Author Archives: Astrum

Stanford School of Engineering Extends Free Online Courses. Full List.

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Astrum

In 2012 Stanford School of Engineering (USA) extends the list of free online courses. We love free and quality stuff, so here’s the full list of classes available to anybody who wants to enroll. Because they are online, you can be physically anywhere … Continue reading →

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The End of Sharing Files?

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Astrum

Following the shutdown of Megaupload, we can see now Fileserve and Filesonic are closing sharing services I guess to prevent potential charges. Who’s next? Will Rapidshare stay because they are Swiss-based? Or maybe we will only have torrents and usenet left. I believe … Continue reading →

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How to deal with suspended account in Twitter

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Astrum

We know Twitter for its speed and communication efficiency. As for their Customer Support — it is simply slow and deaf, one of the worst customer support I’ve ever seen. Well, maybe I should not generalize my experience. Look what … Continue reading →

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Cheap PC upgrade with 2nd Generation Intel Core i3 Processor for less than 300$

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Astrum

In January 2012 the time has come for my old PC to die. For a day or so I was confused to identify the root cause—as I thought it could be the video card fault due to the BIOS beep pattern (endlessly repeating … Continue reading →

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No end-to-end encryption in Opera Mini

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Astrum

At some point I realized that I cannot access www.careerbuilder.com website. For the first time it happened to me back in Switzerland when I worked few years ago. Since then I moved from there and from time to time I tried … Continue reading →

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Convert DVD movie to iPod Touch or iPhone format with Handbrake

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Astrum

My favorite serial is British “Fawlty Towers” with brilliant John Cleese as Basil Fawlty. All twelve parts are full of sharp-tongued hilarious dialogs. As people say: “the best farce ever written in the English language.” I wholeheartedly recommend. Anyway, I wanted to convert … Continue reading →

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Time Person of the Year — The Protester

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Astrum

The Time Magazine has just published that Person of the Year 2011 (click to enlarge): Nice design! As Russia is mentioned as well (Moscow), I see we can oppose Vladimir Putin (TIME’s 2007 Person of the Year) to that Anonymous on the Time … Continue reading →

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Internet Helps Russia Change

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Astrum

December 10th, 2011. I hope that day will be marked in the newest history of Russia to be an awakening from the lethargy that Putin’s regime has put the country in. For the first time in this century in Russia people massively went to the streets … Continue reading →

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Windows 8 Developer Preview — Perfect Stranger

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Astrum

New Metro interface of Windows 8 Developer Preview (build 8102) — available to everybody to download and try — has puzzled me from the first screen. I understand the concept, but I don’t see how it is going to be productive in … Continue reading →

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Get Pre-Beta version of Windows 8 for developers, build 8102

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Astrum

Metro style application development has been started. Go to this link to see latest updates: http://dev.windows.com You can download the Windows Developer Preview (pre-beta version) of Windows 8 build 8102 for developers here: Windows Developer Preview with developer tools English, 64-bit … Continue reading →

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