Archive for December 2007
Mario’s Evil Japanese Twin
Link.
Not “the hardest game ever”, but the game looks really evil.
Rap for Geeks
See hebrew songs as charts. Also check out the original English version.
RSS Reader Quest (do not buy U3 flash drives!)
My quest for the holy RSS grail continues. I tried Google Reader and several other web based feed readers, and they’re just not convenient enough. I am addicted to feedreader.
A new version of it does support synchronization to some specified location, which is sort of what I wanted. But now I am hindered by my poor upload speed, and find that this synchronization is extremely slow.
I turned to look for U3 solutions – just install some reader on my U3-enabled USB disk. Guess what? There is no U3-compliant RSS reader (if you don’t count Mozilla Thunderbird, which is too cumbersome). Feedreader claims to “work with U3”, but it doesn’t.
Finally I read in Wikipedia that the U3 format is about to become obsolete, just two months after I bought it.
Free Rice!
Cool concept. And this is my 101’s post 🙂
Recovering Corrupt Doc Files
Today Word 2007 corrupted a doc file Aya was working on. The repair function from inside Word failed to work, and a Google search revealed a myriad of word repair tools – some of them don’t work, and some of them not free.
Gmail managed to easily convert the doc to HTML, and then opening this HTML with Word provided a version of the document. The problem was of course that all the hebrew and symbols got misplaced (text direction problems and the like).
Finally I found the perfect solution – OpenOffice. A quick download (~120mb) and install, and I managed to easily open the original corrupt doc and resave it.
