Huawei driver software

At this web location you find the driver software for the Huawei E220 USB modem. The Mac version works with quite a lot of other Huawei modems, like the E270, too.

Chromjuwelen, kings of chrome in Vienna, Austria

From 10/25 to 3/2 Chromjuwelen, kings of chrome, an exhibition of cars with history is shown at the technical museum in Vienna, Austria. Besides the Uhlenhaut Gullwing 300SLR there are Porsche prototypes, the Jaguar E-Type, that was owned by Jochen Rindt, a Bugatti Royale and best of all: a Bugatti Type57SC Atlantic. I saw this car for the first time in my life in reality and I was just blown away by such an incredible amount of beauty. Not even the Picasso Museum in Paris had such a lasting impression on me. Absolutely stunningly beautiful!

Western Digital 1TB hard drive

The Western Digital WD10EACS is a 1TB (1000GB) hard drive, that is fast, inexpensive, quiet and amazingly cool. Even after moving half a TeraByte of data to this drive it is still just hand warm. Absolutely recommended!

why security has become a dirty word

Directly from the New York Times: The Airport Security Follies.

finally received my Toshiba Portege G900

Introduced at 3GSM last February in Barcelona, and supposed to ship in summer 2007, I just received my Toshiba Portege G900 . And believe it or not: it looks even better in reality than on the already impressive spec sheet. The 800*480 screen is just gorgeous. 2.5 times as many pixels as on the iPhone! Even though Windows Mobile is a little rough compared to OSX on the iPhone, the hardware specs make this device really usable as a portable computer. Hopefully Toshiba will use the upcoming Android OS from Google ASAP for this device or its sucessors (910, 920).

Gmail IMAP for iPhone and Apple Mail

Nice tutorial, on Gmail IMAP for iPhone and Apple Mail at http://5thirtyone.com.

Box.net

At Box.net you get free online file storage.

17 percent decline in US tourism since September 11th

Directly from boingboing: "Loss of tourism costs USA 100 billion $, 200 000 jobs and 16 billion $ in tax revenue. The 17 percent decline in US tourism since September 11th, 2001 has had a devastating effect on the economy, costing nearly 100 billion (200,000 jobs, 16 billion $ in tax revenue). Visitors to the US from around the world rank the border procedures as among the worst on earth."

German Chancellor says NO to more autobahn speed limits

Directly from autoblog: Mrs. Merkel stressed that traffic jams caused by slow vehicles contribute as much greenhouse gas as a few speedsters.

FastMac uConnect

Another great small product from FastMac: the FastMac uConnect is a universal iPod shuffle dock adapter for less than 18$.

invisibleSHIELD™ for Apple iPhone

The invisibleSHIELD™ for Apple iPhone is available now for less than 25$.

Fujitsu ScanSnap S300

The Fujitsu ScanSnap S300 is the world's smallest and lightest duplex ADF scanner with USB bus power. Available right now with a Windows driver. The Mac version is scheduled for spring 2008.

MacOSX Leopard, the missing manual

Oreilly just brought out MacOSX Leopard, the missing manual from David Pogue with 912 pages for 35$.

Mac software for Nokia Anoto pen

The Austrian company paperium has driver software for using the Nokia Anoto pen with MacOSX. Sold right now exclusively through McShark.

Nano-Pad

With the help of the Nano-Pad you can place your gadgets in your car without glue or magnets, so they stay in place. Can be used on trains, buses, planes..., too. Available in various colors for less than 10 Euros. Great idea!

iMovie08 with MPEG2 support

According to this Apple knowledge base document, iMovie08 supports editing of DV, HDV, AVCHD and MPEG2 video files.

zCover FinalCutPro overlays for the Apple wired aluminium keyboard

zCover has FinalCutPro overlays for the Apple wired aluminium keyboard for less than 50$. They are washable, durable and dustproof.

One Xmas party at SmartSpace, no plans to sell to T-mobile a third time

On 12/13 there was the annual One Xmas party at the One SmartSpace in Vienna, Austria. Their new CEO, Michael Krammer was there, too. He has been one of the leading guys behind the success of max.mobil, the second GSM operator in Austria. When T-mobile bought max.mobil and immediately killed the brand "max", which at that time was one of the best new brands in Austria, he left for tele.ring, at that time the smallest Austrian GSM operator. Within a short time frame he built tele.ring into a hugely sucessful low cost provider. Tele.ring became so successful, that T-mobile bought it and its more than one million customers for 1.3 billion Euros. Michael Krammer left again, as he obviously didn´t want to work for T-mobile and became the CEO of E-plus in Germany. In summer 2007 he came back to Austria to become CEO of One/Connect Austria, the number three GSM operator in Austria, now owned by Orange. When I asked him, if he wanted to make One even more sucessful, as they already are, so they might be bought by T-mobile, too, he definitively told me, that Orange, the new owner of One has a strong commitment to the Austrian GSM market, and has no plans at all to sell to T-mobile, ever. About the possibility of selling the Apple iPhone he was quite clear, that Orange/One will sell the iPhone in 2008 as early as possible.

FastMac iPhone audio adapter with microphone and volume control

The FastMac iPhone audio adapter with microphone and volume control enables you to use any 3.5mm headphone with the non-standard iPhone 3.5mm audio port for 19.95$. In addition a built-in noise supressing microphone and a music playback/ phone control button it includes an adjustable volume slider, too.

FastMac iPhone audio adapter with microphone

The FastMac iPhone audio adapter with microphone enables you to use any 3.5mm headphone with the non-standard iPhone 3.5mm audio port for 13.95$. It also includes a built-in microphone and a music playback/ phone control button that allows users to answer and end phone calls with one click and also pause/play & skip music just like the original Apple iPhone headset.

FastMac iPhone audio adapter

The FastMac iPhone audio adapter enables you to use any 3.5mm headphone with the non-standard iPhone 3.5mm audio port for 4.95$.

MAKE volume 12 available

The newest issue of MAKE (volume 12) is available right now.

use the MacOSX built-in dictionary via pop up

Just found this hint at Gizmodo: Press and hold Apple+Control+D over any word in a cocoa application and instantly there is a pop up window at the cursor location with the Oxford Dictionary entry of the selected word.

region free DVD drives for MacOSX

At MacBook.fr you find lots of patches to make your Mac DVD drives region free, including the latest Matshita drives in the MacBooks and MacBook Pros.

4G Systems XSPlug P5 HSUPA USB modem

4G Systems announced the XSPlug P5, a HSUPA USB modem this Quadband EDGE, Triband HSUPA and MacOSX compatibility.

Mail Scripts 2.8.2 for scheduling message delivery

With Mail Scripts 2.8.2 you get a lot of ready made AppleScripts for Mail and AddressBook, including Schedule Delivery (Mail) which allows you to send individual messages at predefined times (this script uses iCal for scheduling message delivery).

wind and solar charger

The Hymini is a wind powered USB charger. Seems like a great product to me, but the website in one of the worst, I ever encountered, and I have seen a lot really bad ones. Simply incredible! When you want some infos, immediately click on Skip, then click on contact, where you find a contact form and at least some PDFs to download.
Update: the price for the wind charger is 50$, the optional solar panel costs 25$.

Connections Europe

From 12/4 to 12/6 the Connections Europe takes place at the Adlon Hotel in Berlin, Germany.

Brando USB solar charger

Brando sells a USB solar charger for less than 70$.

Group Creator for Symbian S60 3rd devices

With Group Creator you can group your mobile phone contact list on your Symbian S60 3rd device into groups with selectable rules. There are group rules by company, country, family name, note and job title. Freeware.

iCalViewer for MacOSX

iCalViewer displays calendar events as boxes dynamically moving towards a finish line which is now. It can do this on your desktop or in a window.