Archive for the ‘Common’ Category
Flattr to honor good content
Flattr is one of the most used words in the internet the past days. The idea behind this is to honor authors of any media kind. This can be blogging, text writing, videos, audio and everything stored on a web site. Authors only implement a Flattr button on their site and you just hit it [...]
Newer is not always better
There is an update If I see an update of an application, I want to have the latest and hottest stuff, of course. But first of all I read the changelog to know what is new or changed, and then I do run the update. Unwanted changes Sometimes, the developers change the behavior of a [...]
Printer LED mystery
Needing a printer While living in the virtual reality I help my environment to save valuable resources. One of them is avoiding the use of paper whenever possible. But, unfortunately there are some rare situations where somethings needs to get printed out and signed – contracts for example. And the winner is Some years ago, [...]
Podcast with preview
With the new iTunes 9.0.3, slightly released after the iPad Keynote, there is a nice and big surprise for all podcasters. Previously, when a user clicked a link leading to a podcast, it brought you to an empty white web page. Then, iTunes was opened – and if not installed you got a offer to [...]
Rebel EFI – OS X in danger of good reputation?
Psystar has released a product called Rebel EFI, allowing the installation of any operating system on almost any PC hardware. This software could be cutely used, to run the Apple’s OS X on a PC. Apple of course does not want this and sued several times against Psystar, because it is permitted and listed in the software [...]
International blogging
With my blog I want to reach as many people as possible. And that is why I decided to write it in English language, although my native language is German. English is the almost widely spoken and written language. In these days of world wide internet communication it is nearly impossible to get along without [...]
Birds are faster than internet
On Netzzeitung.de I read a curious article about internet speed. It tells about the experiment how fast data can be spread in comparision to the internet. And guess what? The internet lost against a carrier pigeon. The bird got a tiny 4 GB memory card and transported it over a distance of about 85 kilometres. [...]
Burning speeds
Sometimes I need to burn CDs or DVDs when I want to give huge data away. Unfortunately not everybody owns a big enough USB stick, yet – although they went quite expensive. I got mine 16 GB USB stick for less than 20 Euro! Burning takes too much time in my humble opinion nowadays and [...]
Twitter 0wn3d?
Am I owned by Twitter? It really looks like I am. I have heard from the Twitter service some months ago and I decided to register there. At the beginning I did not see any sense in that service, but then I started to find some interesting people and followed them. Afterwards I saw the [...]
Digg badger removed
I really like digg. It is a nice way to get and to promote interesting user content of current news in many categories. Due to that I had implemented a plugin called DiggBadger which really fits nice into my wordpress template. But it uses CrossScripting to get the DiggContent and functionality and this takes too [...]
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