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LiveBlogging ftw.
So, heute dürft ihr mich kennenlernen. Live. Und alle meine Freunde. LiveBlogging! Langweiliger Abend
Diaspora social fu, why it’s too early to be enthusiastic
Hey. It has been some time, but let’s blog again. Diaspora, the self-claimed privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network. let’s examine each of those ambitious claims one by one. Privacy aware. The question here is really: can a network be privacy aware? Is an infrastructure even able to make such promises? As [...]
iMac+Bootcamp: Blinking Cursor, nothing else.
There was a time ( according to the history of computers ), when a flashing, blinking cursor lead to a feeling of deep satisfaction, just because the graphics controller worked. We passed that time, left it 30 years behind. So what I was trying to do, which resulted in a blinking cursor, was something advertised [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
