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Starcraft 2 – Zerg Build Orders

Cliff — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:33:12 +0000

After some intense playing here’s my 2 cents for a sensible Zerg build order. As you may have realized there is no such thing as the perfect build order in Starcraft 2, it all depends on what you want to do and, more importantly, what your opponent is up to. Nevertheless I’ve developed 3 “standard” [...]

Fixed: Fatal Error “Installation ended prematurely because of an error.”

Cliff — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:19:55 +0000

Lately I’ve been running into a couple of problems trying to setup and install games. In the middle of the installation I get the very helpful message: Fatal Error – “Installation ended prematurely because of an error.” This has happened to me when trying to setup Borderlands and Metro 2033. It turns out that this [...]

Starcraft 2 – Terran build order

Cliff — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:17:10 +0000

I thought I’d use the end of the first beta phase to write up my build order for the Terrans in StarCraft 2. It’s fairly simple but seems to work well most of the time, so here we go: Start pumping out SCVs as fast as you can and with the 9th SCV build a [...]

“Please Install Apple Application Support” – Fixed

Cliff — Thu, 06 May 2010 10:21:02 +0000

I recently united my music collection on a single machine and thus proceeded to clean up on the other PCs and Laptops. Part of my clean up involved uninstalling iTunes on all machines that it wasn’t needed on anymore. While going through the list of installed programms I also noticed something called “Apple Application Support” [...]

Top 10 geek comics on the web

Cliff — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:26:01 +0000

Part of my morning ritual when I get to the office is to cruise through the newest web comics and have a good laugh, getting myself in the right mindset for the coming work day. As a bit of a geek and Internet aficionado the comics I read tend to also head in that direction. [...]

History unfolding: Apple introduces the iPad

Cliff — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:47:54 +0000

My girlfriend is out with her friends tonight and I just spend a wonderful evening in front of the computer watching another little bit of history unfold: Apple just introduced the iPad. Apart from a debatable name it is the next step in the evolution of computers. Why so? Always on One of the big [...]

15 Tips and Tricks for Great Concert Photography

Cliff — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:27:28 +0000

Instead of the usual concert photography tutorial, I thought I’d do something a little different and give you some ideas for new shots and perspectives. Concert photography itself is not really hard! The hard part is getting a press pass to some of the big gigs and getting decent equipment (i.e. mainly a good lens) [...]

How to Change the iPhone’s Root Password

Cliff — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:53:06 +0000

Last week the first iPhone “worm” hit the streets, or better said the pockets, of jailbroken iPhone Users. While that past worm was very begning, it merely “rickrolled” users, today a new worm hit. The new worm is called “Duh” or “Ikee.B”, and it uses the exact same vulnerability as the first one. The fix [...]

The top 10 tricks and shortcuts in Windows 7

Cliff — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:32:48 +0000

Having recently started working with Windows 7 on a regular basis I must admit that it have really started to like it. Here’s a short primer on the best improvements and shortcuts for all those new to Windows 7: 1. Minimise quickly with a shake During the course of a working day you will definately [...]

How to disable Skype autostart on Mac and Windows

Cliff — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:21:16 +0000

With the update to Windows 7 I also updated Skype to version 4 on all my machines. Looks good and works fine, but at some point I realized that I would actually like to disable the autostart function as I keep working on multiple machines and having conversations gets bothersome. In the older versions you [...]