Printer LED mystery

Needing a printer
While living in the virtual reality I help my environment to save valuable resources. One of them is avoiding the use of paper whenever possible. But, unfortunately there are some rare situations where somethings needs to get printed out and signed – contracts for example.
And the winner is
Some years ago, I decided to [...]

VirtualBox3 vs. Parallels5

The Parallels Desktop virtualization is great, and the update from 4 to 5 brings a lot new features. But there is one thing what makes me really angry: the price!
Pricing
In my humble opinion the price for this update is very much to much. Some months ago, I just bought the update from 3 to 4. [...]

Rebel EFI – OS X in danger of good reputation?

Psystar has released a product called Rebel EFI, allowing the installation of any operating system on almost any PC hardware. This software could be cutely used, to run the Apple’s OS X on a PC.
Apple of course does not want this and sued several times against Psystar, because it is permitted and listed in the software agreement [...]

October 25, 2009 • Tags: , , , , , • Posted in: Common • No Comments

Chrome settles down on Internet Explorer

Google made with the help of Webkit technology a nice browser called Chrome which brings the power of Apple’s Safari. I really do like it and prefer using it instead of Firefox – especially when I am forced to use the Windows operating system. Big G brought many good ideas and concepts into that application.
A [...]

Windows95 running on iPhone

The iPhone is one of the most powerful handheld devices available on the market. Enthusiastic developers from GoodiPhone.com made it real to create a complete Windows emulator.

Windows95 and even WindowsXP can be running on a iPhone!
As owner of an Apple device I have of course no real intention in using it, but “yes, we can“! [...]

Win a “Record you” invitation

Do you want to win an invitation for the brand new Record You application? Be the first to place a comment.

Record makes use of extremely efficient multi-core audio rendering, making the software very lightweight, even with large projects.
Record’s dynamic multi-core audio rendering improves performance without introducing any latency. It is future proof, making use of [...]

August 20, 2009 • Tags: , , , , , , , , , , • Posted in: Giveaways • 5 Comments

SanDisk U3 Cruzer

My dad made me a very nice gift. It is the SanDisk USB-memory stick U3 Cruzer with a capacity of 16 GB. I was testing it on his PC laptop and it worked fine and damn fast.
A very nice feature is the slider, where you can pull the USB-connector inside the stick, so that you [...]

June 1, 2009 • Tags: , , , , , , • Posted in: Cool Mac Hardware • 2 Comments

Uncrashing a PC by diagnostics

Unfortunately I could not say NO when a friend asked me to take a look why his PC crashes with a hung and sometimes a blank screen. When something like this happens, for sure it is a hardware problem. To reach the ground of the problem I can advise you to follow my steps to [...]

Perl 5.8+ on Windows with mySQL

On the last weekend I was helping a friend getting perl on his computer running. He also needed a mySQL Server. He is using Windows, so we hoped it should become easy, because precompiled versions are almost always available for the Win32 platform.
With the help of my favourite remote application LogMeIn.com I connected to [...]

Force FileZilla not to annoy file changes

Cyberduck normally is the FTP client of my choice, but I had to work on a server where uploading was not possible and directory listing extremely slow. Trying to change the amount of concurrent connections and active or passive modes did not help me out.
To verify it does not depend on my firewall configuration I [...]