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motorola milestone europe android 2.1 update

I got myself a totally bad-ass Motorola Milestone Android phone a while ago. I was excited about it cause it looks so damn awesome with the black shiny display and all, and it’s got frigging Android on it so it rocks with all the apps and geekness it offers. After a while however I noticed [...]

google docs as a wiki?

I love Google Docs. The fact that you can share documents online with anyone in a matter seconds and collaborate on documents is something I really miss when it’s not there. Like at work. With MS Office. And emailing spreadsheets and documents back and forth. Blegh. In fact, the whole document publishing/sharing thing even allows [...]

it ain’t cool if you just dump your files

One thing that continues to bug me about some software is that by trying to be user-friendly and idiot-proof, assume they can just make choices for you. Like where to install the software and where to store the files or databases created by it. The installation folder for example is something I like to choose [...]

wordpress woes: cut-off posts and how to fix them

A while ago I found out some of my older posts were cut-off in the middle of a sentence or even in the middle of a word. Turns out that somewhere along the way of performing WordPress upgrades the MySQL tables’ collation had changed from a latin1 variant to utf8. Turns out that this conversion [...]

geek space invader wallpaper

Space invaders. Probably one of the first computer games I ever played on a console. The blocky invaders have turned into pieces of geek culture all by themselves showing up all over the place from graffiti to tattoos and post-it art. So at one point I ran into this image on Flickr with yet another [...]

file sharing run-down: which ones to pick and why?

There’s plenty of ways to share files nowadays, but which one to choose? Here’s a little run-down of the file sharing services I’ve been using and for what means! You want to share a bunch of smaller files without clicking your ass off while uploading them. I’m thinking a ton of mp3′s, your completely holiday [...]

pimping the fox

Since day 1 Firefox has been rocking the internet world simply because it managed to kick Microsoft’s Internet Explorer square in the nuts and took a piece of the browser pie. The volunteers working on this Open Source product managed to force Microsoft back into the browser-game and have them create a safer, faster and [...]