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Wednesday I attended the opening of e-hiša, the house of experiments, in Nova Gorica. Luka Manojlovič and a team of young volunteers have put up a nice place where quite a bunch of interesting experiments (robotics, optical, audio, physicall and other effects) can be seen and even toyed with. It is the place I should have visited when I were in ...

A while ago I wrote an article about HTC TyTN II and its missing graphics drivers for Slovene computer magazine Moj Mikro. Now the article has been published on-line, so check it out if you are interested in why TyTN II's graphics performance is dismal, or how HTC is treating their loyal customers. The article is in Slovene. Read the article ...

The article is all about HTC's dirty secrets behind its line of PocketPC's based on Qualcomm's MSM7x00 CPU/chipset and is my first article being published in such a large scale magazine or in any magazine I guess. Moj Mikro also brings my memories back; I remember when I was young and I was eagerly waiting for the magazine each month. At the time ...

Amazingly, Slovene national ISP Telekom (recently SIOL, my original ISP, was merged with Telekom) has really fulfilled the promise to bring fiber optics to my home. Actually, the infrastructure (cable) has been outside my doors for a month or so now. In the middle of the month I was wondering when I can get a ...

Let me say that I've been an IP TV fan since its introduction a couple of years ago in my town. But now I have to say that I am really concerned with this stuff in general. Here is my negative side of experience: Problem with modem. When I got it the service was simple - more than hundred of channels and news from provider's web site. Yet the ...

On 20th of October 2006 the Slovene government imposed an act of self reproduction compensation reproduction for personal use. Actually I don't know the proper English term so I'll describe what it is about. The government wants us to pay some sort of compensation (tax) for every amount of storage we buy to compensate the damage ...

I switched from cable TV to internet TV (Slovene SIOL provider - ADSL) a while ago. At the time it looked like a good move, but not everything is evident at beginning. Here is my list of pros and cons: Pros: plenty of channels switching to future standars might be easy Cons: plenty of useless channels picture quality is ...