Quick Tip: Spring cleaning your iTunes app library

If you’re like me, you may own both an iPad and an iPhone. If you’re like me, you’ve owned several revisions – perhaps of each. And if you’re like me, you’re just not keeping score of which apps are used, and which are not. So your app library in iTunes has grown to idiotic proportions.

My colleague Namit had a brilliant idea though. One I tested tonight. And guess, what – it works, and gets your app library down to “only those apps I use”.

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Cleaning up Huddle’s export tool mess

If you’re a Huddle admin with access to their Export tool, you know it isn’t very enterprisey in its current form. If you’re anything like me, you’ll be annoyed that the export tool just dumps the workspace exports in a new folder called “foldername~2” and increments each day.

It’s messy. I don’t like messy data. I like a systematic, consistent and well organized approach. So I did a maintenance script.

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paper

I love Paper – but you need to upgrade it @FiftyThree !

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but there’s this app out for your iPad, called Paper. It’s a sketching app – and it’s good. As in REAL good ! The goodness is in it’s simple interface, as well as not trying to be anything but a sketching app.

It’s just – I really, really miss some stuff !

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Lead the way

If you want to lead, you must learn to follow

Saw the first episode of Game Of Thrones season 2 today. In it, Jon Snow is asked by the master of the black guard: “Do you want to lead one day ?” He answers yes.

“Then you must learn to follow”.

There’s some truth in those words, but I find it’s not the whole truth.

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Is it a private cloud ? Is it a public cloud ? No ! It’s…

Since all of the SaaS solutions started popping up, I’ve been a fan. I absolutely LOVE the concept of working, without doing the work. Or, in other words: IT operations is seldomly the core of a lot of businesses. It’s something they need, to be able to compete, to work efficiently and not get left behind. If something’s not at the core of what you do, then why do it more than needed ?

If it doesn’t directly rake in the money, you probably shouldn’t spend too much time or energy doing it. Or at least do it enough that it supports your business well, but not enough that it becomes a major cost center.

Enter: SaaS services. Services you can sign up to, pay for, and start working with – and not worry about whatever IT infrastructure is used behind the scenes. All you need to worry about is: Can you get your data, is the hosting centre used actually certified in any way, is your data safe, does it play nice with your enterprise, and most of all – is it usable and worth the money ?

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My iOS gamebuying procedure, to avoid money leeches

  1. Check if the game has in-app purchases
  2. If the in-app purchase even remotely smells of “you probably need this to go anywhere in this game”, don’t press buy.
  3. If the game is for both iPhone and iPad, I don’t mind a higher price.
  4. If there’s separate iPhone and iPad versions, don’t press buy.

If you as a game developer give me the impression that you want to suck me dollar-dry, I’m not buying anything from you.

Examples: Angry Birds Space, Flight Control Rocket.

How you treat your customers, matter. You only get one chance, don’t waste it.

Change in the face of adversity

When we took our son to be examinated for asthma, I never knew it would have such an impact on my life, and me as a person.

As a father. Like most other parents I’ve talked to, we’ve been through the whole mill when it comes to parenting: From bliss to utter frustration when he doesn’t listen. And I believe we’ve been through the same types of responses to him. Which means that during certain periods I’ve been sick of hearing my own voice.

My ambitions as a father, are higher. And for some time now, I’ve taken it upon myself to change some aspects of which kind of father I am. How I react and respond. So far it’s been a journey.

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At flytte en Posterous blog til WordPress

Posterous blev købt af Twitter. Med en ordlyd der ikke tyder på, at servicen på længere sigt overlever.

Så jeg pegede i al stilhed mit domæne tilbage til min selv-hostede WordPress blog, og tænkte at nu laver jeg lidt eksperimenteren, og installerer Buddypress oven i.

Det første der sker da jeg tilgår min WordPress installation ? En antivirus advarsel om en eller anden JS virus.

Så blev jeg træt.

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By jsaaby Posted in Jacob

IT Service Operations Readiness Model v1.0

A lot of times, IT services and technology products are implemented, without considering the whole picture. This is an attempt at creating a thought process which takes you through the various steps I find it important to consider, to implement holistic IT services.

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The low down practical Powershell guide to creating a crapload of AD groups

Step 1
Get Quests AD cmdlets.

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