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 [...]

Get your webcolor quickly

When working on a website, I often use photos or other websites to get harmonic matching colors. Certainly, the color names can be taken, but sometimes it is better to use a RGB color value for more precision. Not every time I have a graphics program open, but I quickly want to pick the color [...]

How much time is left with my iPhone battery

When carrying your iPod or iPhone on the way, the battery symbol shows how many energy is left. But does that indicate you how long you still can use your device? A percentage or a graphical icon does not explain much. How much time is remaining when the tiny battery icon has about 35% battery [...]

Uncrashing a PC by diagnostics

Unfortunately I could not say NO when a friend asked me to take a look why his PC crashes with a hung and sometimes a blank screen. When something like this happens, for sure it is a hardware problem. To reach the ground of the problem I can advise you to follow my steps to [...]

LittleSnapper to make Websnapshots

LittleSnapper is a very great application to make screenshots and annotations. The usage is very easy and absolutely intuitive. Using core animation technology this app makes also a lot of fun and feel homie on a Mac. The greatest feature I like is to make screenshots of Safari. You can specify a screen resolution and [...]

Microsoft toasting with MacBook

Walking to the subway station I saw a an advert with a weird looking notebook on a big poster, but the design is very familar to me, so I decided to take a closer look. It is a MacBookPro with a unusal thick screen and toasts falling into it. Next to it the hashkey “Toastbook”. [...]

Safari 4 with great new workflows

The new Safari browser is my favourite browser since the the release 3. It is so fast, that no other browser can beat it and the display is really great. Due to I am developing websites I love Safari, because it supports DOM, CSS and XML so well like really no other does. Safari and [...]

Making picture mosaics

So often I have seen picture mosaics and I wanted to do one by myself, because I find them so amazing and fantastic. A picture mosaic is one picture which is made of other pictures as like a screenshot is made with pixels. Searching a short while lead me to the freeware tool MacOSaiX which [...]

Pathfinder

Managing Files on your Harddrive is one of the most done tasks for people like me. I really got very familar to Finder, because it is quite powerful and I can achieve really almost everything with help of the OS X Automator application. In former Windows times, I was using the Total Commander. It is [...]

Testing Windows 7 beta

With the new update of Parallels Desktop 4.0 it is now possible to install Windows 7 in a virtual machine. The first problem starts with downloading Windows 7 beta from the offical download site. The servers are absolutely overloaded. To get the 2,41 GB image I was using the free DownThemAll extension for Firefox. The [...]