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Category Archives: CultureTek

World Digital Library of the UNESCO

The United Nations UNESCO has opened “The World Digital Library”. It has a substantial amount of original work of historic significance, and because it is funded by the UN (that means all of us) there are no issues with copyright.
One of UNESCO’s goals is to preserve historic and cultural monuments and to do so, opening [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

So-called Folk remedies for tech problems

As anyone knows, high-tech gear can have some problems of its own. Some common problems have unusual solutions - something an engineer would never think about. These are called “Folk remedies” and the New York Times has an article about them.
Next to the solutions mentioned in the article, I can mention some I know of:

rubbing [...]

Designer baby engineering

De New York Times meldt in één van haar artikelen dat in de Verenigde Staten sinds kort een kliniek de keuze biedt of je een jongen of meisje wilt waarbij je ook de kleur haar en ogen zou kunnen kiezen.
Een en ander kan via de PGD ofwel pré-implantatie genetische diagnose-techniek, die bedoeld was om embryo’s [...]

Paperless office met de iPhone en ACTPrinter

Houdah software is gekomen met een manier om wel heel gemakkelijk om te gaan met “electronisch papier”. Met ACTPrinter kan je met “printen naar iPhone” documenten in één keer op je iPhone kwijt. Met de app ACTPrinter voor iPhone heb je een en ander dan direct bij de hand. Lees er meer over in het [...]

CubeCheater

Ook een Rubik’s Cube gehad of speel  je er weer eens mee? Tuaw bemerkte een heel aardige App op die je echt heel handig helpt bij het oplossen; lees meer in het artikel van TUAW:  ”CubeCheater solves that Rubik’s Cube for you“.