Category Archives: media

don’t let the EU censor your internet: stop ACTA

January 28, 2012 – 11:50

You might have heard that SOPA got stopped (for now) in the USA, a bill to censor the internet and limit online freedom for everyone. An even worse deal is going down on our EU-side of the globe unfortunately, where ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) has already been signed, but not yet approved (luckily). ACTA – [...]

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your smartphone as a remote music controller

March 23, 2011 – 20:02

So you’re using your PC and the geekyist free media player around to pump your beats into the living room while you’re sitting in your cough reading your Twitter feed on your Android phone. Then this totally awesome tune gets streamed and you just want to turn up the volume a notch or two. Damn [...]

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your website sucks in so many ways

December 11, 2008 – 14:00

Well, maybe not yours, but if it qualifies for the following rules, it does. So check em out. You can’t store my name. My name contains something called an umlaut which is used in Germanic languages like German (duh) and Dutch for instance. My name either turns up with a missing letter, or I get [...]

By n3wjack | Also posted in belgium, freedbacking, geek, internet, privacy, rant, security, software, spam, tips | Comments (0)

why youtube rocks… well, sort of

September 4, 2008 – 19:39

Have you noticed that every music video seems to be on Youtube these days? Now Youtube isn’t the most kick ass, neat looking and coolest video service out there, (that’s Vimeo)  but when it comes down to content, they seem to have it all No matter what video clip you’re looking for, it’s probably there. [...]

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all you can eat twitter stats

April 10, 2008 – 18:32

Pic by CatCubed, cc-licensed Twitter. It’s kinda fun. It’s also fun to see how much apps are popping up all over the place doing something with the public data from the twitter feeds. Stuff like Twitterholic for instance, which gives you an overview of which twits have the most followers. Barack Obama is clearly at [...]

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twitter madness

March 22, 2008 – 18:38

Photo by Dr Gonzo Photography cc-licensed Twitter is one of those things you don’t really see the point of until you join is it. In fact I did join it a while ago, and I’m still not seeing the point really. I’ve thought about quitting, but then I went ahead and didn’t. It’s weird so [...]

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why can't all tech movies be like "into the blue"

March 10, 2008 – 20:13

Think about it. Jessica Alba showing of those perfect curves while typing away on her laptop. It would probably be an iBook, or a Sony Vaio, the only laptops that have a design sweet enough to be seen around a gal like Jessica. But that’s not really what I want in a tech movie no, [...]

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