Windows 8 is installed on my work laptop. A Dell Latitude with touch screen, letting me get best experiences with the Metro UI. Metro is the radical new interface for touch, first introduced with Windows Phone. Windows still supports the mouse and keyboard, but I find the new Metro UI best operated with keyboard shortcuts. Here are 8 new neccessary keyboard shortcuts that’s gonna make you productive on Windows 8: Windows key – brings up the Metro start screen. You can start typing […] Continue reading →
I have a problem, and that is to keep all my personal and work related passwords handy and at the same time safe. A few weeks ago, a colleague of mine recommended 1Password. 1Password is the Keychain Access Apple never made. I bought it at once and I think it might be the best choice if you’re living in a Apple-centric world. It works great on OS X and iOS, but there are also clients for Windows and Android. But if you want access from your Windows Phone or from a Linux computer, […] Continue reading →
I often read what Thom Holwerda is publishing on OSNEWS, and yesterday he published some critics of Mark Shuttleworth. His critics are so in place. How many times have we heard that this is gonna be the year of Linux? I guess every year since 2001. And the same goes with the sentence: Now Linux is ready for the desktop. Funny thing is, Linux is not to be the preferred OS for the desktop any time soon. It is not gain enough market share to make it interesting. And market leading software […] Continue reading →
Yesterday ars technica published a brilliant introduction to Windows 7, a brilliant summary of Microsoft’s first public demonstration of Windows 7. Microsoft has let on that the taskbar will undergo a number of changes, and that many bundled applications would be unbundled and shipped with Windows Live instead. ars technica writes that the user interface has undergone the most radical overhaul and update since the introduction of Windows 95 thirteen years ago. I am not sure, from the […] Continue reading →
Welcome to my Apple equipped home, and let me introduce you to my latest device: Time Capsule. Time Capsule is first of all a wireless accesspoint, but also a 500 GB Network Attached Storage (NAS) device. Needless to say, it works seamlessly with MacOS X 10.5′s inbuilt backup solution Time Machine. But it is not restricted to working with only 10.5 or MacOS X, and is of course also working with Windows and Linux. But having said that, Time Capsule only comes with installation and […] Continue reading →
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