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Gaming

The Past, Present and Future of the DotA Genre

With the upcoming release of the much anticipated Dota 2, the future of the DotA scene is all but uncertain. Will games like Heroes of Newerth (HoN) and League of Legends (LoL) survive the competition put forward by Dota 2? What do the games’ recent DreamHack tournaments mean for the future of the games themselves? […]

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Archived Personal

New Design and Backend

As of this weekend, this blog now sports a brand new design as well as the WordPress software! After a week of careful planning and researching themes and plug-ins, I decided to make the switch from my good old ExpressionEngine suite to the popular WordPress blogging platform. As I’ve already used WordPress for another blog […]

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Archived Coding

What is a Kext?

A common misconception seen on a lot of places is that a .kext file is some sort of driver for the Mac OS. That is not entirely true – the kext resembles a driver but does a lot more than just act as a driver! Definition kext stands for Kernel Extension and is an extension […]

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Archived News

Handing out 20 Free Google Wave Invites

I’ve been lucky enough to receive 20 Google Wave invites a couple of days ago. If you haven’t heard, Google Wave is Google’s new fresh way of sending emails. It has the potential of revolutionizing the way we use emails – it’s actually really interesting. I will be using it a lot during the coming […]

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Archived Coding

Considering Switching – ExpressionEngine versus WordPress

In one of my new projects, Thy Old XBOX, I have used WordPress and had a chance to look at its numerous blogging-friendly features. That, and EllisLab’s rather horrid way of handling ExpressionEngine 2.0’s release and the fuss around it, has got me thinking. I am in all honestly wondering whether WordPress would suit me […]

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Archived Technology

Review of SIGMA 70-300mm 4.0-5.6

When I decided to purchase a new lens a couple of months ago, I wanted a lens with zoom. It was one of those features I lacked on my D40 kitlens (which is only 18-55mm). I wanted to try new techniques within photography, and I wanted a tele-zoom lens at a cheap price. I was […]

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Archived News

I’m Using Woopra!

Real-time analytics. Just to hear that word got me thinking a lot. What if I could, in real-time, track all my visitors and see what pages they went to and where they ended up. What paths they took to reach certain areas, what links they clicked, how long they read my articles. What if there […]

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Archived Technology

Early Review of the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X5

UPDATE: It seems the phone has finally been released, under the name of Sony Ericsson Pureness. Looks cool! The display The first thing about the new Sony Ericsson XPERIA X5 (just X5 in short) you will notice is the display. Not only does it sport the usual you’d expect from Sony Ericsson – high resolution […]

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Archived Technology

New XBOX Blog Launched

A couple of weeks ago I decided to start publishing XBOX-related articles on a new blog I created. For this purpose, I uploaded an installation of WordPress and started writing. The XBOX is Microsoft’s old gaming console – it was good at the time and it still is. My goal is to educate people about […]

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Archived Technology

How To Remove Spotify Ads Without Premium

This guide, in its entirety, is taken from SmexDesign. Credits goes to him for finding this! #1 Open Spotify and log in with your credentials. Click Edit in the top-hand menu and then press Preferences…. #2 Set the Proxy to HTTPS and enter these details as your host and port: Host: 213.203.241.210 Port: 80 Make […]