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Macheist

6. mars, 2010

wpid-PastedGraphic.q6Pe0ItKDQTa.jpgFor Mac-brukere, sjekk ut www.macheist.com. MacHeist er et prosjekt som flere ganger i året samler en rekke spennende Mac-programmer i en og samme pakke. Prisen blir lav og mange får øynene opp for ny og spennende programvare. I tillegg donerer MacHeist deler av inntektene til veldedige formål. Det finnes en Facebook-gruppe som inneholder en del nyttig informasjon. I dag og 4 dager til kan man kjøpe 7 forskjellige applikasjoner samlet under navnet «nanoBundle2». Pakken inneholder MacJournal som dette innlegget skrives i, RipIt, Clips, Flow, CoverScout, Tales of MonkeyIsland og RapidWeaver for den nette sum av $19.95. Med din lisens, helt legalt! CAN´T GO WRONG!

Twitter – Velkommen etter Aftenposten

17. februar, 2010

I dag kunne man lese dette i Aftenposten. Jeg har gått hjem fra nachspiel for lenge siden.

Facelift

16. februar, 2010

Skribenten kunne muligens trenge et tilsvarende korrigerende inngrep, men i denne omgang er det Gluppe.com som har fått en ansiktsløftning. Etter 2 år ble skribenten mest lei den gamle blå himmelen over Fredrikstad.

Twitter ut – Delicious inn

9. februar, 2010

Twitter måtte forsøkes, men mediet ble “for stressende”. Delicious inntar isteden den dyrbare tomten på Gluppe.com.
Facebook er tidligere bedyret begravet. Facebook viste seg imidlertid ikke å være helt hjernedød. Fjesboka lever nå mest i en vegetativ tilstand, men ikke uten glimtvise livstegn!

Upgrade Windows XP Professional to Windows 7 Home Premium?

2. februar, 2010

W7

Are you planning to embark on this journey? This is what I learned:

  • The Norwegian Microsoft Support sucks. They told me a lot of rubbish, and they could not suggest any actions apart from filing a complaint.
  • It is not possible to do a clean install even though you have a valid XP Product Key.
  • It is possible to do an upgrade from a working XP installation.
  • My 4,5 year old IBM Thinkpad T43 with 512 Mb RAM is running Windows 7 pretty well with the Aero Windows 7 theme. (I have ordered a memory upgrade!)
  • My first impression of Windows 7 is very good!
  • If you, like me, happen to do the upgrade on a PC 2000 miles from home, and have forgotten the XP disc (…but not the Product Key which is printed on the Certificate of Authenticity on bottom of the laptop), leave the Windows 7 Product Key field blank and continue. This gives you at least a 30 day fully functionable installation, and should keep you going until you get home.

Ryanair – the new boarding drill

30. januar, 2010

Today my wife and I returned to Norway after spending 1 week on winter holiday in Spain. It was a beautyful day in the Murcia region, and everything went smoothly until we reached gate 26 at Alicante Airport.

At the desk where you flash "the printout" (or the ticket as we used to call it) for "tear off", the crew at Ryanair showed no mercy. Every passenger with cabin baggage were urged to stuff  bags, backpacks, suitcases and you name it, into the template made of steel pipes,  measuring exactly 55cm x 40cm x 20cm. ONLY ONE ITEM ALLOWED, REMEMBER!
I was carrying a digital SLR camera and a 200 mm zoom lens. My wife had just bought a bottle of Remy Martin and 2 bottles of red wine. The liquor was carried in a separate "Tax Free" bag. This time I was forced to bring the nearly 5 year old Thinkpad T43 back to Norway for maintenance. It laid on top of everything else in the suitcase. Both my wife and I were firmly told to repack/slim down our suitcases. How on earth should we handle this? And what about the cognac and the red wine? I was not in the mood for alcohol abuse. Cram quite a  big camera with an even bigger lens + a laptop into an ordinary flight suitcase already filled up with clothes? The task seemed impossible. Should I trash the SLR or the €1000 lens or the T43? The situation called for action. I grabbed a pullover from the suitcase and put it on. Then I filled both the side pockets of my jacket with deodorant, shaver, toothpaste and a book I din’t want to loose. The camera and the lens went into the suitcase and the T43 went into my trousers under 2 pullovers and one leather jacket zipped all the way up. I looked slightly dysmorph, but it did the trick. My wife dumped a sweater, filled up all available pockets and voila, the suitcases passed the "cage-test". Luckily, they forgot to weigh them. 
I think Ryanair inventet the concept of “preboarding”. While we were waiting in the stairway (by the way, nice temperature at this time of the year) to get onto the airplane, I put the pulover and the laptop back . The rest of the trip worked out all right.

I know that Ryanair is stressing that only one item is allowed as cabin baggage. I just didn’t expect them to reject a camera! I haven’t experienced that before. We didn’t expect Ryanair to deny us carrying a bag of taxfree goods onto the plane either . Retrospectively, I must admit that I have not done my homework properly. Check this link, and you see what I mean.
This strict enforcement of rules is in my opinion unnecessary and hostile. Obviously the only reason for doing this is to make more money. I think Ryanair would benefit from showing a more relaxed attitude. However, I wouldn`t bet on that. We will surely travel with Ryanair again, with baggy clothes and large and empty pockets:).

SatelliteDirect deserves applause

18. januar, 2010

Today I received this response:

This email confirms that your purchase from ClickBank.com has been refunded. This refund will appear on your statement as "CLICKBANK" or "CLKBANK*COM."

Thank yoy very much!

SatelliteDirect – Kommentar

17. januar, 2010

En leser av Gluppe.com har sendt meg følgende kommentar pr. e-post:

“Sitat:

"(Hope Channel Sat-2, Kinderjournal, NRK Rogaland, Regjeringen Siste sending, The Voice og TV Aftenbladet). This is pretty useless."

Jeg forstår ikke hva du mener med "pretty useless". Dette er da meget oppgeående og aktuelle kanaler, pesonlig holder jeg en knapp på NRK Rogaland. Spesielt tirsdagssendingene er "løyje", hvor de alltid har et direkteinnlag fra indremisjonsmøtet i Oltedal. De gode ordene de formidler der, lever jeg godt på en hel uke!

Foreslår at du sender en ny mail til PayPal og beklager ditt utbrudd. Jeg har tatt meg den frihet å informere forstanderen i Oltedal, han vil sikkert ta kontakt med deg.

gob,
lykkelig med grunnpakken fra GET”

Det ser bestemt ikke ut til at gob har tatt inn over seg omfanget og alvorlighetsgraden av saken.

SatelliteDirect – Scam?

16. januar, 2010

SatelliteDirect

My experience with this product?/service? is extremely negative. It is not that expensive, but you expect something you pay 50 bucks for is working somewhere close to what is described…
I opened this item dispute at PayPal today:

“I purchased SatelitteDirect for the Mac platform last night, $49.95. I received no client application to install, the Help-section does not cover Mac and the SatelliteDirect Live Chat has been off-line since “the transaction”.
I have been able to watch just a few channels in a small window after a very long latency period, in the Safari browser only. Firefox and Chrome does not work. I have no intention of installing Internet Explorer. The Microsoft browser requires installation of Rosetta which I am not interested in. The full screen window doesn’t work. I use Flip4Mac. SatelliteDirect promises 109 channels for Norway. I get the choice of six channels (Hope Channel Sat-2, Kinderjournal, NRK Rogaland, Regjeringen Siste sending, The Voice og TV Aftenbladet). This is pretty useless.
Thus the service that I have received is very limited and inferior, and to such an extent that I will claim that it is “significantly not as described”.
I ask you to credit my Paypal account the amount of $49.95 and delete me from your records.
Regards,
Kristen J. Ruud
Norway”

Anyway, now at least you know!

Time Machine (TM) – E-post

5. desember, 2009

time-machine-logoForleden hadde jeg et påtrengende behov for tilgang til en e-mail-korrespondanse med et kontor i Spania. Korrespondansen ble slettet for flere uker siden. Hva gjør man?
Jeg kjører backup av Mac’en med TM til ekstern disk. Men duger dette til gjenoppretting av e-poster da? Svaret er et høyt og rungende JA. Og særlig sexy blir det hvis man benytter Apples Mail-program. Her er oppskriften:

  • Start Mail
  • Start TM ved å klikke på ikonet i docken. Dersom TM er slettet fra docken kan det enkelt legges på plass ved å dra med musen fra Programmer i Finder og slippe TM i docken.
  • Alle sikkerhetskopierte e-poster dukker opp i mapper sortert på dato som du enkelt kan bla deg frem og tilbake i. Marker og restore en eller flere meldinger!

Mer komplisert er det ikke! Som gammel DOS/Windowsbruker er dette nesten for godt til å være sant.

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