Category: Internet

I’ve read Joannes’ post and I admit that I’m intrigued by the concept of virtual currency – or actually crypto-currency. If you’ve never heard of Bitcoins, I’ll explain them briefly. In short, Bitcoins are a form of virtual currency and exchange system based on a distributed (P2P) network of computers running a small piece of…

This post by Scott Hanselman got me thinking a bit more about JavaScript. The problem with JavaScript is not what kind of features it has or what it allows to do, but rather the lack of real competition. It’s a de-facto standard and monopoly. This is both good and bad. It’s good because you can…

Just got a BizSpark newsletter. There was a section about the new Windows 8 release. I perfectly understand that an official logo for Windows 8 does not exist yet, but at least they should have used Windows 7’s logo, not XP’s. The funny part is that the logo they used cannot even be found on…

I’ve been a fan of Springpad and used it – mostly – to save bookmarks and some notes. I’ve now switched to Evernote, as the former is quite buggy, especially the web interface (which is the main one). Funnily enough, their Android app is very good. On the other hand, Evernote’s web app is simply…