Category Archives: Tech

Facebook message thumbails

May 7, 2008 pollas

Just pasted a link into a Face­book mes­sage. It appers to scan the linked page for images and lets you choose on as a mes­sage thumb­nail. Con­tinue read­ing →

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[DK] Drejeskivetelefon delight

February 19, 2008 pollas

buy film water for ele­phants online speed-dating movie hd down­load Vi har omsider fÃ¥et . Der følger jo tele­fon med, sÃ¥ jeg har indkøbt en tops­mart drejeskivetele­fon. Den fun­gerer fint og ringer enten med et højt, klas­sisk ring — eller … Con­tinue read­ing →

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How to get a brodband connection

February 19, 2008 pollas

Won­der whether you have a telo­phone con­nec­tion in your office at all2.… Call Full­rate, ask if they know what to do4. Con­tinue read­ing →

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[DK] DSB 0 — Lollandsbanen 1

February 3, 2008 pollas

Mens DSB fjum­rer rundt med TDC og wifi og betal­ing og test­pe­ri­oder og… sÃ¥ er der snart gratis wifi pÃ¥ (trom­me­hvirvel) Lol­lands­ba­nens tog mellem Nakskov og Nykøbing Fal­ster. Con­tinue read­ing →

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Computer history 1990 — 2000

October 10, 2007 pollas

This list fills me with nos­tal­gic joy: Com­puter his­tory 1990 — 2000.Too hard to choose some­thing but think Sound­Blaster Pro, MS-DOS, 486DX2, Winsock, OS/2 Warp and much, much more. Con­tinue read­ing →

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Don’t call me

June 12, 2007 pollas

The short ver­sion: My phone’s dead, so if you want to con­tact me, choose another medium (I would like that any­way, but…you know…)The slightly longer ver­sion would go some­thing like: I like Nokia phones, I like the Sym­bian stuff. And I’ve never owned a Nokia that wouldn’t self­de­struct, slowly but steadily within about a year. Con­tinue read­ing →

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Copilot rocks

May 21, 2007 pollas

But until 5 min­utes ago I hadn’t seen it live. it rocks!Having our chief pro­gram­mer set up my Apache server on my lap­top while I was sip­ping cof­fee in the local cafe gives a strange feel­ing of relaxed pro­duc­tiv­ity by proxy.From get­ting the link to my cur­sor started fly­ing around my Mac took less than a minute. Con­tinue read­ing →

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[DK] Skat dropper e-boks

May 21, 2007 pollas

Skat drop­per e-boks:»Skat er tra­di­tionel længst fremme med de dig­i­tale løsninger. Der­for er det naturligt, at vi er de første, som siger farvel til e-Boks,« mener Keld Borup.Auch, that gotta hurt. Con­tinue read­ing →

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[DK] Min mail opfører sig uartigt

May 20, 2007 pollas

mails afsendt for over 5 dage siden.SÃ¥ hvis du undrer over man­glende svar, sÃ¥ er dette sandsyn­ligvis grun­den. Jeg prøver at lure omfanget sÃ¥ snart som muligt (søndag er en skidt dag at komme til bunds i sÃ¥danne sager), men mail mig gerne igen, hvis det haster. Con­tinue read­ing →

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Last.fm iPod playlists

February 22, 2007 pollas

Af switch­ing to a proper iPod sup­ported by last.fm (= not a Shuf­fle), I’ve been won­der­ing why my stats page didn’t seem to reflect the music I’m actu­ally lis­ten­ing to (95% iPod / 5% lap­top). Con­tinue read­ing →

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Giving up on FON

February 21, 2007 pollas

to give away a bunch of routers for free instead of spend­ing too much money on tra­di­tional marketing.So I ordered one way before christ­mas and waited.… And waited some more. Con­tinue read­ing →

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Visitor wifi

December 29, 2006 pollas

We didn’t specif­i­cally go for a wifi-enabled flat, but I’m happy to see a wire­less router in the hall as I enter.WPA pass­word reqired. Ok, I text the owner of the flat, she never heard of a pass­word, “it just works” from her desk­top machine. Con­tinue read­ing →

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Don’t bother about RTFM

November 2, 2006 pollas

So you get a new phone and think “Well, now I need to get this blue­tooth modem-thing sorted”.And you make a few half-assed attempts of find­ing the right scripts until it dawns on you: Maybe you should try and see if it works as is with the setup from the last phone. After­all, it is the same brand and you still have your old oper­a­tor. Con­tinue read­ing →

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[DK] Underskriftindsamlings-mashup-ide

September 12, 2006 pollas

Inspir­eret af min kværuleren tænkte jeg pÃ¥, om man ikke kan mixe noget Google Maps med fx.… by — et fikst kort ville vise hold­ninger fordelt over Dan­mark. Con­tinue read­ing →

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OS X wifi connection trouble

May 16, 2006 pollas

While catch­ing break­fast at Kreuzberg hang­out Morena, I wanted to use my laptop…online. But con­nect­ing to the AP didn’t work, I just got an error say­ing that I well, couldn’t… Con­tinue read­ing →

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Cross thinking

November 25, 2005 pollas

Ste­fan Andrén (SE), Senior Designer, Nike­Lab, USA is talk­ing on “a designer’s way to break habits” — or rather doing a Nike show­case, putting a lot of fancy prod­ucts on the big screen, show­ing some video commercials.He’s sum­ma­riz­ing the con­cepts behind the devel­op­ment but some­how it just turns into mar­ket­ing speak. maybe it’s because he’s got so many pretty pic­tures to show… Con­tinue read­ing →

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CMS vendors

November 9, 2005 pollas

Quick tip for any­one demo­ing any­thing: Don’t demo core func­tion­al­ity that every­one else has. Show off what you do dif­fer­ently and tell us how. Con­tinue read­ing →

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Complexity

November 9, 2005 pollas

Just a quick com­bined CMF2005-disclaimer and per­sonal opin­ion on complexity.I missed yesterday’s pro­gram because I was demo­ing an umbraco web­site I made. Con­tinue read­ing →

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CMF2005

November 9, 2005 pollas

I’m here, sit­ting with the usual sus­pects (Hartvig, Bøtter, Winther) which is always nice.Of course I didn’t man­age to get to the right address (went for the footer infor­ma­tion) so I started the day off with a lit­tle walk. Con­tinue read­ing →

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GPRS loves AJAX

November 9, 2005 pollas

It’s true — they’re mak­ing out in the bus I’m rid­ing this very minute. 30 minute bus ride + lap­top + gprs-enable cell­phone + Flickr.…could mean nasty, nasty load times and a hefty traf­fic fine. With Ajax: Hit Esc, for­get … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Email tics

November 7, 2005 pollas

Mer­lin Mann; Five email tics I’d love for you to lose. A good 5ive on how nor­mal peo­ple should get evolv­ing. Con­tinue read­ing →

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Quiet networking

October 13, 2005 pollas

Oh, the joy of net­works. Con­tinue read­ing →

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Beatties thoughts on tech

October 13, 2005 pollas

Rus­sell Beat­tie: Ran­dom Tech Thoughts. Pre­dic­tion: Someone’s going to get attacked for not lik­ing the web 2.0-style mashups…(Even thought I sort of agree; there’s to much hype 2.0 about mix­ing dif­fer­ent ser­vices. Con­tinue read­ing →

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MS interface preview

September 14, 2005 pollas

Everyone’s link­ing this…me too: xBe­tas @ PDC 05 — pre­view of the new MS interface.It’s bet­ter — no doubt about that — and there are prob­a­bly a lot of UI improve­ments in there that I can’t appre­ci­ate prop­erly by look­ing at the screen­shots. But the looks part of it… Con­tinue read­ing →

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[DK] Kvinder med Macs

September 8, 2005 pollas

Vi vil ser­vere pro­duk­tivitets­fifs og tricks til folket pakket ind i en sprød kom­bi­na­tion af jour­nal­is­tiske reportager, howto’s og pod­casts, via et web­site der er lækkert at se pÃ¥, og nemt at finde rundt i.… (mere tekst/stjÃ¥let fra: verture.net).Vi har diskuteret internt, hvor de er, hvor­for de ikke er sÃ¥ nørdede og har sÃ¥ efterlyst pÃ¥ flere blogs. Con­tinue read­ing →

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