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Flattr, a great idea, a great video, great people behind

Flattr, a great idea, a great video, great people behind

Flattr is exactly what I dreamed of when I wrote my post about the donation-button-dilemma on open-source projects. Flattr, by the creators of the pirate bay, is a service that let’s you specify an amount you want to spend monthly, I don’t know what they plan, but let’s say 10€, and you can flattr any [...]

Einfach mal ne Runde auskotzen.

Über eine Menge von Dingen, und den Grund für manche Sachen erforschen.
Da fängts an mit Frau Aigner. Frau Aigner, zeichnet sich verantwortlich für den Verbraucherschutz in unserem Lande ( unter anderem gegen die Lebensmittelampel, die Offenlegung der EU-Subventionen für deutsche Bauern ), und natürlich ( was könnte wichtiger sein! ) im Vorstand des “Bund Deutscher [...]

impressive, prezi and other ways to kill PowerPoint

I’ve to admit, I haven’t used PowerPoint for 4 years, mostly because no one wanted me to present anything. Times have changed, I had to do 4 presentations in one week lately. Being forced to communicate through slides, I experienced a bit, and here’s my conclusion.
The first presentation was built using Keynote, which is part [...]

A day at the Android Developer Lab World Tour in Zürich

A day at the Android Developer Lab World Tour in Zürich

What would you do if you had the chance to meet some fellow android developers at Google’s Europe HQ in Zürich for free? Yes, you register and go there. As did I, we. Unfortunately, someone at Google’s messed the times up, which lead to us having to depart in Stuttgart at 6am rather than 10am, [...]

qwerted released!

Hey, good news: qwerted is available on the android market as of now. It’s price point is 0.99$.

qwerted status update

Wow. just wow. The last few days, I received tons of emails from people who want to beta test qwerted, have been featured on some blogs ( androidguys.com , ignore the code , mobiflip , some other languaged-blogs ), thanks to the all writers, and got a lot of motivation from the positive reactions.
There are [...]

qwerted for android has a homepage now!

I just launched www.qwerted.com, so there’s a dedicated project home for this brilliant project now. visit it, tell your friends!

Google Docs to Latex Converter / beta online

Hello friends of the night, I made it to put an early version of my Google Docs to Latex converter online. Please have a look at it and provide some valuable feedback.

Germany, France against Google ( Protectionism at its best )

Have you heard the latest ideas of deeply concerned government representatives in France and Germany? Mastermind Sarkozy wants to raise a Google-Tax, German Secretary of Justice sees a urgent need to check if projects like Streetview conform with german law. While these thoughts are not a week old, the fight aainst Google Books is still [...]

bored summary of the past day. / 750words, 1buckapp, java coding tipps

bored summary of the past day. / 750words, 1buckapp, java coding tipps

So, on this very exceptionally snowy day here in Stuttgart, i decided to procrastinate a bit and do some fun stuff. Because going outside would have been at least life-threatening, I decided that the most exciting adventure would be to clean the kitchen take a panorama image out of my 3 living room windows. Here [...]