civil Liberties Union), we are just a few minutes before the midnight and on its best course to become the surveillance society. FBI just announced a $1 billion initiave to build the largest database of peoples' physical characteristics in the world. The current fingerprint database (IAFIS) will ... http://projects2.12ga.com/weblog/blogs/wordpress/surveillance-society-six-minutes-left/ World's most advanced humanoids have recently been very busy working full time at Honda's Cafe in Tokyo and spending every free moments visiting international events such as autoshows & tech conferences. One of them was even seen at the Cannes festival. Even though their schedules are filled up, Asimos still found ... http://projects2.12ga.com/weblog/blogs/wordpress/humanoids-get-smarter/ So recently I've been forced to get Vista, like many other new PC buyers... I'll attempt to provide an objective breakdown of main pros and cons of this new masterpiece from the Redmond giant's labs. At first, I was a bit excited that now even the average Windows guy like me ... http://projects2.12ga.com/weblog/blogs/wordpress/is-vista-any-good/ The current model of personal computing almost guarantees frequent occurrences of serious software-related problems. Spyware infections, mysterious application freezes, endless configuration issues are just a few examples of what happens to a regular PC user every day. Unfortunately, I'm afraid we won't see much improvement in this area until the ... http://projects2.12ga.com/weblog/blogs/wordpress/are-we-fated-to-do-tech-support-on-our-pcs/ Behaves like every other pet, being probably smarter than many of them. There is a difference: you don't have worry that it will pee on your floor when you're at work or die from hunger when you go on vacation. For those who haven't seen it yet, here is the ... http://projects2.12ga.com/weblog/blogs/wordpress/will-robots-rule-out-pets-soon/ The idea is based on the first drive in your system storing only installed programs and their settings, when the second one stores all of your documents. If you set up your PC this way, the backup creation/restoration process is very easy and will take minutes. As in the previous article ... http://projects2.12ga.com/weblog/blogs/wordpress/creating-restoring-the-os-from-an-image/ Here is what I think is the most efficient way of setting up an XP-based PC so that the future maintenance becomes quick & easy. Partitioning the Hard Drive First, you will need to change the file structure to the following (or similar): C drive - Windows files, "Program files", user profiles ("Documents ... http://projects2.12ga.com/weblog/blogs/wordpress/setting-up-your-pcs-file-system/