Posted by Johan Cyprich on 29 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Business
We’re seeing more and more web sites with digg-like features appearing on the Internet. The popularity of digg has led to many web sites adding options for voting on posted messages.
One of them, dotherightthing.com (which went public last week), is set up as a watch dog for showing the effects of businesses on the world [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 27 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Applications, Videos
We’re all familiar with the desktop on our computer. This is the screen we wind up at after the computer finishes booting and logs us in. The desktop uses metaphors to mimic a real world desktop like drag and drop, folders to store programs and data files, and a trash or recycle bin for placing [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 26 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: General
Being born in Czechoslovakia, I can’t help but write a blog entry on this topic today. January 25 may seem like an ordinary day, but 86 years ago (the year 1921 to be more precise), the word robot was first used.
Karel Capek’s play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) opened at the National Theatre in Prague. The [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 25 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Applications
I found a bug that only seems to appear when you use the Windows version of Firefox 2.0 with WordPress 2.1. When you write a post using the visual editor, several buttons don’t appear on the button bar. These are the buttons from Strikethrough to Insert/edit image.
The strange thing is that when I use Firefox [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 24 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Applications, Reviews
Everyone at one or another played spy games when they were kids. One thing that a good spy needed to be able to do was send secret messages to other spies. Normally, this would be done with a clever code or writing made with invisible inks. You would then need a special light or decoder [...]
