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A blog about anything IT related that I find interesting. Feel free to comment on my posts.

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Some Mac features are available by holding down certain keys during startup.

I was helping my colleague with Mac boot problems today and stumbled upon this excellent little list of startup commands for Mac.

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Full Walkthrough of Apple´s Newly Released Design Book in 4K Resolution.

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How To Find The Address Of A Mapped Network Drive Using CMD

So you have a bunch of network drives mapped to your Windows computer but are unsure of the actual network address that these drives are mapped to. Here’s how to find their actual path:

Open up your command line interface (type CMD) and enter the following:

wmic path Win32_LogicalDisk Where DriveType="4" get DeviceID, ProviderName

A different approach would be to simply type NET USE for a different look:

NET USE

If you want to avoid CMD alltogether you can do this in your Windows GUI as well by going to your network drives and switch the view to Details and add a column named Network location

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Snaggy - Share Screenshots Super Easy!

Here’s a very useful tool for sharing screenshots online quickly.

https://snag.gy

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Down For Everyone Or Just Me?

This tool let's you check if a particular website is Down for everyone or just you. Particularly helpful if you're behind a company firewall.

www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

Reddit is an awesome website by the way, which you should visit ;-)

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Simple Internet Speed Test

Netflix just launched a simple online tool to check your download speed. I like how simple it is and that it’s without a bunch of banners everywhere. Fast.com uses Netflix’s own servers and is available globally and free to use.

www.fast.com

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Vivaldi v1.0 Released

A new browser has been born. It’s extremely customizable and worth a try.I especially like how you can have multiple speed dials.

Vivaldi is available for Mac, Windows and Linux.

Vivaldi Download Page

UPDATE: Tried this for a while now and I can´t really recommend it. It constantly tries to get elevated admin rights on Mac OS X and is a pain to use.

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4K / 5K Test Videos on YouTube

So, you got yourself a brand new 4K or 5K display. Here´s a really good YouTube playlist you can try out from Jakob + Katie Schwarz

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD33E5618740295DF

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Terminal Sunday: Open Multiple Instances Of An Application

So you want to open more than one instance of an application. Mac OS X doesn´t let you do that by right clicking an app so you´re better off using terminal. Here´s an example with multiple instances of Calculator. Assuming you already have Calculator already open, here´s the command to open one more:

open -n -a calculator

Easy enough, eh? Just make sure you get the application name right.

Oh, and be careful if your app uses a database or something like that to store data - the operating system could probably get a little bit confused.

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YouTube user “EverythingApplePro” has made a video where he compares every iPad released so far. Some interesting results!

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Whenever I buy a new headset, this is always one of the first audio tests I do. Try it out!

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You Can Ask Google To Delete Search Results About Yourself.

In the European Union people have the right to ask Google to remove search results that link to information about themselves. As of today 42% of these requests have been approved. In total 441.032 URL´s have been deleted from Google.

Source: http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/europeprivacy/