Digital Life – Mind the gap

Built and Launched a Product in 14 Hours

Many of us have pet projects we never finish. This article shows how to complete your project in 14 hours from idea to live product! Sure, your project can be more complicated and may take more time. In any case this article will be helpful in terms of services used by author as well as inspiration to bring your idea live.

Perl Oneliner: rename files in directory recursively

Here is a very simple but efficient solution inspired by this article:

find  | grep imdb | perl -ne 'chomp; next unless -e; $orig = $_; $move = 0; if (s/imdb_13/imdb13/) { print "move $orig to $_ ...\n"; system "mv $orig $_"; }'

1	find \| grep imdb \| perl -ne 'chomp; next unless -e; $orig = $_; $move = 0; if (s/imdb_13/imdb13/) { print "move $orig to $_ ...\n"; system "mv $orig $_"; }'

Cyprus Zouk

Goodbye, Steve Jobs

I don’t use any Apple device and probably won’t do that. But those devices – iPhone, iPad, iPod, MacBook Air, definitely changed the world and set a new level for design and user interface. Many thanks to Steve Jobs for that. RIP.

Choosing new mobile phone

It’s time to replace my old Nokia E65. I like that phone. Regardless its problem with alarm. So, I made decision about platform easily – Android (IMHO it’s the most perspective platform for mobile devices). But to choose the phone wasn’t so simple. The potential variants were following: HTC Desire, HTC Wildfire, Samsung Galaxy 551 and Samsung I5800 Galaxy 3. But the winner even wasn’t in that list. It’s Motorola Defy. Why I chose it? Well, first of all I like its design and Gorilla Glass display with resolution 480×854. Also it has very good spec – 800MHz processor, 2 GB storage, 512 MB RAM, microSD slot (supports cards up to 32GB), 5MP camera. It run Android OS, v2.1 (Eclair), upgradable to v2.2. And finally, Motorola Defy is dust-proof, water-resistant (check the awesome video after below) and has very reasonable price – around €350.00. So, I’m going to buy it this weekend if it’ll be available in the Cyprus shops, of course.

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Free nature sounds

If you like nature sound that service might be interesting for you. It offers a possibility mix four different tracks – sounds of beach, fire, rain or something else (not vuvusella, thanks God!) and save the result as a link to share with fiends or store it into file.

[via Unplggd]

New Aston Villa shirts with FxPro logo on the front

Aston Willa and FxPro

Aston Villa players started coaching in the new blackcurrant training kit with FxPro logo on the front. I like it as a FxPro employee and fan of English Premier League 🙂 Waiting for the possibility to get a new Aston Villa shirt.

[via Aston Villa site]

Gift idea: Plantronics Discovery 925

Bluetooth handset Plantronics Discovery 925 can be a really good Christmas present for web workers. It’s stylish and elegant. The headset offers a hight quality voice and adaptive noise reduction. But the most interesting feature in my mind is ability to connect to the mobile and PC in the same time. So, you can make mobile or Skype call using one headset.

The handset Plantronics Discovery 925 is available in black, gold, cerise, royal blush and majectic purple colors. So, it’ll suit both men and women. Its price an expensive a bit – $149.95, but it’s good investments.