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I turned, and years passed. I’m turning back, forward.

I’m stuck, and it sucks. I did so much throughout the years, but not even close to what I wanted to achieve. Having 7 companies can feel like a great success, but in reality, 90% of the time is spent worrying about everything and working on

Mini Hobby Projects – A New Series Of Posts You Can Learn From

I’m swamped with work, with big projects that hardly give me any space to do a hobby development on the side, but I still manage to slowly do some progress. I plan a series of posts transparently sharing all about the process of creating, p

Hacking at hackathons

I just love hackathons. For those who doesn’t know what a hackathons is, in short; Hackathon is usually a software developers gathering where teams and individuals create something from scratch before the hackathon ends. It usually lasts 12

Logging in to websites without a password at all

We at WhoAPI are almost done with the MVP version of the service. The API works but the website with client administration is still due. I was thinking about creating something completely new for users to log in to the service. A passwordle

Bypass the iPhone 4/4S passcode security lock

I’ve watched a video on YouTube where some guy bypassed the security lock on his jailbroken iPhone by viciously pulling and inserting his SIM card; some crazy method to bypass the lock and see the phone contacts :) definitely not worth a tr

Ultimate question for all startups?

Are you up to the challenge with possible failure which can put your social life in second place and risk your relationship with love ones? Don’t hope to be in those 5% of startups that succeed with little to no trouble. Startups can be rea

AutoPullRepo – a Bitbucket project

I’m a Bitbucket.org user and please don’t judge me for that. There are a lot of different opinions about Bitbucket vs. GitHub, but mine is the only one that matters to me since I’m extremely satisfied with the features and the use of Bitbuc

Our first iPhone app in development

Yep, after long wait we’re finally doing it. Here’s the story. We loved what we saw when iPhone was first introduced and the potential after Android showed what can be done with the apps (before the iPhone introduced the AppStore). We’ve be

Work update

It’s hard to blog about anything when you don’t have time to manage your initial work. So just to leave an update, I’m still working on a new GEM Studio website along with other customer projects. Our new website will bring lots of fresh an

Let the machine write your article!

It’s very interesting to see how the words are generated by a software. This whole article was fully composed using Google Scribe. It’s a word suggestion text writer. I would like to see this implemented in WordPress or just to see it as a

A taste of the future

There are many things I look forward to see in the near future. Technology that will hopefully redefine how we interact with information and other people in a good way. I’ve found some videos, concepts of the future. Enjoy! Future of screen

Work on GEMStudio.hr [update]

We at GEM Studio are working hard to develop the most advanced website that we’ve made so far, and this project is our own company website. So what’s so special about our new site? I’ll tell you :) AJAX calls everywhere, the most important

Website Speed Influencing Google Ranking

All these latest Google Search algorithm changes are making our visitor stats going wild both ways. The most important thing many webmasters forget to check after building a website is it’s loading speed. So many of them loading over 4 sec.

How to create Ajax website that Google can crawl and index?

There are many methods to make Ajax operations crawable by Google and other search engines. Many are still saying it’s not the right time yet to use Ajax for all dynamic content. I disagree! Google already introduced their method to make th

Yes! Igrice.hr, I have waited long time for this!

Yes! It’s finally here, an update to web portal dedicated to freeware, shareware, AAA titles and online game reviews. Sadly, we’ve been busting our guts working on everything but the projects we actually love doing. Time has come to change

Package full of updates

Yes, I’m calling this post a package full of updates. Last few weeks I’ve taken more time to work on our own (GEM Studio) projects so here are few of those updates if you’re interested ;) Sveznar.com (Croatian only service for dream definit

A Change of Mindset

There is a time in your life when you think you know where you headed but what happens to many of us is that we forget to steer back on that (dream) line once in a while. It happened to me also. I started working what I love, in IT industry

Clients clients clients …

So many new clients, so much work but where to find the time to develop all this requests. I had to put titlovi.hr aside for a while unit we finish top priority websites for our clients. Here I’ve just finished this template and sent to the

Working hard on many things, one of them is titlovi.hr web service

Hi folks. Titlovi.hr is on it’s way to finished within a month. Main idea is to build the best website for searching movie subtitles for domestic territories. But not just “best” like they all say :) best as usable, without ads and unnecess

New project finished: Official Lyrics

Yes, it’s official. Official Lyrics is finally done, after 3 months of work, actually 12 hours of efficient programming. There is much to improve on the SEO side but the lack of time I have, I’ll call it finished. :) So please visit the sit