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 [...]

Netbook as PDF-Reader ( Ubuntu )

Netbook as PDF-Reader ( Ubuntu )

A buddy of mine made a great script allowing you to instantly rotate your netbooks screen 90°, which enables you to read PDFs more comfortable. You should definitely have a look at it, as its a nice addition to any ubuntu-powered netbook.

iType becomes qwerted, Google is dominating my life.

Hey again. Happy new year. First of all, iType is the first project that looks like it’s going to be finished in time. That allows for two conclusions: either, it wasn’t hard to built or I am finally becoming a good programmer. I admit, it wasn’t hard to build then. I expect it to be [...]

iType Demo Video online – finally getting real

iType, my project, is finally getting close to release state. But talking is boring, so here is a short demo clip. If you have any questions, please write to itypeapp @ gmail.com I am looking for beta testers, so if you want to test it, please let me know! iType Demo Video from Moritz Haarmann [...]

RandomAccessFile weirdness explained, no buffers, just pain.

Ola! I’ve been coding a new android keyboard lately, a project for my university degree but also : for fun. While I was doing this, specially while implementing a file-based dictionary containing frequency information of all words stored in there, I stumbled upon a very, very weird Java-behavior. Let’s explain it. Using RandomAccessFile, you have [...]

Gravatar Mac Address Book Support Updated for Snow Leopard

Because the bundle somehow didn’t work for snow leopard, now it does, and you can get it here. of course . So basically, your mac adressbook is now able to get the gravatars again.. hrhr-

Google Docs Privacy, Latex knowledge, project update

Hey! I haven’t been writing here in a while, so let’s have some updates. First of all, I noticed something Techcrunch was also writing about some time ago, that google doesn’t protect embedded images in private documents in _any_ way. So basically, everything you upload there can be treated as public. Next thing, latex, the [...]