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Alex Sirota

Toronto, Ontario

Connector and Maven...

Interests: blade runner, kissing, college football, playing chess, playing trumpet, designing new computer systems, sagetv, eating indian food, good thought-provoking movies

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Google Glass Must Have a Line of Symmetry

We are used to symmetry - 2 hands, 2 feet, 2 eyes, 1 nose with 2 nostrils. This is how we are designed. Google Glass decides to take an asymmetrical approach and that may be the biggest reason why people... Continue reading

Posted May 4, 2013 at A Path to Success

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DRIVER.CAB and Windows XP 32-bit driver archive

Have you gotten stuck installing a piece of software or a hardware driver with a dialog box looking for "some files"? It looks like this: What is most likely is that Windows XP did not install this driver on your... Continue reading

Posted Mar 29, 2013 at A Path to Success

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Pictures from the life of a software developer

Have you ever found yourself feeling like this? When a friend of mine asks me to fix his website built with Joomla There are hundreds of these funny GIFs here and here which are understandbable by software developers, although maybe... Continue reading

Posted Mar 3, 2013 at A Path to Success

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Solution to mini-PCI Express wifi hardware radio off - Tape pin #20

This is one of more weird solutions I have ever "found." I reinstalled the WiFi mini PCI-express card in our Toshiba 230D laptop and found the hardware radio was permanently off. That means I could not connect to any WifI... Continue reading

Posted Mar 2, 2013 at A Path to Success

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Hi Ellen, Comments are not showing up because Aaron or I have to "approve" them -- otherwise some junky ones appear. But your comments are awesome! Thanks!

Commented Feb 10, 2013 on Try Again at Aaron's Stories

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New WiFi routers perform admirably, especially the Asus RT-N66U

Do you use WiFi (wireless internet) a lot at home? You may want to check out the new breed of wifi routers which have exceptional performance. While these routers cost about 2 times the existing routers (100-200 dollars), they are... Continue reading

Posted Jan 29, 2013 at A Path to Success

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Hi Jonas, Formstack is a form builder -- it's a generic product that can build anything that collects information online. A survey, a registration, an ecommerce system. And it has integrations with tons of cloud based applications. We support formstack as part of our monthly packages. Happy to tell you more if you email us at sales@newpathconsulting.com or visit http://www.newpathconsulting.com/formstack.html for more details about the product.

Commented Jan 9, 2013 on Our first case study with our partner Formstack at NewPath Consulting

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