Chrome Browser for Mac
As a Webkit lover, of course I love the Safari browser. It is fast, reliable, powerful and easy to use. I wish Firefox would use its engine, but there are lot of discussions in the Mozilla forums, that it will remain using the Gecko engine. From a technical perspective, Gecko is now very solid and [...]
Will WordPress 2.9 become a media edition?
WordPress blog systems gained very popular and can be seen all over the web. Since I began blogging I like it. It is a quick and innovative development. The most important thing for me is not only the quick and easy installation. Also frequently updating all those nice plugins is just a child’s play. The [...]
Chrome settles down on Internet Explorer
Google made with the help of Webkit technology a nice browser called Chrome which brings the power of Apple’s Safari. I really do like it and prefer using it instead of Firefox – especially when I am forced to use the Windows operating system. Big G brought many good ideas and concepts into that application. [...]
Twitter poll
If you want to make a simple, but sexy poll, you can use twtpoll for free. Unfortunately the results are displayed as a flash animation. In the interface you can set the questions and if the answer should be unique or multiple. Also an expiration date is possible and you must not keep it alive [...]
Friend or Follow
Twitter is a great tool to find intesting people and lot of friends. On the twitter’s page you see only some minimalistic statistics showing you how many people you follow and how many followers you have. In my eyes, in the twitter terminology “friend” should be only called a “friend” if you follow him and [...]
Manage tons of mails on iPhone
Day by day I receive tons of emails. They are are collected in the end in only just one account. To get them all easily on the iPhone I forward them additionally to a free GoogleMail account (just contact me if you need an invitation) which is quick set up on the iPhone. The iPhone checks [...]
Perl 5.8+ on Windows with mySQL
On the last weekend I was helping a friend getting perl on his computer running. He also needed a mySQL Server. He is using Windows, so we hoped it should become easy, because precompiled versions are almost always available for the Win32 platform. With the help of my favourite remote application LogMeIn.com I connected to [...]
Merge them all together
To feel as fit as a fiddle on my Mac’s screen I need to have it clean with only that windows in front I am currently working in. For how to hide unwanted applications without termination I blogged the article The secrets of hide and seek. The Eventbox is my best friend when getting updated [...]
Get your password back on a Mac
My iMac is my holy shrine and no one except for me is allowed to touch or even to use it. That makes it easy to store all passwords in Safari. Currently, many sites are integrating multiple Sign-In technologies with accounts from other sites like OpenId, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Yahoo and more. That can be [...]
Everybody has a custom color
The amount of available colors is really huge, so it is possible that everybody can have his own color. Colors are mostly compound with the RGB color model. They are mixed out of three values, where R is red, G is green and B is blue. The shading is zero for none and 255 for [...]
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