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Ghimbir murat (reteta cu final abrupt)

Am facut (10x pt. reteta, Len!), fiindca e esential pentru sushi, iar la magazin e cam scump. A fost supersimplu: mai intai am cumparat o radacina din aia de ghimbir (din nefericire, nu poti obtine ghimbir murat din cartofi, prune si praf de scortisoara; deci n-are rost sa incercati). Dupa aia l-am curatat de coaja ca pe un morcov si l-am taiat felii:

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Exploring the Twitterverse: Twittermap 2.1

Some of the links in my previous Twittermap did not work anymore, so this is an update. I have also tried to cut down redundancies and to focus more on simplicity and usability.

Remember, this is not intended to be an extensive list of Twitter apps, classified by some arcane pseudo-scientific criteria (if you need something like that, you can go here). I have tried to select the most useful Twitter related sites / apps and to order them in a logical manner (these are, in fact, the things that I actually use in relation to Twitter).

Yes, you must do this first! There is no other way. :) You might want to look around and see for yourself what Twitter is all about, before posting your tweets. You can use this to monitor tweets containing certain words or expressions in real time. Search for multiple words and see the results mapped on Venn diagrams. Explore the visual side of Twitter. Let Twitter tell you a story. Watch tweets in the public timeline mapped on a 3D model of the Earth. This is a bit buggy, so you might want to use Twittervision instead. Create some semantic maps and see the relations between two words as they were used on Twitter. There is no point in posting on Twitter if nobody reads you, right? So, if you want to let others know that you exist, you should start by following them. Quite useful for finding twitters from your location (or sharing your interests). After you have some followers you could use Twubble to find more people to follow. Follow Mr. Tweet and he'll also recommend you some interesting people to follow. And now let's get to work! :) Since you have only 140 signs for every tweet, you should use a link shortener if you want to include a link in your message. Besides being the most popular link shortener, Bit.ly also allows you to track your links. After tweeting for a while and getting used to it you might want to learn more about all this Twitter thing. The most popular blog dedicated to Twitter. I find it quite informative. Apart from answering to replies and direct messages, you also have to do some maintenance work now and then. This offers you a smart way to maintain your list of followers and friends. This is useful to get rid of potential spammers and trolls. You can use this to backup your tweets. If you want to personalize your Twitter page a bit, you might find this useful. At this point, it is natural to be interested in the results of your activity on Twitter. Here you can watch some statistics about your followers and find out about your Twitter Rank. Here are more stats about your posts and your relations with other twitters. This could also be useful to measure your reach and authority. After being a regular Twitter user, you might want to discover some ways to expand your Twitter experience and some new uses for Twitter. This is the site that I use to access Twitter from my mobile. Here you'll find the most comprehensive Twitter apps database. This is the most popular site offering you a simple way to post pics on Twitter. Another site allowing you to post images on Twitter. I find it easyer to access from Slandr to post pics from my mobile phone. Here you can post any type of document (doc, ppt, xls, pdf, ps, txt etc.) up to 15 Mb on Twitter. You can also use this site to share large graphic files (up to 10 Mb) and videos (up to 25 Mb) on Twitter. I find this the coolest way to post my favourite songs on Twitter. You can use this to create some simple polls for your tweeple. Add an RSS feed to your Twitter account. Use this with caution and make sure you also post regular tweets on your account. This has a lot of useful informations on Twitter.

Similar mindmap: Gramo OS 2.0
p.s.: Yes, I would like to hear your suggestions! 🙂

Mi se inchide calculatorul din senin!

Am totusi o banuiala. Fiindca e cald, procesorul incepe sa scoata limba de caldura cand munceste mai mult. Iar cand nu mai rezista, trage pe dreapta. Asta cred ca se intampla, fiindca de obicei calculatorul se inchide in timp ce fac cate o treaba care-i da mult de lucru procesorului, iar cand reporneste imi arata ca temperatura micului neispravit s-a dus inspre 90 grade Celsius.

In plus, am vazut ca se mai plange lumea pe net ca Athlon-ul 5200+ X2 se supraincalzeste. Asa ca am presupus, pana la proba contrarie, ca asta e problema. Mi-a mai ramas sa caut o solutie.

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How to X-ray pics in Gimp

Punctul de plecare trebuie sa fie o imagine de genul asta:

Altfel spus, nu pot fi “radiografiate” imaginile in care imbracamintea este total opaca sau de culoare inchisa. Gimp e un software open source pentru editarea imaginilor si poate fi descarcat de aici.

Nota: Imaginile urmatoare ar putea fi considerate NSFW (desi nu sunt decat manipulari digitale ale imaginii de mai sus). You’ve been warned!

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Deci vreti sa va apucati de Twitter? :)

Atunci s-ar putea sa va foloseasca schema de mai jos:

Nota: Nu apar aici decat chestiile care ni s-au parut mai importante / utile / pe care le-am testat / vizitat. Chestiile de pe partea stanga sunt din categoria “mai serioase”, cele de pe partea dreapta sunt din categoria “cool & trendy”. Pe toate puteti da click.

p.s.: Uitasem, daca vreti sa ne urmariti pe Twitter, suntem aici. Sau aici, in fine.

Asus EEE PC (cu Xandros Linux) + Huawei E220

Da, merge. 🙂 The procedure is exceedingly simple. Mai intai se downloadeaza de aici o aplicatie intitulata eee220 (sau direct de aici, cu click dreapta si Save Link As).

Apoi deschideti consola (Ctrl+Alt+T), mergeti in directorul unde ati salvat aplicatia respectiva si instalati-o (comanda e: sudo dpkg -i eee220_0.1.deb). Dupa aia cel mai simplu e sa dati un restart.

O sa gasiti iconul aplicatiei respective in tab-ul in care ati spus (la instalare) ca doriti sa apara. Ceva de genul asta:

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Tastatura romaneasca pe EEE PC (plus alte chestii)

Ok, presupun ca aveti si Full Desktop. Daca nu stiti despre ce e vorba, a scris despre cum il activati aici. ‘Full Desktop” e de fapt KDE, iar in KDE e foarte usor de setat tastatura romaneasca (Control Center > Keyboard > adauga maparea pentru tastatura romaneasca, varianta “Winkeys”). Deci, in KDE aveti acum un icon pe bara si daca dati click pe el se schimba din “us” in “ro” si puteti scrie cu şţăîâ.

Dar poate nu vreti sa lucrati in KDE, ci in “Easy Mode” (care e de fapt alt windows manager – IceWM). Iar acolo n-aveti tastatura romaneasca. Inca.

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EEE PC – inca niste chestii

Amarok nu are vizualizari si se pare ca libvisual si cu plug-in-urile nu ajuta la nimic. Merg in schimb xmms + vizualizarile de xmms (Gramo recomanda: blursk, infinite, iris, jess si synaesthesia).

Synaptic da uneori o eroare enervanta: “Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (2)” Solutia e sa inchideti Synaptic si sa dati in consola (Ctrl+T):

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