Some MacBook Air computers sold between June 2012 through June 2013 have a defective solid state drive (SSD) that potentially could fail leading to a data lose. Only a minority of computers with 64GB and 120GB SSD drives are affected by this defective. Since the fall Apple has offered to replace all affected drives free […]
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Norwegian 2013 Review
A year ago I wrote my first Norwegian review about my my experiences with Norwegian (Norwegian Air Shuttle) (DY) in 2012. I continued flying Norwegian routes in Scandinavia during 2013 and here are my experiences for the year. Norwegians fleet is relative new with decent seats and clean cabins. The overheads are spacious and will fit most “standard” […]
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Mac: Fix “Open With”
From time to time the “Open With” option in OSX will get out of sync and begin showing duplicate icons or even start a different application than expected. Installing, removing or updating applications often causes this. On the Mac the associations between applications and file types are saved in a database called “Launch Services database”. […]
UPDATE: This offer has been extended for 2015 with minor modifications. Last year United Airlines offered a status match challenge. This challenge was supposed to end at the end of the year but has been extended until December 31, 2014. Here some details about the offer: The following requirements have to be completed during a 90 […]
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IRIS 2014 Call for Papers
The call for papers for IRIS 2014 conference has just been announced. This year’s conference theme is “Designing Human Technologies” and the conference will be held 10-13 August 2014 at Sørup Herregaard, Ringsted, Denmark. IRIS 2014 is target at scholars within the fields of Information systems (IS) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). IRIS 2014 will be […]
As I frequently visit the SAS lounge in Copenhagen Airport (CPH) it’s time for a review. The lounge is divided into two almost similar lounges: the SAS lounge and the SAS Gold lounge. As a Star Alliance gold status holder you can access both (details about getting access to SAS lounges can be found here. It’s also […]
Scandinavian Airlines or simply SAS (IATA: SK) is currently offering 1600 points when joining their frequent flyer program EuroBonus. This bonus seems to have been around for a while but also seems to be unpublished. I recently joined the program and noticed that 100 bonus miles labeled as “Welcome to SAS EuroBonus” had been posted. […]
A few months ago United Airlines announced that new benefits have been added to the partnership between United MileagePlus and Marriott Rewards. This partnership is called RewardsPlus. MileagePlus is offering a status match to Marriott gold elite status and better options for transferring points between the two programs. The status match is available to the […]
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Advising first-year students
This year I’m advising first year computer science and software development students at Aalborg University. Half of their time will be spend on project work. The outcome of these projects will be a report and a program. This year some of the general topics are: e-election, computer-supported cooperative work, and how IT can support students […]
GUIToolkits is currently offering a free wireframe GUI Toolkit for Keynote, PowerPoint, Visio, OmniGraffle, Illustrator and Fireworks. The package contains hundreds of wireframe GUI components for iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Facebook, The Web, Mac OS X, and Windows. To download the toolkit a predefined Twitter message must be posted from your Twitter account […]