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[28 Nov 2008 | 24 Comments | ]

Last Monday I had to take my driving exam which I passed! Unfortunately that doesn’t mean that I can drive a car immediately. So I had to request a driving licence from the city hall.
Requesting a driving licence can take up to a week, so when I requested it last Monday I didn’t knew if I could get it before the end of the weekend.. However.. I was very lucky! Cause yesterday I received an email that I actually could pick up my driving licence and today I …

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[27 Nov 2008 | 16 Comments | ]

We all have a lot of bookmarks. We bookmark everything which we find valuable and/or which we want to visit again because we liked the website or need the information again.
In the most cases you give it a obviously name and save the bookmark,not knowing that you have saved the same link long time ago under another name.
This can be confusing, so what can you do about it? You can check the links one by one but that’s going to take a lot of time, right? But what if there …

Personal »

[24 Nov 2008 | 15 Comments | ]

As I wrote some days ago, I had my driving licence exam today. I didn’t knew if it could take place as it had snowed all weekend and even today.
So I knew I had to drive through the snow storm, which would be obviously more difficult then usually. Anyway after 20 minutes of driving around he told me that I passed the exam! So hell yeah! I have my driving licence!! It’s about time!
This weekend we’ve planned to buy a car.. Which car? I still don’t …

Personal, Site Update »

[23 Nov 2008 | 11 Comments | ]

After considering it for a long time I decide to create a Twitter account. In case you don’t know what Twitter is, Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service, that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.
Twitter updates are displayed on the user’s profile page and will be delivered to everyone, who have signed up to receive them. You can change that in your settings if you don’t like that. …

Tips & Tricks: PC »

[22 Nov 2008 | 15 Comments | ]

Yeah! At last… This is a feature which I really missed in Gmail. I love Gmail as it is now.. don’t get me wrong! I mean it works perfect, fast, it looks clean and neat and off course..Because it offers you more than 7GB of space!
I’m using Gmail for a long time, from the time where you had to have an invitation to create an account. One thing which would make Gmail even better as it is now would be the ability to use themes. I mean you …

Tips & Tricks: PC »

[21 Nov 2008 | 9 Comments | ]

UAC, better known as User Access Control is a new feature of Windows Vista. UAC is meant to improve the security of your system. Each time an application is installed or whenever an important system change is made by the user or by a running process, the screen is blacked out and temporarily disabled and a dialog is shown with the choices to allow or deny the action, as shown as below.

If you aren’t logged as an administrator, Windows Vista will also ask for the administrator password. Like mentioned before …