openECGproject
I am proud to present to you the openECGproject. Something I helped to start up and the thing that kept me away from my blog for almost two weeks. The openECGproject is essentially an online community conceived around a simple, but challenging and worthy goal – to develop an open source hardware and software solution […]
im bored colgate
Google updated their iPhone app to include voice recognition. You simply tap a button, speak up keywords you want to use to search the web, the software recognizes what you said and gives you back your search results. When I tried pronouncing my name, Ivor Kovic, Google app recognized it as “im bored colgate”. This […]
It’s Carnival Time!
My hometown of Rijeka, Croatia is famous for its carnival. Our carnival is one of the biggest in Europe. During the one held in 2001, there were 72 children carnival groups with 4.200 participants and 144 carnival groups of adults with 10.000 participants from 12 countries, watched by about 110.000 spectators. A special attraction are […]
A.D.A.M. Symptom Navigator for iPhone
Recently I wrote about native medical applications soon to be available for iPhone. Until you wait for them to come out, why not try some already available medical web applications for iPhone. A.D.A.M. Symptoms Navigator is one such application. With this tool, you can easily find out what to do about any symptoms — wherever […]
Internet Addiction
From Wired Magazine: WTF!? Internet Addiction Nominated for Entry in the Manual of Mental Disorders. First, we all had mild Asperger’s. Now, Internet addiction disorder? Give a geek a break. In the March issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, Jerald Block proposed that Web abuse be added to his field’s bible, the Diagnostic and […]
Twitter homepage parody
I am sure you know about Twitter, but let me shortly describe it for those who never heard about it. Twitter is basically a micro-blogging service that allows users to send “tweets” (text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to Twitter website, via SMS, instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific or Facebook. […]
