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I like my iPhone, but there are some annoying details that Apple doesn’t want users to change. Luckily, this is where jailbreaking comes to the rescue. Here are some Cydia apps that make the iPhone easier to work with.
Continue reading ’7 convenient iPhone tweaks’
We just returned from yet another great short vacation that cost us next-to-nothing. Sounds interesting? Here’s how we did it.
Continue reading ‘Save money on holidays’
Google+ is the new social network that everybody is talking about. Well, maybe not everybody but at least the entire tech press. They are limiting the new user registrations for now, but I have gained access and it looks nice! Find me at http://torben.g-b.dk/+
Continue reading ‘Find me on Google+’
I’m observing a few items on eBay these days, mostly out of curiosity. It’s remarkable how ignorant and counterproductive most people are concerning eBay.
This post is dedicated to explaining a few simple and proven principles that will help buyers to win at lower prices, and help sellers achieve better prices for their auctions. Of course these two sides are in competition against each other, but that’s just the way the market works.
It’s a fact of life that you can only win a game if you know the rules. The same is true for any marketplace: Understanding the market always helps you, regardless whether you want to buy or sell. If everybody followed these rules, then every product would be sold at exactly the value it’s worth. But because many people don’t know these rules, there is a profit to be made: better traders get better prices!
Take advantage of the fact that the majority of eBay users (buyers and sellers!) don’t know these principles. Continue reading ‘How to win on eBay: buy low and sell high’
Enough is enough. This article in Wired is but one in a sea of cries against Facebook, and they’ve all got a very good point: Facebook is actively undermining the privacy of the users, but we users should be able to control what information gets published about us or not.
So I’m preparing to leave Facebook, and I’ll make sure to delete all my information in there in an attempt to protect my privacy. I’m going to focus on my own homepage and blog instead, so that people who really want to follow me can still do so.
Incidentally, here’s an article on Lifehacker describing what you could do, if you agree on the above.
If you don’t know what “DNS” means, then never mind this article. But if you are familiar with DNS, then you’ll likely appreciate this tip. Google has recently provided a Public DNS service which is often significantly faster than your ISP’s DNS, especially if you’re outside the USA. My own tests verify that it’s a lot faster than using my ISP’s DNS servers. YMMV.
Skip right to the good stuff — use this:
Google Public DNS
Primary DNS Server: 8.8.8.8
Secondary DNS Server: 8.8.4.4
Read up on why this might be useful for you:
It annoys me when stuff suddenly works differently for no obvious reason, and even more so when the result is a lot worse than before. (Here’s a tip, Microsoft: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!)
One such annoyance is Windows Explorer in Windows 7 and Vista. When you dive into sub-folders by double-clicking in the right-hand pane, the left-hand pane doesn’t expand to reflect where you are. That’s a pity, because that has been in there ever since Windows 95, a brief 14 year-long period of doing it right.
Here’s how to fix it: Continue reading ‘Windows 7/Vista — make the navigation pane expand to the current folder’
Hi all. I felt like posting a short message about what’s going on at the moment.
Continue reading ‘Word of the day’
After installing the new version of the iPhone OS this morning, I just found the best feature! It’s no the landscape keyboard mode in many apps, but rather the keyboard itself!
Continue reading ‘Best new feature in iPhone OS 3.0′
So here’s an attempt at writing a blog post on the go. I’m on the morning commute to work and just trying out the new WordPress app for the iPhone. I still miss a proper keyboard but at least this way I can post minor stories even when I’m not near a computer. The app even lets me publish photos.
