Lenovo's Top Gaming Laptops: Which One is Right for You?

22 September, 2014 | Laptop Reviews | 13 seen

Lenovo is a well-known brand when it comes to laptops, and their gaming laptops are no exception. Lenovo offers a range of gaming laptops that are equipped with powerful hardware, great graphics, and unique features that cater to the needs of gamers.

In this article, we will take a closer look at Lenovo gaming laptops and what makes them a great choice for gamers.

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The Lenovo Legion Y540 is a great gaming laptop for budget-conscious gamers. It features an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 graphics card, 9th Gen Intel Core i7 processor, and 15.6-inch Full HD display. It has 16GB of DDR4 memory and a 512GB solid-state drive, making it a fast and reliable machine for gaming.

The Lenovo Legion Y740 is a high-end gaming laptop designed for serious gamers. It features an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 graphics card, 9th Gen Intel Core i7 processor, and 15.6-inch Full HD display. It has…

Visit of Tbilisi Theater Reminds me Drive in Marshrutka (2014)

21 September, 2014 | Living in Georgia | 5 seen

This autumn season we wanted to start with something beautiful.

At the end of every September, the Tbilisi International theatre festival is held. Actually, it might come as a surprise for some, but Tbilisi is a city that loves theatres. At least there are dozens of them in the city, there are some smaller ones and then there are some larger ones, the ones which receive state funding.

So, on September 20th we went on one play which was held in the frame of the Tbilisi International Theater festival

We decided to buy some tickets, by using Georgian biletebi.ge (we have used this system before, for buying tickets for other events in Tbilisi, for example, concert of Boris Grebenshchikov and Aquarium @ Tbilisi Concert Hall)

We bought tickets for 25GEL in the high first flow (balcony) on the play of Songs of the Wanderers, took our taxi, and went to Shota Rustaveli State Drama Theater.

As usual, it happens in Georgia, organizers don't care about queues:

Queue at Rustaveli theater

It turned out everyone is waiting for the State president:

I had an opportunity to take one Instagram with…

New Asia - Tbilisi Restaurant Review

18 September, 2014 | Restaurant reviews | 39 seen

New Asia is a Chinese restaurant located in Tbilisi on Griboedov street (just next to Rustaveli Avenue). The idea to visit this Chinese restaurant came spontaneous... you see - khinkali, khachapuri or barbecue... there are times you get sick and tired of them in Georgia.

So one of the alternatives is to visit some other type cuisine - and this time our choice was Chinese cuisine.

Entrance at New Asia Restaurant in Tbilisi

For a surprise, the restaurant was full of people even on this Wednesday's evening. 

I decided to stick with something casual and ordered corn soup with egg for a starter:

Corn Soup at New Asia Restaurant

The soup come with some chips (I guess made from dough?)

And for a main course I chose shredded beef with vegetables in sweet and hot sauce:

Shredded beef with vegetables in sweet and hot sauce

We ordered chicken as well

Chicken in sweet sauce

I didn't made much photos of interior here, but overall it's pretty good

Interior at New Asia

New Asia was one…

Open Atrium - Love it or Hate it

17 September, 2014 | Drupal Development | 24 seen

<p>Some potential customer of mine would like to build an intranet site after several meetings we have negotiated we could use Open Atrium for building a companies intranet site.</p><p>Honestly speaking I'm not very familiar with Open Atrium, and I have ambivalent feelings regarding this.</p><p>I can only agree that OA probably is one of the best open source solutions for your companies intranet, on the other hand it involves a huge learning curve, even for me. It took me several hours to find where the default overrides come from, documentation kinda suck or is to technical even for me.&nbsp;</p><p>At few stages I even considered to screw Open Atrium and build it from scratch, but then again I come back realizing that I would need to build all those features from scratch. For now it seems OA intranet will be a project I will work for next couple of months, learning it and mastering it, meanwhile providing end product to customer.</p><h2 class="component-title ng-binding">What is Open Atrium?</h2><div class="content ng-binding"><p>Open Atrium is open source collaboration…

Abother mobile blog post

14 September, 2014 | | 4 seen

<p>My blogging motivation is down due to my longer travel abroad. So again I'm making post just not to miss a day.</p><p>Tomorrow I'll be back home and I hope will get back to everyday routine.&nbsp;</p><p>Yes I'm naking this post from my mobile device. This is a neat feature I created for my Drupal powered blog.</p><p>Actually I m thinking of creating an Android app for better mobile expierience.&nbsp;</p><p>Time will show.</p><p>At end of this October a I m off for week long trip to Barcelona; &nbsp;so I must get prepare better.</p>

Today I will miss minimum 500 word count per article

13 September, 2014 | Blogging | 6 seen

<p>I must admit again - it's hard to stay focused when you are on your travel. And so did happens today and probably will happen tomorrow as well.</p><p>But I still will make this blog post, to get me better focused next time on my travels.</p>

How To Enable Google Analytics Display Features

12 September, 2014 | Blogging | 61 seen

Some time ago playing around with my Google Analytics reports, I noticed a tab called Demographics. In fact I have  noticed this tab already in past though this time I decided to enable it (or to find a way to enable) and learn more about it - how it could help me in my blogging adventures.

This is the default screen on Demographics tab, in order to see real data, we must add a minor changes to our Google Analytics tracking code.

Here is what Google says about that:

The Demographics and Interest sections include Overview reports, along with new Age, Gender, and Interest Categories reports.

• They allow you to better understand who your users are.
• You can segment the rest of your Analytics data by these same characteristics so you can understand how converting and non-converting users differ (and many other such comparisons).
• These are the same demographics & interest categories used to target ads on the Google Display Network. Use these insights about your users to refine your ad campaign strategies…

Baltic States vs. South Caucasus GDP Comparison: 2012-2013

10 September, 2014 | Macroeconomics | 24 seen

A while ago, I compared the GDP of Baltic nations with Caucasian nations using data from 2012. As we are now in the second half of 2014, it's time to revisit this comparison using the most recent data available from the World Bank for 2013.

Some might argue, "Why compare these regions?" Well, why not?

Country

2012 ($bln)

2013 ($bln)

Growth ($bln)

Azerbaijan

68.73

73.56

4.83

Lithuania

42.34

43.82

1.48

Latvia

28.37

29.61

1.24

Estonia

22.37

24.47

2.10

Georgia

15.84

16.12

0.28

Armenia

9.95

10.43

0.48

Total

187.6

198.01

10.41

The largest economy among these six former Soviet Union countries in 2013 was Azerbaijan, with a GDP of $73.56 billion. The smallest economy was Armenia, with a GDP of $10.43 billion. Given the ongoing military conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia faces significant economic challenges. Armenia's economy is approximately seven times smaller than…

My Sighnaghi Travel Guide

9 September, 2014 | Travel guides | 153 seen

Georgia teaches one important lesson—everything is relative. This was especially true during the last weekend of August. Following the trend of getting out of Tbilisi, we decided to book a hotel in the remote village of Napareuli (about 20 km from Telavi). On Saturday morning, we planned to take a marshrutka to Telavi and then a taxi from there.

First things first—I found out that marshrutkas to Telavi leave from Samgori. We took a taxi to the station, but the driver insisted we needed to go to Isani instead.

At Isani, there were no marshrutkas going to Telavi. After advising the taxi driver not to be a smart-ass, we finally drove to Samgori.

Unfortunately, we missed the 11:00 marshrutka and had to wait another 45 minutes. No way were we going to do that. Instead, we quickly found another marshrutka going to Sighnaghi.

My Georgian geography is above average, but not quite good enough to realize that Sighnaghi was not where we needed to go.

Still, we headed to Sighnaghi, as the driver assured us there would definitely be another marshrutka from there to Telavi. So wrong. Never trust…

13 Best Dell Laptops - Buy Online From Amazon

8 September, 2014 | Laptop Reviews | 112 seen

Meet 25+ great laptops from DELL available on Amazon.

For years Dell laptops have been known as reliable business computers. Nowadays Dell builds not only business laptops, but also gaming laptops, Chromebooks, and of course simple but powerful everyday-use machines. 

In this post, I've listed some popular user buy choices you might like to consider before buying your brand-new Dell laptop. 

Alternatively see: Top 20 Best Selling DELL Laptops in 2023

A quick note: This article contains affiliate links to Amazon.com, by clicking on links on this page and by making a purchase on Amazon site, I might earn an affiliate income from that. Prices for laptop computers listed on this page are retrieved using Amazon Product Advertising API and is updated daily. For actual prices please refer on the product page on Amazon.

• 12GB high-…

Average Salary in Former Soviet Union 2014

7 September, 2014 | Macroeconomics | 21 seen

Some time ago I did a comparison of minimum government set wages in Former Soviet Union republics. Today, I decided to figure out - what is the average salaries in those republics.

I must admit, it was harder to gather data about average salaries, than gathering data for minimum wages. Seems governments are not eager to share such data. So in this average salary table you will find figures for 2012, 2013 and 2014. Unfortunately it makes this table not 100% reliable, but it gives us some overview.

Again,…

Top 10 Largest Countries by GDP 2013

6 September, 2014 | Macroeconomics | 7,412 seen

Last year I started to pay more attention to the TOP 10 largest economies in the World by terms of Gross Domestic Product. It's time to compare them again.

Top 20 Largest Economies In The World by GDP Nominal (2019)

Data source:World Bank

What makes me surprised - Japan. Japan has experienced 17.44% downgrade of it's economy. Since…

Estonia To Catch Up Income Level like in Scandinavia in next 9-14 years

4 September, 2014 | Emerging Markets | 25 seen

Last year I red an excellent article pointing out that income level in Estonia could reach level its in Scandinavia in next 10-15 years. Although this article made me smile, I decided to compare - is it real for Estonia to reach level like that? 

Since its almost a year since  I wrote that article - I decided to compare again and see how Estonia is doing in it's already 9-14 years plan to reach that level.

In my measurements I'm using raw data for GDP, GDP per capita, I could use minimum wage as an indicator as well, but since there is not set a government minimum wage in Scandinavia, it would be harder to compare. Although there is a minimum wage in Estonia - and in 2014 it was set to EUR 355/ USD 480

According to Wikipedia - Nordic countries are:

The Nordic countries are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic. It consists of five countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) as well as their autonomous regions (the Åland Islands, the Faroe Islands and Greenland).

For sake of the ease of…

My Online Income Report - August 2014

3 September, 2014 | Blogging | 17 seen

This is already my eight Online Income report this year - covering my online income for month of August 2014.

In brief - August so far has been the absolute best in terms of online income. In total I earned $95.03 what is a 343% growth if compared to last month ($21.41) In absolute numbers I earned $73.62 more than in previous month. $95.03 makes average $3.06 per day, what is up from $0.69 last month.

For me such a leap is a great achievement, and I'm very proud of myself.

In fact - last month I earned more, than in previous seven month combined.

Now, there is a one pattern I have noticed - Affiliate pays of more better than contextual ADS like Google Adsense.

In August I have done Google Adsense and three affiliate marketing promotions - Booking.com, Hotels.com and Amazon.

I have found following:

• Google Adsense makes pennies - but I'm fine with that
• Hotel industry is just way too competitive - in hour days it's hard for a small blogger to compete with major brands
• Amazon is my best finding last month, in fact most of the…

Blog Traffic Report - August 2014

2 September, 2014 | Blogging | 9 seen

Month of August was good in terms of my blog traffic. Comparing to previous month (July) my blog's traffic has increased by 15.98% of unique visitors, totalling in 2,584 (2,228 in July).

I have managed to attract 356 more unique visitors this month, if compared to previous month.

Blog Traffic Report August (Data source: Google Analytics)

• 2,584 unique visitors makes average 83.35 unique's a day, what is up by 11.55 visitors in a day, compared to month of July (71.8)
• In total there were 12 days this month, I got more than 100 unique's in a day
• The least visitors, as usual, I got in weekends, the day with less visitors got me 50 unique's

One of my success cornerstones are  - continuously posting every day with minimum of 500 words per article. In fact last month I have written 37 articles, with average 1047 words per article, in total making more than 38K words. This is my absolute personal best. Compared with month of July - total word count has increased by 52%. It's pretty much I…