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ramgad.com on iThings (iPad, iPhone, iPod)

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Some might have seen that ramgad.com has a different appearance on the iPhone for a couple of months. Meanwhile ramgad.com uses as well the full functionality when accessing the site through an iPad. (Other iThings like Android, Symbian or Windows Phone 7 might follow in future depending on test devices and available time). Read more »

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Nikolausmütze gegen Kopftuch, oder was Sarrazin uns sagen will!

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Thilo Sarrazin zieht Bilanz. Der erste Weihnachtstag begann für mich dieses Jahr mit dem, oberflächlich gesehen, amüsanten aber selbstverherrlichenden Artikel von Herrn Sarrazin in der Weihnachtsausgabe der F.A.Z.: "Ich hätte eine Staatskrise auslösen können". Die Casa Sarrazin besteht darin, dass er in der Tat offensichtliche Missstände adressiert, aber die Art der direkten Analyse und die spärlichen Lösungsansätze in seinen Thesen, beinhalten genau das, was der Schwabe umgangssprachlich als "Geschmäckle" bezeichnen würde.Man kann es sich einfach machen und Herrn Sarrazin einfach als Provokateur und "Enfant terrible" ad acta legen - weh tun wird es ihm nicht, er hat sowieso ausgesorgt und erst recht mit seinem Buch "Deutschland schafft sich ab", dass ihm mehrere Millionen an Tandiemen beschafft. Es sei ihm gegönnt! Read more »

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Zeitung der Zukunft? Wie lese ich weiterhin bild.de auf dem iPad?

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Seit Anfang Dezember hat der Springer-Verlag eine iPad-Applikation für seinen Online-Auftritt bild.de herausgegeben. An und für sich nichts Schlimmes, wenn diese Applikation, denn einen Mehrwert bringen würde und einem auch die Entscheidung bleiben würde, ob man sich die Inhalte auf bild.de oder aber über die App anzeigen lassen möchte. Der Spiegel hat z.B. seit geraumer Zeit eine eigene Applikation (und ich bin zahlender Abonnent), aber es bleibt dem Leser freigestellt, sich den kostenlosen Inhalt von spiegel.de weiterhin über den iPad Browser anzuschauen. Read more »

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A Different View on Julian Assange And Wikileaks

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Currently the mass media don't tempt to draw an objective picture of Julian Assange. It might be worth to make up your own mind an to invest half an hour in watching the below videos.Since beginning of last week, ramgad.com os offering a free mirror of wikileaks at wikileaks.ramgad.com. There are currently no plans to sunset this free service. Read more »

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Tagesschau App für iPad und iPhone

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Nach über einem Jahr heftigen Diskussionen und Entwicklungszeit hat die ARD uns kurz vor Weihnachten mit einer eigenen Tagesschau Applikation für das iPhone und/oder das iPad beschenkt. Anfängliche Probleme wurde gestern mit einem Update korrigiert. Read more »

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Otis In Snow

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Otis enjoying to walk in the snow in Oberwinter on a bone freezing cold Sunday morning.Most dogs like snow but he regularly crescendoes into ecstacy. Read more »

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Murphy does exist

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I was happy yesterday that the hotel checked me out the evening beYesterday I was happy that the hotel checked me out the evening before my leave to avoid the queues in the morning. Now I'm up to check-in into the same hotel as all flights from PRG to FRA were canceled. Murphy is really a nasty piece of work.Today it has been a beautiful winter day in Prague, but in-bound flight to FRA were canceled due to heavy snowing at my destination. Since half past three pm it started snowing in Prague and chances are now high that tomoorow my outbound flight from Prague will be canceled. Thank you Murphy! fore my leave to avoid the queues in the morning. Now I'm up to check-in into the same hotel as all flights from PRG to FRA were canceled.Murphy is really a nasty piece of work: Today it has been a sunny day in Prague, but in-bound flight to FRA not possible due to heavy snowing at my destination. Since half past three it started snowing in Prague and chances are high that my outbound flight from Prague will be canceled. Read more »

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How do you secure the iThings and Androids for Corporate Use?

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How are you securing your corporate mobiles devices like iPhone, iPad, Symbians and Androids?Most companies are facing today the situation that their endusers (aka employees) want to use their private devices to connect to the corporate life and systems without using the comfort smart phones are adding to their private life.It is not necessarily a big issue to connect those devices through Microsoft ActiveSync protocol with the downside however that a of functionality will be under the governance of the cooperation and making smartphones far less smarter that they are out of the box. Read more »

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Checked-In at Cyberjaya Lodge Resort

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My room(s) at the Cyberjaya Lodge Resort Hotel in Cyberjaya, Malaysia.The bathroom is of particuluar interest for a techie like me. It is a kind of an iToilet. Read more »

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Hari Raya Haji, 哈芝节 in Singapore

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17th November was Hari Raya Haji, 哈芝节 in Singapore and the end of the Hajj pilgrimage lead to a public holiday. Coincidentally the Czech celebrated the the aniniverary of the Velvet revolution in 1989. So less e-Mail traffic than usual and I achieved to organize my work as such that I had time for 5 hours rush through Singapore.I walked some miles through Singapore with my whole equipement and see below my gallery of shots.The major discovery at night was me bumping into a "Wuerstelstand". Read more »

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