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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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