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How To Create Screenshots in Lion (OS X)

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In OS X you don't need a special software for doing screenshots. OS X has some special key shortcuts natively embedded which make it absolutely convenient to easily take screenshots. Read more »

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How do you secure the iThings and Androids for Corporate Use?

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How are you securing your corporate mobiles devices like iPhone, iPad, Symbians and Androids?Most companies are facing today the situation that their endusers (aka employees) want to use their private devices to connect to the corporate life and systems without using the comfort smart phones are adding to their private life.It is not necessarily a big issue to connect those devices through Microsoft ActiveSync protocol with the downside however that a of functionality will be under the governance of the cooperation and making smartphones far less smarter that they are out of the box. Read more »

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Boot Manager for OS X – rEFIt

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You can use rEFIt it to boot multiple operating systems easily, including triple-boot setups with Boot Camp. Booting OS X from an USB drive is another useful option.In the case you aren’t using any other Operating System in parallel to OS X, rEFIt can still be useful to you for booting for instance from a 1:1 backup on a USB hard drive. Carbon Copy Cloner is probably one of the best tools to create a 1:1 backup of your system partition. Read more »

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Kernel 2.6.36 for Intel 32-bit Debian (VMware Fusion)

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For some months we are regularly publishing the latest Linux kernel for Debian root servers, optimized for servers running in 1&1 environment.Upon request we started this week to publish as well a 32-bit Intel version for Debian. This version should be compatible with most default and non-exotic configurations but is optimized for Debian systems running in a VMware Fusion virtual machine on Max OS X (intel machines). Read more »

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1&1 aktueller Kernel für Linux AMD64 Debian

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Auf der folgenden Seite finden Sie stets den aktuellsten Kernel, den ich selber kompiliert habe für die AMD 64-bit Architektur unter Debian (aktuell Lenny Release).Die Kernel sind alle auf einem AMD64 XXL Root Server von 1und1 getestet worden. Read more »

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Connecting facebook.com to iChat (OS X)

This small tutorial shows you how to connect facebook to iChat (on OS X) through the Jabber protocol. Further details of how to configure iChat can as well be found on the following video: First please open iChat an go to the preferences and press the ‘+’ sign to create a new acccount – you will [...] Read more »

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How to Recover Deleted Files from a SD Card on a Mac for Free

The other day I deleted by mistake all my images on a SD Card prior to moving the files to my local computer. I could recall that a couple of years ago there have been some free tools on the market, but today a quick goggling revealed first paid services/software only. Especially for the make [...] Read more »

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How to open .7z files on a mac (SevenZip)

7z is a compressed archive file format that supports several different data compression, encryption and pre-processing filters. The 7z format initially appeared as implemented as a Windows solution. Both the 7-Zip program and a library to read the 7z file format are publicly available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License. The [...] Read more »

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Stopping iPhoto to sync with flickr.com

iPhoto 2009 has a great feature embedded to automatically synchronize chosen picture folders with flickr.com. The synchronization is two-ways, means that later changes in iPhoto will find their way into flickr.com and vice versa. This is in principle a great feature but if you want to hold older photos on flickr only (this is what I want [...] Read more »