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10 Oct, 2009

How to turn on subpixel rendering on external LCD on OS X

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Tech

A quick tip for all the fellow OS X users. It looks like OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard have problems with automatically turning on sub-pixel rendering for fonts when viewing text on external display. This means that your new huge display will show things differently from your built-in one.
After getting bit by this, I’ve [...]

I’ve been using Opera 10 on OS X for a few months now. Even though it crashes a few times a day I’m still kind of attached to it, not exactly sure why.
Interesting thing happened with latest upgrade from Opera 10 beta 3 to their Release Candidate. They’ve decided that I don’t really need my [...]

21 Jul, 2009

Why my community is nothing like your community

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: ideas|Tech

I feel very fortunate that I was able to attend Community Leadership Summit ā€˜09, that happened past weekend in San Jose. As it was only just a few days away from OSCON ā€˜09, biggest open source convention in the world, the mix of participants was skewed towards open source projects. I’m really happy about this [...]

20 Jun, 2009

You should do Tech support on Twitter

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Tech

Tech support is something that you have to do as you build and distribute a product or just provide a service. Most of the time, having support email address in form of support@companyname.com and startups like UserVoice and GetSatisfaction make great tools for creating positive environment where discussions and support can happen. These are all [...]

18 Jun, 2009

San Francisco – initial culture shock

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: everyday life|Tech

It’s just over a day since I arrived to San Francisco, and it’s time to write down some initial reflections, to prevent me getting too used to them:

starting off with the weather. It’s actually kind of cold. Around 14C throughout the day, even though reports are optimistic and claim 22C high. It’s also bit [...]


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jure100px_colour Jure Cuhalev is an Open Source Hacker, with background in Social Sciences and Usability and User Experience (UX).

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