Whenever I find my harddrive filled up, I do two things.
In the proces I often free 30%-50% of the harddrive…..
1 comment May 16th, 2007
With Gadget-Tracks system your stolen gadgets phone home.
The system is very simple, the gadget has a small program which calls Gadget-Tracks server when activated. When your gadget is stolen you log into Gadget-Tracks website and report it stolen. After that all you have to do is wait, and if the theif plug in your gadget, and without knowing it, activates the program, you will recieve an email containing things like internal and external IP address of the theif.
I tried it, and it worked like a charm. I added my ipod to my profile, dropped the files on to it, and reported it stolen. Within second after clicking its icon in explorer I had an email with my IP address, and other details. It did not even trigger my Zone Alarm firewall. Very impressive!
However you need a bit of luck for it to work. The theif needs to activate it on a windows pc with a internet connection. This also means, that if this is succesfull, the people who steal gadgets might be prepared. Anyhow I really like this system even if it is not fool proof - it improves the odds.
Now I just need something like this for my laptop to make it phone home, maybe I could just make it execute the program when initiating windows.
Add comment March 8th, 2007
I’ve had the joy of trying Joost out the last couple of weeks.
Joost is the new project frem The Skype guys and the talk of town right now. This time they provide all-legal free TV. The experience where mostly impressive. It takes a few seconds to understand the logic behind the program. On my 4 mbit connection playback was smooth and the quality was great but they say it should work on a 1 Mbit connection.
The only flaws I’ve found so far is that it is not open to all, and that the content they provide is a bit limited, even though I’ve spent hours enjoying Indie-films, World-Poker Tour and National Geographic documentaries.
It seems that they are inspired by Google in their approach to PR. As Google did with Gmail you need to be invited by another user in order to gain access (If anyone wants an invite make a comment, and I’ll send you one if I, at some point get more invites than I can use). To me this seems like a great way to make a hype.
As with Skype the grand idea is to base it all on peer-to-peer, the concept behind most file-sharing applications. The advantage of the concept is that all users serve each instead of all being served by a central server.
8 comments March 8th, 2007
I recently needed to do some interviews on the phone. I found out that using Skype-out with a skype recording software was a great solution for that. I used the free tool Free MX Skype Recorder - it works absolutely great on windows. All I needed to do was install the software, and run before Skype, and then all my calls where automaticly recorded and converted to mp3. Very nice indeed.
Add comment November 21st, 2006
My experience with using Google docs with Wordpress - read and make up your mind
This post is written in Google Docs - which means that it is both a test and a review of how it is to use Google Docs for wordpress.
Setup
Setting up Google docs to publish to my blog is pretty easy (here is a nice guide with screen shots).
Name
I’ve named document “Using Google Docs to publish to wordpress” in the hope that this will be the name of the post.
Categories
I’ve tagged the document with the tags “Blogging” and “Google Docs”.
Pics
Here I’ve put in a picture in order to test if that works (I could probably read this somewhere but I’m lazy)
General usage
Pros
-The editor has a bigger window, this makes it more comfortable especially with long posts
- A nice intuitive editor. I find it much better than the one in Wordpress
- Spell check (also possible in Wordpress admin)
- Integrated in Google Dics which I use for many other things.
- Fast editor (I use it any way for drafts)
Cons
- No access to the more advanced features in Wordpress like tags and time.
———Update af publishing——————
- I’ve had to ad title and categories manually
2 comments November 14th, 2006
Google and movamail both launches new cell phone applications for emailing.
Competition seems to be increasing within the field of email application for java compatible cell phones. A few weeks ago Google launched their a java application for accessing gmail. Almost at the same time Movamail has launched their paid service movamail 2.0. (more…)
Add comment November 14th, 2006
