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Intel Graphic Media Accelerator (GMA) Driver
2009-11-30 01:00:00 Many people have a GMA as their graphic card on their notebooks. There are usually some special drivers shipped with the notebook for the graphic card, which usually work just fine with office programs. But when you start using 3D-acceleration, you might encounter weird graphic bugs. So the normal action an experienced user would take ... More About: Media , Intel , Driver , Graphic , Accelerator
Games on the cell phone
2009-08-17 09:13:00 During my last semester, I participated at a seminar. My topic was ?Games on the cell phone?. I?m putting the text I wrote online. It?s in German, but if someone is interested, feel free to have a look. Spiele auf dem Handy (PDF) More About: Phone , Cell Phone , Cell
OMG! WTF? Where is my bag?
2009-08-09 14:26:00 I never thought that something like this would happen to me, but when I arrived at Beijing International Airport a few days ago to travel to Nanning to visit my relatives, I couldn?t believe my eyes. I got out of the car, took both suitcases out of the trunk and start looking for my backpack. ...
Things about Li-Ion batteries
2009-07-12 23:58:00 Li-Ion batteries are practically everywhere. They are used for mobile phones, notebooks, even cars. But most people don’t really know about them and give out wrong hints on how to use and charge them. So here are two important facts about Li-Ion batteries you should know: The less the a Li-Ion battery cell is discharged, the ... More About: Batteries , Things
Lunch at the TU-Berlin
2009-06-19 22:49:00 Being a student at the TU-Berlin is quite nice. Our campus is right in the city, so it’s quite easy to go shopping right after your classes. We have a canteen called “Mensa” for the students too, serving really cheap food. You usually pay around ? 1.90 for some meat, plus ? 0.30 for some ... More About: Lunch
Saxon Switzerland
2009-06-05 13:28:00 On my birthday this year, my girlfriend surprised me with a short trip to “Schöna”, a small village in the Saxon Switzerland , around 200km from Berlin. So what’s so special about the Saxon Switzerland? Well, you have a huge green forest and some really weird high stones standing there. It looks really beautiful, especially when ...
Preventing multiple instances of Flash Movies
2009-05-16 16:25:00 Currently, Flash does not natively support prevention of multiple instances, so a workaround is needed. Why would anyone want to prevent multiple instances anyway? Well, I use Flash as a Chat client, so allowing a user to run multiple instances would mean that they could join the chat multiple times, which is not really a ... More About: Movies
Buying stamps the smart way
2009-05-09 00:51:00 Usually, when you need to send a letter, you would probably walk to the post office to buy a stamp, or maybe a full set with 10 or more. In Germany, post offices are usually really full and it takes quite some time until you can buy your stamps. The Problem is that the post ... More About: Buying , Smart , Stamps
Short trip to Wandlitz
2009-04-15 02:27:00 Last weekend, my girlfriend and me went to Wandlitz for a short trip. Wandlitz is a small town close to Berlin and has two lakes around it, namely “Wandlitzer See” and “Liepnitzsee”. We decided to hike around the “Wandlitzer See” the first day, which was pretty nice at the beginning, where there was a promenade. But ... More About: Trip , Short
Adobe Flash?s ExternalInterface and Microsoft Internet Explorer
2009-04-13 16:21:00 As my new community project is using a lot of Javascript and Flash Communication, I rely on Flash’s ExternalInterface. ExternalInterface allows me to create simple functions in Flash, which are callable from Javascript. I developed everything using Firefox, where everything worked just fine, but when using Internet Explorer, I encountered the problem that no ExternalInterface ... More About: Microsoft , Internet Explorer , Adobe
Editing Images Online
2009-03-31 15:39:00 Adobe Photoshop is pretty much the standard program everyone use to edit images. It is a great piece of software, but unlucky, incredibly expensive. It has a lot of features, but sometimes, I just want to quickly crop an image or change its contrast and it is annoying to wait ages for it to load. ... More About: Images , Online , Editing
PuTTY and WinSCP
2008-02-10 11:59:00 PuTTY is great, but it’s even better with WinSCP. You can let WinSCP manage all sessions, press Ctrl+P and PuTTY will pop up, with your session password saved and passed to it. But there are some configuration issues coming from this kind of setup. More About: Software , Webdesign , Putty
XPS and Firefox
2008-01-29 13:18:00 XPS is Microsoft’s version of Adobe’s PDF. Its major advantage is that it is preinstalled on Vista and XP SP3. You can easy print everything as an XPS for later viewing. But Firefox users might encounter a weird bug when they try to open a XPS file. When a XPS is opened, Firefox starts and ... More About: Software , Computer
Moving again
2008-01-24 12:12:00 After staying with Keyweb VRS Premium for 3 month, I learned that virtual servers aren’t a real solution for hosting. I ended up way too many times in the black zone, killing my website. So it’s time to move again. More About: Moving
Useful Taskbar Grouping
2008-01-09 03:05:00 I always say that you can easy distinguish a computer amateur from an expert by looking at his taskbar. If it has only one row, he?s an amateur. An expert knows the advantage of multi tasking and needs a lot of space in the task bar to navigate through the programs. More About: Software , Computer , Task
Happy Holidays!
2007-12-25 01:09:00 Sending Ecards was pretty boring until I found JibJab. JibJab allows you to create little animations with your and your friends heads in it. It’s really fun, see for yourself: More About: Video , Software , Holidays , Happy Holidays , Happy
Music over Bluetooth
2007-12-14 18:46:00 If there is something I don’t like about wireless technology, it’s Bluetooth . It never worked the way I wanted. Some say it’s a matter of the stack (Bluetooth software) and some say you need to buy the best dongles. I used BlueSoleil, then Widcomm and now Toshiba, started off with Bluetooth 1.2 with a ... More About: Hardware , Music , Computer
Artido coupon from McDonalds
2007-12-12 20:12:00 Every year, we have a raffle in Germany from McDonalds called Monopoly. You can win several things there, but most coupons are pretty useless, just like the one from Artido. The coupon lets you buy something and get ? 20 off the price, but everything there costs at least ? 33.90. Wait, execpt for the ... More About: Coupon , Mcdonalds
The Vista Battle
2007-12-08 23:41:00 I have been using Microsoft programs for a long time now and I have seen a lot of BSDs (Blue Screen of Death), but they usually occur when some application or hardware crashes or when you changed something in your system. 2 days ago, I experienced a somewhat unexpected BSD. More About: Software , Computer , Vista , Battle
hosting toy - Keyweb VRS Start
2007-12-04 23:03:00 I used to share a root server with some friends of mine. This allowed us to use a high performance server at a relatively low cost. I use to pay a share of € 40 a month, which is quite a lot. So we decided to move to several small virtualized servers. With VDSL 50, ... More About: Hosting , Computer , Start
my first car
2007-12-03 05:22:00 When you live in Berlin, a car isn’t really nessecary. You can get anywhere with public transportation. But in the winter or at night, a car is much more comfortable. That’s why my girlfriend and me bought a car together. After testing a few cars, we decided to get a Volkswagen Lupo. It’s a ... More About: Auto
Beautiful music ? Katie Melua
2007-10-19 23:09:00 Every time I entered the subway a few months ago, I saw a poster of Katie Melua . Who is she? What is she performing? I don?t know, never heard of her before and honestly, I don’t have much interest in finding out either. It stayed this way until a few days ago, I heard a ... More About: Music , Beautiful
Clockwise or counter-clockwise?
2007-10-15 22:02:00 If you see her spinning around clockwise, you’re a (more) creative person. Everyone else seeing her spinning counter-clockwise is more logic oriented. When I first looked at the picture, she was turning counter-clockwise and after a few seconds, she turned around and spinned clockwise. But after focusing on her shadow, she started spinning counter-clockwise again. ... More About: Counter
Toshiba Portégé R400 ? Noble but disappointing
2007-10-11 22:22:00 I?ve been using my R400 for a while now and I have to say it?s simply great! I won it in Toshi ba ?s ?Love to Lead? Contest, so l didn?t pay the ? 3499 it is worth. But if you look at its specs, the price seems to be adequate for a convertible Tablet PC: ... More About: Hardware , Computer , Noble
slow upload, high download
2007-10-01 22:26:00 I have a Windows 2003 SBS at home and because Windows doesn’t support VLANs natively, I use Vmware to run a virtual opensuse router. This works perfectly fine for all systems except for the host OS itself. On my host OS, my download speed was around 3.5 MB/s, which is just fine, but the upload ... More About: Software , Download , Computer , High , Slow
O2 Service or ?things O2 only does to keep a customer?
2007-09-22 13:51:00 I used to have the ?Genion S Online? plan from O2 Germany, which costs ? 10 / month. For ? 5 more each month, I had a ?Wap & Email Flatrate?, which allowed me to surf and email on my mobile device. With 100 free SMS each month, I was even satisfied with ? 0.19 ... More About: Hardware , Service , Customer , Things
VDSL without IPTV
2007-09-17 22:25:00 A few days ago, I received a letter from T-Com confirming my order of T-Home Entertainment Comfort with VDSL 25. I never ordered it, especially not on September 10th, where I had been in China. Anyway, I didn’t want VDSL 25 when I already have VDSL 50 and I didn’t want IPTV either because I ... More About: Hardware
Microsoft PPTP VPN and Susefirewall2
2007-08-10 07:25:00 How do I get these two working together without additional tools like pptpproxy? That was a question I had for a long time and finally there is a solution. On a forum, I found a post that allows GRE connections through the default openSUSE firewall. So here is the working configuration for my openSUSE ... More About: Microsoft , Suse
Cook your own Artemis/O2 Xda Orbit
2007-08-01 20:42:00 Modifying your PPC (PocketPC) software is called “cooking” in the PPC world. People who change the software are the “chefs” and the development environment is of course the “kitchen”. But the result is called ROM. More About: Hardware , Cook , Orbit , Artem
perfect cell phone?
More articles from this author:2007-07-10 00:15:00 Last Thursday, my new cell phone arrived. It?s the O2 Xda Orbit, a branded version of the HTC Artemis P3300, filled with useful features like GPS and Wireless LAN. As a Nokia fan, it was really hard to resist the N95, but I?m more than happy with my choice. More About: Hardware , Phone , Cell Phone , Computer , Cell 1, 2, 3 |
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