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1Password to rule them all
2009-12-14 10:07:00 Keychain is Apple’s password management system in Mac OS. It was introduced with Mac OS 8.6, and has been included in all subsequent versions of Mac OS. A keychain can contain various types of data: passwords (websites, FTP servers, SSH accounts, network shares, wireless networks, groupware applications, encrypted disk images), private keys, certificates and secure ... More About: Software , Password , Keychain
Wordpress Jazz
2009-12-10 09:28:00 Soon Word press (overall best open source CMS) will be releasing its latest version. It’s planned 3rd week of December, 2009 after that 3.0 March 2010, 3.1 August 2010 and 3.2 November 2010 will be released. Don’t pin the dev-guys down on these dates. Here are some of the great features of Wordpress Version 2.9: Basic image editor: ... More About: Software , Jazz , Press
See no evil hear no evil
2009-12-04 17:43:00 Google today, as part of their ongoing effort to make the web faster, is launching their own public DNS resolver called Google Public DNS, and they invite you to try it out (Read: Google has entered the domain name resolution business, part of its ongoing effort to control just about everything you do on the net). DNS ... More About: Google , Internet , Open , Hear , Evil
And poof no Flash
2009-11-29 14:58:00 I think it’s about clear that I don’t like Flash and I don’t mean that in a small way. Adobe ’s love to the Mac user is crystal clear with their developer preview of Adobe Flash Player 10.1. In Flash Player 10.1, H.264 hardware acceleration is not supported under Linux and Mac OS. Linux currently lacks a ... More About: Internet , Click
The roof is on fire
2009-11-26 19:44:00 Today (11:30) at work we were confronted by a huge fire by our neighbors across! The building of City Box totally burnt down! The fire department used their fireboat to hose down the fire. Now for the fun part my car was situated near the fireboat. No trouble so far just a free car-wash, the ... More About: Personal , Fire , Roof , Damage
Surfs up dude!
2009-11-23 19:00:00 Today we’re going to start the Google Wave account invites auction! One of my friends sent me a Google Wave account. Today I received an invite bulk from Google. If you would like to be one of lucky ones and receive one of my 8 Google Wave beta account invites: leave a comment for this ... More About: Software , Technology , Dude , Surfs Up
What?s on TV?
2009-11-21 09:28:00 As promised earlier my review of my Apple TV. First there’s a whole interface overhaul after the 3.0 update. The update (3.0.1) ironed out a nasty bug which removed all media files from the Apple TV after syncing. The menu structure is logically horizontally organized: Movies , TV Shows, Music , Podcasts , Photos , Internet and Settings. If ...
Defy the future
2009-11-03 20:44:00 Walt Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer Films (Pirates of the Caribbean) teamed up to create a movie based on the video game Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, which if everything goes well , will be released on May 2010. A short synopsis for those of you who don’t know the games. The story is set ... More About: Future , The Future
Apple TV Take 3
2009-10-30 12:55:00 Apple today announced the launch of Apple TV 3-dot-oh software along with iTunes 9.0.2. The Apple TV 3.0 software update is offering a redesigned user interface and compatibility with Apple’s iTunes LPs and iTunes Extras, as well as Genius Mixes and Internet radio. I’ll write a review about this update later. More About: Software , Apple , Update
Rock & Roll
2009-09-01 08:39:00 The event will be held at 10:00 AM Pacific Time at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, the site of several previous Apple September media events. (It’s about music stupid!) More About: Pod , Music , Events , Rock
Avatar the Game
2009-08-29 10:36:00 I’ve been in anticipation of James Cameron’s new movie (shot using the Fusion Camera System technology) called Avatar which will be released on december 18th. James Cameron is a screenwriter, producer and director. He has written and directed films as: The Terminator, Rambo II, Aliens, The Abyss and monster hit Titanic. In 2011 Cameron will be ... More About: Movies , Games , Pandora , Manga , Game
Better. Faster. Easier.
2009-08-24 20:17:00 The world’s most advanced operating system came to us early. Just for just 29 bucks you’ll have a new Mac. Refined from installation to shutdown and with Exchange support (boring). More About: Software , Apple , Operating System
Gallery is open
2009-08-15 10:23:00 We’re proud to announce that our Gallery is open for business! Our Gallery is based on the best WordPress gallery software there is from Alex Rabe the creator of Next GEN Gallery. As usual we’ll start off with a beta and later deploy the final version. We have already included some nice desktops pictures (copyrighted) which ... More About: Photography , Photos , Open
Don?t be evil
2009-08-05 15:48:00 (Internet) privacy is just a myth! Google already knows more about you than say the National Security Agency ever will. Maybe Google, with its insatiable thirst for your personal data, will become the greatest threat to privacy ever known? Ask yourself, how far has Google invested (and no I don’t mean money wise) in your ... More About: Technology , Company , Privacy , Evil
Flashless
2009-07-27 08:19:00 David Hyatt is one of the driving forces behind the increasing popular Webkit and with the accelerating evolution of the web standards, it’s becoming a threat to Adobe’s Flash which is also being threatened by Microsoft Silver light. Microsoft’s solution faces two major problems: Mac users trust and usage. Mac users don’t trust Microsoft because of ... More About: Technology , Light , Web Browser
Less is more
2009-07-26 09:57:00 With the new version of Quick Time X some stuff is missing I hope this will change in the final version of Snow Leopard. First the most obvious: the preferences are missing, I guess they will come back otherwise you can’t configure QuickTime X. Second the New Player, A/V Controls and Movie Properties are missing. So QuickTime ... More About: Technology
Eliza wasn?t there
2009-07-21 20:55:00 The flight went very smooth, no complaints there, Tristan was just amazing he even slept in the plane. We had rented a Hyundai Getz from Hertz, yeah you can call it a car but I say it’s a tin can (sorry for your Japanese car lovers but they just don’t know how to make cars!). ... More About: Personal , Greece , Vacation , Santorini
Santorini the circular one
2009-07-01 07:00:00 The coming weeks there will be no posts because we’re going on vacation to Santorini , Greece . The name Santorini was given to it by the Latin empire in the thirteenth century, and is a reference to Saint Irene. Before then it was known as Kallist? (????????, “the most beautiful one”), Strongyl? (?????????, “the circular one”), ... More About: Personal , Vacation , Circular
Absolute power
2009-06-21 21:03:00 Ever dreamed about super powers? If you should buy a game tomorrow this is it. You are Alex Mercer, a shape-shifter with absolute mastery over your genetic structure, stalking the streets of NYC, searching for your past. The web of lies makes this the biggest conspiracy of the past forty years. In you quest ... More About: Power , Entertainment , Games , Prototype , Starcraft 2
Firefox (Shiretoko)
2009-06-20 10:24:00 The release candidate 2 of Firefox 3.5 is available and contains a more detailed icon finally (about freaking time). The new version supports the OMG hi-res 512×512 icon size. digitalrendezvous has already some support for Firefox 3.5 like drop- and text shadows. More About: Icons , Web Browser
Happy Birthday Little Man
2009-06-18 09:00:00 My boy has today become 1 year old, is baby-off and became a toddler. So here’s to you my little dude! Happy Birthday More About: Personal , Happy Birthday , Toddler
Designed To Entertain
2009-06-13 11:59:00 In our migration path towards a HDMI setup, we will have to exchange our trusty Harman Kardon DVD 22 to a Blu-ray player and a new 7.1 AV Receiver. We will probably end up with a Harman Kardon set-up again!? Harman Kardon recently released the BDP-1 (U.S.) and BDP-10 (Europe). The player will be able ... More About: Video , Design , Entertainment , Audio , Devices
Crap I missed it!
2009-05-20 18:16:00 Fisker Karma is a plug-in hybrid luxury sports sedan manufactured by Fisker Automotive which is a joint venture of Quantum Technologies and Fisker Coachbuild. It was announced in September 2007, introduced in 2008 and to be sold in the summer of 2009. This eco friendly design and engineering masterpiece is available for only $87900 Up next: ... More About: Design , Cars , Hybrid , Crap , Fisker Karma
End to Seal Trade
2009-05-06 20:58:00 I have written earlier about seal hunting in these articles Canadian Baby Killers and No Seal s Today. But we have a breakthrough today: the European Parliament finally voted on Tuesday to ban almost all trade in seal pelts and products. The Canadian government strongly criticized the European vote (duh!). This is a huge blow ... More About: Animals , Trade
Digital Living (Part I)
2009-05-03 11:19:00 I promised to write a review about my HDTV, but I realized that one post wouldn’t cover the subject so I divided them into parts. Today in Part I: DLNA. In 2003 the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) created a global collaboration with a collection of companies, all working together to help you create the ... More About: Tunes , Lifestyle , Apple , Sony
Spam Free Horay!
2009-04-23 09:07:00 We have excluded almost all anti-spam techniques from this blog. So no more captcha’s, are you human etc. This is made possible by the best SPS © (Spam Prevention Solution) there is: WP-SpamFree . After experimenting with it for a month, we have decided to phaseout all other spam prevention solutions. More About: Geek
Laptop Hunters
2009-04-17 09:37:00 Okay, this is really funny! In Microsoft ’s recent Laptop Hunters ad campaign Microsoft is promoting low-cost generic PCs as a cheaper alternative to the Mac. Well there’s already a spoof: Meet Frank , he’s a homeless guy and offered to buy a PC under a grand, you find it, you keep it! Frank tries to find ...
I like no other
2009-04-14 12:01:00 We have waited longer then we at first anticipated. But this weekend we started exploring and researching what kind of Full HD TV to buy. We ended up with the most logical choice: the Sony BRAVIA Z4500 (KDL-40Z4500). Bravia is an acronym for Best Resolution Audio Visual Integrated Architecture. Kinda bold statement, but hey, you’ve ... More About: Devices
Enjoy Water
2009-04-05 12:32:00 One of my favorite design brands is GROHE. They are the leading provider of premium luxury bath faucets and showers, kitchen mixers, thermostats and installations systems. Their fusion of innovative technology, inspirational design and outstanding quality is renowned within the industry. Good design is about understanding people. It translates a user?s requirements, desires and expectations into ... More About: Enjoy , Water
Life without walls
More articles from this author:2009-04-04 23:06:00 Two things were clear about the new Microsoft commercial: it was staged and for the shoot an actress (Lauren ) was hired. But here is a fact nobody knew: Lauren could go in and out the Mac Store in 55 milliseconds. So there’s is only one logical explanation: she’s a super hero! Faster than a speeding bullet, ... More About: Life , Walls 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
