Google Talk Video/Audio and Mobiles

While my brother is playing around with GTalk video/audio calls I came to a point, where I believe I need to buy an adroid-powered phone :)

Not sure if the functionality I want is already there, but I believe it is on a way. I am talking about transparent selection of transportation media for a phone call to a friend. Imagine an android phone with WiFi and GTalk integrated (not even talking about GMail and Contants stuff). So with such thing when you want to make a call to your friend, the phone will check if you are on Internet and your friend is signed in to GTalk and try calling for free through this channel, otherwise just make a normal dial through GSM. Manual control should also be present for sure (so a user can decide himself how to call).

On the other hand, if your friend has a similar mobile, he can receive GTalk voice/video calls directly on it as well. So phone-to-phone call is free through Internat exactly as it would be through GSM.

Ofcourse there are plenty of things to consider before the idea could become completely usable, but as an idea, I think it is really cool.

The Expendables

Watched The Expendables. Either I am not interested in such action movies anymore or the movie is not the best. Lots of fights, shoots, explosions and so on, like in any other move in 90s. A lot of familiar faces. But overall the movie is boring. Can’t really explain why, just what I felt.

Site Improvements

Spent a bit of time on improving my blog. Here is a list of changes:

  • New theme. Very similar to old one, but uses double sidebar and have few things better than old one
  • Added contact page
  • Moved archives from drop-down menu to separate page (also using enhanced archive view)
  • Added/Edited few links
  • Added twitter widget
  • Added link to my photos in main navigation
  • Changed a number of posts displayed on homepage from 10 to 5, making the site even more compact

New theme is based on AdSimple, but I did few modifications to it. Two major reasons to use it instead of old one are:

  • Better view of threaded comments. Old one had a mess when thread is pretty deep
  • Double sidebar. It can contain more information closer to the top of the page

Shutter Island

Yesterday watched Shutter Island with Leonardo DiCaprio by Martin Scorsese – amazing movie. For me it is even better than Inception though it is different and I wouldn’t compare the two, just mention it since they are the latest movies with DiCpario I recently saw.

Need to re-watch the movie again, as it is advisable to watch it twice.