Top 10 Geekiest T-shirts

Ever thought of buying a geek t-shirt to show off all your geekiness at work or among your friends? Would you even dare to wear one?

Here I will show you my 10 favorites:

Don't let those noobs bother you at the computer shop, your time is valuable!

And if you don't believe me, think of Google!

I'm gonna make my baby wear this one if I ever have one, a baby I mean.

Always show your feelings to your loved one, and do it in the most geeky way!

Dealing with 10 projects at a time? this t-shirt is for you.

If you find yourself speaking online-lingo more often than normal english, this t-shirt will suit you (IMHO).

Static t-shirts are boring! this one is dynamic and the hearts will blink when in proximity of a female with the same model.

Tired of being asked to fix other people's computers? If you truly abhor noobs, this t-shirt is the right one for you.

When dealing with computers there is always one more hole left to try.

Let normal people play rock-paper-scissors. But we normal geeks play rock-paper-scissors-spock-lizard.

Five Major Browsers Benchmarked

The WebDevelopment blog 6Revisions.com recently published an interesting infograph with the results of the benchmarking they performed on all five major browsers (Mozilla Firefox 3.5, Google Chrome 3.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0, Opera 10.0, and Apple Safari 4.0), measuring JavaScript speed, average CPU usage under stress, DOM selection, CSS rendering speed, page load time, and browser cache performance. Full article here.

CryEngine3 Available for Development

German developer Crytek made a public announcement today concerning its newest project the CryEngine3, which will power their upcoming game Crysis2. The new engine will be available for other developers to use in their own projects.



The developer of critically acclaimed titles such as Far Cry and Crysis has built a reputation of being the leading company when it comes to proficient technology and graphical innovation. Crysis has been released two years ago and still remains the most used benchmark when testing new graphic cards and processors.

Now the company is decided to turn this reputation into real money as they hope to make their engine be widely adopted by the industry, and represent a challenge to the already established Unreal Engine and others.

Work in Progress: TOMAX - Office Supplies in Poland

My brother in law recently asked me to help him develop a minimalistic, yet strongly corporate website to present his services through the web.

TOMAX offers high quality office supplies and distributes them in the region of Podkarpackie in Poland. The website features some pictures of his products, about-us summary, map localization, and contact form.

I'm looking for ideas to improve his website so if you have some, share them! :)

Free Tip: Always remove old drivers before upgrading

This is one very poorly documented fact about hardware maintenance: newer driver installation programs almost never take care of properly deleting their previous versions. And these driver leftovers (programs, libraries, or registry records) can cause you performance issues, startup problems and sometimes will not allow you to effectively install the newer versions.

I personally experienced this, when I bought the ASUS GTX285 video card I was running the nvidia v185 drivers. Those drivers are supposed to work fine with the card but when I tried some games I noticed that I was getting very low framerates on GTAIV and Empire: Total War, so I upgraded to the latest v186 drivers but the issues got even worse, giving me crashes and even lower FPS.

Troubleshooting my issue and with a little help from Google I stumbled upon this little program: DriverSweeper, whose purpose is to completely remove any specific driver that you indicate. So I fired up the utility, marked everything related to nVidia, and hit the "Clean" button.

Later reinstalled the 186 drivers and my games were working flawlessly again with the highest settings and I was always getting above 40fps.

So here is my tip: Always remove old drivers before upgrading!

DriverSweeper is free, there are paid counterparts that have additional features such as driver backup, safe recovery, online driver compatibility lookup, etc. So which one you use is up to you.

Google Recovers Market Share After Bing's Release

Several things have happened in the Search Engine market in the last year:

• Microsoft released Bing.
• An Alliance has been formed between Yahoo and Microsoft to fight Google's market domination.
• Windows Live Search and MSN search have disappeared.

All that led Google to lose some market share during that period, but recent figures at StatCounter show that the big internet giant has recovered their numbers and its market share is just above 80%, just as it was back in November 2008.

Source: StatCounter Global Stats - Search Engine Market Share

Oracle CEO on Cloud Computing Hype

If you are frequently reading tech, and more specifically software news, you would have noticed that this year the terms "Cloud", "Cloud Computing" are the most written ones all around the media. People seem to be going crazy about it. Every company owner wants to say that their company is on the cloud.

The truth is, nothing has really changed this year in terms of development or technology, there is more fashion in the term than novelty.

But there is so much hype that the sole term is getting companies funded. Only somebody well settled in the software industry would dare to say the truth, and that person is Oracle's CEO Larry Ellison.

Larry Ellison at Oracle OpenWorld 2009 said:
The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can't think of anything that isn't cloud computing with all of these announcements. The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?

We'll make cloud computing announcements. I'm not going to fight this thing. But I don't understand what we would do differently in the light of cloud.