Vali Petcu blog

Great title, great tips. “The Burned-Out Blogger’s Guide to PR” is for bloggers and PR people. The book is available on Amazon in paperback and kindle format.  

So, you wrote an article that makes its way fast through social media, huh? That is great, but your server is getting tired and you receive an email from the hosting company that says your shared plan does not cover this type of thing and you need to upgrade. What they don’t tell you is […]

I’ve had my eyes on a Subaru Forester for a few years now. I totally hate the new models, the third and forth generation look more like every other SUV on the market as Subaru needed to appeal to people thinking the Forester is a station wagon. The strategy worked, and Subaru is a top […]

A few people sent me this link because one of the item on the list is “Zoso”, one of the symbols from Led Zeppelin’s album IV (or Runes, or ZOSO, or Led Zeppelin, whatever is called). It’s funny.  Of course, I know all about it, I’ve been asked myself what does it mean a few […]

I had the pleasure of playing for a few days with an all-electric Renault Twizy. The car has no windows, so raining concerns appeared. But the interior is all plastic and has holes in the bottom for the water to evacuate. Here’s a video of the car after a two hour heavy rain:

Camera Raw idenfities a Sony Nex-3N lens as a Hasselblad, cause it’s true Hasselblad sells overpriced lens made by Sony.  

I was testing WP-Fastest Cache on my main blog and, after changing back to WP-SuperCache, I noticed I was not able to retrieve the articles published on the blog. WLW was trying and trying and kept on trying and no deal. Others blog worked just fine. After two days of digging, I found the problem. […]

Last night, my iPad2 went to sleep. I plugged it in and it kept restarting when it got enough power. And restarting. And restarting. I pressed Home and Power to enter Recovery Mode and try to restore it via iTunes. But during the recovery, it presented the error below. And restarted and showed the Recovery […]

On the left, an original Sony NEX battery, named NP-FW50, costs about 70€ in Romania. On the right, Power3000 PL655B.823, a battery for the NEX series, costs about 30€ in Romania. I got the one on the right as a backup and used it a few times with my NEX-3N (fitted with Sony 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 […]

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