More about the units

•  “Ems” (em): The “em” is a scalable unit that is used in web document media. An em is equal to the current font-size, for instance, if the font-size of the document is 12pt, 1em is equal to 12pt. Ems are scalable in nature, so 2em would equal 24pt, .5em would equal 6pt, etc. Ems are becoming increasingly popular in web documents due to scalability and their mobile-device-friendly nature.
• Pixels (px): Pixels are fixed-size units that are used in screen media (i.e. to be read on the computer screen). One pixel is equal to one dot on the computer screen (the smallest division of your screen’s resolution). Many web designers use pixel units in web documents in order to produce a pixel-perfect representation of their site as it is rendered in the browser. One problem with the pixel unit is that it does not scale upward for visually-impaired readers or downward to fit mobile devices.
• Points (pt): Points are traditionally used in print media (anything that is to be printed on paper, etc.). One point is equal to 1/72 of an inch. Points are much like pixels, in that they are fixed-size units and cannot scale in size.
• Percent (%): The percent unit is much like the “em” unit, save for a few fundamental differences. First and foremost, the current font-size is equal to 100% (i.e. 12pt = 100%). While using the percent unit, your text remains fully scalable for mobile devices and for accessibility.

Considering the number of icons, this icon set includes almost any type of symbol - from arrows to actions or user icons to e-mail icons, so it's quite suiatble for web applications.

The format of the icons is PNG and the size is 16 by 16px size.

Click here to preview the whole set.

EntityCube is an entity search and summarization system that efficiently generates summaries of Web entities from billions of crawled Web pages. The summarized information is used to build an object-level search engine about people, locations, and organizations and explore their relationships.

Specifically, EntityCube automatically generates:

• A biography page for a person.
• A social-network graph for a person.
• A shortest-relationship path between two people.
• All titles of a person that are found on the Web.

Not for long as it had Vista installed as default so I opted not to change this and try to cope with my stuff using vista. However, my joy of using my Thinkpad did not last for long as it really underperformed regarding what I expected from it even though it has good hardware. As the number of files on my laptop grew in detriment of free space, I was feeling the system slower and slower which was occasionally leading to some applications freezing and my losing my temper closing them after too much time looking at frozen windows.

I intentionally don't mention any specs or numbers - it's because I am talking about the experience of using a newly built laptop from a reputable brand.

Then a colleague reminded me of using Vista's ReadyBoost as a way to speed up my OS and thus applications. Next day I bought a 4 GB MicroSD card and made Vista use it - this changed alot. I did not expent such a drastic change in applications' performance when using this feature and this also made me rethink my plans to change the operating system while waiting for a new version that fixes the slow speed problem. Or buy more RAM.

Happy user again.

Writing personal blogs has been getting more and more popular recently and can be done completely free. The question is what happens when companies decide to advertise in popular blogs.

Within the last several days Bulgarian Internet space was filled with the rumor that maintaining a website is a professional activity and thus subject social security payments.

To be updated...