There is a command line command to top up my bank account with an almost infinite amount of cash. The only thing is .. i forgot what it is. Like keyboard shortcuts, command line commands are awesome and can save you a lot of time. BUT you need to remember them. Sure things like CTRL…
We close up the hectic week with a great track from “Carbon Based Lifeforms” When I’m not listening to podcasts in the car, I usually switch to some downbeat music to chill me out and make the drive to work a little more bearable. My monday morning routine does require me to ONLY listen to music…
Time for some desktop porn here : The Ubuntu 12.04 install on my 11.4 inch Macbook Air. Specs are : Stock 12.04, Launcher tweaked with Myunity and some added Conky Dials. Related Postskw606 : Making your Mac cross platform friendly.Saynonara mr Desktop#KWPOW : Jay’s Sliders WorldThe Knightcast Episode 32 : My Macbook.KW1605 – Data and…
My hairdresser ( of all people ) came to me with an interesting question. He had 14 copies of Michael Jackson. I suggested he would start hiding his children, but it turned out he referred to his iTunes library. These 14 duplicate songs resided in several playlists throughout his massive library. His question was ”…
A long time ago, when podcasting was still young, I found out about a writer who was nuts. This author, instead of just writing his book, decided to narrate every chapter and publish it as a podcast BEFORE the book got published. The first book – podcast series he did was called “infected” about a…
One of these days you are bound to have offspring (yes nerdy boys, even you) and if you have any parental geek skills in your body, you and whatever kid you spawn will one day be watching Star Wars. After you have secretly thrown out “The phantom menace” dubbing it “George Lucas’ biggest boo boo”…
” There are no games on Linux “. I get to hear that a lot, but in fact, nothing is further from the truth. There are no “big titles” on Linux, that might be true, but that also might change soon. As the rumor mill spouts talk of game developer STEAM working on a Linux…
Bootcamp is a pretty sweet invention. Allowing you to run Windows (or Linux) on your Mac, alongside with your favorite OSX install. Now the boys in Redmond and Cupertino might have you believe this is a completely flawless experience, but on a compact Macbook air keyboard, I dare you to find the Delete key (not…
The days we still had computers that did not have a usb port are long gone. Most computers these days come equipted with a variety of SD-card readers. Now we know we use those things in our camera’s and our phones , but we don’t always have to. One of the beautiful things of SD…
” Darn dude ! You slow or something ? Do I NEED to draw you a Picture ? ? ? ” If the answer to the first question is Yes .. I’ll try to type more slowly. If the answer to the SECOND question is yes .. then we have a solution for you. The…
We geek out in our project of putting an old G4 iMac back in circulation by looking for the best solution to install a recent operating system on its older hardware. We debate the best strategy, choose a distribution and give you tips and tricks on how to install it and what you can do…
There used to be a time when we went wardriving. We hopped into the car and drove around looking for open Wifi networks. 2 things have changed since then : Networks are so abundant now that you don’t HAVE to drive around anymore. 2 : Even redneck geeks have learned that they need to lock…
Funny things those Macs. I remember, back in the days when I was a Windows user, I spent ages trying to get stuff OUT of my task bar (the one near the clock). Whenever I installed an app on Windows it seemed hell-bent on pooping down its own little icon that would not only eat…
This week we give you a little behind the scenes scoop on the next episode of the Knightwise podcast. We show you the results of getting linux running on the old G4 iMac we bought and how we got it working. Related PostsKc304 : "Linux on PPC Macs".MAC OS X – Learning the OS X…
If you are looking for a geeky (or plain nerdy) wallpaper for your desktop this week, take a crack at one of these. I shot them last year as a little tribute to Irvin Kershner, the director of “Star Wars, The empire strikes back.” It was snowy outside. I had some action figures .. and…
Partitioning your harddrive when you have some data on it, is like doing brain surgery on your own best friend .. with blunt scissors, blindfolded, hanging upside down .. in the subwaycar .. while playing pingpong .. well , you catch my drift. With your precious data on the drives, having to resize, move and…
We show you a very simple tool how to use twitter from the command line, teach you how to schedule your tweets with Cron and create your own personal twitter assistant. With some cool and smart hacks for anyone to master we create your own virtual twitter butler (or imaginary friend) Shownotes. Twitter Tiwdge…
There are moments in your life where you stop whatever you are doing and think : ” I saw this in a scifi Movie once ! “. The great thing about living in our day and age is that technology is evolving so fast, fiction becomes fact in the average lifespan of a teen boysband.…
Long time friend of the show Swift has taken up a very interesting hobby over the last few years collecting retro gaming consoles. What started out as a collection of fantastic 8 and 16 bit Nintendo and Sega consoles has gradually evolved into an ever expanding mini museum of old computer hardware. His recent addition…
I once talked to a wiseguy (Knightwise.com fan who shall remain nameless, we will never tell ANYONE he is called Konrad) who told me he had one thrown his Android smartphone at a door. He actually threw it IN the door. Making not a dent, but a HOLE in the door. Because I love doors…
If there is one open source cross platform application that I have loved like a puppy .. its Calibre. I can vividly remember coming across this little gem when I was looking for good ways to manage my eBook library after I had just purchased my Sony PRS-505 eBook reader. The original software cd that…
A behind the scenes look at Knightwise.com where we give you a little peek of whats cooking in the cue for the next KWTV and Knightwise.com podcast episodes. This week I show you my latest purchase/project : A G4 iMac and how I would like to run some form of linux on it. I tell…
Over at Knightwise.com we are big fans of Planet Boelex. Since I heard his track ‘Sisumies‘ I have completely fallen for the great tracks this artist puts out. Having mailed back and forth with Ossi (the artist) a couple of times I can say he’s not only a great artist but also an A-Ok guy…
Co-worker Joost pointed me to this video of a product he had recently ordered for his Samsung NX10 Netbook : A touchscreen “upgrade” you can install by yourself. I haven’t played with it yet and he still needs to receive and install the touchscreen kit, but I did want to share this cool demo video…
A quick plug for a great series of articles my good friend and co-host on the AGP podcast Kd Murray is writing up called “Ubuntu School“. With nice screenshots KD explains some of the basic concepts you come across when you are setting up your own Ubuntu (or any Linux) machine. Add users, Change passwords,…
Its once again time to sit back and relax and let us tell you a story. We bring you a couple of articles about the Cupertino revolution, life without and internet connection and dive back into the long forgotten blog archive to pull up a random post from 2005. Grab your favorite hot beverage, close…
For those of you who haven’t listened to our great interview with ‘the mac mommy’ in our latest knight wise.com podcast “Macs and Mommies” you can also watch this bonus video we made of the Skype interview featured in that very podcast. (if you HAVE listened to the podcast .. you still might want to…
I recently got a question from a friend of the show that he would like to know how to print from his iPad. A fairly common question that did require some thinking on my behalf. The problem for me is : I’ve stopped ‘printing’ things out all together since we have the iPads lying around…
Some Linux commands are hard to remember. Its a matter of “use daily or forget about them” or plastering your office walls with cheatcheets of your favorite terminal commands. The one I stumbled upon yesterday was in fact a little easier to remember. Picture this : you have a home Linux server (or one at…
If i have to reach back into my mind and pull up the first memory I have of the Spacemusic podcast, I think I go back as far as Adam Curry’s original Daily Source Code where Adam played a promo for this “ambient and electronic music podcast” that was produced by a guy with a…
