- Google Reader - web application of the year!!! Dangerously addictive. Add RSS feeds of your favorite blogs and save your time just using the mighty Reader which shows the updates. Any post that you read and like, just "star" it and you don't have to bookmark it or lose it. Reading in this perfectly designed app is what I am doing all day instead of writing my thesis!
I recommend subscribing to "photography" blogs combo and my dosmojitos RSS since I don't post really often. - Google Notebook - has received new fancy look just yesterday. I have created few notebooks like Music, Quotes, Travel, Personal etc. in which I keep things for which I don't have time now but definitely don't want to forget.
Install Firefox add-on and just select anything on a web page and send it to your Notebook instatly! - Google Calendar - all time favorite. Organize your life so you can use your time more effectively. Share your calendar with your friends and family so they know what you're up to.
If you want to synchronize your calendar and use it offline-online, download Calgoo. - Google Documents - the spreadsheets are just cool to share information with your friends. I use them for sharing data online, for example phone numbers of my friends who play squash. I also keep track of friendly squash tournaments I've just started to organize every weekend!
- Picasa Web Albums has 1GB of free web space and very convenient upload directly from Picasa, the greatest and easiest photo software ever.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Very helpful web "things"!
These days I've become really addicted to these Google tools:
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Computer Virus Mafia
I have just spent half of Saturday locating and removing a nasty virus on my laptop. It is called Winfixer or Vundo and randomly opens Internet Explorer with a link to buy some anti-virus software. Also, I was not able to put my laptop to hibernation, which really really sucks.
So I have downloaded some 10 different utilities, spyware removers, anti-virus applications and read at least 10 forum posts to fix the problem. I was offered to buy some premium software but since I am principled I have used just freeware. Fortunately the infection is gone and I can hibernate again (even thought the winter is gone:)
I still think that there must be a hidden conspiracy - programmers who develop computer viruses are own employees of anti-virus software producers. The system works like Italian mafia - you have to pay for their "protection" but the threat originates, surprisingly, from themselves.
technorati tags:virus, conspiracy
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Creativity killers
Yes, they exist.
When I come to the office of the PR agency in the morning, switch on the PC, my creativity is rapidly starting to fade away. When I run ANY program from Microsoft Office - word, powerpoint and of course, excel, the creativity which has been left in me from my yesterday's dreams is gone for good.
I wonder if you also perceive the same phenomenon? Is it the sterility of office environment, sitting on a chair in front of a computer with all this ergonomics, typing instead od drawing which is causing this? If you work in banking, there is absolutely no problem, but in marketing and PR, it is really a huge one.
The solution I would propose is to have one kind of room in EVERY company - a living room! One with nice comfy couch, table where you can put your legs, magazines, TV, stereo, table football.... Anything that helps employees to reduce the focus from time to time, to see new horizons, to think outside the box.
When I come to the office of the PR agency in the morning, switch on the PC, my creativity is rapidly starting to fade away. When I run ANY program from Microsoft Office - word, powerpoint and of course, excel, the creativity which has been left in me from my yesterday's dreams is gone for good.
I wonder if you also perceive the same phenomenon? Is it the sterility of office environment, sitting on a chair in front of a computer with all this ergonomics, typing instead od drawing which is causing this? If you work in banking, there is absolutely no problem, but in marketing and PR, it is really a huge one.
The solution I would propose is to have one kind of room in EVERY company - a living room! One with nice comfy couch, table where you can put your legs, magazines, TV, stereo, table football.... Anything that helps employees to reduce the focus from time to time, to see new horizons, to think outside the box.
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Funny story today
These days I am spending my time in PR agency titled PR Point doing my short-term internship. The work is interesting and people nice and there is just one man employee in the PR office besides CEO. He is Account Director and sometimes he is making a delivery boy for my lunch, I am getting used to this service too much... I even don't mind that when I press a "w" key on the PC I got here for work, it types letter "p" instead. Sometimes this causes comic mistypings... like: I don't work too much - because I pork, my last will - my last pill, I'm not weak - but at peak, you don't wander - better ponder, I don't waste time - I (copy) paste, etc. :)
The funny thing that has happened today is that I have ordered a chilli-con-carne for lunch from the restaurant with golf theme in the local district. It is called Magic Green, nothing special, but they have a hole in the carpet where you can play until your meal is ready. The specialty of the place is called "Putting game". If you "put" the golf ball into the hole on your very first attempt, you get a free bottle of wine! Second and third successful attempts are rewarded with a drink.
The story goes, today, in my lunch box from Magic Green, delivered to me by Account Director of course, I have mistakenly received gnochi with spinach and mozzarella! But I have accepted it with gratitude and finished eating the gnochi in less than 3 minutes :)
Ten minutes later, another colleague from the agency has returned from the restaurant and has brought a heavy lunch box. Handing a box to me, she has said: "This is the chilli-con-carne you have ordered, chef says he is terribly sorry. Bon appetite."
Yeah I know this is a stupid story but it feels like that the restaurant chef is doing PR internship too. Yummy... and he is doing well! Good pork!
The funny thing that has happened today is that I have ordered a chilli-con-carne for lunch from the restaurant with golf theme in the local district. It is called Magic Green, nothing special, but they have a hole in the carpet where you can play until your meal is ready. The specialty of the place is called "Putting game". If you "put" the golf ball into the hole on your very first attempt, you get a free bottle of wine! Second and third successful attempts are rewarded with a drink.
The story goes, today, in my lunch box from Magic Green, delivered to me by Account Director of course, I have mistakenly received gnochi with spinach and mozzarella! But I have accepted it with gratitude and finished eating the gnochi in less than 3 minutes :)
Ten minutes later, another colleague from the agency has returned from the restaurant and has brought a heavy lunch box. Handing a box to me, she has said: "This is the chilli-con-carne you have ordered, chef says he is terribly sorry. Bon appetite."
Yeah I know this is a stupid story but it feels like that the restaurant chef is doing PR internship too. Yummy... and he is doing well! Good pork!
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
14th February in History
Every year people celebrate today for the same reasons - feelings of love, hurt feelings, They buy the same red roses, red hearts and sweets wrapped in red tin-foil.
This year, since I am single although really happier than ever, I am not going to write boring stories about unfulfilled eternal love, cruel loneliness etc... I am going to educate you what else could you understand about today and smile wide because of the small silly things you know!
Ingenuous Wikipedia will help me greatly in the trip through history.
Today, but in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray each filed a patent for the telephone. Which of them was more successful we know already, but thanks to both you can -now- pick up your phone and call somebody really really far away and tell him/her something nice. If you pick up your mobile phone, then let me tell you a small story about Jozef Murgaš, a Slovak inventor who contributed to wireless telegraphy and thus helped to "develop mobile communications and wireless transmission of information and human voice." Don't worry, this was the only boring sentence part.
This guy, who was originally a Roman catholic priest, was born in a small village Tajov in Slovakia, right next to the city I live. It was already in 1905 when he achieved a radio transmission over 30 kilometers in Pennsylvania. Imagine that the American president Theodore Roosevelt visited his lab in Wilkes-Barre, PA and T.A.Edison paid great attention to his experiments. What a honor it must have been!
Jozef Murgaš was also a painter and you can still see his painting in the church in Wilkes-Barre and also in Tajov, Slovakia. I think this is a very great way how to leave a small mark of your existence in history and ensure immortality. When anyone is looking at those paintings, he must be certainly thinking about the remarkable life this man lived 100 years ago!
Another Wikipedia entry says that today in 1989 the first of 24 Global Positioning Satellites (GPS) was launched into orbit. Valentine's effects? You will never get lost anymore while on a trip with your partner and you can also use this topic for romantic babel on stars up in the sky.
More:
Today but in 1989 a fatwa was issued on Salman Rushdie for his book Satanic Verses. - Does Islam recognize Valentine or not?
Today but in 1924 IBM has been founded. Probably the founders were single geeks and had nothing to do and no date. But they made a lot of cash and now they can buy any girl for a wife. Different approach to getting things, I would say.
Today but in 1779 James Cook, my favorite explorer and a noble man, was killed by the natives on Hawaiian Sandwich Islands. - Since then the Hawaiians became peaceful so they give you flowers and condoms when you land on their land.
The final and funniest article is about Ballantine's Day. In Norway, single persons buy a bottle of Ballantine's whiskey and drink it with other singles while discussing how ridiculous Valentine's Day is.
Happy today! :]
This year, since I am single although really happier than ever, I am not going to write boring stories about unfulfilled eternal love, cruel loneliness etc... I am going to educate you what else could you understand about today and smile wide because of the small silly things you know!
Ingenuous Wikipedia will help me greatly in the trip through history.
Today, but in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray each filed a patent for the telephone. Which of them was more successful we know already, but thanks to both you can -now- pick up your phone and call somebody really really far away and tell him/her something nice. If you pick up your mobile phone, then let me tell you a small story about Jozef Murgaš, a Slovak inventor who contributed to wireless telegraphy and thus helped to "develop mobile communications and wireless transmission of information and human voice." Don't worry, this was the only boring sentence part.
This guy, who was originally a Roman catholic priest, was born in a small village Tajov in Slovakia, right next to the city I live. It was already in 1905 when he achieved a radio transmission over 30 kilometers in Pennsylvania. Imagine that the American president Theodore Roosevelt visited his lab in Wilkes-Barre, PA and T.A.Edison paid great attention to his experiments. What a honor it must have been!
Jozef Murgaš was also a painter and you can still see his painting in the church in Wilkes-Barre and also in Tajov, Slovakia. I think this is a very great way how to leave a small mark of your existence in history and ensure immortality. When anyone is looking at those paintings, he must be certainly thinking about the remarkable life this man lived 100 years ago!
Another Wikipedia entry says that today in 1989 the first of 24 Global Positioning Satellites (GPS) was launched into orbit. Valentine's effects? You will never get lost anymore while on a trip with your partner and you can also use this topic for romantic babel on stars up in the sky.
More:
Today but in 1989 a fatwa was issued on Salman Rushdie for his book Satanic Verses. - Does Islam recognize Valentine or not?
Today but in 1924 IBM has been founded. Probably the founders were single geeks and had nothing to do and no date. But they made a lot of cash and now they can buy any girl for a wife. Different approach to getting things, I would say.
Today but in 1779 James Cook, my favorite explorer and a noble man, was killed by the natives on Hawaiian Sandwich Islands. - Since then the Hawaiians became peaceful so they give you flowers and condoms when you land on their land.
The final and funniest article is about Ballantine's Day. In Norway, single persons buy a bottle of Ballantine's whiskey and drink it with other singles while discussing how ridiculous Valentine's Day is.
Happy today! :]
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