I spent Sunday in Huntington Beach and took a ride to Los Angeles. To be honest there wasn't too much I did expect from L.A. The surprise wasn't too bad though. I spent the early morning hours watching the suffers at Huntington Beach, I was impressed that I could pay my parking fee of 1,50$ by credit card and heated around 10 a.m. down town. Read more »
Last week I was in Madrid attending the SAPhire 2011. Just a few photos to share (mainly view from my hotel balcony at NH Hotel Zurbano. Even though it was chilly in Madrid it was good to escape again the winter in Germany. Read more »
Sitting atop a hill overlooking Jalan Syed Putra is the imposing Thean Hou Temple. This magnificent religious monument is one of the largest Chinese temples outside the Orient. Suria KLCC is Malaysia's premier shopping centre located at the base of the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur City Centre based in Kuala Lumpur. Read more »
Bradley Horowitz, Google's VP of products in an interesting interview "Inside Google Plus".Bradley was the head of Buzz, he had seen firsthand how a social product launch could go horribly awry, and as a lead developer on Google+, he was keen to avoid repeating those mistakes. Although the service is still being developed, Horowitz says it could eventually transform the whole company. Read more »
On November 15th Amazon will ship in the US the new Kindle Fire Tablet. It contains a dual-core processor and multi-touch IPS display, weighs 14.6 ounces. Content can be synced on the tablet with the same Whispersync technology used on Amazon’s other Kindle devices. The new Silk Browser brings the tablet deeper into the cloud and will change significantly the game. Read more »
In OS X you don't need a special software for doing screenshots. OS X has some special key shortcuts natively embedded which make it absolutely convenient to easily take screenshots. Read more »
If you want to hide something, the worst place to do that is on a social network. That’s where you share. Your brain is where you hide secrets (Eric Schmidt). Broken accounts, copied content are threats everyone should keep in mind at any time before posting. No system will ever be at 100 percent secure and as such everyone should ask the question "What if my private account would all the sudden be public?" - this golden rule should make you vigilant before posting and aware to review your profile content on a regular basis. Read more »
Concentrating on their core business and having the vision to ensure that facebook will offer THE infrastructure platform to enable new applications and participate in this growth is the right approach too. Too many individuals and too many companies are trying to do everything by their own. Combing available services (as Skype Video for instance) with the power of the facebook infrastructure is surely far more intelligent than competing with the world's greatest. Read more »
Today I copy and pasted an email from one account to the other. The moved text contained the wording "find attached". I was surprised that consequently Google App advised me that despite the clear statements in my text an attachment is obviously missing. Read more »
CloudFlare.com is a service that acts as a proxy between your visitor and your web hosting company. It cashes static content so requests towards your service will reduced and in parallel it provides protection against bots, spam. Site statistics, protection of your email addresses and injection of necessary code for Google Analytics and similar are further features you are receiving at no costs. Read more »
