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Se recentemente avete provato ad accedere sotto rete 3 ai siti di Corriere della Sera e Repubblica ottimizzati per iPhone avrete sicuramente trovato un avviso simile a quello sulla destra. Quello che vedete e’ un paywall risultato degli accordi tra gli editori e il carrier H3G.

Se come me vi siete un po’ sorpresi del fatto, perche’ e’ un po’ come se Telecom Italia vi facesse pagare oltre alla sottoscrizione ADSL anche ogni singola pagina che visitate, c’e’ una economica soluzione per scavalcare il paywall. O almeno cosi’ mi sembra.

Il metodo descritto funziona solamente tramite iPhone, ma il principio e’ lo stesso per qualsiasi altro telefono.

Innanzi tutto vi dovete procurare una copia di Atomic Web Browser per il modico prezzo di 0.79 euro. Una volta ottenuto il nuovo e francamente portentoso browser potrete impostare il medesimo in modo che si identifichi come Safari Desktop e non come Safari Mobile. In questo modo otterrete la pagina standard dei due quotidiani.

Certo perderete il fascino della versione per dispositivi mobile ma eviterete di pagare 9 centesimi a pagina!

Update: anche utilizzando Opera Mini scaricabile gratuitamente e’ possibile scavalcare il paywall.

Via @sukkopera: C’è anche un’alternativa, totalmente gratuita, per chi ha un dispositivo jailbreakato: basta installare da Cydia lo UserAgent Faker, che farà sì che Safari si identifichi come Firefox su desktop!

It happened. The left fan on my Macbook Pro stated making a horrible noise, so terrible i couldn’t stand it one second. I tried opening my mac and cleaning the fan with compressed air but the noise was still there. 

 

 

 

   

The only thing to do was change it. Off I went to ifixit.com and I bought a new fan with a couple of other things also, a new battery and a new superdrive since mine failed to calibrate the laser power. The invoice was pretty expensive (107$ for shipping ARG)! Warning: This procedure voids the warranty.

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I always have problems when it come to ties.

Sometimes I forget how to make the most simple knot, especially if it’s been a while since the last time a wore one, or for a change I like to try out different knots. I always end up looking on the Internet.

Yesterday I wanted to try a new knot and I came across this image, I think it pretty served my needs and maybe it could be useful for others too. Just pay attention to the arrows going over or under the dead end of the tie. After the jump a video explaining the windsor knot.

UPDATE: A even more detailed tutorial for 8 knots after the jump!

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Let me say that this may not work with all browsers, for me at least it doesn’t work with Safari. Proceed with these steps:

  •  Select the image you want to include from a webpage (so that it becomes highlighted)
  • Copy to clipboard (ctrl+c , cmd+c, right click…)
  • Switch to gmail
  • Enable rich formatting
  • Paste (ctrl+v, cmd+v, right click…)
  • You’re done!

The image will be embedded in html code now, on gmail you’ll be able to view it by selecting for received images Display images below

First of all synchronization is different from publishing.

  • To synchronize means that no matter with which client (iCal o Google Calendar) changes are made on the calendar it is possible to see and edit the changes with another client, it’s bidirectional
  • To publish means that changes can be made by one client only. The other client can only view the changes made, no editing is possible

Thus the scenario is: I have one or more calendars on iCal that I want to also see on Google Calendar without updating by hand or importing the calendar file each update I make to the events What do you need: iCal, Google Calendar account, icalx.com account. Let’s proceed by steps. continue reading…