Levicki's Tech Spot

Someone "smart" at Mozilla Corporation decided that instead of rolling up the sleeves and fixing that 10 year old bug with application shortcut keys not working when there is a plugin on a web page they should fiddle with reversing the order of "Open Link…

Recently I have installed the 2.4.24 update which is presumably the last available update to be released for Motorola Milestone 2.

I am not so proud to admit that I have wasted a lot of hours playing Left 4 Dead 1 and 2, but I just can't help myself — I love FPS games.

For years I have been advocating against Adobe Flash Player.

ATI video card owners (me included), let's just face it — ATI's only video driver and CCC developer seems to be too busy upgrading his video card to fix the ongoing issues which people are reporting all over the Internet, and to keep them from creeping ba…

I am pissed off by people producing junk videos so I want to give some advice here: Do not encode interlaced material without selecting proper encoder option — you will destroy the video quality and compression will suffer as well.

If you own Intel Desktop Board DX58SO like I do, you should steer clear from BIOS updates 4598, and 5020 because they are broken.

I keep hearing about PC gaming dying, and the main cause being cited is always piracy (yeah, as if piracy doesn't exist on other platforms).

When a company CEO starts spinning PR bullshit you can immediately tell how bad things are going for that particular company.

Could have been a great game if it was PC only to begin with.

Well, here I am at the Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco after some 14 hours of air travel.

If you have a notebook with HD 2000, HD 3000, or HD 4000 series ATI mobile GPU you have probably noticed that almost all notebook vendors are not keeping up with ATI's monthly graphics driver update scheme.

I got sick of so many positive reviews of Windows 7 on the Internet, and I have decided to start a series of articles tagged WINDOWS7: — you will learn what other reviewers "forgot" to tell you.

Sometimes I really wonder whether WHQL certificate has any other purpose except to allow hardware manufacturer's driver writer teams to pat themselves on the back when they get it.

I am sure you too must be wondering how to disable wmpnscfg.exe from ever starting again, right?

Have you ever got a message box when you start uTorrent which says: This program is freeware, if you paid for it you have been scammed, and you should get a refund.

You might have noticed that Adobe Lightroom only supports export plugins.

Update: The drive has died after being unplugged while the activity light was on.

Few seconds ago I was playing Mirror's Edge and decided I need a trainer because some guards were annoying me.

Final version of Internet Explorer 8 has been released.

For this website I use webhosting services provided by Loopia AB.

I am sure that you have already noticed the front page, and the black background.

UPDATE (2010-01-09 @ 22:58:00 CET): I have just noticed that there is an updated BIOS available for download for my Sony VAIO VGN-FW190E: This utility updates the BIOS to version R0270Y0 to add support for the Intel® Virtualization Technology and provides…

Well, I have this notebook, Sony VAIO VGN-FW190E and after wrestling with Windows Vista which came with it, and trying to make it less irritating and annoying I finally gave up and installed Windows XP SP3 instead.

I hope the author of the original article will forgive me for borrowing a part of his text with some editing on my side.

I have a Sony VAIO VGN-FW190E notebook which I got as a part of my Intel Black Belt award.

Several years ago I was test-driving The Bat!

Just when you think that the damn thing can't get more annoying you are in for a big surprise.

God how I hate modal dialogs!

As you probably know already, I have recently got a laptop with Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 operating system preinstalled.

Phew!

Just wanted to let you know that a massive site code rewrite is in progress and that some content (mostly articles) will not be accessible until the update is finished.

Yes, you read that right — Adobe Reader 9 installer carries shovelware which gets installed without your consent even if you cancel the setup.

It's alive!

Previous tip dealt with WMV files, this one teaches you how to open those pesky FLV files (yeah, the ones you get off the youtube.com) in VirtualDub.

You all know about VirtualDub — great freeware video editing tool written and maintained by Avery Lee.

After receiving the Intel Black Belt award I was interviewed for a local newspaper Politika.

Miss Gunjan S.

Scott Apeland, director of Intel Developer Network has written about recently lauched award and recognition program, and presented Intel's very first Black Belt Software Developer to the public: Our first Intel Black Belt Software Developer.

UPDATE (2008/08/14): I have bitten the bullet and got myself Canon EOS 40D [review] instead.

So you downloaded Firefox 3, installed it and hoped that this time you won't get any unexpected UI changes which would break your browsing habits?

Another proof that DRM is nothing else than a grand failure is recent blog post written by Avery Lee a.k.a.

As I said here my LCD monitor ceased to work because of two bad capacitors in its switching power supply.

I mean really — RAPIDSHARE.COM SUCKS BIG TIME!!!

Microsoft has finally released long awaited update for the Windows XP operating system — Windows XP Service Pack 3.

3Com, once a respectable name in networking and communications industry, well known for their very reliable and fast 3C90x series of PCI network adapters is now just a shadow of its former self.

Seriously, who the fuck is that Thomas Stewart Von Drashek?!?

I am posting this to inform everyone that the reason I am not updating my site and not contacting you or getting any work I promised to do for you done is that my LCD monitor is dead and I am currently waiting for someone to pick it up for servicing.

Yesterday I got an extremely interesting email from Akemi Doi!

If you haven't read my previous article titled "Creative Labs commits PR suicide", you should do that first and then come back here.