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Originally posted on IFMSA's Official Blog: Pre-European Regional Meeeting 2014, Krakow I must say that when I sent in the application to attend Pre-EuRegMe, in February I applied blindly. I hoped to be chosen but was also uncertain, not knowing exactly what to expect nor why I w

Well it has been 6 months in Poland and yes time flew by so quickly especially when you have a big event to prepare for! Life in Poland has been highlighted with a number of ups and downs and I would daresay that this time here has been quite enlightening. I have been travelling

Originally posted on Dharmaraj Karthikesan's Blog: I came to clinic at 9.15 am the other day. I was held up in the wards and was fifteen minutes late. My patient, a 40 year old housewife with poorly controlled diabetes was fidgeting outside my room. She was unhappy. I could tell.

I get to encounter people on a regular basis asking me for the best apps on the app store and when I get to the point that I tell them that they need to pay a certain amount, their eyes seem to grow with surprise and even though I try to argue the fact that […]

This week I had the pleasure to finally install Spotify on my iPad and iPhone and I just can’t stop playing all kinds of music playlists. It truly seems that I’ve been missing out quite a lot! Luckily, I’ve been able to access Spotify on my Mac from Poland without any hitches and

In the coming few weeks, I will start posting on a regular basis about what’s going in the world of Health Informatics and how it can be used in such a way as to improve healthcare and ultimately saving more lives!

Originally posted on Successify!: This article is from Chiara Fucarino. Enjoy! Disclaimer: This article is not intended to address those with clinical depression or other mental illnesses. There are two types of people in the world: those who choose to be happy, and those who cho

Originally posted on One Baka Apart: This short video epitomizes much of my thoughts about the world, my love for science and it’s beauty and why I can’t, can’t, can’t accept when people stop asking “why”! It’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which

Recovering from major knee surgery and being away from work gives you a lot of time. A lot. Recently, I had subscribed to a number of Massively Open Online Courses on coursera.org which I didn’t have so much time to dedicate to beforehand. Work drains your energy and after a days

Stefan’s MacBook Pro 13″ Retina Display taken with iPhone 4S

Brilliant post which I totally agree with and which envision this integrated philosophy which I’m trying to integrate into my life.

Have you ever been in a situation as a student where you are called out to help out with the lecturer to set up the power point presentation or trying to point out to the lecturer how he puts the power point into slideshow mode and shouting “F5” (shortcut key to start a powerpoin

Some people love it and some people don’t and I still could not understand why they don’t love it. I was always yearning the possibility to go back in time and be able to see my first post and now thanks to this feature it is possible. The cover photo? Genius. The possibility to

During the last few months, I have been pondering about an important choice. More than one important choice actually. And since I’m quite the technology geek, I thought the Samsung Galaxy I9000 with upgraded firmware and running Froyo 2.2 was not making the cut for me. Powered em

10 Tips to Be Assertive Rather than Aggressive | Focus.com. Amazing insight on how to be assertive rather than aggressive at your work place. Short article. Amazing read.

Top 10 Simple Privacy Tricks Everyone Should Use – Lifehacker. Useful for everyone. Check them out 😉

HOW TO: Set Up a Facebook Page. I’ve had enough of people adding me as a friend but not actually being real people, so the above will tell you how to connect with me just as a fan and not more than that. Thank you very much.

Growly Notes Brings OneNote-Like Note-Taking To Mac. Something which was very much needed for the Mac! I would even consider switching to Mac one-day thanks to this feature especially since this application is actually for free ! Kudos to Lifehacker !

A new web application introduced by T-Mobile enables facebook users to do video/voice calls to each other just by installing the web application which can be obtained from the following link : Bobsled By T-Mobile. What are your views about this ? Do you think this could be Skype’

Link: Facebook Privacy Settings App – Control Your Facebook Privacy With PrivacyDefender Powered by ReputationDefender Get yourself protected……the Facebook way!

Link: Editing form responses : Forms – Google Docs Help An extremely helpful option when it comes to submitting forms, this will give google forms the edge over other kind of online forms !

Link: Keep Your Business Files Synced Between the Desktop and the Cloud [APPS] Great Move by box.net to integrate Enterprise Solutions with a dropbox like system. Hopefully this will trigger Dropbox to hasten their launch of the Group Accounts System and get them going. I just lo

Link: Tips & Tricks: Comments in Google documents Google Docs Comments has become even better 🙂 Hooray 🙂

Link: 5 Easy Ways to Speed Up a Slow Windows 7 Computer

Link: PPT to Video converter helps you to convert PPTs to different formats quickly and easily. This might be interesting and useful sometimes. Check it out

Link: Facebook and Privacy: It’s Time to Move On [VIDEO] Hopefully this move will make Facebook users’ life more easy when it regards their Privacy Settings. What do you think about the new Privacy Settings?

Link: How Wireless Medicine Is Changing the Way You’ll Practice The future of medicine is in Wireless Technology. Let’s hope that this will change the lives of many people working in the healthcare profession to provide a better and more efficient standard of care. This could be

Link: Google Wave, Available Without Invitation Google Wave is now available …Free for All. Check it out 🙂 You just need a Google account and you’re ready to go 🙂

Link: File Explorer for Facebook, Picasa, Flickr, Amazon S3, Photobucket and MySpace- MyWeboo Definitely something useful if you would like to keep a backup of your life 🙂

Link: New Entry-Level MacBook Leaked [VIDEO] For all Mac Fans and Mac-Lovers-to-be 😉

Link: How to Get the Best of Both Google Docs and Microsoft Office – Microsoft Office – Lifehacker Both Companies want us to use their software exclusively. Why not use them both ;) ? A post by lifehacker The Software highlighted in this article is : Offisync ( Syncing Google Doc

Link: timesofmalta.com – Microsoft to invest $125,000 in technology learning centres A great initiative by Microsoft to invest in Malta. Brings a smile to my face 🙂 This initiative clearly intends to rise the level of the ICT workforce and also to increase the levels of ICT liter

Link: Should I Upgrade to Office 2010? [Ask Lifehacker] This is a great letter written by the Lifehacker authors which highlights the main pros and cons with updating to the latest Office 2010. My take on this ? Wait till Google implements DocVerse with their Google Apps suite(Go

Link: Welcome to Steam Seeing this for the first time, I can definitely say that now both Mac and PC users can rely on this site to get their favourite games on their laptops or PCs without the inconvenience of using the CD/DVD which in my honest opinion is slowly becoming obsole

Link: Gmail Adds Drag-and-Drop Picture Insertion [Email] Google working hard and being constantly innovative to make our lives easy 🙂

Link: Thinklinkr – Come Together To Think, Outline and Collaborate In Real Time Definitely something to consider. But Google Wave is catching up real fast, but needs to work hard on reaching out to the average Joe !

Canon EOS 400D(my camera :P) ready to rock again !!