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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 advantages of the [...]

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) to [...]

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 end up [...]

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 could [...]

10 Common Sense Do’s and Don’ts of Twitter

Cliff — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:00:22 +0000

I’ve been a big fan of twitter for quite a while now and I’ve always found it quite “intuitive” to use, however some things keep annoying me when others do them. So I’ve decided to compile a short primer of what to do and what not to do if you don’t want to start losing [...]

How to disable the Avira Notifier

Cliff — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:48:42 +0000

Having recently setup a couple of PCs again I turned to my favourite free antivirus solution: AVIRA, to protect them. Since it’s been a while since I’ve installed this application I forgot that it has a “nag-screen” to convince you to go pro. Turning this off is actually pretty easy, even if the program itself [...]

How to get your webcam to work in a webchat on a Mac

Cliff — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:05:54 +0000

I tried to get my webcam on my MacBook Pro to work in an online chat yesterday and was stumped. It just wouldn’t work. A quick check with photobooth showed me that the webcam was working fine. A quick check on my windows machine showed me the chat webpage was working fine. So what was [...]

Fixing Vista – Stopping hard-disk trashing!

Cliff — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:06:32 +0000

Recently I've been running into a lot of trouble with my trustworthy HP Compaq dc5850 and Vista. Every other day, without any discernable pattern, the computer would boot up and the hard-drive would just keep trashing about, doing nothing useful and effectively blocking me from doing work. A lot of research and some obscure forum posts later, I now have a short list of what to do, to stop hard-disk trashing and speed up Vista.

Solutions to all Aurora Feint II Tower Puzzles

Cliff — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:52:26 +0000

Ok, I finally got around to making a decent blog entry with all the solutions to the new Aurora Feint II Tower Puzzles, so you don’t have to read through tons of comments anymore Thanks a lot to everyone who contributed in some way, especially: Lightmaster, Aunni, Brian and Ryan K. I’ll get pictures added as soon [...]