Skippi

Member since: Dec 28th, 2005

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Safari beta for Windows updates to 3.0.4, fixes most of what was wrong (Download Squad)

Nov 15th 2007 11:27PM One important thing - Gmail is supporting chats in this new Safari build. Maybe just a coincidence but a long awaited update!

Samarost 2 - Time Waster (Download Squad)

Nov 2nd 2007 7:44PM Well, when you speak about two years old game, it is good at least to get the facts rights. The name is "Samorost", not "Samarost". The game was originally developed as a thesis project, comes from Czech republic and the name means in rough translation something/somebody rough, uncultivated, self-growing (e.g. uncultivated tree)...

Microsoft cuts Windows Vista price to $66 in China (Download Squad)

Aug 5th 2007 7:43AM To momojie - yes, it does not help at all, not for college students. I wonder why college student in Europe or China has to pay anywhere from 150-60 for Vista while student in the US goes easily with Vista for under 15 bucks, such as is the case at Carnegie Mellon. Offer that price to students round the world and they might be much higher penetration of legal software. Even I would pay 15 bucks for fresh updated Windows...

KoolWIRE: Yet another way to convert docs to PDF (Download Squad)

Jun 30th 2007 11:59AM I've tried it and got faster and better results than with using latest Adobe Acrobat 8 Prof. Supports accented letters, word styles - creates bookmarks, underlines links within document (like in TOC) etc. Great service!

Avanoo - Harness the wisdom of communities (Download Squad)

May 15th 2007 4:25AM Would be very nice to be a part of this interesting beta. Fed up with social networks, excited about something visionary and possibly useful.

Engadget's relaunch giveaways: let's start with a Zune (Engadget)

Sep 19th 2006 11:51PM "Love And Laughter" Hiromi - not really singing but a beautiful instrumental piano not-really-jazz like performance

That irksome Mac moment (TUAW.com)

Sep 8th 2006 9:10AM From a non-English native person Macs are giving me irksome moments all the time. Everytime you move documents with accented characters, you pray for them no the get screwed up, reading anything sent from Windows in my language (Slovak) requires extra actions to dig out text in eligible form. I cannot use a single Pages/Keynote template because fonts they use just don't support Central-European characters. The one and ONLY font Office for Mac allows me to use is Times New Roman - yes, a $500 dolar package and you can use it with one single font, and if you try to switch to a different font, it just reverts you back to Times. And the only support information you get is: "Yes, we know, that's just the way it is."
Don't try to kid me with automatic internet connection, beamers reading your VGA signals after plugging in - PCs have this functionality for couple years now too, and nothing will stop stupid users from rebooting their laptops instead of hitting a button or running network wizards instead of just plugging the cable in or activating wireless.
Macs are lovely toys and I love them - and I wish I could use them in my daily life. One day, maybe. I hope so.