Cloud based future Part 1 – Trust no one

What lies in the future of data management? Will all of our information eventually be handled by someone else? Email, essays, work related documents; will we lose control over our important data? Is this good or bad? My answer is that ideally it is good, but of course nothing can reach an ideal state. With a good system based on security with regards to privacy, it would be very good, but this is still quite far away. Most people have already lost control over their emails, and most of us …

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100 000 Google Wave invites

Yesterday, September 30 , Google sent out 100 000 invites to people who had signed up for it. I didn’t get one. 🙁 I’ve been pretty excited over this new and refreshing way of reinventing email. I’m not sure if it’s entirely correct to call it email. It’s more like a combination of instant messaging, email and synchronized document editing. I do believe that eventually something like this will replace email, but for now the number one way of using it will be for collaborate work, for school and businesses. …

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Tweaking away, with beautiful themes on the iPhone

I have to admit one thing – I’m a tweak geek. I really spend too much time tweaking the interface, performance etc. The problem is that I get bored very quickly, I’m constantly changing the background of my desktop. Anyway, I will deal with that problem later. I love the power that Cydia for the iPhone gives a tweaker. The theme community and the material that’s out there and available through Cydia and Winterboard is huge and the quality of the themes are amazing! I thought I’d share two of …

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Satisfying upgrade. iPhone firmware 3.0 arrives.

Finally it’s here, firmware 3.0. For some reason I’ve been quite excited about this update. Ever since I saw the keynote earlier this year, I’ve been having high expectations on this version. Probably because the long-awaited copy and paste function. I got it installed yesterday on my iPod Touch. It’s not really that much different but it is indeed a nice change. It feels a bit more stable and also snappier. A couple of new features has been introduced, such as Cut, Copy & Paste, which is a very, very …

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Installing OS X from external hard drive

I reinstalled OS X Leopard yesterday from an external usb connected hard drive. It’s been about one year ago since I installed Leopard for the first time. 1 year is a pretty long time for me when it comes to this issue. I probably didn’t need to do this, I guess it’s mostly a psychological thing for me, but it feels pretty good doing a clean install of my system. Everything worked quite good before, but after cleaning the system,  things seem to run a little bit smoother, at least …

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