Say goodbye to Google Wave
At the beginning there was a wave In a former article I wrote some words about Google Wave, a service to do live and interactive co-laboration. It was highly coveted at the beginning, because people could only get in with a private invitation. Those invites were quite rare and everyone wanted to be in. After [...]
Stop mobile traffic on iOS4
The iPhone is not just a phone, it is a mobile data device. So it uses a connection into the internet all the time to keep you updated with the latest news you wish to know. Among them are eMails and depending on your installed applications push notifications like Twitter, Facebook, Deliveries, etc. LAN, WAN, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
G-Mail within Apple Mail
Do you use a Google mail account? Then add your account into your Mail application and have no more need to manage your mails via the webmail interface. The webmailer indeed is quick and easy to use, but I like having my mails all together and searchable on my computer. Take the following settings, to [...]
dict.cc – German and English dictionary on the iPhone
I am using the English language very much, although my native Language is German. It is the best way to communicate to people all over the world and of course absolutely mandatory in combination with learning, sciene, technology, computers, and so on. To learn and improve my English, I need to look quite often into [...]
Tweeting dupes
Twitter had the problem, that when you tweeted a post accidentally twice, it showed also up in the timeline twice. That was a little bit nerving, but you always have the possibility to delete your published tweets. This will disappear in the timeline. Another side effect of deletion is, that this single tweet is no more [...]
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