I use CyanogenMod based roms on my Android devices, and the main reason is the power control widget. It has many more features than the stock one. When you add it you can choose to have toggle buttons for stuff like 2g/2g+3g/3g, flashlight, orientation, wireless hotspot and many more, including the ones from stock like bluetooth, wifi and data traffic.

First thing I did when I got my Desire HD was to get rid of the stock sense rom and install CleanDHD (Cyanogen 7-based).

They might not be able to prosecute him for what has already been done, but what about future leaks?

Fingers on the keyboard

Can anyone explain me this stuff? The top layout thingie is the standard one I found on wikipedia, and I find it horribly unnatural to use, therefore I created my own distribution of finger use pictured on the bottom, which feels much more comfortable. The finger names in the picture are in Norwegian, but they correspond from left to right on your left paw. The best example is the C button. Even the thought of using the middle finger for that button makes me shrug, therefore I rather use the index finger.

(As a side note, I do use the Dvorak layout, but this is not a question about layouts.)

I commute every day, and after having read through one of the monthly magazines i recieve (Aftenposten Innsikt, articles about everything from nuclear power to oil in Nigeria), i play DS or PSP. Or, at least I used to. That made me "abandon" them is that no good games (with some exceptions) come for them any more. I have a phone that I could probably play on, but I prefer having battery left to actually do phone stuff.

My Norwegian provider NetCom has a surfing package for 125 NOK (15,5 EUR / 20,5 USD), where you basically get unlimited traffic over GPRS/3G/HSDPA. What they do is that they cap your speed to 100 / 100 kbit after 6 GB (monthly quota), and you can purchase another 1 GB for 99 kr if you need the speed. Without this package, you pay maximum 9 kr per day for data traffic, but they cap the speed after 200 MB in month. I think this is a very good offer, way better than paying for a certain amount, and then having to pay more if I go over that. I take bandwidth caps over extra fees any day when it comes to data traffic on the phone.

There are probably better offers in other countries, of course, but by Norwegian standards it is pretty good.

Is it? I just saw the Chan-wook Park movie Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance. It is a South Korean thriller movie. The main person are a deaf guy and his sister, who abducts a child who later dies in their custody. A lot of the movie is about the father, who seeks a very gruesome revenge. The main characters are certainly not good guys, and the way the father seeks revenge does not make him one either. This was very different from the good guy-bad guy-movies that I have seen from Hollywood, and is one of the few movies that have managed to stir up some strong feelings inside me while watching. All in all a very different movie (seen from a western perspective, I come from Norway). This is a movie, not a videogame, but I think the same could apply to a video game. The whole good guy-bad guy-thing should not be written in stone, and perhaps many game developers should think of new dynamics instead of having a very clearly defined good guy (often played by you) and clearly defined bad guys.

In Windows 7 you have TRIM to make sure the SSD keeps its performance over time. What does Apple have to offer in this area for Mac OS X? I tried to put a OCZ Vertex in a MacBook Unibody, but after the drive got completely filled up, the performance gain was lost. In Windows 7 the drive is fast like it should thanks to TRIM. Is it any different from the Apple blessed drives you get in the Air or when you order SSD as a option straight from Apple?

Going from the typical 5.400rpm laptop drive to SSD makes you feel like a 14 year old girl again. Jokes aside, it is really a noticeable difference, even for simple things like opening the start menu. And the best of it, your computer does not slow down so horribly much when multiple applications are accessing the drive. Even netbooks benefit greatly from SSD.

For forum administrators, it is a very clever way to keep many ban evaders out. While it is not un-killable, it is pretty much a pain in the ass to get rid of, since it will get back if you miss a single one and visit the site again. Read the list of the places it stores its cookies, and be amazed how many there actually are. So, 1) ban user, 2) place cookie, 3) user signs up again, 4) your site detects the evercookie + new registration, 5) verify and ban again (unless the user suddenly becomes a good user, of course).

Well, Opera is very configurable. They could perhaps provide one thread per tab as a option? I think that would be in line with the Opera spirit.

You can try out privoxy. It is an ad filtering proxy server, which will work with any browser. I don't surf the web without it. Just install it, set your browser to use proxy 127.0.0.1 on port 8118, and voilá, obnoxious ads be-gone.

I have been using Opera for quite some time, and the speed and feature set is very good. What I do wish for, more than extensions, is to have each tab have it's own thread in a similar fashion as Chrome. I have experienced some crashes on my Mac because of plugins, and it would be good to only have one tab crash, not the whole browser.

As a former criminal, I found that the older mobile phones (like Nokia 8210, 8850, 6110 and other DCT3 phones), are handy to have around. Changing IMEI on these phones is pretty simple, all you need is a inexpensive cable and a piece of free software. Oh, and a PC with a COM port. Changing IMEI is legal in my country.

If they tap your phone, they also do it by the IMEI number. So changing that, I did not have to toss the phone and purchase a new one each time I changed the prepaid card.

(Oh, by the way, I never talked 'business' on the phone, but it is nice to have a way to get contacted by SMS that cannot be tracked back to myself. They have voice recognition, so making a phone call can reveal your identity.)

I thought their process of submitting leaks to Wikileaks provided the source with anonymity anyway, so that even if they were forced to give up their sources they would not have the information at all.

In my socialist utopia country Norway, there was actually a court ruling that found a man who had child pornography in his browser cache not guilty. The reason was that he did not download them (but he did in fact confess to have purchased them intentionally) and that regular people should not be expected to know that the browser caches images from the web. In effect, the ruling actually means it is legal to surf child pornography in Norway. I don't have any English links about this, but any norwegians reading this post can check out this DB article: http://www.dagbladet.no/dinside/2003/07/05/372987.html