Късчета живот
Classeur.IO is cloud and Chrome[OS] based application, which allows you to easily write with Markdown, both local, cloud-based notes, and also post directly to your blog.
This is a test post, which I’m making with it. Let’s see how it’ll go.
I just installed it and I’d like to see if/how it will support the immediate blog post. So far I believe it’s all working OK, but let’s see…
Note: You can use Markdown to format your text.
Few weeks ago a very close and trusted friend of mine (thanks, Atanas 🙂 ) sent me a link to this excellent iClever Bluetooth travel keyboard
I own the thing since a few weeks and every time I use it to do my typing (i.e., type on the tablet an e-mail, blog post or whatever longer), I’m quite delighted what a good solution this keyboard is to my typing need.
The keyboard is small when folded up, but it’s large enough to allow hassle free typing with both hands. It has very smart (and I hope – strong enough to ensure long living) folding mechanics, which allow transformation from its “working size” to “pocket size” in a second. It also has a pouch, which not only protects the keyboard while folded, but also protects the other items the keyboard is close to in the bag, as it’s aluminum body, which could otherwise scratch another sensitive item in your bag (i.e., your phone or tablet).
The keyboard also has four silicone tips, which make it almost stick to the surface while I’m typing. This is a feature, which I like a lot, because most of the pocket keyboards (or at least those I had my hands on) lack this and you need to always relocate the keyboard, which (naturally) moves as a result of your action on the keys. Thanks to these bands, the keyboard stays very solid on the surface you put it on.
I’m using the device with an Android tablet. However, the manufacturer claims that it should work with Windows and iOS too (it has Win key indeed), but I never tried that myself [yet].
Setup is pretty much out of the box: you turn it on (turns on by unfolding), long press the “Bluetooth link” button, pair and you’re good to go. My only trouble was with the fact that I’m Bulgarian Phonetic user and the default Android hardware keyboard settings do not include this keyboard layout. However, FDroid and the Phonetic Layout for External Keyboards resolved this perfectly. Honestly, I’d be pretty screwed, if this was not existing, so thanks guys (modest donation is on its way!).
Below is the picture of the keyboard, which I made for my Amazon review. It stays next to Nexus 9 tablet, so you get the idea of the size when unfolded. The pouch is next to it, i.e. this is the size of the keyboard, when folded. The thickness of the folded keyboard is not more than 10-14 mm.
I highly recommend this thing to anyone, who carries on tablet and has typing needs, which are best served with a keyboard.
This blog post was, of course, typed with this keyboard.
Хубавото нещо на отпуските е, че успяваш да наваксаш с нещата, които си си оставил за удоволствие. Така и аз, най-накрая успях да отдам заслуженото внимание на “Аварията”, новия роман на Тихомир Димитров. Макар, че отдавна я чаках с нетърпение, за пръв път видях новината за нея не в блога на Тишо, а при Йовко. Което е странно, но… може да има своята си причина.
Аз не мога да опиша “Аварията” така добре, както Йовко. Отидете и четете там, ако ви трябва още убеждаване защо този роман трябва да се прочете. Аз мога да ви уверя, че се чете на един дъх, и че както и другите неща на Тишо, не ви се иска да свършва. Добре е да я четете през време на почивка, защото ще ви държи будни до късно (максимум една вечер обаче, както казах, чете се на един дъх).
Тук ще може да си свалите (с позволението и любезното съдействие на автора, разбира се!) романа в три допълнителни файлови формата, в които той първоначално не беше наличен. Аз чета основно на Kindle за Андроид. Макар че PDF се чете добре на 9″, на 5.5″ е доста трудно, затова реших да го направя на mobi.
Тъй-като конверсията от PDF към другите формати беше плачевна, Тихомир беше така добър да ми даде оригиналния текст на романа, за да мога да направя по-читав reflow в Calibre. Смея да твърдя, че се получи доста добър резултат, който е наличен за сваляне тук:
Сваляйте и четете! И не забравяйте да прочетете и края на романа, за да може всички да се радваме и на продължение!
П.П. А аз ще взема пак да си препрочета “Душа назаем”! Само първо да я обърна и нея в MOBI :).
П.П.П. Освен в блога му, творбите на Тихомир Димитров може да намерите и на авторската му страница в Читанката.
A friend of mine came to me for help. She accidentally deleted all photos from her camera SD card. And she needed help to restore them.
This is quite typical scenario. Clearly you cannot repair much, but there’re tools, which can help you to restore as much as possible.
Restoration (Restoration @ Software Informer) is one of these tools. Unfortunately, the product seems a bit “abandoned” (last update was to make it compatible with Win2k 🙂 ), but it works on my Windows 8.1 Pro.
Restoration works quite well. It works on “full drive level”, i.e. it scans the whole drive for deleted files (you can set a filter), and then offers you to restore them by copying, i.e. to copy the (current) contents of the deleted file to another location, where you can review if the file has been restored OK.
In the “restore pictures from SD card” scenario, it worked quite well. It scanned the SD card, and I just asked it to copy all discovered files to my hard drive. Then I was able to clear the invalid JPG files and I delivered her the files, which were good.
Restoration is also delivered as a ZIP file, which you can run from any folder. It immediately went to my “Programs” folder, together with PortableApps, and as far as it works on the OS (Windows 10, we will see…), I’ll keep it handy!
Whoa! Inspired by Medium.Com, I decided to search, download and install Kevin Weber’s Inline Comments plugin (created by to this blog too.
Inline Comments lets users add comment with specific reference to any paragraph of the blog post, which is kind of cool, considering how hard is to quote blog texts. Now you just get one cute ‘+’ sign close to the paragraph, over which you’re hovering (no mobile support, sorry), and if you click on that, you can leave comment instantly.
The same comment appears just like any other “legacy” comment below the post, but also with handy “reference” link to the paragraph you commented.
Together with Inline Comments, I decided also to install and run WP Ajaxify Comments, as these two compliment each other in quite nice way. As this is serious change to the overall comments experience, I will watch closely how it goes. Don’t hesitate to drop me a word, if you see any problems whatsoever.
So far I’m loving it :). And I hope Inline Comments will stay for a while on this blog.
Good stuff came from Mozilla developers this week! Stuff, which may not had been needed, if they handled better their user’s needs during their release cycle initially :).
(Few) Months ago I was quite pissed, when in release 33.0 Firefox decided to remove at once their JS Crypto.SignText API. Maybe not a big deal for them, but a big deal for me and my use of:
There was huge buzz on the subject (Spain also jumped, seems their e-government solution is based on this “insecure API”). I also submitted very angry feedback, but alas: the only solution (and temporary too) was to revert to the current ESR release of Firefox, based on previous version and still supporting Crypto.SignText.
So I ended up having three different Firefoxes on my machine: the developer version, the ESR version and the (latest) portable version, which I anyway always keep around. ESR was good for my signing needs, but I was wondering what’d happen, when ESR moves up. Then I’d end most probably with IE only, which is serious productivity hit for my e-banking activities.
However, on Dec 16th I received an e-mail from Firefox Developer, who asked me to test new extension, which restores Firefox functionality in that regard. Initially I was a bit suspicious, checked carefully the e-mail headers and route, and trusting both Google and what I saw in the headers I decided to try the extension (in a sandbox first, of course).
It turned out pretty nicely: all the missing Crypto.SignText appeared back and I was one very happy camper again. After cleaning up my ESR release, I decided to share my experience, because someone could probably need the same solution. On my question how stable this will be as a solution to the problem, the feedback from the developers was that this will be the official supported way for adding back Crypto.SignText JS API to Firefox.
The extension is signTextJS, it’s available here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/signtextjs. Use at your own risk and for your own pleasure or convenience. It worked for me, hopefully it’ll work for you too. Now it’s time to donate some funds to Mozilla, so they can keep delivering better web to everyone [although my primary browser is still Chrome] 🙂
My last Movember’s post was in Bulgarian. Now it’s English’s turn.
And so, it’s Movember again. The month, when men are growing (silly, in my case) mustache, in order to provoke and explain.
Today I’m starting a new Movember’2014. Despite the extreme success my previous mustache had, I wanted to try a different one this year. I made some research, first I thought about the mustache of one of my favorite artists ever, but I did not want to grow something, which some not careful enough idiots could consider the style of a very, very different historic figure.
So I might just let it go, as I’m not that patient and/or careful to make it the best 15 mustaches chart anyway.
The most important thing here is the thing, which Movember is all about. Being silly is one thing, being informative is completely different one. Movember is about awareness. Awareness of the cancer danger, which is upon us. Daily. Hourly. Cancer does not come only to the ones, who live unhealthy lives. As a matter of fact, the scientists still cannot identify why cancer comes to our lives and what’re the main factors, which make our bodies go into suicidal mode. There’re plenty of dependencies (i.e., smoking [both active and passive], radiation, stress), but none of these is 100% scientifically confirmed (or at least I have not seen such study) to be 100% cancerogenic, i.e. “you take a pill of this and you get cancer in a month”.
That’s why we must be aware. And do our homework. Large part of the homework is to go and get checked.
You think that small thingy under your skin is just ball of fat? Go get it checked. You think that the occasional sharp pain in the knee is just because of the weather? Go get it checked. And don’t just wait to feel something, before you go and do your prophylactic checks. These are to be done at least once per year, and not to be neglected.
If you have it in the family (as I, unfortunately do), learn as much as possible about it and decide when you start your more regular checks (let’s say, twice per year).
And the most important thing: do not fear the medical checks! Any cancer incident is 100% curable, if it’s caught on time.
Here’re some very high risk cancers, but very easy to get caught and cured, if you act on time:
So that’s all about what Movember is. Not [just] the silliness of a [crappy] mustache.
Here’s me on Movember 1st 2014. Let’s see what’ll happen a month from now :).
Никой не ме е молил или интервюирал, за моите 7 причини. Видях седемте причини на Йовко и реших да си ги напиша и аз моите. Особено вдъхновен бях от РЕФЕРЕНДУМ-а тази вечер по БНТ.
… и не на последно място:
Мисля, че ако имаше неподкупни психиатри и психолози, всички политици трябваше да минават психо-ценз! Щяхме да сме едно много по-добро място…
Питат ме, затова и пиша. За да спра веднъж завинаги подмятанията от ляво и дясно 🙂 , и за “да не се оправдавам след изборите”, както някои близки и не толкова близки познати ме апострофират, когато споделям пристрастията ми.
Аз ще гласувам в 23ти МИР – София. Моите кандидати са от листата на Реформаторския блок, №7 в бюлетината. Смятам да гласувам преференциално: партия №7, кандидат №2, ген. Атанас Атанасов. Ето защо:
Не ми харесва, че е водач на листата в Благоевград (т.е., почти сигурно е, че ще бъде избран от там), но така или иначе това ми се струва най-смисления вот.
Ето накратко информация за листата на Реформаторския блок в МИР 23:
ПП1: Учудва ме как може да има кандидати, за които информацията в Мрежатаа да е споредична или откровено липсваща.
ПП2: Връзките по-горе като нищо може да станат невалидно скоро след изборите. В България е доказано, че много от “блогърите”-кандидат депутати много бързо се “разблогват” след изборите. Редки изключения, разбира се, има!
I just did.
Until the end of September, Microsoft is giving 15GB additional space for image and video storage.
The only thing you have to do is to download OneDrive and enable camera upload to it. This will give your an additional 15GB storage space to be used for your pictures and videos.
Evil tongues speak that the addition is only to be used for images and videos, but at least the screenshot from my profile does not say that. So I hope Microsoft marketing had enough brains not to piss out its customers ☺
So go and grab it, either from Android Play Store or iTunes. And get your great deal now! (man, I do sound like a [cheap] salesman)
Don’t you just love the cloud storage competition? Microsoft is winning big so far (prices vs. offering, I mean)!
