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Monthly Archives: maart 2009

Automating finances

It’s generally low-tech but surprisingly a lot of people don’t have their expenses under control.
Lifehacker has a nice posting about “Getting You Rich”, better to be called “How about making a budget”. Ramit Sethi, who is running a blog http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/ explains some basic stuff about budgetting.
In these times, even simple knowledge like this can save [...]

Email goes the way of Twitter

So you have a lot of email and you’d like to cut down on time to reply. Lifehacker has a quick tip: fool people to believe you just emailed them from your mobile phone and you’re done with a simple line of text. They took it from a post on smarterware that took it from [...]

Google: it’s still beta

Techcrunch has a post about a security breach at Google Docs: “Google Privacy Blunder Shares Your Docs Without Permission“. It seems more of a problem than you’d expect as Techcrunch says:
In a privacy error that underscores some of the biggest problems surrounding cloud-based services (…)
Privacy is a problem in so-called cloud-based computing. Also Google still [...]

Don’t buy that imaginary computer!

Whenever Apple decides to revamp part of their computer line-up, there are always some people having a hard time because they just bought a new Mac. If you’re that person, Macworld has some advice in one of its articles:
Even if I knew, with absolute certainty, that a revamped Mac Pro would be coming out in [...]

Prevent “cell-shock” calling home from the USA

On a trip to the USA, calling home can be an expensive matter. A lot of people complain of high mobile phone bills after a nice vacation. This is called “bill-shock”, “roaming-shock” or “cell-shock”. I have had my fair share of it, so for my next business trip I’ll go prepared.
The options

Don’t make phone calls [...]

How to get the best Avatar

In these slow financial times getting out your best on the web might be a good shot. Personally I see activity on sites like LinkedIn soar. Old classmates suddenly want to connect and all profiles start to look better and slicker. This includes getting your picture on Web 2.0 right.
I found a website with a [...]