Aurora Feint on the iPhone
Amongst a lot of vaguely amusing junk, such as ibeer and phonesaber, I found a little gem in the iPhone Appstore: Aurora Feint – The Beginning. At first glance it’s nothing more than a typical block puzzle game a la Bejeweled or it’s recent iPhone clone iZoo. On second glance its got potential for something…
Time difference between iPhone and Outlook calender
Well I finally got round to “upgrading” my old iPhone to the 2.0 firmware thanks to the wonderful PwnageTool 2.0.1 from the good folks over at http://blog.iphone-dev.org/. It’s a very straight forward process and it’s explained in excruciating detail all over the net so go look elsewhere for that. Now while the actual update ran…
Review: SteelSeries Siberia Headset
After a long weekend of partying coupled with severe alcohol intake, Sunday turned out to be a rather relaxed day of gaming. Well, considering the state my head was in I can only say thank god I have an excellent pair of headphones: SteelSeries Siberia Full-Size Headset (White) Designed by Gamers for Gamers they are…
How to turn off Windows Defender in Vista…
Windows Defender has been annoying the hell out of me right from the start and one of the first things I do when setting up a new computer with Vista is to disable it. Of course you need some decent spy ware protection, but generally I wouldn’t trust Microsoft with it. The option to disable…
Inconsistent Formulas in Excel 2007
Just a little note about something I spent half an hour yesterday getting really mad at: Inconsistent Formulas, or those annoying little green flags you sometimes get in Excel even though your formula is completely valid and correct. What is an inconsistent formula? MS Excel is once again trying to out-think it’s users and while…
MacBook keyboard shortcuts and special characters
I must confess I’ve done something very evil. One of the first things I did when I received my MacBook was install BootCamp and then Vista. Let’s assume I had valid reasons for this and to give credit where credit is due, the MacBook has been the only computer that has run halfway stable under…
iPhone Special Characters (Umlaute/Accents)
If you happen to be one of the millions of people blessed with not being born in America chances are pretty good English might not be your first language, and if that is the case chances are also pretty high that your alphabet contains some special characters… German umlaute, French accents or Spanish acentos, where…
How to add google maps to your homepage…
Now I know it’s not rocket science, but if your in a rush and quickly need a map on your web site then the quickest and easiest way is to use google maps. There are quite a few different ways of how to go about this and depending on what you want to achieve some…
