Ramblings Category

Installing Windows 7 RC1 on a MacBook Pro

In: Ramblings

Windows 7 is the latest and greatest Windows version ever, it should be a child’s play to install? Probably, if you’re not installing it on a slightly outdated but still lovely Mac Book PRO.

Windows 7 RC, live. MSDN dead?

In: Ramblings

Apparently I’m not the only one waiting for Windows 7, it has just gone live! But MSDN subscriber downloads is down:

Hopefully it will be back soon. Can’t wait to finally get rid Windows XP.

A friend at work gave the the ipcc-settings file needed to activate MMS and tethering for Telenor in Sweden. Download the settings, unzip and use iTunes to install it. Installation in iTunes is just like how you install iPhone OS 3.0, using the key combo on update button to manually select the file.
For MMS to [...]

Recover your WEP/WPA key(s)

In: Ramblings

I’m visiting my parents this week in their home in Austria. Since they moved here they’ve discovered that the Internet is awesome even for old people. They use internet for pretty much everything: making phone calls (skype), watch Swedish TV, read news, keeping in touch with family and friends (mail, facebook etc). The first time I was here I installed [...]

New layout and url, same old blog

In: Ramblings

Welcome to my “new” blog! I’ve finally come out of the closet and to make it obvious I changed the layout as well. However, it looks different and has a different URL, but it’s still the same old blog.

Random picture with servers.
My server probably not visible.

I’ve hosted this blog on my old (PPC) Mac Mini [...]

Avantime and Svenskfast joins the war on terror (IE6)

In: Ramblings

The war on terror, or Internet Explorer 6, started in our neighboring country: Norway. For once they’ve actually come up with something good and it caught on. Wired wrote about it yesterday, Swedens largest news site Aftonbladet and the largest IT site IDG.se added the IE6 warning today. This of course was something we discussed [...]

HittaHem – A great success!

In: Ramblings, iPhone

Great success!

HittaHem was launched a week ago and it was a great success! It took just over 24 hours to become the most popular free application on the Swedish AppStore both in the Lifestyle category and overall. The application was praised and mention on many of Sweden’s largest sites. Here’s a list of sites that [...]

Hitta hem is officially launched!

In: Ramblings, iPhone

There’s a YouTube video of the application I’ve developed together with my long time friend Hampus Nilsson for Svensk Fastighetsförmedling.

Hitta hem on YouTube
Download the app here.
*NOTE* Yes, that is my iPhone in the video. Some comments on YouTube implies that it’s an unlocked/hacked iPhone because Telia is not the carrier. This is not the case. [...]

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With this blog I try to provide useful tips and solutions for programming .NET, Objective-C and more. My name is Björn Sållarp, and I love writing code.


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