AquaEmacs and JDEE and Method Completion - Cannot find JDK's tools jar file (or equivalent)
2010-11-24 Software-Engineering Nerdy Tips & Tricks
Hhhmmm … nerd alert: If you do not like AquaEmacs, JDEE and Method Completion … don’t read this :).
Otherwise … good news: ...
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Social Networking - Updating your status: all or nothing?
2009-09-17 Personal Culture Tips & Tricks
Yesterday I was stumbling over a Facebook status update from Oisin Hurley …
Oisin Hurley is starting to get a bit irritated with people that ...
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Effective Mac - Using TimeMachine Part II or Why Restore was grayed out?
2009-09-12 Personal Mac Tips & Tricks
It happened again!!! Another HD crash. A year ago I lost my original 160GB drive and replaced it with a 250GB drive. Now this one failed only 12 month ...
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Effective Mac - Make the Mac listen ...
2009-05-18 Personal Mac Tips & Tricks
This morning I was using my new Jawbone Bluetooth headset to make a Skype call. The quality was bad and therefore I decided to switch to my headset. ...
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Need a new phone - iPhone vs. Blackberry vs. Android
2009-05-18 Personal Mobile Tips & Tricks
Last year I went hill-walking with Andrew and Adrian in Kerry. By now everybody knows the story: I drowned my iPhone in Adrian’s backpack. The ...
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Effective Mac - Sleeping on the plane
2009-01-10 Software-Engineering Mac Tips & Tricks
About a year ago, I “borrowed” the battery from Christina’s MacBook to extend my “life”, while I am on the plane. The ...
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Effective Mac - Using OpenOffice, NeoOffice and/or iWorks08
2009-01-04 Personal Mac Tips & Tricks
Finally! OpenOffice is now available for the Mac. In the last two month I used OpenOffice 3.0, NeoOffice 2.2.5 and iWorks08 in parallel (with a ...
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Social Networking - Del.icio.us rediscovered! or Do we need the Open Social API?
2008-10-28 Personal Tips & Tricks
(Blogging from a plane en-route from DUB to BOS using the email interface of blogger.com :))
The other day I updated my website with the details of my ...
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Effective Mac - Using Time Maschine
2008-09-30 Personal Mac Tips & Tricks
On Saturday at 08:00am it happened to me. I move/dragged an email into a folder on my Mac and the machine froze. Diagnosis: Catastrophic harddisk ...
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Effective Mac - Open-Source Mac
2008-09-10 Personal Mac Tips & Tricks
Was looking for an opensource search engine for the Mac and found this interesting website. I am already using half of the apps, but will take a look ...
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