I sometimes get the question what gear I use and how I have stuff set up at home. Thus it might be a good idea to post a pic of the “home office” as I have it setup today. Featuring 2 24 inch Dell displays hooked up to an I7 Mac Mini, an older 19…
With my iPad three on the shopping short-list, i’m once again looking at reorganizing and tweaking all of the applications that I have on there. As a great man once said : The greater your skills, the fewer tools you need. And as tempting as it may be to fill up your home screen (and…
Yes, I know i’m a day late for my mandatory Star Wars post for the annual Star Wars day ( May the Fourth) but I was too busy blowing up planets and force choking my enemies. And a dude needs to take his Jedi Cloak to the dry cleaners once a year too you know.…
This week we talk Macs and Mommies with the Charming Melissa Davis. We dive off the deep end in this 90 minute interview on technology, education and how she uses tech in her daily life AND introduces it into those of others. A delightful spontaneous interview that you will surely enjoy. Shownotes. The Mac Mommy…
The downside of having both Tech Skills and a family … is that sometimes you become the family helpdesk. Before you know it people ring you up to fix their computer, and for some (like my mum in law and my wife’s “Ubuntu” Granny) a smoothly running computer is VERY important. But sometimes when the…
I’ve been mocked many times for keeping hold of my old childhood toys. But where most men keep their toys in a box in the basement or the garage, some of my toys are proudly on display in our living room. Yes, I am fortunate to have a wife who is not only as geeky…
Don Mcallister is probably the master, no, the emperor when it comes to screencasting and making instructional video’s for Mac and IOS users. His website “Screencasts online” is packed with great instructional video’s for both payed and free users. One of these screencasts for the “non premium” users (or a ‘free screencast’ )…
In my never ending quest to find interesting Linux Distributions I have stumbled upon this little gem called Uberstudent. A Ubuntu-Derivative targeted at the student or the educational professional. It takes me back to the days of College Linux, an obscure little distribution that got me started in running Linux back in 2003. ( It’s long dead…
The great thing about OSX (and all Apple technology for that matter) is that there aren’t a lot of buttons you can press. This makes for simplicity and ease of use. For stark designs and intuitive interactions with technology. And that’s great. Until you feel the urge to customize something or want to change a…
If connoisseurs of Technology in general are terrible at one thing, then it must be their predictions. The question “How do you think the world of technology will look in 5 to 10 years time ?” will get you the most bizarre of answers. Just look around you. We are in a world where the kings of…
Season 3 of KWTV kicks off with a review of HTC’s ONE flagship phone the HTC ONE X. We run it through its paces and take a good hard look at this Tecra 3 Quad sporting chocolate brown goodness. Will it be enough to chase away the hordes of Samsung an battle the Unicorn tears…
We return to season 3 of the Knightwise.com podcast with a behind the scenes look on what it takes to get the show out there. What gear do we have, how do we use it and more importantly : What workflows we use and how that tech works for us. Enjoy a deeply technical behind…
With the whole rebranding redesign of Knightwise.com going on on the background, one of the things we wanted to upgrade was the logo. originally designed by fan of the show Sharky it portrayed the “Knightwise.com Heron” in side profile. With the rebrand we decided to turn the logo around and spread the Herons wings. Friend…
While looking for content for the next intro tune for the Knightwise.com podcast, I came across this little gem : The sound of a dial-up modem slowed down 700 times. I am not really sure to be completely spooked by this sound or to sit down and have it playing as some kind of background…
Download of the week : Until a while ago I used an app on my Mac (I have even forgotten the name) to download any Youtube video’s I needed for the podcast or for some of my presentations. When upgrading to Lion, it decided (or rather Lion decided) it wouldn’t work anymore. Tough 🙁 I…
With the end of the month approaching the new release of Ubuntu is coming ever closer. With 12.04 we are seeing the 3rd incarnation of this popular operating system featuring the highly contraversial Unity interface. Canonicals bold move in choosing a completely different way of letting you interact with your desktop have been the subject…
Easter .. the first day its all “Yummm” and “HHmmm” and “Nommm” and “Chocolate” .. but the second day there is a lot of running and screaming … and shooting and stuff.. Thanx GAS. Related PostsKW1304 – Cutting the CableThree Can’t Miss Star Trek Fan-Fics (part 3)Three Can’t Miss Star Trek Fan-Fics (part 2)Three Can’t…
Our Tablets (wether that be iPads or Android Tablets) are probably the most coveted piece of technology you can find on our ground floor. Having chased our desktop computers upstairs to our Office and herding our laptops in the closet to wait for more productive tasks, they rule supreme. Aside from the average tasks of…
Time to chill into the upcoming weekend with a great track I found on the Spacemusic podcast. If you don’t know Spacemusic and you ARE a fan of ambient and electronic music ? You have been missing out BADLY for the last couple of years. Podcaster supreme ‘TC’ puts together great shows with the best…
“A Reboot” The term has been used many times of the last couple of years whenever it was time to “reinvent” an older concept or tv show into a new fresh format. Take “Battlestar Galactica”, “The A-Team”, “Star Trek”. Many of these old but gold cultural icons have been re-invented into a fresh and novel…
If you thought we were dead ? You are sadly mestaken . Just a quick shout out to all the devote Knightwise.com fans out there that good stuff is coming your way fast. We are hard at work behind the scenes on getting everything ready for season 3 of Knightwise.com and together with an entire overhaul…
If you thought we were dead ? You are sadly mestaken :). Just a quick shout out to all the devote Knightwise.com fans out there that good stuff is coming your way fast. We are hard at work behind the scenes on getting everything ready for season 3 of Knightwise.com and together with an entire…
Sit back and enjoy another “storytime’ edition of the Knightwise.com podcast where we question our sanity in using Email and wonder wether the IT guy will go extinct. On a bed of some soothing music its time so close your eyes and listen. Shownotes. Music : Allindiaradio : Free me My new blog : Bridging…
This week we give you the lowdown on installing own cloud. Your own personal cloud storage server to access your files via Webdav or a dedicated client on any system. We have a good friend of the show Mr Gadgets who sends in an audio contribution and we give YOU a little bit of a…
We dive into the world of RSS readers and teach you cool cross-platform tips on managing your information feeds to share and consume your favorite content. We take a close look at Google Reader and the Instapaper service with its several API’s and teach you some cool tricks to turn those saved articles into podcasts.…
We take a good look at Samsungs proclaimed Iphone Killer in this episode of KWTV filmed in the murky moors of Rijkhoven. We go through the first impressions of Samsungs new flagship phone, take a look at the specs, the android software with touchwiz and see how it holds its own compared to the iphone…
This week we show you how to upgrade your mac from a “run of the mill’ system to a superpowerfull Macbook Pro with the addition of extra RAM an a Solid State drive. For under 300 Dollars you can mutate your mac into the next big thing. Shownotes. Kingston memory Selector. Other world Computing. Watch.…
With the holiday season coming our way its time to review Sony’s Tablet S, also known as “the wedge shaped take on Tablet’s” by good old Sony. We got the chance to play around with the tablet for a week and give it all of our undivided attention. What looks like a “plasticy” piece of…
4354 articles unread. The number stands out in bold red letters on my otherwise pristine and stark background of my Ipad. It is the “number of items unread” in my RSS feed. Its just a number though, just ONE number of the many messages, news items, tweets, video’s podcasts and comments that “await my attention”.…
This week we deep dive into the art of streaming all of your media across your home network using multiple operating systems. We take a look at DLNA servers and clients, Amahi Linux configurations and Virtual Lion servers to stream and sync all of our content to all of our devices , no matter what…
