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• Finnish Tram Rules

  By GrumpyTechie on November 26, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Finnish Tram Rules Here’s a short tutorial on how to behave on trams in Helsinki, watch, learn, obey. (And for those that didn’t quite get it, this is a video done by a Finnish radio show, and they are somewhere… Read More ›

• New look

  By GrumpyTechie on November 25, 2013 • ( 0 )

  How do you guys like the new look? I’ve been thinking about doing something to the design and layout of the site, and this new theme is a lot clearer than the previous one in my opinion. Also, I at… Read More ›

• younited – An in-depth review

  By GrumpyTechie on November 24, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  Introduction So, a lot of you have probably read my earlier post on some of the cool, but sadly not very widely heard of, stuff that F-Secure is doing besides their bread-and-butter anti-virus software. If you haven’t, check out A bunch… Read More ›

• A bunch of apps from F-Secure that you really need to know about

  By GrumpyTechie on November 20, 2013 • ( 3 )

  Okay, so I spent a big chunk of my evening browsing posts at the F-Secure Labs blog, and I noticed that they have a lot of amazing apps and other cool stuff that I’ve never heard about. And even better,… Read More ›

• Mikko Hyppönen talking about the NSA at TED

  By GrumpyTechie on November 11, 2013 • ( 1 )

  I recently saw this speech live in Helsinki, and now I’m very thrilled to find it online, and in English even, so I can share this with the rest of the world. Mikko Hyppönen is the Chief Research Officer at… Read More ›

• Unable to deactivate your Adobe product?

  By GrumpyTechie on September 28, 2013 • ( 0 )

  I had this really frustrating problem recently, when moving my Adobe Acrobat X installation from my old computer to a new computer. Clever as I was, I’d thought I’d deactivate my installation on the old computer, and then activate it… Read More ›

• Camera Wrist Strap – Quick Review

  By GrumpyTechie on February 11, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Leica IIIf and Strap, a photo by sstorholm on Flickr. I just got my wrist strap that I ordered through Etsy from Simple Machines NYC, and I’ve can honestly say that I was less excited over my new Canon 7D… Read More ›

• Darkroom Series – Developing Your First Roll – Part 1

  By GrumpyTechie on February 6, 2013 • ( 0 )

  As promised, here’s my next instalment in what I late last night decided to call the “Darkroom Series”. First of all, if you haven’t got anything, I’d say start with the most basic of films and developers. This, in my… Read More ›

• 4G finally available in the iPad 4 and Mini, in Finland

  By GrumpyTechie on February 1, 2013 • ( 0 )

  According to the latest iOS update from Apple, version 6.1, expanded LTE support is one of the many new features. While this doesn’t probably sound very amazing for the American readers, here in Finland for example we’ve had almost every… Read More ›

• Darkroom Series – Temperature Surfing – Trick 1

  By GrumpyTechie on January 30, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Here’s a quick tip when it comes to developing temperatures and how to control them without a lot of fancy equipment. The idea is to allow for the loss/gain of heat between your developing solution and the surrounding environment (it’s… Read More ›