Month: January 2008
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I’ve freed my iPhone
One thing I hated on the iPhone – not having the option to copy music from two different computers onto it without losing everything. But no more! Some background information: I use a laptop for work and also have about 3 other computers at home. On the home PC’s I have the bulk of my…
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Is your monitor set up right?
Test it using the page here. I had to adjust both my contrast and brightness (my LCD was really bright). Btw, the tip they give, for setting the contrast high, at 100 and brightness at 25 is not very accurate, so make sure you pick your own.
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An update plugin to update the host
I hate updating wordpress. It takes time and I need to be (slightly) carefull of what I do – I’ve already set up stuff once, I’d really hate to have to do it all over again. So I started for an automatic tool that would do this for me and would run within the confines…
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Setting up subversion on Windows
Today I had something to test that required a svn repository. Since my home repository wasn’t answering my calls (well, pings actually) I decided to do a quick install of the svn server on my Windows XP box. From what I remembered it should have been simple enough. After restarting all the process at one…
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How the mac messed my morning
Weird title, but true. Today I planned to make my life easier when working with files from my home. For this I want to install a Lamp server using Ubuntu’s Server edition. Since I had a mac handy, I burnt the iso downloaded from the ubuntu site with the Disk utility app. And proceeded to…
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Speaking at 360 Flex
In April I will be speaking at the 360 Flex conference in Italy. I will be talking about webservices and Flex3. The conference will take place between 7 and 9 april in Milan, Italy, so if you’re in Europe you can attend. Details on the event can be found on the homepage for the…
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My GTD
Sometime last year I read the Getting Things Done book by David Allen, of which all productivity blogs / sites / news was all about. And I liked it, and it made sense. Then I tried to apply it, religiously. And I failed. Several times actually: The first time I failed because I tried looking…