Yesterday I had some good old fun trying to replace the backup battery of an Acer Travelmate 8?03 laptop. I thought that since this is a part that should be replaceable by the user, it should be r...

‘t is niet den auto, ‘t is de reis niet de tafel, ‘t is de spijs niet den oven, ‘t is de koek niet het meubel, ‘t is het boek niet de potten, ‘t is de pap niet het lopen, ‘t is de stap niet de lett...

Because I keep forgetting them, here’s a list of buttons you can press during a Mac’s boot to change behaviour: Key Action C boot from CD or DVD ...

At work we regularly have to send over files to $vendor. $Vendor has two ways of accepting files: FTP, and Webdav (over https). Since our company’s policy is to not send things out unencrypted, we ...

… waking up at 6 in the morning, because you hear a certain sound you associate with water that’s coming under high pressure from a tap. Upon closer inspection, the tap in the shower was spraying ...

So true… ;) (thanks to Gh0sty)

Hey now, little speedyhead, The read on the speedometer says You have to go to task in the city Where people drown and people serve Don’t be shy. Your just deserve Is only just light years to go M...

For my PVR/HTMAC project, I wanted to auto-mount several shares from my NAS. After some searching I ran across this hint1 on the Mac OS X Hints2 website, which works perfectly: Basically, you add ...

I recently acquired a Mac Mini, which I’m going to use as a PVR. Together with an Elgato EyeTV Hybrid1 it works perfectly, attached to my good old analogue 21” Sony TV . Sofar it seems to work fi...

On TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) they’ve got a nifty tips section1, with today this tip that I rather like: How to add recent applications as a Stack on the Dock2: Run this in Terminal.app: ...