Posted by Artem Russakovskii on December 4th, 2009 in
Awesomeness,
Technology
Today Amazon posted a Goldbox superdeal on the stunning Ultimate Ears TripleFi 10 And TripleFi 10vi earphones. The price drop is absolutely mind blowing – they now cost $99 instead of $400.
I've been watching these earphones for 3 years and I've never seen them drop to even $250. Even Black Friday couldn't even dream of a deal like…
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Posted by Artem Russakovskii on October 24th, 2009 in
Programming,
Technology,
Tips
What Is This All About?
If you, like me, love StackOverflow, SuperUser, ServerFault – the community programming/software/sysadmin Q&A sites built by Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood and you are an active member of these sites, you owe it to yourself to install this underappreciated and unadvertised greasemonkey script:
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Posted by Artem Russakovskii on October 19th, 2009 in
Android,
Java,
Linux,
Programming,
Python,
Technology,
Twitter
I just got back from the StackOverflow's DevDays conference in the rainy (at least today) San Francisco.
I was really glad to see Joel Spolsky, Jeff Atwood, and the whole StackOverflow team in person, as well as listen to great talks in the following topics:
9:00 – 9:50 Joel Spolsky Opening Keynote
9:50…
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Posted by Artem Russakovskii on September 3rd, 2009 in
Android,
Awesomeness,
My Favorites,
Technology
Updated: September 8th, 2009
Well, it looks like the wait is over. I have been waiting for almost 5 years for a new phone that is good enough to make the switch from Samsung A900 (which has free tethering). Don't even get me started on the iPhone and its outrageous monopoly with AT&T. Android and the growing multitude of devices running it is, however, completely different business. Android offers unparallel freedom and I…
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Posted by Artem Russakovskii on August 18th, 2009 in
Stuff,
Technology,
Wordpress
Updated: January 16th, 2010
Introduction
I love Delicious. It allows me to store my bookmarks, tag and search them, and, best of all, have access to them from anywhere on the web.
Searching bookmarks by keyword is easy – just enter a bunch of keywords into the search page and off you go but what if you want to confine your results to a certain domain?…
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Posted by Artem Russakovskii on August 17th, 2009 in
Awesomeness,
Google,
My Favorites,
Technology,
Tutorials
OK, maybe you did know them – just see for yourself.
Introduction
The tricks I am going to describe allow you to create unique gmail addresses that still hit your existing gmail inbox, without actually making new gmail accounts.
This can be useful in a variety of situations when you need to use multiple email addresses without having the pain of maintaining them, such as
- using unique emails while
…
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Posted by Artem Russakovskii on July 14th, 2009 in
Personal,
Technology
The Problem
My fiancée Emilie has had her Palm Pre for about 2 weeks now, and one specific problem that started showing up last week has been incredibly annoying, causing us all kinds of trouble.
After Emilie got the phone, she added 3 email accounts – Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo. One day, after sending an email through the Pre, a popup showed up that said "Error sending" followed by the…
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Posted by Artem Russakovskii on June 20th, 2009 in
Linux,
Programming,
SVN,
Technology,
Tutorials,
Wordpress
Updated: October 6th, 2009
Introduction
Every time I have to deal with svn:externals in SVN, I forget the command line syntax. Every single damn time. Normally, I use SVN GUI clients, such as SmartSVN, which make it very simple to add an svn:externals property. But for command line, it always takes looking at 25 different sites on google, which are all incredibly unhelpful for this question…
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Posted by Artem Russakovskii on June 11th, 2009 in
Awesomeness,
My Favorites,
Stuff,
Technology
Updated: October 6th, 2009
WTF
I don't know about you, but I'm incredibly sick of Facebook quizzes. Yeah, shit like this which occupies 90% of my news feed:

And to make matters worse, Facebook provides no means to block these quizzes and rid your profile of them forever. The only thing you can do is block each individual quiz. But just like weeds in your backyard, when you block one, three more rise…
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Posted by Artem Russakovskii on June 10th, 2009 in
My Favorites,
Stuff,
Technology,
Tutorials,
Twitter
Updated: September 27th, 2009
Introduction
Welcome to part 2 of the Essential Firefox Extensions And Tips – A Comprehensive Guide series. In this article I’m going to describe a number of time saving pragmatic extensions that make me a better, faster, more efficient browser user (browserer?).
Pragmatic Extensions
All-in-One Gestures introduces customizable gestures for all kinds of actions. To perform a gesture, hold the right (by default) button and move the mouse…
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Posted by Artem Russakovskii on June 9th, 2009 in
CSS,
JavaScript,
Linux,
Programming,
Technology,
Tutorials,
Wordpress
Updated: June 10th, 2009
* Lightning Fast is a blatant exaggeration. Got you to look though, didn't it?
Introduction
Whether you are a web developer or a self-hosting business owner, the only excuse for not activating compression capabilities of your web server can be that you didn't know about it. And now that you are reading this, there is no excuse left at all.
Here is how big a single page of this blog…
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Posted by Artem Russakovskii on June 1st, 2009 in
Technology
I've been looking for a new laptop and started looking at Lenovo Thinkpads (W500) and Dell Latitudes and Precisions. I was worried that I might not like the look and feel, so I tried looking up their US laptop return policy.
Dell's return policy was found in about 5 seconds.
Lenovo's site, google, bing, or any other resource, however, proved to be useless while looking up their US return policy…
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Posted by Artem Russakovskii on April 11th, 2009 in
Awesomeness,
My Favorites,
Technology,
Tutorials
Updated: June 10th, 2009
Introduction
In this article I’m going to discuss a number of useful Firefox extensions and tips. This list is not a “COMPLETE GUIDE TO FIREFOX!!!111!” but a collection of some, albeit many, extensions and techniques I find useful, with detailed descriptions and illustrations. I try to make my reviews as personal as possible and express my own points of view, so I will not be using any boring official descriptions…
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Posted by Artem Russakovskii on April 9th, 2009 in
Technology,
Twitter
Updated: May 22nd, 2009

Introduction
Let’s face it – the majority of the population doesn’t understand twitter. They don’t get its true value – all they see is an obnoxious social network full of exhibitionists tweeting about millions of mundane things of every minute of their lives.
Except, twitter is much, much more than that. In addition to all the wankers talking about themselves 24/7, of course. Twitter is what you make it…
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Posted by Artem Russakovskii on March 17th, 2009 in
Awesomeness,
My Favorites,
Technology,
Twitter
Updated: April 10th, 2009
Recently I read an article on the Six Revisions blog that discussed 10 seemingly simple improvements to the twitter interface. They included such things as nick autocomplete, mentions, groups, and more.
You could only dream about such twitter improvements… that is until you use the Troys Twitter script. Just perform the following steps and you will have the features I describe in this article. Here we…
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