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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
180 degree view from the top of the Skypark at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.Photos to follow soon, they first have to be uploaded which is quite a pain with the bandwith I have at my hotel.Entrance fee is 20 Singapore Dollars, which seems to be quite reasonable compared to similar location elsewhere in the world. Read more »
Nightly excursion to grab some food. I walked through the Arab Street and Little India in Singapore. All pictures were taken without flash. Read more »
I just tried out Rockmelt (www.rockmelt.com) and I'm asking myself if it has any chance to become THE social media browser. Rockmelt has been developed by Tim Howes and Eric Vishria and backed by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen.Rockmelt was published on 8th November 2010 and is still in beta (and can be used upon invitation only) and is going to make surfing the web so much more efficient Read more »
You can use rEFIt it to boot multiple operating systems easily, including triple-boot setups with Boot Camp. Booting OS X from an USB drive is another useful option.In the case you aren’t using any other Operating System in parallel to OS X, rEFIt can still be useful to you for booting for instance from a 1:1 backup on a USB hard drive. Carbon Copy Cloner is probably one of the best tools to create a 1:1 backup of your system partition. Read more »
