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Mio c720b running iGo Amigo

June 24th, 2009 in Other 1 comment
At the end of July (2009) I'll go to Dubrovnik, Croatia for a vacation. I don't understand Croatian, so it will be more difficult to find places, remembering how complicated it was in Prague, Czech Republic, compared to other European countries I've been.

So I bought a GPS unit, a Mio c720b. Out of the box it feels lightweight and it has good construction quality. The c720b comes with a 2 megapixel camera that takes photos and records videos, bluetooth for handsfree, 2.5mm jack and SD card slot. It is slim and sleek with a spacious 4.3" widescreen. It uses MioMap 3.3 for navigation and the maps are really old, from 2007. The newer MioMap 2008 isn't so great either.

Time to upgrade. I had 2 options: iGo 8 or iGo Amigo. Both have updated maps, points of interests and other interesting ...read more
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Nikon D60 18-55 VR Kit

February 19th, 2009 in Photography 1 comment
Finally! I received my Nikon D60 this morning. I was happy like a little kid getting his new toy. In the big box I found the Nikon D60 18-55 VR Kit, a Nikon ML-L3 infrared remote, an A-Data 4GB 133x SDHC memory card, a Fomei bag and 6 months subscription to the National Geographic magazine. A lot of stuff to unpack. It was a real joy.

I unpacked the camera body and the objective. After taking down the caps, I carefully attached the objective to the body, then I inserted the memory card and the battery. I moved the power switch to ON and it started up in less about 1 second.

I had some trouble attaching the neck strap to the camera body, but after many attempts a succeeded. A good thing about the objective is the VR(vibration reduction), works as it should. Sometimes on low light the ...read more
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Salzburg, Austria

January 7th, 2009 in Personal 2 comments
Our hopes vanished when we found out we will not be able to leave the country only by train. Then the other problem was that the Hungarian train company was on strike. Then we got lucky, they decided to suspend the strike a few days before we had to leave. As always I hate to depend on others.

The train left from Timisoara (Romania) early in the morning. We were surprised that we got a 1st class wagon, however we payed for 2nd class. This was all good. After we arrived to Budapest (Hungary) we found our next train to Vienna (Austria) in less then 5 minutes and got to our places. It was a really long and boring trip. What can you do on a train?!? After many painful hours the train stoped in Vienna.

The next quest: find the train to Salzburg (Austria). Well, it was pretty easier then ...read more
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Remove outline from links

November 25th, 2008 in JS / CSS / xHTML 1 comment
I got really bored to see outlined links when they get clicked, so I decided to remove the outline. It's just a simple CSS rule.

to view the code read the full post
However I didn't manage to remove the outlines from buttons. Any ideas how? ...read more
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Hyundai Accent MC 1.6 DOHC 4 doors GLS A/T Premium

October 5th, 2008 in Personal 5 comments
I didn't post since august. It was about time to write something new. Well... I bought myself a car. A brand new one. It is a Hyundai Accent, 1.6 liter, 4 doors, automatic transmission and it cost me around 14.000 €.

Why did I choose to buy this one? It is really simple... cause for that amount of money I had no other options. Of course before buying the Accent I checked other car makers and models. None of them offered so many extras for the car.

I checked first a Skoda Fabia. It was around 11.000 € with not many extras. Only front electrical windows, just frontal airbags, no alloy wheels, no commands on the steering wheel. With the extras I have on the Accent, the Fabia would be around 14.000 € and for sure is smaller. Then I went to check out the VolksWagen (VW) Golf V at 17.000 ...read more