Friday, January 24, 2020

Why is the sky blue?


Contrary to an old saying, the sky is not blue because it reflects the ocean. Instead the reason why the sky seems blue is because...

Why is there a leap day?



A leap day occurs in a leap year. A leap year contains 366 days oppose to the regular 365 days in a normal year. 

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

How to create rules on IFTTT.com?



In this post I will guide you through the process of how to create rules using IFTTT.com. If you don't know what IFTTT is check out my other post about it: As a specific example I will show you how to create a rule which automaticly saves tagged photos of you from facebook to dropbox...

What is IFTTT?

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Have you ever experienced to face a task where you find yourself thinkin: "There has to be a smarter way to do this!" Ta da, look no more, because the webpage IFTTT.com can help you what (some of) that. IFTTT is short for "If That Then This", and the basic idea is to create rules that automates certian task for you...

Saturday, May 11, 2013

10 things you need for your next road trip


 
The summer is upon us, and the case might very well be that you are currently planning your next road trip. However, just because we are on vacation, we shouldn't necessarily live as cave men! Here are the 10 gadgets I would bring for my next road trip...

Monday, August 20, 2012

How to setup up your NAS?


In this post I will tell how I have centralized my digital storage so that all computers, smartphones, tables, media center, and what else we might have in our house, can access all your digital photos, movies, music, and much more. In this post I will describe the setup of the heart in my digital life, namely my network attached storage, or NAS ...

Friday, August 10, 2012

How to connect to your NAS from your computer?



In this post I will tell you how to connect to your NAS from your computer so that your shares are accessible when you open "My Computer". I have, as I said, a Synology NAS and a Windows 7 computer, but the principle should be the same for other setups too...