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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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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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!

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
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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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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
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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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For those of you who want to install Adobe Reader in Ubuntu, there are two solutions available: install it using the repositories or download the application from Adobe. If you’ve had problems opening PDF files in Firefox after you’ve installed Adobe Reader you will also find how to fix them.

These two pictures will go epic: Linus has a great sense of humor. Brilliant! Can you imagine Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer doing a similar thing? via Chris, Patrick