Nice chat with SpicyWebDesigners.com
I was interviewed by Lucas from SpicyWebDesigners.com. He wanted to know how I started designing, how is working on a Mac and what’s the situation with freelancers in Croatia.
As a first freelancer from Croatia interviewed by SWD, it will be great to see another people from Croatia there, together with designers as Elliot Jay, Veerle Peiters, Jay Hilgert etc.
New kind of spam; active spamming
I receive a lot of spam, approximately 20 daily, mostly in 5-6 articles. And I need to admit that I noticed few “intelligent” comments. What are they doing? They post a comment of your content such as “Thanks for this great article”, or “Awesome, thanks, I need to show this to my little brother” or “I was searching this for too long, thanks dude”, and in the webpage link they put a “spam” website.
So, what can you do? Is that really the authors webpage, and the comment is very honest? Or the comment is only there for no-viagra-similar content, and avoid automatic spam filter?
How to know if the comment is real, and not only a spam comment?
Western Digital My Book Pro Edition Sucks. But new player is in the house
A year and a half, I purchased two WD My Book disks. They weren’t cheap, but neither very expensive. I used one of them for my media backup, photos and some old work. Besides the online backup I had some important data on it. And one day he just did a spin and stopped. Disk utility sad that is empty (??). And that’s all. I lost almost 400$ on Data Recovery to try get back at least some of the data (had luck, 98% as ok). I had some old backups on DVDs, but the last version was on the disk.
I thought if someone put in the name “Pro edition”, that he also mean that, but unfortunately Western Digital not. So I had two disks dead in the same time, one is used on XP like night backup, and the other one on my Mac, for day use. Sure, there is 3 years warranty; in three months you get your disk replaced (thanks to awesome tech support in Croatia). In the meantime you spend money on Data recover, and new disk (you need one for recovered data right?). So you have spent more than 300% than original price of this disk.
I was very doubtable on buying a Western Digital disk, because of their very bad reputation from several years ago. But I saw new My Book series, they look liked so cool with my macbook pro. Now I know why. I’m not the only one who had problems with the same collection of disks. There are several sites where you can find people complaining on this disk. I don’t know why I didn’t found that before after months of exploring.
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Friday shots
It has past a month of no shooting anything, photographically speaking. As today was beautiful morning, I pulled out my favorite model and we went to our garden. Here you have some of the shots with very little PP.
Sunday report!
I'm preparing some tutorials of css, but, as I have a lot of work to do (summer holidays, you know...), for now only few new things.
- Finally updated my photo site, still missing some photos and comments, but you can check it and feel free to comment photos! www.davorphotos.com
- New site is in the production, it's a website for pet store (zoo shop). Site is for my parents and will be simple by the look, but we are planning to put love for animals inside of it. For now, only temporary page » Zoo Shop Amazona, Poreč, Hrvatska (Croatia).
