Friday, November 30, 2007

discarding all the mail that comes in between now and then

discarding all the mail that comes in between now and then
Just recently I saw the following posting on boingboing by Cory Doctorow: Taking a cue from danah boyd, I'm discarding all the mail that comes in between now and then; that way I won't come back from holidays with a million emails shouting for my attention and harshing my mellow. It's a good way of managing holiday away-time, keeping work from creeping into downtime -- I'm seeing it more and more.

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Thursday, November 29, 2007

Cercle Deluxe in Vienna, Austria

Cercle Deluxe in Vienna, Austria
From 11/29 to 2/12 the Cercle Deluxe, the invitation only gathering point for international business opportunities and premium brands takes place at Grand Hotel Wien and The RIng, Vienna, Austria.

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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

invisible shield

invisible shield
The invisible shield for the MacBook provides invisible protection and makes it scratch proof, too. Cost is less than 55$.

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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Paris raises millions to keep out McDonalds

Paris raises millions to keep out McDonalds
Straight from gadling, the traveler´s weblog: Paris Raises $42 million to keep out McDonalds.

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Monday, November 26, 2007

book and CDROM about the archaeological past of Vienna, Austria

book and CDROM about the archaeological past of Vienna, Austria
The German language book and CDROM Spaziergang durch die Wiener Altstadt aus archäologischer Sicht / A stroll through Vienna´s old quarter from an archaeological viewpoint is an interesting guide to the archaeological past of Vienna, Austria for 12 Euros and 50 cents.

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Sunday, November 25, 2007

DVD Assist lets Front Row access DVDs

DVD Assist lets Front Row access DVDs
DVD Assist for MacOSX is an Applescript "Stay Open" applet to enable Front Row to select VIDEO_TS folders stored on your hard drive, or any volume accessible from the Finder with adequate throughput.

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Saturday, November 24, 2007

Roboexotica in Vienna

Roboexotica in Vienna
From 11/22 to 11/25 the Roboexotica , the festival for cocktail robotics takes place in Vienna, Austria.

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Thursday, November 22, 2007

Luxury, please in Vienna

Luxury, please in Vienna
From 11/22 to 11/25 the second Luxury, please takes place at the Hofburg in Vienna, Austria.

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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

RemoteBuddy 1.8 supports ElGato remote controls

RemoteBuddy 1.8 supports ElGato remote controls
With the newest version of IOspirits RemoteBuddy 1.8 you can now use quite a lot of the ElGato remote controls, that you get with the ElGato EyeTV TV tuners. It supports the iPhone/iPod touch as WiFi remotes, too. Cost is less than 20€.

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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

MAKE, the best of

MAKE, the best of
In MAKE, the best of, you get 75 projects from the pages of MAKE for less than 35$.

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Monday, November 19, 2007

the Microsoftification of Apple?

the Microsoftification of Apple?
Just found this at http://www.hackint0sh.org: Stocks & Weather apps send your IMEI (and more?) to Apple. Just sad. Hopefully the upcoming mobile phones with the Google/LinuxOS will arrive ASAP.
Update: Heise Online says it has confirmed that the information sent is not the IMEI, but rather just an identifier for the application.

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Sunday, November 18, 2007

ASCII Projektor for MacOSX

ASCII Projektor for MacOSX
With ASCII Projektor you can present films using characters on MacOSX.

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Saturday, November 17, 2007

Sony UX prices dropping

Sony UX prices dropping
At micropctalk.com you find the best deals on various Sony UX models.

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Friday, November 16, 2007

Sandy, your free personal email assistant

Sandy, your free personal email assistant
Register for free at http://iwantsandy.com, which gives you your free personal email assistant, called Sandy. One feature I like most, is that you can send her an email to remind you via email at a given time of a given task. Very convenient, if all your life is organized around email communications. One of the best ideas, I saw this year.

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Thursday, November 15, 2007

NovaMedia software compatible with MacOSX 10.5 Leopard

NovaMedia software compatible with MacOSX 10.5 Leopard
Most of the software from NovaMedia, including launch2net, is already compatible with MacOSX 10.5 Leopard. BTW: they will exhibit at the coming Macworld Expo in San Francisco at booth 1338-14 in the Apple Developer Pavilion.

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Edward Albees Virginia Woolf live on stage in Vienna, Austria

Edward Albees Virginia Woolf live on stage in Vienna, Austria
If you happen to be in Vienna, Austria, and understand German, take a look at the newest production of the Volkstheater, Wer hat Angst vor Virginia Woolf?, the German version of Who´s afraid of Virginia Woolf from Edward Albee. Starring Maria Bill, Katharina Straßer, Till Firit and Günter Franzmeier. If it is just half as good as the performance I saw in London a few years ago with Diana Rigg, it will be unforgettable event.
Picture © Nathalie Bauer.

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Take Control of Sharing Files in Leopard

Take Control of Sharing Files in Leopard
Just got a chance to read through the newest ebook from the Take Control series of TidBits Publishing called Sharing Files in Leopard. On 89 pages the author Glenn Fleishman covers everything you might want to know about setting up your Mac as a file server. Available as PDF for 10$ and in a printed version for 20$. Highly recommended reading!

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Monday, November 12, 2007

Open Handset Alliance Releases Android SDK

Open Handset Alliance Releases Android SDK
This just came out: the Open Handset Alliance Releases Android SDK, so if you are interested in developing software for the upcoming Google phone aka gPhone, you can start right now. The SDK runs on Linux, Windows and on Intel based MacOSX.

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Sunday, November 11, 2007

The Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Inventor's Guide

The Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Inventor's Guide
The LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT set includes a variety of powerful electronic parts (motors, sensors, and the programmable NXT microcomputer) and lots of building elements. With these parts you can create thousands of unique, intelligent robots. The The Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Inventor's Guide helps you to harness the capabilities of the NXT set and effectively plan, build, and program your own NXT robots. Cost: 30$.

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Saturday, November 10, 2007

Viennatime

Viennatime
From 11/9 to 11/11 the Viennatime, Austria´s biggest and most important watch exhibition takes place at the Museumsquartier in Vienna, Austria

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Friday, November 09, 2007

Klangbilder in Vienna

Klangbilder in Vienna
From 11/9 to 11/11 the annual Klangbilder , the innovative event-presentation of music and film on high-end-equipment takes place at the Hotel Hilton Vienna Danube.
Update: as every year it was a great show, including the 103 inch Panasonic Plasma screen!

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Thursday, November 08, 2007

Pixar short films on DVD and BlueRay

Pixar short films on DVD and BlueRay
Pixar brought out most of their short films on DVD and BlueRay DVD, now even in German. I have seen some of these at Xerox PARC at the end of the eighties and I was blown away.

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Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Personal Austria in Vienna

Personal Austria in Vienna
From 11/7 to 11/8 the Personal Austria, the exhibition for human resource management takes place at the Austria Center in Vienna, Austria. Keynote spech by Matthias Horx!

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Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Maybach Landaulet with CD-changer

Maybach Landaulet with CD-changer
Maybach just showed the study of a Landaulet version of their Maybach 62S limousine. The tech specs seem to be pretty impressive, but the really funny thing on the press release is, that it mentions a six times CD-changer. How cool is that?

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Monday, November 05, 2007

Wraparound for MacOSX

Wraparound for MacOSX
Wraparound is an application primarily intended for users with large and/or multiple screens, which allows the mouse cursor to "wrap" around the screens. Rather than spending time and energy moving the cursor across the screen, from one side to the other, simply drag it off one edge and it immediately appears on the other side.

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Sunday, November 04, 2007

Gartner Symposium ITxpo in Cannes

Gartner Symposium ITxpo in Cannes
From 11/4 to 11/8 the annual Gartner Symposium ITxpo takes place at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France.

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Saturday, November 03, 2007

Art and antiques fair Vienna

Art and antiques fair Vienna
From 11/3 to 11/11 the annual Art and Antiques Fair takes place at the Hofburg in Vienna, Austria.

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Friday, November 02, 2007

EyeTV 2.51 compatible with MacOSX 10.5

EyeTV 2.51 compatible with MacOSX 10.5
The newest version of EyeTV, namely 2.51 from ElGato, is fully compatible with MacOSX 10.5. It now supports Quick Look including Cover Flow, iChat and Spaces.

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Thursday, November 01, 2007

International art and antiques fair in Vienna

International art and antiques fair in Vienna
From 11/1 to 11/11 the annual Wiener Internationale Kunst & Antiquitätenmesse, the international art and antiques fair, takes place at the Palais Ferstel and Palais Niederösterreich in Vienna, Austria.

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