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Pimp your Safari

For the very first days I used my Mac I didn’t like Safari, since some nice features in Firefox I got used to were missing. E.g. the great feature to start searches in Google by typing “g” followed by the … Weiterlesen

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The Mac Master Shortcut

Sometimes you don’t know in which menu some function of an application is hidden. On Mac computers every app has a search function located in the “Help” menu. If you type there the name of the function you’re seeking, some … Weiterlesen

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K2 Theme broken after WP 2.7.1 installation

Yesterday I upgraded my wordpress to version 2.7.1 and quickly found out that the site layout was broken. Today I glanced over the K2 page but found no statements about this issue. But: I found a “Nightly Built” section with … Weiterlesen

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NTFS Support for Mac OS

The missing read/write NTFS support in Mac OS is a real pain, especially for “switchers” that maybe still have USB hard- or thumbdrives with NFTS partitions. Meanwhile I found out, that you can include “full” NTFS support for Mac OS … Weiterlesen

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GPS logging for Symbian phones

It seems that when you’ve installed Python on your Symbian handset, you’ll get the best applications. Today I found a great piece of software that uses the internal GPS device of a mobile or an external GPS mouse to track … Weiterlesen

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Wordmobi – Blogging with a mobile phone

I always wanted to have an application that allows me to blog from my mobile phone. Unfortunately Nokia doesn’t ship its handsets with such an application – other manufacturers do so (sometimes). Up to now I only knew an application … Weiterlesen

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How to use a TPM with Ubuntu

For my work I (have to) use the Trusted Platform Module (TPM). This is a certain type of crypto chip located on a computer’s mainboard. Some people claim it’s a wicked piece of hardware, created by the government, Bill Gates, … Weiterlesen

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