Ovidiu Iliescu * Software Developer » Cool Stuff

Google Chrome Extension : Remember my location

ovidiu — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:58:01 +0000

A Google Chrome extension that helps you keep track of your navigation within a website.

For example, let’s say you’re happily browsing the Dilbert archives when suddenly your house catches fire. Before you run for your life, you can use “Remember my location” to save the address of the comic you’re currently viewing. Later, when the fire is gone and you come back to dilbert.com, you can restore the saved address and resume viewing from where you left off.

Furthermore, each website gets its own save slot, so you can use “Remember my location” to keep track of your navigation within all the websites you visit. Simple and neat!

This extension is much better suited for this purpose than bookmarks becasue :

it’s context-sensitive to the website you’re currently on
you don’t have to search through your boomkmarks (the “Restore last location” button is one click away)
you won’t have to deal at all with managing bookmarks

Get it here.

Also, this is my first Google Chrome extension.

Webcam + Clever Software = 3D Scanner

ovidiu — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:41:55 +0000

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Found it here .

Now working for Enough Software

ovidiu — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:18:00 +0000

I don’t usually talk about my ongoing projects, but this one is definitely worth mentioning: I have very recently started working for Enough Software, the makers of J2ME Polish.

I’m obviously very excited about this, since I now have the opportunity to participate first-hand in improving and expanding one of the mobile industry’s most well known pieces of software.

This will definitely be a great experience!

A very impressive quine

ovidiu — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:37:04 +0000

To quote wikipedia, “a quine is a computer program which produces a copy of its own source code as its only output.”

I’ve seen a couple of interesting quines in my life, but this one definitely deserves the crown.

Kudos!

Blast from the past

ovidiu — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:47:09 +0000

Because I was feeling a bit nostalgic this morning (probably because of the awful weather outside), I decided to take a little trip down memory lane. Here are some of the places I visited:

Video nostalgia : Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8 .
Best video games magazine ever .
A huge collection of software and emulators can be found here .

If you don’t already know what the ZX Spectrum is, read about the hardware and the man behind it .

Enjoy! In the mean time, I’ll go make me some hot cocoa …

Incredible J2ME Voxel Engine

ovidiu — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:09:17 +0000

This is by far the coolest piece of J2ME software I’ve seen lately:

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According to the video description, this uses no 3D API whatsoever. It’s just simple J2ME code. I’m absolutely stunned.