Category Archives: Computers

Of computers and gadgets — why your screen goes blank, what kind of hosting you should get, how to get started on blogging etc.

How to Avoid Duplicate Imports in iPhoto

I just finished writing my first Mac application because I had a specific problem (duplicate imports of photos into my iPhoto Library) to solve. This problem may be fairly common, so I’m making it available (all right, selling it) to the general public. Here is a summary of what it does and how to get it. Continue reading

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Your Virtual Thumbdrive

How to use online storage as your virtual thumbdrive and more.

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Hosting Options

Practical advice for budding bloggers and webmasters — what kind of web-hosting is appropriate for you?

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We Are Moving…

Unreal Blog has moved to a new powerful server (and sent out thousands of annoying emails during the process). Here is how it happened.

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Cloud Computing

About Dropbox, a cloud computing service that you will find extremely useful — if you work with multiple computers.

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Blank Screen after Hibernate/Sleep?

Have a problem of your laptop or PC staying blank after waking up from hibernation or the sleep mode? Here is how to fix it.

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How to save a string to a local file in PHP?

This post is for those of you who write plugins for WordPress. If you are not geeky enough to do that, you can safely ignore this post. Other PHP web programmers find it useful as well, if you have trouble saving a string to a file on your client’s computer without creating intermediate files at your server. Continue reading

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