On technology and development

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 to contact Dell support.
Bummer, I was sure this ment a trip back to the dealer [...]

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 on the zoom button on their Xerox copier when copying some iPod Touch/iPhone photos.
Anyway with [...]

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 and testing. Some applications just don’t work at all or they are just plain bad [...]

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 this latest so I had to combine different guides I found in order to complete [...]

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 available in Norway (atleast not in this beta).

Facebook I don’t use so this was not [...]

Just before Christmas 2008 I bought the HP EX475 MediaSmart windows home server. After reading about it before I purchased it I already knew that the puny 512 MB ram that it came with was too little so I already had 2GB ready for installation when the server arrived.
Now a little over six months later [...]

v1.1.0.0
- Fixed shortcut keys (F5, F6, F8 etc)
- Pattern matching for select and deselect of files
- New dialog for storage information and server uptime
- Revamped user interface to match the Home Server Console style
I’ve implemented the two top features you the users had voted for. Click to read more and download.

I recently decided to jump ship and upgrade my developer machine from Vista to Windows 7 RC. I usually do a clean install, but resofting everything would take a whole day, so I tried upgrading and I was very pleased to see that everything is still working.
Windows 7 (Ultimate and professional) has something called XP [...]

The 31337 guys over at 4Hak3rs have written a guide for Quick & Easy Windows Home Server Backup and Restore. The WHS have duplication support for your data, but not the actual OS itself. So in the event of a disaster (or OS meltdown) you need to reinstall the WHS OS from a supplied restore [...]

My first release of the WHS File Manager add-in got a rather bad review from Jim Clark over at We Got Served. Well I’m not one to let a bad review keep me from doing what I like. So I continued development and released a couple of updates. Today Jim posted an appreciation to all [...]