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28 Feb

Hello iPhone WordPress wURLd!

Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in apps, author. Tagged: test. 1 Comment

I am testing the iPhone WordPress app. Since I’ve less tim with my MacBook these days, I thought blogging from my iPhone could be an option. And the new 2.x app seems quite capable. So, anyway, this was just a test. See you around! Tobias Ps If anyone knows how to make text in italics, [...]

19 Jan

Don not be alarmed!

Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Personal. 1 Comment

I am still alive, it’s just that some personal problems has beset me. I’m hoping to resume my blogging here at the TS very soon. Thobias

11 Jan

A museum should be fun!

Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Humanities, Personal, Tech. Tagged: denmark, Humanities, museums, randers, rune, rune stone, show, stone, Tech. 1 Comment

A museum should be fun. A place you want to go. A place where you learne about history, human thought and nature in a creative environment. Very few museums seems to realise this. However, all is not lost. Randers Kulturhistoriske Museum have put up a new rune display that seems to be fantastic. In a sparkling [...]

9 Dec

Useful Caffeine

Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in apps, mac. Tagged: caffeine, lighthead, mac, mac os x, software, utillities. Leave a Comment

We’ve all been to lectures with slide shows. Be they PowerPoint or Keynote, there is still one problem that seems to come up every single time. Automatic sleep mode or dimming. It’s not an obvious problem at all times, but if you run on battery power, you will know what I mean. That’s where this [...]

12 Jun

Elephants Dream

Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in apps, Movies, New media, Streaming, Uncategorized. Tagged: big buck bunny, blender, elephants dream, open movie. Leave a Comment

Due to “public demand” I have decided to post Elephants Dream here too. It is not as good looking as Big Buck Bunny, however it is interesting in many ways. Partly because of the open ended and rather mind bending story. The visual do take you on a journey through the mind. The other reason [...]

22 May

Musical tests

Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in apps, Legends, music, Streaming, web 2.0. Tagged: cry of the celts, internet archive, lord of the dance, music, open source audio, Streaming, test. Leave a Comment

This is just a test to see how I can incorporate music and other media links to blog posts here on the Twilight. I hope you enjoy this Open Source Audio from the Internet Archive: Cry of the Celts. May the road rise up to meet you! Thobias

16 May

Linotype FontExplorer X

Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in apps, Humanities, mac, New media, Philosophy, Tech, web 2.0, writing. Tagged: atm, font, fontexplorer, fontfetishist, linotype, mac, typography. Leave a Comment

People who are into design and layout tend to be FF; Font Fetishists. As such it after a while tends to get difficult to keep track of all the fonts. And even thought Mac OS X handles fonts in a better way than the good old classic Mac System, there is still room for improvement. [...]

5 May

Where’s Thobias?

Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in apps, author, Tech, web 2.0, writing. Tagged: contact, personal, web 2.0. Leave a Comment

Some people have asked where to find me on the web. Well, to just list the personal stuff, most of my locations can be found via my FriendFeed, and many of them are listed over at Pownce as well. Happy surfing! Thobias

22 Apr

A room to your self

Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in apps, author, books, Humanities, mac, Philosophy, Tech, writing. Tagged: distraction free, merlin mann, neil gaiman, text editing, word processing, write room, writer, writing. Leave a Comment

Do you ever find that the world is closing in on you and you are not focusing quite as well on the task at hand as you should? As a student and aspiring writer I find this a lot, and I’ve been looking around for a solution to this problem. Well there is one which [...]

5 Apr

Reviews coming up soon! But a little something.

Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in apps, mac, New media, Philosophy, Tech, web 2.0. Tagged: evernote, firefox 3, recommend, stable, web 2.0, web apps. 1 Comment

Well, two nice things happened this week in the world of web. First Firefox 3 Beta 5 was released. So far I’ve only played with it, but having used most of the betas, I have to say, it looks good, it’s fast, compatible and reasonably stable on my system (Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11). The [...]