Friedbeef’s Tech

The BEST Way to Clean Up Your iTunes Library

29. August 2008

Too many songs in iTunes not tagged properly Two weeks ago, I had 8000+ songs, and most of it was quite a mess in iTunes. Many of them had missing album names, and artist names. Some had wrong track titles, and most did not have any album art. Attempting a cleanup of that scale would [...]

How to Turn Your Phone into a WiFi HotSpot

18. August 2008

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If you’ve got a 3G enabled S60 Symbian phone (Nokia N-series & E-Series, Samsung i550 & G810) – It’s now possible to instantly transform it into a WiFi hotspot so you can hook up other devices to ride on your mobile 3G connection. JoikuSpot Light is an awesome piece of freeware which allows you to [...]

How to Generate Dummy Data – REALLY FAST

9. August 2008

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Need to populate a database with some dummy figures? Here’s perhaps the fastest way you’ll be able to do this. GenerateData.com is a free service which quickly generate large volumes of custom data in a variety of formats (eg. Excel, CSV, SQL, HTML). What I like most about GenerateData.com it is you can choose the [...]

How to Watch BBC News & Bloomberg For Free

1. August 2008

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I don’t subscribe to cable news at home. Instead I now rely on the Internet for almost all my news since I’ve basically also stopped reading the papers as well. Having said that, I’ll admit that watching the news on TV, is a lot easier than reading RSS feeds – So yes, I do miss [...]