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Lately, Apple has decided to only support so called “Microsims” in their devices.

Unfortunately, I, as an user of the iPhone 3GS, am not able anymore to use my “normal” simcard in both, my iPhone and, say, an iPad. On the internet there are hundreds of tutorials on how to cut your sim to make it fit the microsim-standard. Well, they work, as I tested one of these myself, but that’s not what I wanted to do right now.

I wanted to be able to use my sim in my iPhone AND in an iPad. If I’d cut it down to microsim-size, it won’t fit my 3GS’ simslot.

So, here is my solution: the multiformat SIM.

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For my studies I often receive some PDFs with Information from my professors.

Unfortunately, some of them think they do really secret stuff, so they happen to password-protect their PDFs… What they do not think about is, that entering the password everytime I only want to lookup something, is pretty annoying, after all. Indeed, not even spotlight is able to search through these PDFs, thus it wouldn’t find anything in there.

Well, lately I discovered a way to remove this password-protection using Preview.app. Note: Only works with known password!

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