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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 [...]

geek recap: software i’m actually using

Occasionally I blog about software that I started using because I find it awesome enough to blab about, but often enough it ends up getting ditched after a few weeks as it turns out it isn’t quite as handy as it initially seemed to be. Sometimes the newness of it wears off and you see [...]

graphics programming, the easy way

I’ve been playing around with Processing a bit lately, and I have to say that I’m impressed with it’s potential. What is is anyway you ask? Well, let’s say you get this idea of representing twitter feeds in a cool graphical way. Or maybe you feel like creating a graphical representation of a zombie apocalypse. [...]

still a windows geek

Originally this post was called “I’m a Windows geek”, and was about how I installed Ubuntu after not being able to reinstall Windows XP because something was making the hardware detection lock up. Using Ubuntu I did manage to get through the hardware detection, and eventually diagnosed the problem to be able to reinstall the [...]

how to resize or reallocate space on disk partitions

When initially setting up my PC I decided I’d go with the trusty old formula of keeping my operating system, my installed software and my data separated. So my C became my OS partition, D is where the software goes and E holds all my precious data like mp3’s, pictures, code etc.
This works fine, until [...]

FLAC = the ultimate WAV compressor

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Lately I’ve been dealing with a large amount of audio files in WAV format that needed to be shipped across the internet. I had heard about the open source audio compression format FLAC before, but after trying various of compression algorithms like Zip or 7zip it turns out that FLAC is the [...]

free software linkage smorgasbord

Finding freeware, or even better, open source applications can involve some serious Googling sometimes before you wade through the trial-ware programs listed as free in the search results. Luckily there are a number of websites that have nicely categorised free software so it becomes a piece of cake to find and download exactly what you [...]