Closed lid with open eyes

A MacBook can close it’s lid and then it is going to sleep. On some situations it could be useful your Mac would stay awake instead of using it magic power LED hypnotizing you.
One of those moments could be

A party and your MacBook is serving some music, but you don’t want anybody to touch it [...]

Social Whale

The Social Whale is a great replacement for the twitter.com website or a local installed application. It does look almost like the original website, but has some nice features the original should ever have:

multiple accounts
auto refresh with countdown and caching
API limit counter
view followers by reciprocals, new followers and quitters
integration of twitter counter statistics
picture upload, URL [...]

Youtube Video link power

When embedding or linking to a Youtube video, you have lots of parameters you can put in the URL. Those are influencing the player’s behavior and view. This is very useful, especially on embedding directly into your website or blog.
Playback with a seek
One of the most unknown and rarely used parameters is the playback with [...]

Welcome to the Google Wave

So many people are talking about the Google Wave. It is still beta and Google limited the amount of users who may have access. You can either fill out a form and wait for an approval or get invited by someone else who still has invites left.

Since I got an invite (special thanks to Leuk [...]

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 handling [...]

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 [...]

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.
A [...]

Zooom and position your windows perfectly

Exposé is a very comfortable way to work with many windows and a lot of applications running at the same time. Especially on Snow Leopard the handling was improved to drag and drop between those windows.
Believe it or not, I am a little bit unsatisfied with the window handling. Notably only beeing able to resize [...]

Blackberry HS-655+ Bluetooth headset user guide

The Bluetooth headset branded with HS-655+ or just Blackberry 655+ is a great and tiny thing. It supports Bluetooth 2.0 technology and has a good sound quality and distance range. There are lot of testing reports in the web, but no useful reference manual or user guide. The delivered one is one of the worst [...]

Jumpcut to manage your clipboard

When writing articles or doing any text processing it often helps to use copy and paste. Not to steal texts, but copying long URLs, complicated names or just to refer to something.
And when you have copied something once to the clipboard it would be nice to get it back later on or to use it [...]