I have transitioned to the cloud
Friday, April 15th, 2011 Posted in service, software | No Comments »I know I haven't updated barelyadraft for a while, but that doesn't mean I haven't thought about it and have quite a bit of unfinished posts that may or may not ever make it on the site. At any rate, ...
LG NAS N2B1/N2R1 review
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010 Posted in gadgets, review, software | 46 Comments »I recently bought myself a NAS (network attached storage) unit through an incredible offer offered to my sister from her place of work. Starting 2010, many Danes have to pay a "multimedia tax" if they are provided access by their ...
This is huge – VLC for iOS devices
Monday, September 20th, 2010 Posted in movies, software | No Comments »This is potentially huge. Being able to play any video file on the iPad/iPod/iPhone, not just the Apple approved ones, is a VERY welcome addition I think. Here's hoping the VLC Media Player for iOS lives up to the expectations ...
IM+ expands beyond the smartphone to the Web
Thursday, September 9th, 2010 Posted in service, software | No Comments »Uhh, this is cool, IM+ for the web. I've been using IM+ Pro on my beloved iPhone (a phone which I had to give to my wife for work reasons... *sigh*) and more recently been testing IM+ on an iPad ...
HTC Nexus One running Windows 3.11
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 Posted in gadgets, software | No Comments »This may quite possibly be one of the coolest uses for Android Phone - running Windows 3.11 (for Workgroups!!) Ahhh, brings back memories of a simpler time, where nerds were real nerds and computers were used by the few, mixed ...
Anonymous SIP – yet another reason to use ivacy.com as your VPN provider
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 Posted in review, service, software | 6 Comments »I have written comprehensively about the VPN provier ivacy.com before (see here and, more importantly, here for details and review). An initial concern related to stability of the service and speed, where I found iPREDATOR from the ThePirateBay guys both ...
Mvix Ultio – part 3: I think the grass is greener on the other side of the fence
Thursday, July 30th, 2009 Posted in gadgets, rant, software | 6 Comments »the other day I decided to send my MVix Ultio back for a refund and buy an Xtreamer instead. Now I want to make it clear that it's not because the MVix Ultio is a bad product - not at ...
IPREDator vs. Ivacy.com VPN service – fits my needs perfectly
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 Posted in software, tips, website | 7 Comments »Privacy has always been difficult online. You could potentially do a lot of illegal things without knowing it was illegal, like downloading movies and tv shows from thepiratebay. There are of course also people who knowingly do illegal things and ...
IPREDator VPN for anonymous filesharing and an introduction to the alternative
Saturday, June 20th, 2009 Posted in software, tips, website | 5 Comments »I don't know about you, but since the story of the single mom in the US got fined $1.9 miiiiillliiion dollars (<= pronounced as Dr. Evil from the Austin Powers movies). So how much did she download? all movies since ...
Getting new music by recording it with LastSharp (English)
Monday, April 13th, 2009 Posted in music, software, website | 3 Comments »How cool is this! I'm sure you've heard of last.fm - the site that scrobbles all the music you listen to (provided you install their client). More importantly it has a radio feature where you type in an artist you ...