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Safari 5

Johan — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 06:03:58 +0000

Posting this with the ScribeFire extension in Safari 5 as I (maybe temporarily) has ditched Google Chrome as my default browser on my Mac. Safari 5 has nice speed and works really well with the new extensions. What I don’t know right now is of Safari is handling memory as good ad Chrome, but time will tell. One thing I’ve been missing so far is the built-in search in the address bar that works so good in Chrome.

Test pilot for a Canon 550D

Johan — Sat, 22 May 2010 06:11:06 +0000

I’ve applied for this http://www.smartson.se/testpilot-550D.html - keeping my fingers crossed! I really would like this one as replacement to my trusty old 350D.

Not really necessary

Johan — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:18:58 +0000

But I had to try the Wordpress application on my HTC Desire!

Nokia N86 8mp

Johan — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:03:52 +0000

I got the opportunity to try out the Nokia N86 8mp phone for a few days and here is some comments!

* Really nice camera!

* Using a phone with an “old-fashioned” keyboard after using first a E61i and then a Nokia E71 (my current phone) really takes a while to get used to. Really, why would you go back??

* I was unable to get Lotus Traveler running - it installs fine, but when trying to connect to the server it fails. Using the same settings as on my E71 and it works brilliant.

* The format is very slim and it fits in a pocket very easy. The build quality is also excellent and with a bright and very readable screen it’s very nice to use.

* It connects and sync nicely with my BMW bluetooth system (as seems most Nokias do).

* The performance of the phone is somewhat disappointing - it’s lagging in the menus especially in the media sections (browsing photos, etc).

All together it’s a nice phone but it fails as a business phone due to the (missing) keyboard and the fact that I’m unable to use Lotus Traveler on it.

Writeroom - the tool for infomaniacs

Johan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:30:06 +0000

If you have the bad habit of always trying to keep updated on what is happening around you (twitter, facebook, rss, web???) and getting the feeling that whenever you sit down in front of the computer you never getting any things done (NGTD, sort of related to GTD?).

Then his is THE writing tool!

Writeroom sports green text on black background - perfect for concentrating on writing. It’s really amazing what a nice feeling such a simple program can give you - the feeling of only concentrating on one thing - writing!

More information at http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/writeroom

Securing your data

Johan — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:30:57 +0000

The lifestyle of today really produces a lot of data of all kinds; photos, documents, music and movies. As an individual you have a lot of choices to store the data and they are differing on complexity and cost.

The solution I’ve chosen is to use a home NAS server, The Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ is the one getting my vote this time! I’ve previously tried out the Synology NAS solution but after it crashed the filesystem twice (yes it hurts) I left it in the waste basket.

The setup will be;

Netgear ReadyNAS NV+
4 1TB Western Digital drives
Raid setup (have not decided to use X-raid or “plain” Raid 5 yet)
Squeezecenter - for playing music on my Squeezebox
Subversion - version history is nice!
Remote backup, possibly Time Machine

I’ll post more information when I get the hands on it!

Programming fonts

Johan — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:02:53 +0000

Once in a while you get annoyed over the lousy screen resolutions you get to use (when not using your own computer), especially when doing development work. Screen estate is really precious when using Lotus Domino Designer, Aptana Studio or any other development environment where all surrounding property boxes and other stuff uses up all space and leaves little left for the real coding. This calls for using a real programming font - a quick search reveals that there is a lot to choose from!

Good starting point I’ve found is;
http://keithdevens.com/wiki/ProgrammerFonts
http://www.proggyfonts.com/

I’m now testing Anonymous and liking it.

This is what it can look like

fuel prices

Johan — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:51:04 +0000

A few month ago the diesel did cost SEK 15 a litre…

Ctrl+Break in VMWare Fusion

Johan — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:19:42 +0000

One (small) annoyance about running Windows in a virtual machine is the key mappings - you get used to the keys of the host system and then you need to do the same in the guest system and it seems impossible…

Once in a while when developing / using Lotus Notes / Domino you need to hit CTRL+Break to stop a running agent or just interrupt the current activity. When using the Mac client you can simply hit Esc but when running VMWare Fusion / Windows there is no such option as the Mac has no Break key..

What you do is simply create a new key mapping in the Fusion preferences and you are ready to go! Find the key combination that works for you making sure that it won’t collide with the standard Mac ones.

Choose your own combination

Bleeding edge

Johan — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:59:23 +0000

For those who like to be in the front-line of technology there is “Minefield” to try out… The latest trunk version of Firefox.

It’s amazingly stable and the speed is noticeably better then the current release version. I’ve been running the mac version for over a week and it just works. Nice work!

For download at http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/