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The Xperia Go has finally replaced my X10 Mini Pro

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:34:23 +0100

About three years ago I was a latecomer on the smartphone market, when I got myself an Sony-Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro (gosh, that's a long name), and I've been using that ever since. It's immediate successor, the Xperia Mini Pro came too short after it to already upgrade, and I've been...

Ingress: Get your smartphones ready for a Friday night out

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:38:53 +0100

So, what did you do last Friday night? Ask your typical friendly neighborhood nerd and chances are you'll hear that they've been doing something you might describe as 'acting like a couch potato'. Well, not me. I've been playing a video game with some friends.

Unboxing my Nexus 7 - In Full Double HD 3D

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 16:58:11 +0100

The road to getting my Nexus 7 has been long. Very long, to me. The device was announced back at the end of june, and back then only released in the US. Then slowly the rumours came about a European release. I believe Germany was first, at the end of August. Eventually other parts of Europe,...

Raspberry PI - Part 3 - Enter Ice Cream Sandwich, but not for long

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 01:49:45 +0200

My quest for getting Android to run on my Raspberry Pi continues, but I fear that it stops here as well. The Android Pi Wiki mentions that CyanogenMod9 - Android 4.0 - boots, but is unusable. Stubborn as I was, I wanted to see what they meant.

Raspberry PI - Part 2 - Enter Android 2.3

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:38:54 +0200

It's already a while ago that I got my second Raspberry Pi and haven't really been doing anything with either one of them for a while. But, partially sparked by the entry of Netflix on the Danish market, I picked up where I left off to see if anything drastically has changed.

Vegas Pro 12 released - proxy editing was never this easy

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 01:44:20 +0200

This might be my shortest post ever, but I might come with a longer review of the newsly released Vegas Pro 12 at a later point. Right now, all this is about is thanking Sony for this amazing feature called "Create Proxy Video", which instructs Sony Vegas Pro 12 to render a clip to a format...

How I finally solved my Sony Movie Studio HD Platinum instability issues

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 14:43:05 +0200

Not too long ago, I started to do some Full HD, stereoscopic 3D editing and found that the Sony Vegas line of products appeared to be the sofware to do it with. It recognizes the MTS files created by my TD10, exports in various Stereo-3D formats - including anaglypic for any screen, side by...

Two factor authentication: Pros and cons

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:51:45 +0200

Google has had it for some time now. Dropbox announced it today. Amazon Web Services uses it. Many corporate VPN solutions use it. Internet banking applications have been using it for a very long time. And in general: everything that's seriously worth protecting should absolutely use it.

Time to open Johan Nygård's package after 100 years

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:47:20 +0200

After just about one hundred yers, the residents of Sel, a small town in the center of Norway, will find out what Johan Nygård has hidden in his package. Whatever it is, it must have been important enough for Nygård to want to pass over since the delivery of the package, dated 26 of August...

David Gilmour Live 1984 at the Hammersmith Odeon

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 18:23:01 +0200

Not the best known work of the lead guitarist of Pink Floyd. And probably not the best, but the first song (Until we Sleep) sounds great. Excellent guitar work!

Definitely Dead - about two prostitutes, a dead man and some bullets

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:38:25 +0200

A short film (roughly 17 minutes) about a prostitute who finds her customer dead on her bed the next morning tries to cover up his dead and avoind being hanged. After all, this is the wild west and without the nifty CSI tools nobody would be able to establish cause of death. Her friend, who...

Nike's "Greatness" commercial with fat-Nathan

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:31:14 +0200

It's like the advertisers can't do anything right. On the one end they - and the fashion magazines - are being criticised for only using unrealistically thin and beautiful people. And now that Nike has made a commercial with an obese boy, discussions about how they're using a fat kid to sell...

EBU Showreel 2012 - More than the Eurovision Song Contest

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 13:31:50 +0200

Most people would know the EBU, perhaps without knowing it, from their annual Eurovision Song Contest, Junior Eurovision Song Contest and other recurring events. But they are so much more then their annual and bi-annual shows. Watch their latest showreel and find out what this umbrella...

Lighthouse in danger at Rubjerg Knude

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 12:48:40 +0200

Most lighthouses are built close to the sea, but not all that many are in danger of being swallowed by it.

Google just plussed the + game with Events - before, during and beyond

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 21:52:52 +0200

For anybody following Google IO 2012 today, skip on and find something else to read. You already know it. If not, keep reading.

Getting started with my Raspberry PI

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:55:23 +0200

About half a year ago, back in the cold month of February, a good friend told me about the Raspberry PI - an very small, very basic computer that runs Linux. Back then Raspberry PI organization was still quite busy deciding on the exact components and the cheapest way to produce it. The...

Will Google Drive work on Linux?

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:59:17 +0200

Alright. So we did already have Dropbox and Ubuntu One. And this iClod thing from Apple. And WeTransfer to send big files. Along comes Google doing the same thing again. But, it's Google so everybody caress. And for what I read on BusinessInsider, I would certainly consider swapping out...

Looking out the window of a Fokker 70 - in True Double HD 3D

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:09:19 +0200

I recently spend some days in Amsterdam, but that's not what this is about. It's about the flight back, where I decided to try out this amazing cool gadget - a Sony HDR-TD10 3D camcorder - by filming out the windows. Thing is, I've alwasy been intrigued by the view you get over the amazing...

Some basic information about zombies

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:22:29 +0200

With series like The Walking Dead, zombies are hot again.