Friend or Follow
Twitter is a great tool to find intesting people and lot of friends. On the twitter’s page you see only some minimalistic statistics showing you how many people you follow and how many followers you have.
In my eyes, in the twitter terminology “friend” should be only called a “friend” if you follow him and he [...]
LittleSnapper to make Websnapshots
LittleSnapper is a very great application to make screenshots and annotations. The usage is very easy and absolutely intuitive. Using core animation technology this app makes also a lot of fun and feel homie on a Mac.
The greatest feature I like is to make screenshots of Safari. You can specify a screen resolution and it [...]
Speedport W701V vs. FritzBox7050
The T-Com Speedport router model W701 V has like many other hardware some hidden talents, but they need to be awaken with the help of tricks. Netzwelt.de wrote an article about the compability of the Speedport hardware and that it would be almost the same like the AVM FritzBox 7050, except for missing a USB [...]
Meet these girls from your area
There is no way in real life not getting annoyed by adverts during surfing. On many websites, the Adultfriendfinder network is advertizing with pretty young and sexy girls into your next area.
And guess, what they sanctimoniously promise you: Those bunnies are just waiting only for you! So register with your credit card and go to meet her.
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Fake calls to leave unwanted situations
When you have to take part in a meeting and really do need an important excuse to leave, then take advantage of a fake call.
With your iPhone in the pocket or on the table, it will save you, like your best friend anytime. Even that unintimate situation.
The freeware application Fake a Call does what it’s [...]
Making picture mosaics
So often I have seen picture mosaics and I wanted to do one by myself, because I find them so amazing and fantastic.
A picture mosaic is one picture which is made of other pictures as like a screenshot is made with pixels.
Searching a short while lead me to the freeware tool MacOSaiX which does exactly [...]
Globally recognized avatars
An avatar is somewhat like a symbolic identification of your online presence like companies having their own logos in the real life.
In forums it is normal to have your very own user profile with a nick name altering to the real name. You may attach a photo or some other graphics which will be shown [...]
Short or long URLs?
In the internet nothing will work without URLs. Everybody has at least heard once about the “http://” – thing and is often called just a link.
It links to a special recource like HTTP, FTP or local installed applications using a internet connection for example
Skype (callto://dj_n4cer)
Edkonkey (ed2k://%7Cfile%7CSUSE.LiNUX.10.0-retail-boxed-dvd-duallayer.part1.Nhipcau.net.rar%7C4030000000%7CAA6 1774DDD0E6B233BBBA46923C0DF04%7C/)
URL is a short term for Uniform Recource Locator. They [...]
Generating passwords
There are several ways to make new passwords. Of course they should follow some rules to have them quite secure. In one my recent articles “Secure passwords” you may read some basics and tips.
In addition to that article I just found a cute website by PC Tools which gives many varieties to create passwords.
They do [...]
Password security
Passwords never should be easy, because the lighter they are, the faster they can be cracked. In those days there are several possibilities to get them in clear text with a brute force attack, rainbow tables and other techniques.
Espacially when they are easy like “hello1975″ or something like that it is no big deal. If [...]
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