Rene Magritte on my Mac

I really love Rene Magritte, so what could then be better than to place him on my MacBook Pro? Etsy.com has some great dekals for $13. But which is best?

Cheap laptop stands made of cardboard

Laptopstand like iCurve (or Elevator as it is now called) are great. But you might wanna go cheaper. Like MacGuyer you can use paper and cardboard: http://www.cardboardlaptopstand.co.uk/

But why pay, when you can create it yourself!? Laptop cardboard tutorial

Or even from a clothhanger.

New user interface for the PC or Mac: BumpTop

Just got a Beta invite and installed BumpTop on my PC. Its really fun! Suprisingly not slow either. Doubt this will be the future for user interface, but great new thinking. And might be good on handhelds?

Twitter usage increases in Norway and how to get old mobile phones (ie. w810i) on Twitter

I have been on Twitter for a couple of months, but never really got the point. Probably also cause no one else in Norway got it either. I only had ONE friend/follower on Twitter. That was Tim. But over the last months, suddenly everyone seems to be on Twitter. And when the biggest Norwegian newspapers like VG and Dagbladet have journalist like my friend Snorre Bryne (Dagbladet) using it actively communicating with his readers and having Twitter streams in their articles AND Twingly, then you know its become mainstream in Norway too. The widespread popularity of the iPhone has increased the usage too.

Any-ways, having a blog I mixed that up with Twitter with TwitterFeed (its just really a feed from my blog to my twitter account) and then having the Twitter application in Facebook feeding from Twitter to my Facebook status field, suddenly I have created a little mashup and am so proud!

BUT, I dont own an iPhone, but obviously want to spam everyone with meaningless trivia from my daily life. So what to do? Tata!! I found the solution: Jitter. A tiny free Java application created by Abiro. It works on pretty much any phone supporting MIDlets. Such as my old w810i. Technology is wonderful! Hurrah!

MSDN & Technet Live Windows gadget for Norway

My very first Windows gadget is ready to download ! Created it with Kim EBN from the Online department in Microsoft Norway. I designed it, he programmed it. Its a countdown to the events in 4 different cities.

Connect your iTunes to the Internet - MyTunesRSS

Yet another iTunes application I found on the net. Looks good, but I would have to have my Mac online 24/7... http://www.codewave.de/products/mytunesrss "MyTunesRSS allows you to access the music and videos from your iTunes library or any simple watch folder over a local network or even the internet. You can access your music from all over the world using a simple web browser." Seems good. Has anyone tried this?

Clean up iTunes library with

Havent tried this application yet, but seems promising. Finally a manner of cleaning up the chaotic iTunes library with TuneUp:
http://www.tuneupmedia.com/download/

iTunes coverflow on Macs with iSight camera

FluidTunes from Majic Jungle Software. Scroll your library in iTunes waving your hands in front of your Apple Mac. Havent tested this one yet, but seems like a pretty cool app.

Syncronise your mobile phone with iTunes

Swedish Sallinger has done it again!

Salling Media Sync synchronizes playlists, music, and podcasts from iTunes onto your mobile phone. It's free to use, but when registered it intelligently updates your phone, which is much faster.
http://www.salling.com/MediaSync/mac/

Can an old Mac without the Apple Remote use FrontRow?

The Remote Buddy application supports just about any remote hardware that is available for the Mac. Its kind of like a pimped up version of FrontRow. Here is the video showing all features. The site has a good overview over all possible hardware solution for enabling remote control over old Macs.

One altenative is the Keyspan Express Remote Control sold at Amazon for $46.24. (white image)

Or one can buy an original Apple Remote, around 20 Dollar, and then buy a IR receiver. This one is enabling the Apple Remote for every old Mac without IR with Twisted Melon's Manta TR1.

Broken Apple Remote for your Mac with IR and bought a new remote? If your Apple Remote has been locked to your Mac, it must be unlocked: Apple icon -> System Prefs - > Security -> And if it is connected to your Max: This Mac will only work with the connected remote. Click: Delte connection (not quite sure about the specific wording.. :)

Jobs in Town shows how the Flurry screensaver really works!

German ad agency Scholz & Friends won a bronze in Cyber Lions 2008 for the jobsintown.de screensaver. See how the osX Flurry screensaver really works!

http://www.avocada.de/2008/en/jobsintown/screensaver/

Organise cables

What a ingenious little plastic thingy. "Keep-A-Cable" has the overview for a cable organiser (and holder), that I have looked for so long! Just ordered one. Hope it keeps what I hope it promises. http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/002864.php

Save files online (and syncing) them too

There are many ways of saving files online and possibly syncing them thereby. Here are some alternatives I have found:

- Skydrive (5gb free),












- MSN shared folder,
















- Office Live (integrated with the MS Office suite)




- Gdisk (a software that turns your GMail account into a portable hard drive)


-mailbigfiles.com (not really storage as such, only another way of distributing large files rather than sending via email, but I find their free service better than YouSendits)

-YouSendit(not really storage as such, only another way of distributing large files rather than sending via email)

- Amazon S3 ($0.15 per GB-Month of storage used AND monthly trafic cost)

- Apples mobile.me (Individual One-year subscription $99)






And finally my favourite: Dropbox (invitation only, but giving you 2gb free, with cross-platform functionality and web interface too. And its just drag and drop!)

Cool designer font screensavers

A great Helvetica screensaver from: http://scr.sc/products/dropclock/ And its both for Windows and osX! HOWEVER: 136mb for a screensaver is rather heavy.. (And I cant seem to get it downloaded somehow...) Any help?

This wordclock is also pretty cool:
http://www.simonheys.com/wordclock/

Looking for more news on type? Check out this: http://www.typeneu.com/

Sony Ericsson w810i applications

The official w810i app
Sony Ericsson PC Suite 2.10.46 (for Windows Vista/XP)

MyPhoneExplorer
http://www.fjsoft.at/en/downloads.php
THE best software to backup your SMS. AND its freeware! (but please, do pay!:)

LaSyk
http://myw810.lasyk.net/
many different applications, wallpapers, etc

zunePhone is the oldschool iPhone

Unlock several files at once - osx

This fantastic application, LockMeBaby, does what osx should be doing on its it: namly being able to unlock several files, folders and subfolders in one go! It even works on external harddisks.

http://soramimi-works.net/software.shtml

I sent the company an email with some questions and rapidly got a reply:

Here's how to lock/unlock files on external drives by LockMeBaby:
1) Uncheck "Run in safe mode" in the preference panel.
2) Select "/ (Root)" from the popup as browser's root directory.
3) In the leftmost column, you'll find a directory "Volumes". Your
external drives should be listed under "Volumes" directory.

Hope this helps and please be careful when you turn off "Safe mode" as
many system-related files appear in LockMeBaby's browser.

MSN online status blocker

Check if someone has blocked you on MSN. This website checks whether the person is online og not. And if they dont appear on your MSN, but appear as online on this site, you might have been blocked.. :) http://www.msnblockchecker.info/

Running Explorer (IE 6/7) on osX

You design websites on a Mac, but want to test them in IE 6 or 7 but cant be bothered to run Bootcamp? Well, check out:
http://macapper.com/2007/11/29/ies4osx-run-internet-explorer-567-natively-in-os-x/

http://occy.net/node/166

Download
http://darwine.sourceforge.net/


http://www.kronenberg.org/ies4osx/

PowerPoint Tip: AutoFit (automatically resize text)

AutoFit Text in PowerPoint

In PowerPoint AutoFit intentionally shrinks the size of text as large amounts are added to a slide. The top complaint about PowerPoint slide presentations is text that is too small. PowerPoint Design templates were originally created to force good design by setting font size automatically. The AutoFit feature defeats this purpose and actually encourages too much text on slides by shrinking it as you type, allowing people to use fonts too small to be seen.

To turn AutoFit off:

	Choose Tools from the pull-down menu
	AutoCorrect Options
	Click the tab for AutoFormat As You Type
	Uncheck the 2 options under the Apply as you type section: AutoFit title text to placeholder AutoFit body text to placeholder.
	Click OK. The change applies to active and future PowerPoint presentations, old presentations are not affected. from: http://www.createthefuture.com or check out: http://office.microsoft.com

Mail big files for free

Got big files you say? Outlook or Thundbird inbox gets filled up too fast? Well, sending files via websites are a good solution. I usually use mailbigfiles.com for sending big files. However that site has a restriction of 100mb (the free version of the site, that is)

This site is free too, but has a 2gb (!) limit. Though you have to register and tried it once and it just stopped. So I guess its not that good after all...?
http://skickafilen.se/

Free too, 2gb limit. Havent tried it yet. But both are worth a shot.
http://www.filecentral.se

Lego screensaver and other fun things

A site called 9031.com has loads of cool screensavers, wallpapers, etc. for free. Especially I love the "briblo" screensaver. Which is really loads of legos falling. AND if you have dualscreen (like I do), each screen shows a different lego setup. COOL!

http://www.9031.com/downloads/index.html

Changing a XP folder's name text colour

One day I came to work and suddenly all my folder texts were in ugly blue, rather than black. Being intolerant to changes (that I have not done on purpose), I eventually figured out how to fix the problem:

You can then set your folder view to display compressed folders in blue (Tools, Folder Option, View, Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in colour)

It will only slow things down a little as the operating system has to decompress the data when accessing it. Never seen it corrupt data.

Thanks to toms hardware for making me sleep better at night.. :)

Steve and Bill meet again

The biggest guys in the data age met again. Thats Steve Jobs and Bill Gates for the novices.

Quite interesting how those guys are really similar (appearance, computer knowledge, voice etc), yet Steve always is a bit cooler. Just like Macs.. :P

A short summary of the meeting can be read: http://www.nytimes.com/technology/


Or, if you really are interested, see all the videos at: All things digital.
video-steve-jobs-and-bill-gates-prologue/