The phonebook is dead! I know this for a fact because the tactics they use to get new paying customers are lies and deceit and this is exactly what happened to me.

August 5.

I get a call from Trine Jensen from De Gule Sider. The first thing I say …

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Once again John Strand is spreading FUD in the danish press. This time Apples new iPad is the target, and this insanely stupid quote from Politiken.dk says it all:

Apple indfører i iPad’en et nyt SIM-kort, som giver brugeren teknologiske håndjern på. Der er ikke andet end kommercielle …

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I have written about App Store pricing before, and I still fail to understand the "We want free upgrades for life" and "Anything more than $1 is too much" mentality that apparently rules in the App Store customer base.

Tweetie 2 for both Mac and the iPhone have just been …

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So Microsoft released a new search engine called Bing. Yes that's right Bing, what an awesome name... or maybe not. They named it Bingbecause they want people to make it in to a verb like "to google", but I don't see that happen any time soon - I certainly don't …

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Ok, first I want you to stop reading and go into your browsers preferences and disable Java. Seriously stop reading right now and disable Java now!

Please disable Java in your browser now!

There, now we can continue - Six months ago a really nasty exploit was discovered in Java. This …

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In order to get a kosher iPhone 3G here in Denmark, you have to suffer Telia. So when I upgraded my first generation iPhone to a 3G version I got a Telia iGo subscription which includes a monthly newsletter with tips and tricks. This months tip is how to move …

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Here in Denmark Telia is the sole iPhone service provider, and just like AT&T their 3G coverage is spotty at best. So I find their choice of "waiting music":http://www.thomashelmig.dk/resources/lyrics.php?track_id=1 ("iTunes":http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i …

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Yesterday my MacBook Pro started to act weird, and I began getting a lot of these in my system.log

{% codeblock lang:bash %} kernel[0]: disk0s2: 0xe0030005 (UNDEFINED).

Which according to Google means my disk is failing... Which means crap, damn crap! It also means that I got the chance …

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Man I hate Ant! So I was working on this project, in which Ant generates a build directory. - I created a symlink inside the build dir for something that was not quite ready to be build for real just yet. That way ant could do what ever it wanted to …

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