Author Archives: Pål

SABnzbd+ sidebar gadget

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Pål

After having created the Montastic sidebar gadget I decided to create another gadget that I’ve been missing for some time. This gadget is monitoring your SABnzbd+ usenet downloads and thus requires you to be running SABnzbd+. Author: Pål Andreassen License: … Continue reading →

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Montastic sidebar gadget

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Pål

I’ve recently started using Montastic (the website monitoring service that doesn’t suck) to monitor my web sites. Can’t get much simpler or cheaper (free for 3 sites) and only $5 for 15 sites. Anyways I noticed they had Widgets/Gadgets for … Continue reading →

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Windows Home Server FAIL

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Pål

I’ve been a Windows Home Server owner for over a year now. The little server has been dutifully backing up the households four computers nearly every night. I’ve restored a PC once before, a HP laptop that was running 32-bit … Continue reading →

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Dell customer support

Posted on February 5, 2010 by Pål

We own a Dell Latitude laptop. This week it suddenly stopped chargeing the battery and when we inserted the power supply there was an error message stating that there was something wrong with the power supply and that we needed … Continue reading →

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Apple iPad

Posted on January 28, 2010 by Pål

Unless you have been away in space you probably have heard about the biggest bit of technology news this week. On Wednesday Apple released their tablet PC called…..iPad…., wow that was innovative naming. It’s basically like some Apple designer stumbled … Continue reading →

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Spotify invites

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Pål

Ok, each month I get two new spotify invites since I subscribe to Spotify Premium. Most all family members, friends and colleagues already have Spotify, so if there are anyone out there still struggeling to get their invites leave a … Continue reading →

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Blog moved

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Pål

Just posting a small note to inform you that my blog has moved again. I wanted more control and decided to move it to my own server and at the same time my own domain. I’ve set up a redirect … Continue reading →

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Great Android applications

Posted on December 25, 2009 by Pål

There are thousands of free applications available for Android based phones. Most of them are avialable though Android market, but where there is a strict policy in the iPhone App Store it seems Android Market is very loose on quality … Continue reading →

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Rooting HTC Hero

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Pål

This article is a guide on how to root a unmodified HTC Hero (European GSM model) running firmware latest generic ROM version 2.73.405.5. I found lots of guides on the net for older firmwares, but they did not work on … Continue reading →

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XBOX Live Update Preview (Zune)

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Pål

I recently got accepted to the XBOX Live update preview program. This update is to be made available in Norway in November. The update contains Twitter and Facebook support as well as Zune video store. Last.fm and news are not … Continue reading →

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