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iPhone: solution when Network is dropping

Since some weeks my iPhone 4 started to act strange in terms of showing a popup message whenever it lost the cellular network. I figured out how to solve this behavior.

Oliver 21. September 2011
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OS X: Free space on your Time Machine backup drive

Searching through the web I did not find any up-to-date help on how to properly remove old Time Machine backups, in order to have more space available. But when trying the most easy and obvious way, I figured out that’s how Apple intended to do it…

Oliver 18. September 2011
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Quake 3 Arena: Console Commands

My list of favourite console commands to simplify the quality in Quake III Arena (= optimize performance on slower machines)

Oliver 29. August 2011
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Carmageddon II Cheats

Here are some of my favourite Cheats to enhance a fun ride while annihilating your opponents.

Oliver 29. August 2011
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OS X: 10.7 Post-Upgrade checklist

I just upgraded to OS X Lion and put together a post-upgrade checklist with more or less important things I had to take care of.

Oliver 31. July 2011
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Timr to track your work & project time… comes with Webinterface!

Through a recommendation by a friend, I installed “Timr” (on the iPhone it’s called “iTimr”) today in order to accurately keep track of my working times. I thought I share here my first impression of this tool, because it comes with quite some nice features.

Oliver 2. May 2011
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Nostalgic Series: Atari Games

Play classic, nostalgic Atari Games on your iPhone & iPad:

https://www.metacritic.com/game/ios/ataris-greatest-hits

Oliver 7. April 2011
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OS X: set Front Row to show preferably on secondary Screen

This is the best solution I found in the world wide web to overcome the missing feature, to use Front Row on a secondary display screen.

Oliver 4. October 2010
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How-to add a new Company Contact with Name on the iPhone

H ave you ever added a new company contact to your iPhone Address Book? Have you also provided a First and Last Name of the contact, working at that company? If you did, you may have noticed that the iPhone… Continue reading » “How-to add a new Company Contact with Name on the iPhone”

Oliver 12. August 2010
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Good News: Safari’s Autofill Sicherheitslücke behoben

Mit Safari 5.0.1 (bzw. 4.1.1) behebt Apple die Sicherheitslücke in Safari 4 & 5, welche es ermöglichte, alle Informationen der persönlichen Adressbuch-Visitenkarte bei einem Webseiten-Besuch automatisiert auszulesen.

Oliver 31. July 2010
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