Jacken’s Blog

In Sweden Telia is the selected peddler of the iPhone. With just one provider selling the iPhone there’s no reason to have a good deal on it. So I will not get an iPhone until Apple stops the nonsense of only having one provider. I think Apples strategy is so f…ing stupid. They always manage [...]

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Yes! Finally a plugin for displaying PDF in Firefox 3 for mac. It uses PDFKit.

Get PDF plugin for Firefox here

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Nobody talks about the fact that  all the companies  that  will now start making programs for the  iPhone  will first  learn  how easy it is to program with Cocoa. Then suddenly you have a lot of new programmers that know how to program for the Mac as well. Yes, it’s that similar. What would stop [...]

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I have had this annoying problem with my Macbook Pro. Sometimes when waking the machine from sleep, the machine can not connect to the selected Airport network and then hangs with spinning pizza of death.

Apples next update to 10.5.3 looks like it will fix it. Hopfully Apple will release it soon… From Fixed list of Mac [...]

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Here’s a nice bug for ya. One of the users at work has a Word document, and when she uses “Save As…” to save the file to another location everything looks normal. But Word never saves the file! It’s non existant! This is only if the setting for compatibility with Office 2004 is set.

This isn’t the first [...]

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So i’ve upgraded some of the users to Microsoft Office 2008 at work, just to see if we have less problems with it. But It seems like the geniuses at Microsoft still can’t program. The classic “you are out of memory” dialog pops up in Word, and it’s impossible to save to any volume. My [...]

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i’ve spent this weekend building and installing a new web/mailserver. My decision to go with Zimbra doesn’t feel so risky, because Microsoft gave up on their idea of a Yahoo! takeover. The only thing I can say is: Yahoo!

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After getting my E-MU 0404 USB audio interface I have started to rip my vinyl record collection. I want to retain as much as possible of the amazing sound of vinyl, so I rip everything in 24bit 48khz. Why not use 96khz? Well, my preferred playback device, the Squeezebox only supports 24/48 unfortunately.

Here’s how I do it…

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For probably 20 years I’ve been searching for a song. An old friend of mine, Micke Fredriksson used to play this punk song from a live recording. The only thing I remembered was that they sang “They called me an animal, then they cut me up”. So sometimes I searched the net for the text, [...]

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The last couple of years due to the iPod, I’ve listened to more music than ever before. I also haven’t bought much music. But in the last six month I bought a lot of CDs and now also vinyl records. I would never pay full price for a CD, in Sweden you pay around $18! [...]

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