Category Archives: Tech

Extending the range of non-Apple APs using AirPort Express

Since the Apple Express Assis­tant will only auto­mat­i­cally detect Apple wire­less net­works, you have to install the device ini­tially (using an Eth­er­net cable from your router) as its own net­work. Once you have done that you can step back in using the Apple Admin Util­ity to join your cur­rent net­work (you will need to type the name of the net­work in man­u­ally). Con­tinue read­ing

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Wiki / community sites

The Daily Stan­dards on Build­ing a com­mu­nity site: Quick sum­mary of this entry for those in a hurry: ALL WIKI SOFTWARE PACKAGES SUCK! And while a bit bold, the state­ment pretty much sums up my expe­ri­ence with the few wikis I’ve had a look at. Con­tinue read­ing

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MicroSaver, what to buy

I so need a MicroSaver, should’ve got­ten one a long time ago. Any­way, now I finally remem­bered but I’m think­ing: Key or code? The dif­fer­ences are pretty obvi­ous and I don’t like the dig­i­tal janitor-look, car­ry­ing a Power­book and a … Con­tinue read­ing

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All wikis and blogs should be SubEthaEdit enabled

If you were using Mac OS X and have SubEthaEdit innstalled, you could have clicked on the icon to edit any page col­lab­o­ra­tively in SubEthaEdit Fan­tas­tic! Now if only SubEthaEdit had a Win­dows ver­sion and all wikis and blogs, not just kwiki, could be SubEthaEdit pow­ered. Con­tinue read­ing

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No iSync Nokia 7610

Seems that the Nokia 7610 won’t iSync. Con­tinue read­ing

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Mom serving up the broadband.

It was so rem­i­nis­cent of and seemed the always-on era coun­ter­part to those pho­tos you find in “feel-good-50s” cal­en­dars… you know, the ones of smil­ing fam­i­lies gath­ered around the din­ner table, Mom serv­ing up her famous apple pie. Con­tinue read­ing

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London screensaver — and crappy phones

3650anda12inch.blogspot.com points to a beau­ti­ful screen­saver fea­tur­ing black and white images from what also hap­pens to be my favourite city, Lon­don. Con­tinue read­ing

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Skype OS X

Yes, yes oh yeah: In response to all the requests: there WILL be a Skype ver­sion for Mac OS X. No info is pub­licly avail­able about when exactly it will be out, but it’s already in the works. They are look­ing for … Con­tinue read­ing

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OPML — how hard can it be

Ok, so I’ve switched (I can’t be arsed to link that up — you know what I mean). And apart from hav­ing to install every sin­gle piece of soft­ware I need (and find­ing quite a lot of new ones — … Con­tinue read­ing

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Switching

Good writeup on switch­ing to Mac (which I’m just about to do): Spend­ing a Year with Mac. I do have one Fleet­wood Mac CD which iTunes is con­vinced is a Chris de Burgh CD, I have both so that can … Con­tinue read­ing

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Cph Wifi — the good and the bad

When not at the office, I often (almost every day) pop out for a cof­fee (ok, actu­ally I pop out for cof­fees no mat­ter where I am or what I’m doing). It’s nice to get out dur­ing the day, and … Con­tinue read­ing

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Coin operated access point

INter­est­ing con­cept: TT-1-WA Coin Oper­ated Con­troller Timer for Wire­less Net­work. [via Inter­net Alchemy] Don’t get me wrong, I like my wifi free and like to think the money to be made in this area has to do with other ser­vices … Con­tinue read­ing

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Salling Clicker now supports Nokia 3650

Good news: Salling Clicker now sup­ports Nokia 3650 and other Sym­bian based smart­phones. We heard you! Salling Clicker now sup­ports Symbian-based smart­phones, and in a big way. Salling Clicker v.2.1 takes advan­tage of this platform’s unique capa­bil­i­ties, so iTunes art­work … Con­tinue read­ing

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Symbian Wiki

Sym­bian­Wiki : Use­ful 3650 Tips. Could become an excel­lent ressource. Cov­ers Sym­bian in generel — on the page linked I finally found out how to shut down run­ning pro­grams with­out extra soft­ware. Which I recently strug­gled with when try­ing to get Opera … Con­tinue read­ing

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Mesh Standard coming up

Mesh Stan­dard on the Start­ing Block: At the interim meet­ing of the IEEE 802.11 Work­ing Group this week in Van­cou­ver, British Colum­bia, a study group was formed to begin look­ing into even­tu­ally cre­at­ing an industry-recognized stan­dard for wire­less mesh net­work­ing. … Con­tinue read­ing

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XML weather

Btw: While it’s rel­a­tively easy to get xml weather feeds with US/UK weather, I haven’t found any Dan­ish equiv­a­lents. DMI wants DKR 400,- ex. VAT pr. quar­ter — which I’m not too keen on pay­ing. Does any­one know of any … Con­tinue read­ing

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Speed test: G4/1 GHz iBook vs G4/1 GHz PowerBook

C.K. of 3650 and a 12-inch fame on the Speed­Zone duel show­ing lit­tle dif­fer­ence in hard­core pro­cess­ing abil­ity: Oh, yeah? Well my 867mhz first gen 12-inch is miss­ing all its feet! So there… full acci­den­tally in love film hd

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File access

Every­one is get­ting more mobile, but what to do with all your files? Dan­ish Amitech just announced Home­Cen­ter, an easy-to-use file server for your home. Var­i­ous wifi-enabled hard dri­ves exist on the mar­ket as well. Or how about Tune­sAt­Work, OSCon­tinue read­ing

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Belkin iPod Voice Recorder

I’ve bitched about the miss­ing mic option on the new iPods before, but totally for­got to post the link to the Belkin iPod Voice Recorder. Nice one. Sorted. the vio­lent kind hd

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WireTap your Mac

Wire­Tap, Mac OSX soft­ware, allows you to record any sound on your com­puter; inter­net radio, IM con­ver­sa­tions etc. Nice one. Can’t wait to get my hands on that new 12″ Power­book… Actu­ally, you could do com­plete inter­views over the net…nice … Con­tinue read­ing

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Wanted: Proximity based messenger status

I do this prac­ti­cally every­day: I turn on my IM client, get some work done, chat to a few peo­ple, then decide to go for a cof­fee — and for­get all about chang­ing the sta­tus on the IM client. Or … Con­tinue read­ing

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Big Brother worries on RFID

Indy­Media: Wake Up! Wake Up! It’s Yer Chips With Every­thing. A Tesco in Cam­bridge (UK) has had to with­draw a trial plac­ing RFID tags in Gillette razor blades after mas­sive protests. While going full big brother at their trial, tak­ing … Con­tinue read­ing

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[DK] Tablet tegning

Spændende pointe: Tablet PC vil være oplagte til at ændre vores mÃ¥de at formi­dle teg­ninger pÃ¥… how to down­load lim­it­less movie

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Digital Patina

Inter­est­ing The­Fea­ture arti­cle fea­tur­ing Eric Pau­los and his idea to leave RFID tags on pub­lic places. Pau­los wants to add an addi­tional layer of wire­less dig­i­tal infor­ma­tion over this exist­ing layer of phys­i­cal mark­ers. This is what he calls the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Carrying files

Nilesh on some­thing I too thought of the other day: At the moment I actu­ally got more mem­ory in my phone than on the CF card I use in my cam­era and on the mem­ory bird I’ve get­ting used to … Con­tinue read­ing

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