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Maybe you noticed, maybe not... my site wasn't accessible over the past couple of days since there was apparently a process in my gallery that ran wild and consumed too much processing power. Instead of shutting it down, the clever guys from cyon just d… more »

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I learned my lesson. Never touch a running system. That's why I was still running Tiger on my good old MacBook... Then I was intrigued by the new features of iPhoto, since so far I've been lacking a user-friendly picture browser on the Mac. Well the dam… more »

You probably know what I'm getting at just by reading the title. And by now you also realized that I keep complaining about things that aren't really that important. Still I still have problems understanding the becoming fan of function in facebook. Don… more »

I welcomed this idea from the Luxembourgish government: Everybody should be able to do his official paperwork like filing taxes etc in a safe and confident way over the internet. The initiative is in my eyes a step in the right direction, and since I ta… more »

I discovered this highly useful freeware a while ago when I had to backup my Mac OS X formatted external HDD using a Windows machine. I had trouble finding such an app because I had no idea what to look for. Well anyway, in case you ever need it, here's… more »

Hi all, made it back fine from the Seychelles, wonderfull place as you might have imagined. My Macbook broke though, and as I'm moving from Luxembourg to Berbourg and shortly after to Basel, updates will probably take some time to show up. Just thought… more »

Sometimes, slow connections for filesharing can really break your neck. In theory, all seems quite fair and straightforward, however, you sometimes end up with a whopping 15kB download rate even after some hours of seeding. A computer geek told me once… more »

It may seem odd that somebody who prefers editing a letter in LaTeX prefers a WYSIWYG editor for blogging, but hey, sometimes even I have to right of being lazy. And especially for pictures,color text, special characters, links, youtube stuff etc, I fin… more »

We all know about these social network / email account spidering adsense programs that controls the ads on a certain webpage toward what it thinks would be appropriate to you. Facebook and Gmail are to well-known examples. However, this can go wrong at… more »

As there are a couple of Mac users among you, you'll most certainly be aware of iWorks Keynote, the Apple counterpoint to Powerpoint. It is a fantastic program, does magic presentations, is user friendly and just very Mac. You probably know these amazin… more »

When you're on a big network, chances are some guy somewhere has his iTunes sharing enabled, often unknowingly. You can then listen to his whole library, but after iTunes 4 or so, you can't copy those files to your own library. Well if you now happen to… more »

For all the people interested in the (legal ehem) sharing of torrents, the good news is that one of the best sites hosting thoses files is back online after a long pause (and some migrations to Ukrania due to unknown ehem reasons). Demonoid is back more »

... and why is he reading my hard drive??? Well I was not really amused trying to get my external HDD (referred to as terabetz by collegues) to work while it crashed. When you worked for a couple of years with computers, you get a feeling for what is a… more »

If you're not familiar with RSS, it's a syndication service that allows you to more or less instantly receive an article from a given blog or website that you bookmarked. There are a couple of different standarts but they all more or less do the same: t… more »