Best & Worst Gadget 2009

this post is part of Ritchie’s blog carneval ‘Best & Worst Gadget 2008′ (or ‘Bestes / übelstes Hardware Gadget 2008′, if you prefer german), which is about to end today – so if you want to join, better hurry up!
in 2008 I finally settled to buy a new TV-set for my living room. not  being [...]

Ultramobile MacBook in 2008?

Despite all the (justified) grieve on breaking MacBook(Pro)s & crashing Leopards, this rumoured, ultramobile, flash-based sub-notebook would probably make me pull out my credit-card immediately… all rumours collected at Mahalo.

(Image: Engadget)

del.icio.us bookmarks for December 21st through January 1st

ZSFA — Rails Is A Ghetto –
Screen shot of email to Steve Jobs at Apple auf Flickr – Fotosharing! –
Synergy – share mouse&keyboard between several computers (win,mac,linux)
Nokia Europe – iSync – Download software – Get support and software –
H323 installation on Debian and Asterisk 1.4 – voip-info.org –

del.icio.us bookmarks for August 26th through September 9th

A VC: Biz Stone on Read/Write Talk –
MySpace: How To Devalue a Platform in Three Easy Steps – SWiK –
Going Viral like the Common Cold (Not Always a Good Thing) –
MMOGCHART.COM –
GigaOM A First-Hand Look at a Chinese Second Life, HiPiHi « –
Retro MacOS Theme –

iPhoneDevCamp

on July 6th-8th, Adobe is hosting iPhoneDevCamp in San Francisco, a BarCamp-styled gathering “to develop web-based applications and optimize web sites for iPhone. It is a non-commercial event, organized by volunteers, with attendance free to all. By the completion of the weekend event, a number of iPhone-ready web applications and web sites will be launched [...]

iPhone: browser guidelines f. developers

The University of Washington’s Emerging Technology group published a few key-facts and guidelines for web-application developers targetting the upcoming iPhone, including User-Agent-string, javascript-limitations and user-interface conventions. No specific info yet on the Javascript(?)-hooks Safari will offer to make phone-calls or control the integrated Google Maps-client, but a good list of things to keep in mind…
update: [...]

roundup for 2007-01-10 … SecondLife / iPhone / DRM

the official Linden Blog features the transcript of yesterdays Town Hall talk with Cory Linden, CTO of Linden Labs. obviously, Cory mostly addresses issues regarding the recent open sourcing of the SecondLife client-software, like possible plugin-infrastructures, the installation of CVS and if/when Linden’s server-software is following the client’s path into public. not very much definitive [...]

iTunes 7.0.1 released

as anticipated by many customers, Apple quickly released a follow-up to the bemoaned 7.0 release of iTunes. iTunes 7.0.1 (both windows and mac osx) “addresses stability and performance issues with Cover Flow, CD importing, iPod syncing, and more”. however, feedback on the update indicates that some problems still persist, so I was glad to find [...]

iTunes 7: early adopter’s misery

iTunes 7 received loads of bad press immediately after last weeks release. especially Windows-users complain about heavily increased CPU- and memory-load, disfunctional download of cover-artwork, problems with certain iPod-models and destroyed installations. this reminds a lot of itTunes 6, which was quite buggy in its inital release as well (lets remember this when iTunes 8 [...]

Apple Showtime: summary

Apple’s ‘Showtime’-event focussed on digital media just ended 2 hours ago, and like with augusts WWDC keynote, I’m not too impressed with the outcome. check TechCrunch for a brief summary or Engadget for an extremley detailed live-blog + hands-on reports with all products.
as expected, iTMS now sells feature-movie downloads for as low as $13 (pre-orders [...]