Using the Intel 510 Series SSD in a 2011 MacBook Pro at full speed and with TRIM

I just got a new MacBook Pro from my current employer and since I got it without an SSD I bought the Intel 510 250GB and installed it. Everything worked smoothly after the first boot. However, as @denis2342 pointed out, there are a few extra steps to make it run at full speed and performance. […]

How to setup SparkleShare beta2 for mac with your own server

Today the first SparkleShare beta for mac came out. SparkleShare is somehow very similar to dropbox but instead of being bound to one company, SparkleShare is based on git and therefor allows hosting your repositories on your own servers. I’ve been waiting for this release for because one of my colleagues is already using it […]

Your own “DNS server”

DNS is one of the key ingredients of the internet and the world wide web. Without it you would have to type long numbers into the browsers address bar instead of convenient domain names like example.org. Humans seem to remember words better than numbers. In that sense, DNS is like the internets “phonebook”. To look […]