setting up email reminders

From the great series ISP-In-A-Box at Nerd Vittles: chapter XII: email reminders.

GooSync SyncML connection for Google Calendar

GooSync synchronizes almost any mobile device with your Google Calendar using SyncML. The standard GooSync service is free but it does contain limitations. You are only able to synchronise your primary Google Calendar and you are limited to a sync window of 7 days past and 30 days future of the current date. The paid subscription service removes these limitations and provides additional features.

DIY iSync phone plugin

Great website called DIY iSync phone plugin, that shows you how to connect unsupported cell phones via iSync for MacOSX.

German language book on food around Venice

The German language book Besser. Einfach. from Günther Schatzdorfer and Wolfgang Böck talks about the wonders of the surroundings of Venice, Italy, especially about simple and unbelievably tasty food. Convincing statement against the "American disease", where people suffer from the erroneous belief, that more and bigger is always better.

Coda, one window web development for MacOSX

On 4/24 Panic announced, that Coda 1.0 is officially released. This one window web development environment for MacOSX includes an editor, preview, a CSS editor, a Terminal and a built-in reference library for HTML, CSS and JavaScript, all for 69$ for existing Transmit 3 owners.

Samsung announces 1.8 inch 120GB hard drive

According to engadget.com Samsung announced a 1.8 inch 120GB hard drive with 8mm thickness.

P.S.: according to BusinessWeek Seagate will bring a 1.8 inch 120GB hard drive, too.

IMS World Forum 2.0 in Monaco

From 4/24 to 4/26 the IMS World Forum 2.0 takes place at the Fairmont Monte Carlo, Monaco.

Conversations Europe in Cannes, France

From 4/24 to 4/26 the Conversations Europe takes place in Cannes, France.

Swiss+Tech Utili-Key

The Swiss+Tech Utili-Key is a 6-in-1 tool, that looks like a key. It has a straight knife blade, a serrated cutting surface, a micro-sized screwdriver, a Phillips screwdriver, an eyeglass screwdriver, and a bottle opener, all for 11$.

EyeTV 2.4 available since 4/18

ElGato has EyeTV 2.4 available for download. EyeTV 2.4 now includes support for Apple's Spotlight search and (USA only) Infrared Blaster support for ZephIR, iRed and IR Trans.

Kensington Vo200 Bluetooth Internet Phone

Yesterday at the Bluetooth SIG meeting at the Hotel Intercontinental Vienna I saw the Kensington Vo200 Bluetooth Internet Phone with noise cancellation and noise suppression technologies. It fits into a PCcard slot for charging and storage, and communicates with your PC via Bluetooth for less than 90$. Comes with enough battery time for 3 hours of continuous talk time and over 30 hours of standby.

Top Marques in Monaco

From 4/19 to 4/22 the Top Marques Monaco 2007, the only live supercar show in the world takes place at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.

WIMA 2007 in Monaco

From 4/18 to 4/20 the WIMA 2007 takes place at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.

Jazz Fest Wien

From 6/25 to 7/12 the annual Jazz Fest Wien takes place in Vienna, Austria. This year Juliette Greco, Roberta Flack and Paul Anka will be among the highlights.

MIPTV featuring MILIA in Cannes, France

From 4/16 to 4/20 the annual MIPTV featuring MILIA, the world´s audiovisual and digital content market takes place at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France.

Apple unveils Final Cut Studio 2 at NAB in Las Vegas

At the annual NAB in Las Vegas Apple showed Final Cut Studio 2. It includes Final Cut Pro 6, Motion 3, Soundtrack Pro 2, Compressor 3, DVD Studio Pro 4, and Color, a brand-new application for professional color grading, all for $1299. P.S.: they also introduced Final Cut Server for 999$ for 10 users and 1999$ for unlimited users.

AJA IoHD with FireWire800

AJA announced their IoHD, a transportable plug-in solution for working with HD and SD in Final Cut Studio 2 for 3495$. With a single FireWire 800 connection, Io HD supports the new Apple ProRes 422 Codec natively, in hardware, to bring production-quality HD editing to the Mac Pro desktop and even the MacBook Pro laptop!

high res aerial photography at herold.at

The Austrian White and Yellow Pages, HEROLD.at now has high res picts of the nine Austrian state capitals. The aerial photographs were taken in October and November 2006. Unfortunately you need IE6 or Firefox1.5 or higher, no Safari or browsers on mobile phones supported right now, but the resolution should be higher than on Google Earth or maps.google.com.

175 years of Sachertorte

On 4/12 there was a celebration of the 175th birthday of the world famous Sachertorte at the penthouse terrasse of the Hotel Sacher in Vienna, Austria.

MacOSX 10.5 (Leopard) postponed to October 2007

Apple Statement: iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can’t wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is. However, iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price — we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned. While Leopard's features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us. We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October. We think it will be well worth the wait. Life often presents tradeoffs, and in this case we're sure we've made the right ones.

WiebeTech Mouse Jiggler

WiebeTech announced the Mouse Jiggler, a small USB device for less than 30$, that prevents a computer from going to sleep while you work or play.

100 million iPods sold

Apple today announced that the 100 millionth iPod has been sold, making the iPod the fastest selling music player in history.

BeLight Live Interior 3D

BeLight Software introduced Live Interior 3D, a MacOSX software package for MacOSX to design interiors in 3D for less than 80$. Includes Google 3D Warehouse integration.

TinyURL for MacOSX

Just found this TinyURL service for MacOSX via TUAW.

ElGato EyeTV Hybrid supports PAL and NTSC

If you plan to use your portable Mac for watching TV while traveling, it is good to know, that the ElGato EyeTV Hybrid supports analog video in PAL and NTSC formats, no matter, if you bought the US or the European version. The only difference is the digital TV part, which supports ATSC in the US and DVB-T in the European version. So if you plan to watch TV worldwide it is best to buy the US EyeTV Hybrid and the European EyeTV Diversity. The US Hybrid gives you analog NTSC and PAL, plus ATSC. The Diversity gives you 2 DVB-T tuners in one USB stick, which gives you much better reception, even in fast moving trains and cars.

ElGato Turbo.264

According to macnews.de, ElGato plans to market a H.264 encoding co-processor in USB stick form factor for less than 100 Euros.

8 core Apple Mac Pro

Apple announced the availability of the 8-core 3GHz Mac Pro. Cost ist 1500$ more than the former top model with quad core 2.6GHz.

DRM free music from EMI at iTunes store

Apple announced that they will sell DRM free music from EMI at the iTunes store starting in May 2007. The price of the DRM free music will be raised to 1.29$, but the additional 30 cents buys you 256kbps AAC quality without that useless digital restriction management.

EyeTV 2.4 will support infrared transmitters

The upcoming ElGato EyeTV 2.4 software for MacOSX will finally support IR (infrared) transmitters, e.g. the ZephIR, so that the EyeTV application can be configured to work with a satellite or a cable set top box.

Google intros Gmail Paper

Google introduced Gmail Paper, which lets you send free paper based mail. The cost of postage is offset with the help of relevant, targeted, unobtrusive advertisements, which will appear on the back of your Gmail Paper prints in red, bold, 36 pt Helvetica. No pop-ups, no flashy animations—these are physically impossible in the paper medium.