How-To

What to Look for in a Marketing Agency

February 6, 2012
Thumbnail image for What to Look for in a Marketing Agency

As an SME, or even a large business, it can often be difficult to stretch your resources far enough to cover the costs of an inhouse marketing team. And if you already have one, more often than not, they will be completely overrun with projects and tasks, so new campaigns and urgent marketing work can’t [...]

1 comment Read the full article →

5 Simple Steps on How to Work Less and Play More

October 15, 2011
Thumbnail image for 5 Simple Steps on How to Work Less and Play More

Is it just a coincidence that all of us need to work from 9 to 5 during the working days of the week?  Truth is, our early ancestors have brought about this belief that we need to at least work 40 hours a week.  Many of us stick to this as a way of life, [...]

16 comments Read the full article →

How to: LaCie Safe Manager on 64bit Mac Lion (with LaCie Rugged Safe drive)

September 6, 2011
Thumbnail image for How to: LaCie Safe Manager on 64bit Mac Lion (with LaCie Rugged Safe drive)

I’m totally in love with my new LaCie Rugged Safe 1TB drive. It’s a rugged external drive, Firewire 800 / USB 2, which is encrypted using your fingerprint. Sounds fancy, right? It kinda is – and it works wonders. The AES 128-bit encryption is plenty for me. I’m not storing secrets on it, but I’m [...]

7 comments Read the full article →

Import your Facebook friends into Google+

July 14, 2011
Thumbnail image for Import your Facebook friends into Google+

Facebook must be scared since they shut down a Google Chrome plugin that would allow you to export your Facebook friends and import them into Google+. Luckily, there are other ways of doing it – and here’s one method: Use Yahoo contacts to export your Facebook friends, then export Yahoo contacts into a CSV file [...]

24 comments Read the full article →

4 Tips for How to Develop a Perfect iPad Magazine App

July 12, 2011
Thumbnail image for 4 Tips for How to Develop a Perfect iPad Magazine App

The revolutionary iPad 2 has reached an interesting point and companies are enthusiastic about working on iPads and developing apps for their products, websites, blogs and magazines. Digital magazines for iPads are becoming quite popular in US and UK and people love the new enhanced reading experience. Digital and iPad magazines are popping up everywhere [...]

11 comments Read the full article →

Facebook + Spotify (and how to use Spotify internationally)

May 26, 2011
Thumbnail image for Facebook + Spotify (and how to use Spotify internationally)

Facebook and Spotify teams up to provide a new music service to Facebook users. The new service will probably be named “Facebook Music” or “Spotify on Facebook” and is said to be launched in as soon as just two weeks, according to Forbes. Apparently there’s no money shifting hands in this deal, Facebook doesn’t pay [...]

10 comments Read the full article →

How “Lee” filters are made – and why they’re so expensive…

April 26, 2011
Thumbnail image for How “Lee” filters are made – and why they’re so expensive…

In this video, Lee managing director Eddie Ruffell shows how they make the finest photographic filters – by hand! All the way from the raw chemicals up to the finished filters. Lee filters are known for high quality and judging by all the manual labour involved in the process of making these filters, I’d say [...]

15 comments Read the full article →

How Lexar memory chips are made [cool video]

January 21, 2011
Thumbnail image for How Lexar memory chips are made [cool video]

Ever wondered how they make memory chips? This cool behind the scenes video from Lexmark shows you just how memory chips are made and assembled. It’s definitely worth a quick look. Those robots are amazingly precise…

3 comments Read the full article →

Top 50 passwords you shouldn’t use – and learn how to create a strong password!

December 23, 2010
Thumbnail image for Top 50 passwords you shouldn’t use – and learn how to create a strong password!

As you probably already know, Gawker media was compromised not long ago and  passwords belonging to their users went out on the Internet. Gawker media is behind several sites with Gizmodo probably being the most popular one, at least in the tech-world, I imagine. Based on the 188.279 passwords leaked, Graham Cluley from Sophos made [...]

12 comments Read the full article →

The How & How Much: Starting a Photography Business

November 10, 2010
Thumbnail image for The How & How Much: Starting a Photography Business

As the economy continues to crawl ever so slowly out of the recent recession, more and more people are starting their own businesses out of their homes to make a living. One of those start-up businesses can be a photography company. So many people out there claim to enjoy taking pictures, and some people are [...]

11 comments Read the full article →

How to Clean Your Printer Heads

October 25, 2010
Thumbnail image for How to Clean Your Printer Heads

The print head for an inkjet printer is where the ink is sucked out of the cartridge and sprayed onto your paper through very small nozzles. When your print jobs start looking fuzzy, blurred, or streaked, those nozzles on your print head are either clogged or partially clogged. This happens because, over time, ink mixes [...]

26 comments Read the full article →

Tip: Reduce Thumbnail File Sizes in Aperture 3

April 10, 2010
Thumbnail image for Tip: Reduce Thumbnail File Sizes in Aperture 3

Just a quick tip on how to reduce your Thumbnails folder in Aperture 3 with around 50%, if you’ve been running Aperture 3 since it was first released. The latest update (3.0.2) fixed an issue with thumbnails being larger in filesize than actually needed and I concur – my thumbnails folder was almost 9GB for [...]

5 comments Read the full article →

Aperture 3 Performance Fix – Make Slow Aperture Run Faster

April 6, 2010
Thumbnail image for Aperture 3 Performance Fix – Make Slow Aperture Run Faster

Just a quick tip to you Apple Aperture 3 users out there, who are experiencing a (very) slow running Aperture 3 – like I did. Mine was so bad, I was about to go crazy. It could easily take 5-10 seconds to make adjustments, and that’s just not good enough. I figured Aperture 3 was [...]

83 comments Read the full article →

3 Facebook Privacy Settings Everybody Should Know (+ Fun Videos)

March 23, 2010
Thumbnail image for 3 Facebook Privacy Settings Everybody Should Know (+ Fun Videos)

A few months ago, Facebook popped up on most user’s screens, asking to modify privacy settings according to new settings offered by Facebook. Undoubtedly, many users just clicked through it and adapted the privacy settings suggested by Facebook, probably leaving your profile more open than it was before. No matter what, it’s a good idea [...]

9 comments Read the full article →

How To: iCal Birthday Reminders With Alarm (iCalBirthdays 2.0)

March 12, 2010
Thumbnail image for How To: iCal Birthday Reminders With Alarm (iCalBirthdays 2.0)

Here’s a quick and really neat trick for Mac users who would like to have birthdays listed in iCal. As default, your Mac will easily display birthdays in iCal, based on dates from your Addressbook, but it can’t give you an alarm and there’s no way to modify the events to do so. So, somebody [...]

9 comments Read the full article →

Gmail Tip: Trick Gmail Into Checking Your POP3 Accounts Often

March 3, 2010
Thumbnail image for Gmail Tip: Trick Gmail Into Checking Your POP3 Accounts Often

I recently moved away from MobileMe as my primary Inbox, to which I had a few other e-mail accounts forward e-mail to. I was happy with MobileMe as my e-mail provider, except for the fact that some e-mails never arrived, not even in my spam/junk folder. I investigated and found out that the sending SMTP [...]

60 comments Read the full article →

How To: QuickTime X Autoplay Movies On Open In Snow Leopard

September 2, 2009
Thumbnail image for How To: QuickTime X Autoplay Movies On Open In Snow Leopard

QuickTime X is the newest version of QuickTime Player for Mac which comes with the new Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Snow Leopard introduces QuickTime X, a major leap forward that advances modern media and Internet standards. QuickTime X includes a brand-new player application, offers optimized support for modern codecs, and delivers more efficient [...]

8 comments Read the full article →

Retain Visitors To Your Site And Increase Sales Conversions: Exit Grabber Review

July 3, 2009

You want better sales conversions or membership registrations on your website, am I right? Because, after all, that’s what puts food on the table. And beer in the fridge. After having this software recommended by a good friend and Internet marketing guru, I suggested to one of my clients that they gave it a try. [...]

1 comment Read the full article →

How to make the perfect Cappuccino, or: How I learned to stop worrying and making my own cappuccino

June 30, 2009

Have you ever wondered how the restaurants made your cappuccino? Because I have, so I decided to go out and buy some rather cheap espresso machine with a steam wand, just to try it out myself. I like coffee and cappuccino, but I prefer to enjoy when I’m out, so when I’m at home, I [...]

1 comment Read the full article →

How to get Twitter followers that matters

June 24, 2009

“Oh no, not another one of those get-thousands-of-followers-scams”, you think? You’re in luck, because it’s not. I hate those and they don’t add anything of value to your Twitter experience (so I’ve heard, but it makes sense to me). In 10 days of being a Twitter user, I have 43 followers – of which, I [...]

0 comments Read the full article →