Radu Cotescu's blog

Chat on Facebook from Pidgin

Posted on March 5th, 2010 at 15:06.

After Facebook announced its XMPP chat protocol support I decided to give it a try and use it since I already used Pidgin as my instant messaging client. The settings are simple but somehow the average user finds them after some tedious Google searches. Here are the steps you should follow for setting up Facebook’s [...]

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Save power when using your PC with MicroMiser

Posted on January 20th, 2010 at 23:52.

Some of you might know that the CPUs available these days adjust their frequency according to your computing needs, allowing you to save power by not using the maximum capacity of your processor if there isn’t such a need. Of course, this happens only when your operating system includes the software needed to access this [...]

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Our jokes aren’t like your jokes

Posted on January 7th, 2010 at 22:25.

Here’s another one from Intel’s “Sponsors of tomorrow” which I think is actually the geekiest from the series.

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Broken Promises

Posted on December 25th, 2009 at 19:20.

The series is already a classic. You can watch more on www.apple.com/getamac. This one is called “Broken Promises” and as one who has tried Windows 7 I can tell you that the ad is not far away from the truth.

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Put your latest tweet as Pidgin’s status on Ubuntu (Linux)

Posted on December 22nd, 2009 at 1:27.

Twitter became a trend nowadays when almost everything important is being found out via this social-networking micro-blogging service. And now with Google’s real time search-results that includes tweets too, Twitter is recognised as a powerful platform by even the Internet’s giant. Since your (and mine too) online presence might include a few tweets a day, [...]

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Our rockstars aren’t like your rockstars

Posted on December 16th, 2009 at 13:35.

The ad for this week is one for Intel. This new advertising campaign for Intel doesn’t feature a product anymore, its focus being on Intel’s culture. Taglined “Sponsors of Tomorrow”, the campaign showcases Intel’s engineering achievements rather than the products it makes. The people responsible for this new ad series are Venables Bell & Partners, [...]

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I have moved my feed

Posted on December 12th, 2009 at 17:28.

My new blog feed is now accessible through the following two addresses:

http://feeds.cotescu.com/raducotescu
http://radu.cotescu.com/feed (redirect to the first link)

Please change your RSS links accordingly.
Thank you!

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New toys for Linux

Posted on December 11th, 2009 at 16:13.

Google Chrome

Two days ago, on December 9th, Google has launched the beta version for its Chrome browser for Linux and Mac machines. For the ones having Chrome already installed in Ubuntu by using the google-chrome-unstable package, they can switch to google-chrome-beta without loosing any of their settings. For the ones wanting to install the browser, [...]

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Google Wave invitations

Posted on December 1st, 2009 at 23:11.

Like all the g33k5 out there, I have a Google Wave account. I haven’t really got the chance to use it since I had no one to talk to, except Vlad, from whom I originally got the invitation (Thank you, dude!). Anyway, opening my Wave account this evening, more out of curiosity and to dust [...]

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Mobile enhanced support

Posted on November 26th, 2009 at 16:25.

Today I’ve added mobile devices enhanced support to my blog for those of you who reach to my geek corner this way. Currently, mobile support is on for the following user agents:
iphone, ipod, android, dream, cupcake, webos, incognito, webmate, opera mini, blackberry9530, blackberry9500, blackberry8100
If you own a mobile device whose user agent is not listed here, [...]

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Yahoo! phishing attempt

Posted on November 21st, 2009 at 0:48.

Since I have this domain, one of the main concerns was to use Google as my mail provider instead of the mail server that was offered by my hosting provider. It’s not that I do not trust them, but the availability of Google’s servers is something more precise than every other average data center can [...]

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