Gullkorn Tue, Dec 18. 2007
Det begynte med at jeg kom over bloggen Fullt hus og stormende jubel, skrevet av en fembarnsmor med et humoristisk blikk og gode fortellerevner. Riktignok mer underholdende for familiefolk som meg selv, og neppe noe jeg hadde blogget om ut av det blå.
Hvis det ikke var for hennes sidebar kalt "Andres gullkorn". Tusen takk, Lin. Nå sitter jeg på jobb med fuktige øyne og klump i halsen! Hvis noen lurer var nemlig gullkornene fantastisk bra, faktisk så bra at jeg tillater meg å videreformidle dem:
- Complete Healing hos Inagh og gutta
- Forlot gråtende kvinne på perrongen hos Bussbloggen
- Noen opplevelser gjør noe med deg hos Svein Øverland
- Tenkepause i Mitt egosentriske hjørne
Les og nyt!
Min status Wed, Nov 14. 2007
Mange bruker Twitter selv om jeg selv aldri helt har sett poenget i det. For hva skal jeg med nok et sted å sette statusen min? Jeg har problemer nok som det er med status i MSN, Skype og Facebook. Det vil si, helt til jeg kom over Mood Blast fra Circle Six Design, et kjekt lite program til Mac som lar deg sette statusen på "alle plasser" samtidig. Det ligger bortgjemt i menubaren, hentes opp med en shortcut, du skriver statusen, trykker enter, programmet forsvinner igjen og statusen er synkronisert! 
En fin ting med dette er at jeg la Twitter til steder å sende oppdatering til slik at jeg kunne legge til en Twitter Badge her i bloggen. Vips, enda mindre personvern! :p Ja, man må nok huske på alle steder statusen blir postet så man ikke skriver noe man helst ikke skulle gjort... Du vet sånn cirka hvem som ser MSN-statusen din, men står den på bloggen din risikerer du at den caches ute på det store internettet for all fremtid.
Is anyone actually thinking at all over at Microsoft? Thu, Sep 6. 2007
The essential Mac OS X freeware list Sat, Jun 23. 2007
It's now official - I'm a Mac user. After flirting with Ubuntu Linux for a year, watching Knut Sætre (my coworker) use his MacBook Pro and reading all the switch stories around the net I decided time had come for a change. So far, I'm definitely not regretting anything. OS X seems to me like Plug 'n Play the way it was supposed to work. Everything integrates out of the box, and I've so far never even SEEN the word "driver". 
I've always meant that my "work computer" should work without fiddling and never need tweaking. This was the reason I waited so long to try Linux, and this is exactly the reason I love OS X.
As those who know me might know, I love researching stuff on the net. In addition to that, I've also got a personal policy of always using freeware when it does the job - my own way of avoiding pirated software. It also helps freeware authors get a nice user mass, so I can't say I feel sorry for NOT buying commercial alternatives.
So one of the first things I did (actually before I received my black new-model MacBook with 2GB ram) was researching for apps I needed. And now, after actually testing them I figured I might publish my findings, so others could benefit from it as well. So here it is, my list of Mac OS X "must have" freewares:
Reorganizing my life... again Sat, Apr 28. 2007
During the last couple of months, GMail has had several hiccups. And when Google homepage suddenly lost all my gadgets for two days recently, I figured I might look into the desktop application approach to organizing my life again. I've also experienced that having "tools" in the same browser that contains tabs with social networks and news is pretty counter-productive in the long run.
13 things that do not make sense Tue, Nov 28. 2006
Over at New Scientist's Space section you can read about 13 things that still baffles scientists. An incredibly interesting read, especially for the scientifically inclined.
Google Homepage revisited Mon, Nov 20. 2006
As some of my readers might know, I started using Horde webmail (and it's addons) half a year ago. But after a while, I just had to cave in. Even when running against a local IMAP server on a computer with plenty of CPU-power and RAM left, it was very sluggish. On top of that you had a terrible user interface that forced you into way too many clicks to perform even the simplest tasks. I needed something snappier and easier.
So the time came to revisit my old friend, Google. I imported all my old mail into GMail using GMail Loader and set all my other mail accounts to forward into it. Since GMail lets you reply to mail with the same from-adress you received the original mail to, this setup is transparent to people you communicate with. I also moved my todo-lists to the Google Personalized Homepage todo gadget, my notes to Google Notebook, my calendars to Google Calendar, my RSS-feeds to Google Reader (which by far is the best online RSS-reader I've tried, and I've tried a lot!) and presto! I'm back at the Google Personalized Homepage. After trying it a while, I really can't say I regret the migration. It has everything I need and then some. Click on the picture to see what it looks like right now.
And with Google recently adding Tabs and drag'n'drop to their API, developing new gadgets should be a breeze!
The Top 10 Arguments Against DRM Mon, Nov 20. 2006
Via Learn Out Loud you can read about why DRM is a bad, bad thing... And for the less technical of my readers, DRM is the copy protection on all music bought online from MSN (for your Zune player) or iTunes (for the iPod). This is a must read, the end of the article contains a lot of tips on where to get music without DRM, even cheaper than MSN and iTunes!
