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Say hello to new Flickr

0 comments By Michal Filed in Photo Tagged with , May 21st, 2013 @ 12:37 am

Flickr just launched new redesigned version of their web. Except the look is probably the most important change the storage. Free accounts now have 1TB free space. Instead of pro accounts you can buy Ad Free account, which have same parameters as free account, but ads are not show. There also exist Doublr account which is combination of Free and Ads Free but with 2TB storage.

Add Free account is now for 49.99 USD er year, which is in fact double of price of old pro account. BUT! If you are Pro member, you can keep your current subscription for 24.95 USD per year. It is not quite clear now what features you will get as pro member, mMore details can be found in FAQ on Flickr help pages.

New design is much moore focused on photos, I would say too much. Now you cannot change layout of your stream, If you want to add some text to your set only first few words is displayed and rest you will see only if you hover cursor over it.

For me new design looks like unpolished, unfinished, but I will probably get used to mit.

How to update Windows defender automatically

0 comments By Michal Filed in Computers Tagged with , , , , April 16th, 2013 @ 8:49 pm

Windows 8 brings not only Metro interface and strange Start menu but also Windows Defender instead of Microsoft Security Essentials. Windows Defender is missing some features MSSE has. One of those changes is that updates for virus and spyware definitions are installed by Windows Update.

In case your setting are “notify but not install automatically” you are asked nearly every day for manual update. My guess is that Microsoft want to force people to use automatic updates.
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In the Mirror

0 comments By Michal Filed in Photo February 28th, 2013 @ 7:46 pm
In the Mirror by Michal Janda
In the Mirror, a photo by Michal Janda on Flickr.

Traffic jam in deep forest:-)

R.I.P. Echofon

1 comment By Michal Filed in Computers Tagged with , October 16th, 2012 @ 10:47 am

I am using Echofon, Twitter client, for a long time, mainly because of its ability to synchronize timeline between several devices. I am using it on laptop and desktop as a Firefox plugin and on iPad as app.

I have tried several different clients, but realized that this synchronization is a killer feature for me.

But now it seems to be a history as Naan Studios announced that they are going to abandon all version except of mobile one.

So from unique multiplatform Twitter client with synchronization between several devices we have here a client like hundreds of other.

R.I.P. Echofon.

Bibble 5 is discontinued, from now it is Corel AfterShot Pro

13 comments By Michal Filed in Computers Tagged with , , , January 7th, 2012 @ 10:02 pm

Yesterday appered information on Bibblelabs forums that Bibble labs were purchased by Corel last year and that Bibble 5.2.3 is last version of Bibble. Further information are to be presented on CES 2012 next week.

On same forums today user andysalay posted information that he found product page for ancestor of Bibble – Corel AfterShot Pro.

As you can see on screenshot it is in fact rebranded Bibble 5. According to information from andysalay current version of Corel After Shot Pro is in beta stage.

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CrashPlan 3.0.3 cannot start as regular user – Linux

0 comments By Michal Filed in Computers Tagged with , November 8th, 2011 @ 8:23 pm

If you install CrashPlan with root permissions, you might have trouble to start  /usr/local/bin/CrashPlanDesktop as regular user with non root permissions.

It is because log files are owned by root. This can be fixed by simple chmod 666 /usr/local/crashplan/log/*.log.

How to fix “Windows Update cannot currently check for updates, because the service is not running”

8 comments By Michal Filed in Computers Tagged with , , September 28th, 2011 @ 8:57 pm

Sometimes you can get in situation that Windows Update is not working and you are receiving error

“Windows Update cannot currently check for updates, because the service is not running. You may need to restart your computer”.

It can be caused by corrupted data for Windows update. If this is your case fix could be easy.

  • go to services and stop Windows update service
  • locate C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\ folder and delete all its content
  • start Windows update service
  • check for updates

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Tuning Firefox: cache

0 comments By Michal Filed in Computers Tagged with , , , September 21st, 2011 @ 9:56 pm

If you have plenty of RAM and do no want Firefox to save temporary files to disk (for example because you have SSD and want to limit number of disk writes) you can move Firefox cache to RAM.

There is no way how to do it in gui, so you need to use favorite about:config.  Search for parameter browser.cache.disk.enable and set that to false. Now disk cache is disabled. Then search for browser.cache.memory.enable and set that as true – it will enable cache in RAM (it is set to true already sometimes).

If you want to set how much RAM you will dedicate to cache, search for browser.cache.memory.capacity and as value set desired cache size in kilobytes.

Moving cache to RAM is good idea only if you have quick internet connection as cache is wiped out on every restart and all pictures, scripts etc. are downloaded again after restart.



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