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Counter-Strike: Source – How To Open the Console

Perhaps you’ve somewhere read console commands and you’ve wondered where on earth to enter them. I’ve put together this fairly straight-forward guide to help you. Steps #1 Open up your list of games inside Steam. Right click on Counter-Strike: Source, choose Properties and click the button that says Set launch options…. #2 Enter -console without […]

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GMail in Google Apps – ReSkinned!

Suddenly noticed the old GMail interface on my Google Apps setup had changed, from the old pale and square colors and boxes to a modern set of rounded corners and vivid colors. Just like the regular GMail service Google provides! Perhaps this is a step in the direction where GMail in Google Apps finally will […]

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The Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic was the constitutional system, the state, that ruled Germany between 1919 and 1933. Because of the insecurity in Berlin after the war where both left- and right-wing extremists tried to take power, the new democratic government was set up in Weimar, judged to be a safe place. As Germany had been forced […]

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The Safari Web Inspector and it’s Console

I have never really explored Apple’s Safari’s web inspector, nor have I ever found or wished there to be any use in it. I use my own source-files to debug and check my sites, and I also happen to use the built-in code-editors in some of the PHP software I use. Due to my sheer […]

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Installing Windows 7 – What Works and What Doesn’t?

Currently I am in the process of installing Windows 7 Beta 1 – the new operating system shipped out by Microsoft. After acquiring the disc needed to install the Beta 1 version of the operating system I went through the fairly simple and Vista-like installation process and booted up. Right now I am installing drivers […]

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“iykwim” – the Story of the Lost Abbreviation

“iykwim”. “iykwim”. “iykwim”. My bet is that none of those abbreviations (ha ha, they’re all the same) mean anything at all to you. At most it might look like a cryptographic sequence of letters that allegedly mean something cool. Want to know what it means? It’s a lot simpler than you thought, it simply means […]

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ExpressionEngine 2.0 – When?

I just can not wait anymore. The long-awaited release of version 2 of the popular content-management-system software, ExpressionEngine, has been delayed, re-delayed and delayed again. The first few notices said we were to expect a release during the summer of 2008. It is soon 2009 and nothing has been seen yet. Yes of course there […]

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Enhancing Colors in Photos using Lab Color in Photoshop

Have you ever taken pictures you just wished were a lot more colorful? Ever felt the need to cram that extra little bit of color out of a seemingly perfect picture? Thanks to a tutorial and some personal research I have come up with a very simple and effective method that will highlight and increase […]

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I hate Power-Outages

Power-outages… Don’t we hate them all. My server computer goes offline, killing the ten-twenty concurrent connections currently on the servers I own. Why is there an outage? Because our electricity provider’s power stations suddenly decided to kill themselves in an attempt to annoy the whole town. Wonderful. http://sydsvenskan.se/malmo/limhamn/article399614/Stromavbrott-i-Hyllie-och-Limhamn.html

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Left 4 Dead Hamachi LAN gaming without Steam

Another article in the series about doing LAN-gaming with Hamachi! This time I am covering Left 4 Dead, the much talked-about and highly anticipated new game based on the Source engine. This guide only corresponds to the pirated version of the game! Step #1 Download, using a torrent client, this file and follow the instructions […]