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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 [...]

how to sync or backup files easily and secure

I found out not everybody knows about Dropbox yet and isn’t using it yet. So to sort that out, I’m going to blab about it right here cause I think it’s pretty damn neat. In short Dropbox allows you to sync files from your local PC’s by installing a small client app on your machines. [...]

ie8 finally caught up

Did you see the puke commercial Microsoft has running to promote IE8? They pulled it already on their own site but it’s on Youtube now so it’s gonna stay out there for now. But the thing is that they are throwing some big bucks at it to promote their latest IE release which bring us [...]

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. [...]

freeing up disk space the easy way

Even though hard drive space is increasing according to More’s law you can still run out of disk space at some point. For a more permanent fix to get more space on your drives you can always resize your partitions, but if you need those free gigs pronto, the only option is to start wiping [...]

how to use MSN IM without a hotmail account

Hotmail sucks doesn’t it. It’s slow, only works properly in Internet Explorer (and what geek still want to use that), and it’s just plain uncool. Problem is, since Microsoft likes to throw everything from hotmail, Windows live to MSN instant messenger accounts together I always thought you needed a hotmail account to use anything related [...]