Glee Feliz Navidad

GLEE is one of my favorite television series. Here is a song Feliz Navidad from 4th season 10th episode. Happy holidays!

Setting up Text to Speech on Mac OS X

This video is about how to add new voices to Mac OS X Text to Speech function (e.g. American or British English, Siri Voice or any other language like Russian...). And how to set a keyboard shortcut for starting to speak. It's easy and useful.
Thanks for watching!

Get Current Dynamic IP Address Remotely

My internet provider gives me external ip address, so I can use Remote Desktop to connect to my home computer from outside. But every 4 hours my ip address is being changed, so every time I must know the new ip address. So I've written a little script, which every minute gets the new ip address and writes it in a text file, which is located in Dropbox folder. Here is my script:

:START
netsh interface ip show config > "C:\Users\user\Dropbox\ip.txt"
PING 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 60000 >NUL
GOTO START 

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Copy this text to a text file and rename to ip.bat (Attention: file extension must be .bat), then put the shortcut of this file to a Startup folder (e.g. C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup)
2. Change the path in line 2 to your Dropbox, Google Drive or other folder which is synchronizing automatically and is available from internet.
3. You can set that shortcut to start minimized, if you wish...
4. If you use dropbox, you can get the link to ip.txt file and bookmark it in your browser for easy access...

Emoji Keyboard in iOS 5

For those who likes to chat in iPhone, iPod or iPad and have iOS 5, Apple has keyboard of emoticons. Maybe somebody uses third party app for this, but in iOS 5 there is a native support of emoticons.
It's simple: go to
Settings=>General=>Keyboard=>International Keyboards=>Add New Keyboard=>Emoji
And you'll have new keyboard layout!

Emoji Keyboard on iOS 5

Emoji Keyboard on iOS 5

Windows 8 Task Manager

Hello All,
Today I wanna tell you about Windows 8. Especially this post is about new Task Manager on Windows 8 Customer Preview. When you open new Task Manager, at first you see the very basic things - list of open apps and the button to close them.

Windows 8 Task Manager Basic View

But when you click on "More details", a lot of new things appear! First tab shows Processes in groups - Apps, Background Processes and Windows Processes. Besides, processes are also grouped by application. For example all Google Chrome processes now are in one group and it's very comfortable. For each process you can see CPU, Memory, Disk and Network usage and total on the top.

Windows 8 Task Manager Processes Tab

The next great thing is newly designed Performance tab, which shows diagrams by CPU, Memory, Disk Usage and Ethernet. Also it shows some additional information about your devices. 

Windows 8 Task Manager Performance Tab

New Metro style applications in Windows 8 can show updates and notifications on tiles, even if you haven't opened them. App history tab shows resource usage for these applications. Tiles are something like Notification Center on iOS, but more sophisticated...

Windows 8 Task Manager App History Tab

At last there is a simple way to enable or disable startup applications and it's great!

Windows 8 Task Manager Startup Tab

 Users Tab now shows opened processes by each user and total resource usage.

Windows 8 Task Manager Users Tab

 Details tab is added, which shows processes like in windows 7 Task Manager.

Windows 8 Task Manager Details Tab

 And there's also Services tab as usual.

Windows 8 Task Manager Services Tab

So I can say that new Task Manager on Windows 8 Customer Preview is very comfortable than on older versions. At last Startup application management is added, also process information is more detailed and organized in groups. And resource usage monitoring is more attractive.
Thank you for reading. Hope you've liked :)

iOS update 5.1.1

Hello All,
Today an update is available for download on iOS devices.

This update contains improvements and bug fixes, including:

• Improves reliability of using HDR option for photos taken using the Lock Screen shortcut
• Addresses bugs that could prevent the new iPad from switching between 2G and 3G networks
• Fixes bugs that affected AirPlay video playback in some circumstances
• Improved reliability for syncing Safari bookmarks and Reading List
• Fixes an issue where ‘Unable to purchase‘ alert could be displayed after successful purchase

Nosferatu - Run from the Sun for iOS

Today I want to tell you about another iOS game, which becomes one of my favorites. Nosferatu is released on March 01 and is available on iTunes for free for a limited time. If you liked Temple Run, you will like this also.
It's very easy to control. The atmosphere of the game takes you to an old German night town of vampires. Great music and graphics. Game Center is also available. Like in Temple Run you collect coins and buy extra features. Also you can do in app purchase and buy coins. Here are some screenshots from the game.

Nosferatu - Run from the Sun for iOS Main Screen

Nosferatu - Run from the Sun for iOS, game screenshot

Nosferatu - Run from the Sun for iOS, game screenshot 

Nosferatu - Run from the Sun for iOS, game screenshot 

Nosferatu - Run from the Sun for iOS, game screenshot 

Nosferatu - Run from the Sun for iOS, game screenshot 

Nosferatu - Run from the Sun for iOS, game screenshot 

Nosferatu - Run from the Sun for iOS, Game Center integration

Nosferatu - Run from the Sun for iOS, in forest 

Nosferatu - Run from the Sun for iOS, in forest

Nosferatu - Run from the Sun for iOS, in forest 

Nosferatu - Run from the Sun for iOS, in the sky

Trying Windows 8

Today Microsoft gives us Windows 8 Consumer Preview to taste. Let's install it on virtual machine and try. At first we must download ISO from Microsoft Official site for free - http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso and then we'll install it on the virtual machine with VMware. As you see we can choose between 64 and 32 bit versions. Also 5 different languages are available. System requirements are the same as for Windows 7. Minimum 1 Ghz processor, 1Gb (32-bit) or 2 Gb (64-bit) RAM and so on.
But unfortunately my VMware 7.1 Workstation couldn't install this new Windows.

The first thing I want to do with windows 8 is to compare it with iOS 5. I found this video very interesting for comparison of these tow operating systems.

iOS game - Temple Run

Temple Run for iPod/iPhone or iPad is one of my favourite games on iOS. I've made some screenshots from this game.

You have 36 objectives to complete and compare your archivements with your friends on Game Center.

Run faster from these Evil Demon Monkeys.

Collect Coins and change your Character or buy some Powerups. Even you can download Temple Run wallpapers!

Gestures make controls easy. Jump, turn, slide and tilt.

My Best score is 3221760 for single run yet ;)

This great game you can find on iTunes here.

My iPod Touch Wallpapers

Not all pictures can be used as wallpaper and not all wallpapers can be used for iPod Touch. I've chosen some of my favourite wallpapers, which looks great on my iPod or other iPhone. They are optimized for retina display with 640x960 resolution.