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Life without Google Reader

It’s been about three months now since Google decided to pull the plug on Google Reader, a much used RSS reader. A couple of reasons I’ve heard was that RSS is being used less and less and instead people were now using Twitter and Google+ (does anyone use G+?). Now some months later I’m still …

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Trying out LinkedIn Ads

Since I just started my own company I need to get a steady flow of jobs from clients I’ve yet to acquire. My network is expanding fast and I’ve already had talks with potential clients with more to come in the future. I’m also subscribing to freelance job postings but so far those haven’t brought …

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I’m now a freelance developer

To my surprise I hadn’t even announced here that I have recently started freelancing! As of August the 1st I now operate under the name Kras IT and am available as a freelance developer. Since it’s now the 1st of September this means I’m already in business for a month now which has been exciting. …

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Hook up your guitar to GarageBand on iPad with your Rocksmith Real Tone Cable

Do you own an iPad? Have you got GarageBand installed on it? And do you per change own the game Rocksmith (for PC, Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3) with the included Real Tone Cable? Yes? Good! Now go get yourself a (cheap) USB adapter for your iPad so you can hook up your Real Tone …

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How to catch and test sent e-mails in your app

A nice gem (literally, it’s a Ruby program) I stumbled upon yesterday is called MailCatcher. Using MailCatcher you can catch all the mail that’s being sent by the app you’re developing and (re)view their contents. MailCatcher makes this possible by running (or rather being) a simple SMTP server. All you’ve got to do is direct your …

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