Sonntag, Dezember 30, 2007

Tuning und Plugins für Safari und Camino

Für die schnellsten Browser unter MacOS X:

http://pimpmycamino.com/

http://pimpmysafari.com/

Papierflugzeuge basteln

Papierflugzeuge basteln

Wikihow.com: HowTos for personal care and style

http://www.wikihow.com/Category:Personal-Care-and-Style

spanningsync: Synchronize iCal and Google calendar

Synchronize Google Calendar and Apple iCal. Share calendars between multiple Macs. Share calendars with your coworkers, family, and friends. And while you're at it, connect Google Calendar to your iPod, mobile phone, and other devices.



http://spanningsync.com/

Vergleich Sony Ericsson W800i und K800i

w800i

Triband-Handy (GSM 900/1800/1900MHz)

- Farbdisplay (176 x 220 Pixel, 262.144 Farben)
- 2-Megapixel-Kamera, Autofokus, 4-fach Digitalzoom, Fotolicht
- 32MB interner Speicher
- Memory Stick Pro Duo
- GPRS, E-Mail- und Instant-Messaging-Client, MMS, SyncML
- Bluetooth, Infrarot
- Walkman-Funktionen (MP3, AAC), UKW-Radio
- Maße: 100 x 46 x 20,5 mm
- Gewicht: 99 g
- inkl. 512 MB Memory Stick



k800i
UMTS- Handey
- Band-Typ GSM 900, 1800, 1900 MHz / EDGE
- TFT-Display 240 x 320 Pixel, 262144 Farben
- 3,2-Megapixelkamera mit Autofocus, Xenon-Blitzlicht, Bildstabilisator, 2048 x 1536 Pixel Auflösung, 176 x 144 Pixel Auflösung Videos
- Subkamera für Video-Telefonie
- Interner Speicher 64MB
- Speicherslot Sony Memory Stick Micro
- Messaging SMS, MMS, EMS, WAP, GPRS, Modem
- Schnittstellen USB 2.0, Bluetooth, IR
- Multimedia MP3-Player, polyphone Klingeltöne, Radio
[+Beschreibung erweitern]
- PictBridge
- Sprechzeit 7 Stunden
- Standbyzeit 350 Stunden
- SAR-Wert: 0,58 W/kg
- Maße 105 x 47 x 22 mm
- Gewicht 115 g

Freitag, Dezember 21, 2007

Schulungsuntelagen für Ubuntu

... gibt's hier: http://ubuntuusers.de/ikhaya/854/

Mittwoch, Dezember 19, 2007

Slowretail.de

Slowretail ist ein Projekt, Teil einer wachsenden Bewegung zur Entschleunigung und Nachhaltigkeit. Slowretail basiert auf der Notwendigkeit, dem heutigen Einzelhandel zu mehr Wert und Erlebnis zu verhelfen.

http://slowretail.de/

Donnerstag, November 08, 2007

Getting things done with Google

The Google approach to GTD:
http://note2.industriousone.com/gettings-things-done-google

More details about Google Notebook:
http://lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/getting-things-done-with-google-notebook-256844.php

Paperless life?

Über die Anschaffung sollte man mal nachdenken. Auf 43folders >wurde darüber nachgedacht und der Fujitsu Scansnap auf seine Alltagstauglichkeit untersucht. In Verbinung mit dem DevonThink Pro Office könnte man dann der Papierflut wirklich Herr werden.

Hier ein weiterer sinnvoller Bericht über den kombinierten Einsatz dieser beiden Hilfsmittel.

Mittwoch, November 07, 2007

GTD in einer Nussschale

GTD bedeutet Getting Things Done (deutsche Version: Wie ich die Dinge geregelt kriege) und ist ein Selbstorganisations-System (nicht nur) für Wissensarbeiter. Entwickelt wurde das ganze von David Allen.

Mehr:

http://tautoko.info/2005/06/13/gtd-in-einer-nusschale/

Wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTD

GTD Forum: http://www.gtd-forum.de/

David Allen über die Zukunft von GTD: http://www.43folders.com/2006/11/21/productive-talk-08

Donnerstag, Oktober 25, 2007

pewinternet.org

The Pew Internet & American Life Project produces reports that explore the impact of the internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life. The Project aims to be an authoritative source on the evolution of the internet through collection of data and analysis of real-world developments as they affect the virtual world.

Support for the non-profit Pew Internet & American Life Project is provided by The Pew Charitable Trusts. The Project is an initiative of the Pew Research Center.

Donnerstag, Oktober 18, 2007

popfly.ms

http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifhttp://www.popfly.ms

Popfly is the fun and easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, and Web pages. It’s made up of online visual tools for building Web pages and mashups and a social network where you can host, share, rate, comment and even remix creations from other Popfly users.

Dienstag, Oktober 02, 2007

Xiph.Org - Quicktime Components for ogg

http://xiph.org/quicktime/

Xiph QuickTime Components (XiphQT) is, in short, the solution for Mac and Windows users who want to use Xiph formats in any QuickTime-based application, e.g. playing Ogg Vorbis in iTunes or producing Ogg Theora with iMovie.

Donnerstag, Juli 26, 2007

Songbird Media Player

Songbird™ is a desktop Web player, a digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up. Like Winamp, it supports extensions and skins feathers. Like Firefox®, it is built from Mozilla®, cross-platform and open source.

http://www.songbirdnest.com

Web Design from Scratch

Web Design from Scratch is for everyone involved or interested in creating web sites - whether novice or expert. It will help you understand what makes web sites succeed or fail, and what can be done to increase the chance of success.

http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/

Mittwoch, Juli 25, 2007

Note on Java complexity

The problem is that much of the Java stuff out there is just written by really smart morons who seem to love complexity for complexity's sake. Even in the API itself! Ever used the Calendar API? It's written by a monkey. Ever check out the code under the JSTL? Those guys have to be on crack. It's not the language itself that causes these problems, it's the culture around the language. When programmers respect patterns more than solutions, you know something is broken.

Complexity leads to disaster. Your application should be built around simple constructs and understandable layers, which combine to perform complex tasks. The code itself, however, should avoid complexity at every stage. This is much easier to say than to do, though, since many programmers are afraid of missing important pieces, or of oversimplifying.
- Justin Gehtland

Java Complexity is your enimiy

Donnerstag, Juli 19, 2007

Subversion - Easy start

SVN - Just enough to get started

ajaxlessons.com

http://www.ajaxlessons.com/

Software Engineering Proverbs ;)

http://www.multicians.org/thvv/proverbs.html

What motivates programmers

As found on http://blog.assembleron.com/2007/07/11/what-motivates-programmers/

What motivates programmers?
11. July 2007, 10:33Nick Halstead

computer user

I will start with a question, if you have a spare £400 in your development budget do you A) Reward your star programmer with a £400 bonus or B) Buy him a 24 Inch 1920×1200 LCD screen?

If you answered ‘A’ then you need to read on. If you answered ‘B’ then you understand what motivates programmers but I suggest you still read on and comment later if you have any ideas beyond what I cover.

One of the things that they never teach non-programmer managers is how to motivate programmers. You may think the programmers are motivated by the same things as the rest of your staff, you are WRONG. Programmers tend to be counted within the higher IQ brackets and are therefore harder typically to second guess.

Tim Bryce writes:

“Regardless of the image they wish to project, the average programmer does not have a higher IQ than any other worker with a college degree. In fact, they may even be lower.”

This article is worth reading just to get a view of someone who does not understand programmers at all. And should certainly not be attempting to write about how to manage them with views like the above.

The average programmer may be projecting an image of superiority but non-programmers miss-read this and think it is aimed at them. It is not. You have to understand that programmers rate themselves against other programmers not against anyone else.

This is important when making any decision about how to reward them. If you purchase some new equipment for your sales staff the likely reaction will be … nothing. If you purchase new equipment for your programming staff they will immediately start analyzing who has got what and by reference who is being rewarded more than others based upon the quality of the equipment. If you think this is not relevant think again.

What this comes down to is that the work environment is generally more important to a programmer than any kind of financial reward (within limits). But managing who gets what within your company is not easy.

You can just take the view (and if you have a big enough budget) that everyone is standardized and that you all get the same equipment. This in practice within a development environment never works because each programmer may require a very specialized setup which breaks the standardization rule and your back to ‘who gets what’.

Hardware Cascade
Programmers outwardly will try and give the impression that they are a loose nit bunch who care nothing for standard business practices and certainly not give any importance to the usual office politics of who is above who. This all goes out the window with new equipment because the hardware is seen as a status symbol within the ‘non-existent’ programmer hierarchy.

So when upgrading machines it is vitally important that you understand the structure of this invisible hierarchy. I typically upgrade at the top of the tree and push machines downwards, this can mean lots of re-installing but most programmers will be very happy to put in extra hours to perform the re-install if the reward is a new machine (or at least a faster machine)

The appeal of solving a problem
Programmers program because they love to solve problems.

Remember this rule:

“If you give a programmer a job that does not involve solving something they will become unhappy.”

Solving can mean many things and it is easier (and more important) to understand what classes as a ‘non-solving’ task. Typically asking a programmer to go fix something would be classed as ‘non-solving’ as the solution has already been found and you are asking them to re-solve it by having to look at the code again.

What is important is that you find ways of making ‘non-solving’ tasks into ’solving’ tasks. A typical example would be the difference between asking one of your programmers to put together a report (e.g. some usage statistics) by hand or assigning him more time so he can ’solve’ something and produce an automated system that will email you the report every day/week/month.

Other typical non-solving situations

* Writing documentation
* Creating schedules
* Writing reports
* 1st Line Support

All programmers have to perform non-happy-non-solving tasks and some cope better with dealing with a higher ‘non-solving’ ratio of tasks than others. Understanding your programmers and who can cope with what level of ‘non-solving’ is important to keeping an overall smooth operation.

Micro Managing
God help you if you try this tactic. My above statement about ’solving’ is at the very heart of why you cannot attempt to micro manage your programming team. Any attempt on your part to perform solving yourself means they are not solving. And even worse your are questioning their abilities to ’solve’ things which just about amounts to the worst thing you can do to a programmer.

In any crisis situation your programmers are likely to be in more of a frenzied state than you are and in nearly all cases your first reaction of helping is the wrong one. The hard part here is that you need to give the impression that you have the utmost confidence in their abilities (do not try and directly tell them this they will take it the wrong way) and that you can leave it to them to solve. And at the same time still be in touch with the direction they are taking to ensure that the crisis is resolved.

Meetings
Programmers see meetings as wastes of time. Most communication between programmers is done via email or by a quick wander to another desk to clarify something that is beyond the scope of an email. Therefore any time within a meeting room is ‘unhappy time’ and unhappiness increases exponentially with the length of the meeting. So at all costs if you do need to drag your development team into a meeting either include some form of Lego to play with (I am serious) or keep them very short.

There are lots of other areas I could cover (and maybe will in another post) but just remember that a happy programmer is a productive programmer.
managing motivate motivation

10 Linux shell tricks you don’t already know

here

No end in sight

Movie Website / Trailer

The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq’s descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality and anarchy, NO END IN SIGHT is a jaw-dropping, insider’s tale of wholesale incompetence, recklessness and venality. Based on over 200 hours of footage, the film provides a candid retelling of the events following the fall of Baghdad in 2003 by high ranking officials such as former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Ambassador Barbara Bodine (in charge of Baghdad during the Spring of 2003), Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell, and General Jay Garner (in charge of the occupation of Iraq through May 2003) as well as Iraqi civilians, American soldiers, and prominent analysts. NO END IN SIGHT examines the manner in which the principal errors of U.S. policy – the use of insufficient troop levels, allowing the looting of Baghdad, the purging of professionals from the Iraqi government, and the disbanding of the Iraqi military – largely created the insurgency and chaos that engulf Iraq today. How did a group of men with little or no military experience, knowledge of the Arab world or personal experience in Iraq come to make such flagrantly debilitating decisions? NO END IN SIGHT dissects the people, issues and facts behind the Bush Administration’s decisions and their consequences on the ground to provide a powerful look into how arrogance and ignorance turned a military victory into a seemingly endless and deepening nightmare of a war.

Mittwoch, Juli 18, 2007

100 Open Source Downloads

No, it’s not the “Top 100,” nor does this list contain the “only” 100 open source downloads you should consider – there’s a big ocean out there, so please keep swimming.

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3689281

10 Articles All Bloggers Should Read (at least once)

Bloggen will gelernt sein. Und die meisten machen das wohl besser als ich, da mein Blog ja größtenteils eine bessere Bookmarksammlung ist. ;)

Für alle, die das Bloggen wirklich Ernst nehmen, empfiehlt sich daher das Lesen des folgenden Artikels:

10 Articles All Bloggers Should Read (at least once)

Help-Key: How to Optimize Your Video for YouTube

http://crunchgear.com/2007/07/16/help-key-how-to-optimize-your-video-for-youtube/

How to Handle Thousands of Users with Your Blog

Nicht alle bloggen bei Google oder Twoday.net. Viele hosten ihr Blog privat.

If you are running a blog and you have your own server, here are a few tips to easily handle at least half a million hits per day.

How to Handle Thousands of Users with Your Blog

Mittwoch, Juni 27, 2007

Aswefall - Between the Miles







AswefallBetween the Miles



Auf dieses Lied bin ich durch meine regelmäßigen Flüge mit Air France aufmerksam geworden. Es wird dort an Board sehr oft vor und nach der Landung gespielt.

Schönes Lied!!

Zu finden ist dieses Stück der französischen Kombo "Aswefall" auf dem Album "Bleed", welches man zum Beispiel hier kaufen kann

Freitag, Juni 22, 2007

IndieFeed

IndieFeed

IndieFeed is a community-oriented niche-media broadcast network that delivers fresh, independent content to an intelligent audience that wants cutting-edge and relevant entertainment. Unlike mass-oriented brodacast companies, IndiFeed delivers targeted, single-serving shows optimized for mobile use, helping to provide more choice and control in the busy, on-the-go lifestyle.


http://blindingflashes.blogs.com/indie_feed/


Cool: The Furze - Hope the light

Mittwoch, Mai 30, 2007

Music: AfterOneSummer


Ganz nette Band aus Bielefeld

AfterOneSummer








Montag, Mai 28, 2007

Brother HL 1030 under linux

http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/lpr_drivers.html

Samstag, Mai 26, 2007

Top 8 Linux Games Of 2007

8 addictive 3d games for linux users to fill their time with. some have won awards or have been featured on magazines. Most of it is cross platform and free. You don ’t have to use ‘Wine’ to be able to play as they come with Linux installers.

Top 8 Linux Games Of 2007

Freitag, April 27, 2007

Tours in Armenia

... by Menua Tours, Yerevan:

Menuatours.com - Daily Tours

... a really cool one is the tour to Noravang.

Trip to Noravang

Dienstag, Februar 06, 2007

Stickam.com: The Live Community - Express Yourself LIVE!

Und noch eine Community, die den sozialen Gedanken des Mitmach-Webs konsequent zu verfolgen scheint. Stickam.com kommt durchaus vielversprechend rüber. Mal sehen, was daraus wird.

Stickam™ allows you to easily place streaming video, slide show, music, and live video chat on your blog and/or web site. With Stickam™, you can instantly play your videos online using just your web browser. There is no software to download, you just copy and paste the Stickam™ Code into your web site or blog where you want it. Your video can be viewed by virtually anyone with no software to install and will play on any operating system including Linux, Windows and Mac.

Stickam - Express Yourself LIVE!

Donnerstag, Januar 18, 2007

A hoax or not?... Landing on the moon

An intersting Fox movie may give lots of input for a conspiracy. However, this website has lots of arguments to proof that landing on the moon was indeed NO hoax.

Montag, Januar 15, 2007

drupal.org CMS

Drupal is an open source content management platform.

Equipped with a powerful blend of features, Drupal can support a variety of websites ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites.


drupal.org | Community plumbing

PHP based newsletter systems

Today I was looking for a quick solution setting up a PHP based newsletter / mass mailing system for a friend. The following two ones look quite promising:

pommo.org

phplist.com

Donnerstag, Januar 11, 2007

x-Brick - Story: Robbi, Tobbi und das Fliewatüt

Ein Stück Kindheit... als x-Brick Story:

x-Brick - Story: Robbi, Tobbi und das Fliewatüüt

:-)

Soap Detective: Miss Marple and more in Podcasts...

Lots of Miss Marple and other detective podcasts radio plays from the 1940s and 50s. Hardboiled detectives meet dastardly villains.

Soap Detective at odeo.com

Mittwoch, Januar 10, 2007

weltnachrichten.org - Klaus Werner Lobo de Rezende

weltnachrichten.org ist das Weblog von Klaus Werner, Mitautor der Bücher 'Schwarzbuch Öl' (zusammen mit Thomas Seifert) sowie des Globalisierungsbestsellers 'Das neue Schwarzbuch Markenfirmen'

weltnachrichten.org - Klaus Werner Lobo de Rezende

Dienstag, Januar 09, 2007

Morrissey and Kirsty Kirsty MacCol



... simply a great photo of two people who wrote music history ... . This one can be ordered at kirstyprints.com

Kirsty did a great duet with Morrissey: Intersting drug. She also teamed up with Morrissey and the Smiths in order to sing the background vocals for Ask

Kirsty... with Lemmy (Motörhead) on the Guitar :)))

The greatest duet ever... with Kirsty the Pogues. I also quite like this live version - not just only because of Shane Mac Gowan's bad teeth. ;)

Can't stop killing you

MediaWiki-Werkzeuge

Rund um MediaWiki gibt es eine Reihe Tools, die den Umgang mit dem Wiki erleichtern.

Hilfe:MediaWiki-Werkzeuge - Meta

wikipedia

Samstag, Januar 06, 2007

ZEIT Campus : Willst du mein Kontakt sein?

ZEIT Campus : Willst du mein Kontakt sein?

Um einen Job zu kriegen, braucht man Kontakte, heißt es. Nirgends in Deutschland gibt es mehr als bei der Internet-Plattform Xing/openBC. Ein Selbstversuch.

Stefan Esser: PHP Security Blog

PHP Security Blog

The Hardened PHP project was founded to protect PHP users and servers against present and future security holes.

Donnerstag, Januar 04, 2007

Zurücksetzen der MacBook und Mac Book Pro PMU (Pro Power Management Unit)

Zur�cksetzen der MacBook und Mac Book Pro PMU (Pro Power Management Unit)

Hier erhalten Sie Informationen zur Funktion "Energie sparen" des MacBook und des MacBook Pro, und wie Sie diese zurücksetzen können.

Dieser Artikel bezieht sich auf die Intel-basierten tragbaren Computer von Apple, die im Februar 2006 oder später hergestellt wurden.

Apple MacBookPro: Akku kalibrieren mit SMC Reset

SMC Reset:

- Book ausschalten
- Akku rausnehmen
- Netzteil abstecken
- Einschalter für mindestens 5 Sekunden festhalten
- Einschalter loslassen
- Akku rein
- Netzteil dran
- Book einschalten

Danach PRAM Set:

Alt-Apfel-P-R beim Neustart des Mac solange festhalten, bis der Startton (Dong) dreimal zu hören war.

Dann Kalibrieren:

- Netzteil anschließen
- ohne Unterbrechung auf 100% aufladen
- mindestens weitere 2 Stunden das Netzteil dran lassen
- alle Energiesparoptionen ausschalten
- Netzteil abstecken
- ganz leerlaufen lassen, bis es in den Safe Sleep geht (Akkuwarnung ignorieren)
- min. 2 (besser 5) Stunden leer, ohne Netzteil dran, stehen lassen
- Netzteil anschließen
- ohne Unterbrechung auf 100% aufladen
- mindestens weitere 2 Stunden das Netzteil dran lassen

Evtl. auch mehrfach hintereinander machen !

Hier die Apple Seite dazu (untere Hälfte)

Apple MacBookPro: PRAM Reset machen

Alt-Apfel-P-R beim Neustart des Mac solange festhalten, bis der Startton (Dong) dreimal zu h�ren war.


Contents of PRAM

Status of AppleTalk
Serial Port Configuration and Port definition
Alarm clock setting
Application font
Serial printer location
Autokey rate
Autokey delay
Speaker volume
Attention (beep) sound
Double-click time
Caret blink time (insertion point rate)
Mouse scaling (mouse speed)
Startup disk
Menu blink count
Monitor depth
32-bit addressing
Virtual memory
RAM disk
Disk cache

& hier

Illuminati? The New World Order?

Du liebe Güte... . Naja, sind ja nur Verschwörungstheorien... ;)

The New World Order, an Overview

There is a worldwide conspiracy being orchestrated by an extremely powerful and influential group of genetically-related individuals (at least at the highest echelons) which include many of the world's wealthiest people, top political leaders, and corporate elite, as well as members of the so-called Black Nobility of Europe (dominated by the British Crown) whose goal is to create a One World (fascist) Government, stripped of nationalistic and regional boundaries, that is obedient to their agenda. Their intention is to effect complete and total control over every human being on the planet and to dramatically reduce the world's population by 5.5 Billion people. While the name New World Order is a term frequently used today when referring to this group, it's more useful to identify the principal organizations, institutions, and individuals who make up this vast interlocking spiderweb of elite conspirators.