Author Archives: nkh

New Alfa Spider (6C)

Posted on February 20, 2012 by nkh

Rumours (dreams?) of a Duetto inspired Alfa Spider has been around ever since the last type 105 Spider S4 rolled out of the factory in 1994. They had died out a bit, but after we’ve had the 4C concept presentation, … Continue reading →

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Alfa Romeo 4C – The production version

Posted on January 24, 2012 by nkh

Similar to how we followed the 4C concept rumors, I’ll here try to follow the rumors surrounding the production version of the Alfa 4C. 2012-02-15 – Auto Edizione (Alfa Romeo 4C with adjusted TCT transmission in 2012). Slightly confusing headline, … Continue reading →

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Asus Eee Pad Transformer (TF101) – First week with the Android Honeycomb tablet

Posted on June 17, 2011 by nkh

Ever since the first videos of the Motorola Xoom started appearing online, I knew that a Honeycomb tablet would be the perfect device for comfort computering. When the Xoom finally came to market, it turned out to be both pretty … Continue reading →

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Alfa Romeo 4C, making the concept

Posted on April 20, 2011 by nkh

We’ve previously looked at the rumors leading up to the presentation of the Alfa Romeo 4C concept. Now Alfa Romeo Centro Stile has made a time lapse video of how the Geneva concept car was build: Via TopGear.com. We’re also … Continue reading →

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Boxee running on AppleTV through a VPN to access BBC iPlayer

Posted on March 12, 2011 by nkh

Okay, I admit this is quite an intricate setup, but it works great and the different parts of it will work by themselves so hopefully this can be of use for others too. First a little background for the setup. I use … Continue reading →

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Home Theater PC

Posted on March 8, 2011 by nkh

My first HTPC in 2003 was based around a VIA M10000 “Nehemiah” mini-itx motherboard and a Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 tv tuner. After trying some different media center software I found GB-PVR which was the only one that could use the … Continue reading →

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Moving website to a new VPS

Posted on February 26, 2011 by nkh

I used to run my web server at home, but I decided that for traffic reasons it would be better to just rent a VPS (Virtual Private Server). The first one I tried was IT-staden (then called “serverconnect.se”), the best … Continue reading →

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My favorite Android apps right now

Posted on February 24, 2011 by nkh

These are my favorite Android apps currently (in a more or less random order): App 2 SD (free version) Helps free up the (often limited) internal memory, by identifying apps that can be moved to the SD card. Barcode Scanner … Continue reading →

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Alfa Romeo 4C GTA – the rumors

Posted on February 8, 2011 by nkh

[Updated: 2011-03-01] – The rumors of Alfa Romeo presenting a small sportscar concept at the Geneva Motor Show keep growing stronger. Here is a track back through the news snippets of what started as a rumor of an Abarth coupe … Continue reading →

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Linux the easy way

Posted on February 5, 2011 by nkh

After having run Windows 7 on my netbook (Dell Mini10), because there weren’t good Linux support for the GMA500 graphics, I wanted to try it again. I found myself without any CDR or DVDR’s, so I had to do the … Continue reading →

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