Archive for the Technology Category

FolderLister for Mac OS X

Posted on February 10, 2009 by admin

If you need sometimes to send someone listing of the contents of a folder (directory) on the hard disk of your Mac, certainly, for that purpose you can use the terminal or a free program written by P-Edge Media named FolderLister. Just run the application and drag the selected folder on its icon in [...]

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Internet access in Lodz and surroundings

Posted on February 3, 2009 by admin

Reading the articles that waited to be opened for the last couple of days I have found the one published by the local office of Gazeta.pl (website of the leading Polish newspaper) about the plans of the local Lodz authorities to connect to the Internet all of the households in Lodz and surrounding towns and [...]

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Era GSM first to sell unlocked mobile phones in Poland

Posted on January 21, 2009 by admin

Starting on this Friday (23.01.2009) one of the three leading Polish mobile providers Era GSM will offer all of the mobile phones (offered by that operator) will be on demand available without sim lock. The unlocked phones will be available both in the pay as you go and pay monthly plans. This is the first [...]

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YouTube introduces download option

Posted on January 19, 2009 by admin

YouTube decided to introduce the download functionality. Download option is limited to the Barack’s Obama Changedotorg channel for the time being. According to Arstechnica.com the download functionality will be available more general in the future. I wonder if Google will introduce it to the all channels and all publishers or limit it to the publishers [...]

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Safer sex with your MacBook

Posted on December 4, 2008 by admin

..or “the rubber” that protects your MacBook topcase from cracking. I am not sure if the title and the first phrase sound as good as in Polish, but both small protectors are made of rubber – condoms and the small rubber beads that protect my MacBook topcase from cracking. I have mentioned just “one blog [...]

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Rotten Apples

Posted on November 22, 2008 by admin

As you know I got two Macs – an iMac 20′ C2D and a MacBook white. I have been quite happy with both of them and I find the Mac OS X very user-friendly, no need to mention the stability, safety and so on. Both machines look great but there is a scratch on that [...]

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Invasion of the fake anti-virus software

Posted on October 17, 2008 by admin

According to the service IDG.pl and PandaLabs (laboratories of Panda Software) recently  over 30 millions of computer users have fallen a victims to the fake anti-virus software. The  fake anti-virus software can exist either as a independent application or the java applets activated by the users after getting the fake popup virus alert on the [...]

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Ugly or beautiful?

Posted on October 17, 2008 by admin

Recently introduced MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops by Apple aroused the discussion about the controversional (or not) change of the look of the Apple products. Polish Mac users discuss it loudly. Many of them criticise the new black – silver design that reminds the last edition of iMacs. Many of them can not accept the [...]

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Polish hospitals are organic bomb

Posted on September 25, 2008 by admin

According to newspapper “Polska – The Times” Polish hospitals are organic bomb. Many hospitals in Poland do not have a sewage treatment plant. They flush hospital sewage straight into the public sewerage network. Biological and organic hospital wastes are full of HIV, hepatitis, mycobacteria tuberculosis, coliform and any other mutations of viruses resistant to antibiotics. [...]

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New life of PDF files

Posted on September 24, 2008 by admin

Thanks to the kleeper I have just found out the new excellent service ISSUU.com. He called it YouTube for PDF files and I completely agree with his opinion. The attractive form of viewing PDF files provided by ISSUU makes them attractive at last. They can be viewed straigh from the web via the webbrowser equiped [...]

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