Ok, this has annoyed many people out there, including me: Apple found it clever to remove the pinch gesture on the icon view of the Finder window. For what ever reason, but it was annoying me enough to find a solution.
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So that’s how it looks if you upgrade your WIFI…
Three Nighthawk X6‘s arrived. Bricked one hacking it misconfiguring DD-WRT; serial cable debricks it. Here’s some throughput that brings it to precisely half my wired network connection (measured OTA from my 2013 Macbook Air to my server which is wired using Gigabit LAN / Cat7 to the routers, measured...
Continue reading...Speed Reading
I’ve been doing some investigation on speed reading, here’s there result.
Continue reading...Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett for Kids
Yesterday’s post regarding the adoption of Perl and RegEx in early childhood has raised some questions as per to which degree we should expose our kids to potentially questionable content.
Continue reading...Linksys WRT120N hacked.
This is amazing: A simple URL call allows you to bypass the login. What’s more interesting is how he got there.
Continue reading...Visual Feedback from Apple Scripts
I am probably overly abusing Better Touch Tool. As an example, while reading a book in Full Screen mode with Skim, I want to create different types of annotations but I do not want to use the menu or even the keyboard to switch annotation types. I want to...
Continue reading...Gardening Hack: Lawnmower modded so that it goes uphill, for less than 5$
Field-tested for over three years now, this hack will set you back about 5$ and make your lawn mower go straight up hill 45°. Sorry for the portrait format, but it is apparently awesome enough that it was even featured in Honey Bee (I’m active in the Honey Bee...
Continue reading...Awesome DIY Helping Hands
Now occasionally, I stumble across real cool hacks. This one came out top today: How to make a helping hands soldering station out of material you already very likely have, at about no costs – and that beats every el cheapo Chinese rubbish big time. Only mod I’d do...
Continue reading...How to Fix an APC UPS that’s not charging its Battery
I recently had my APC Smart-UPS 3000 RM report to me that I needed to replace the battery. Sure thing, I ordered a replacement from Ebay, plugged in and thought everything should be just fine. Well, it wasn’t. The battery was not charged, and neither reset nor power cycling...
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