The Positive of the Negative
Hi folks, Today we are going to tell you about how bad things can paradoxically have some positive consequences, too. The two stories and facts below are from IT domain, of course, but wise men say t ...
The French in IT
Hi folks, When it comes to IT, we all somehow tend to assume that everything was created and done in the USA. But this is not really quite so. And to prove this, today we are going to tell you about ...
How much a word can cost
In the previous article we've promised to tell you a few things about Apple, words and names. Steve Jobs, as brilliant and genious he was, seemed to have a problem with names. The first story to be t ...
Some funny litigations in software industry
Hi folks, One particularity of software business is that, at least from a certain level up, lawsuits seem to really come with the territory. Patent lawsuits can go way beyond imaginable sometimes tur ...
Briefly about GIF
Hi folks, Today we will try to give you a quick overview on the GIF file format. GIF format was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and soon became widely adopted because it supported colours (unlike its ...
Briefly about JPEG
Hi folks, We are going to dedicate an article to each of the most popular bitmap file formats and today we will make a quick incursion through JPEG. JPEG (.jpg or .jpeg) is a bitmap image file format ...