faxonline.at

faxonline.at is a commercial service for sending and receiving faxes via the internet, based in Austria, Europe.
Update: another fax service based in the US.

sending a fax from the Internet

Great resource about sending a fax from the Internet.

Mac OS X Leopard, kurz und gut

The German language book Mac OS X Leopard, kurz und gut from Chuck Toporek covers MacOSX 10.5 in a little over 200 pages and costs less than 13 Euros.

Nokia buys Trolltech

Amazing: Nokia buys Trolltech for 150 mio $.

Midem in Cannes

From 1/27 to 1/31 the annual midem, the world´s music market, takes place at the Palais des Exposition in Cannes, France.

BusySync

With BusySync you can share iCal calendars on your home or office network.

fake name generator

Name says it all: the fake name generator helps you in creating your randomly generated identity.

use Nokia GPS phone as Bluetooth GPS receiver

With ExtGPS you can use your phone's built-in GPS module externally on a laptop via Bluetooth. It is mainly targeted for Nokia N95, E90 and 6110 Navigator handsets, allowing you to use existing, more sophisticated GIS applications.

DIY gyro stabilized camera

If you like to take pictures via a remote controlled plane or helicopter, this DIY gyro stabilized camera is for you.

last day in San Francisco

A last cold, but beautiful day in front of the Pyramid.

DIY hardware at Bug Labs

Today, Bug Labs introduced their online store, but the only hardware I saw at their San Francisco office today was this nice paper based notebook. They say they are taking pre orders now and should start shipping 3/17. At least their Java and Eclipse based SDK including hardware simulator is available since December.

Macworld expo is over

After a tiring week at the Moscone a lazy sunday in front of the Transamerica Pyramid.

Hangman with 30 pin dock connector

Nomen est omen: at Macworld expo NeatProducts showed their Hangman for iPods and iPhones, basically for any device with a 30 pin dock connector. Sells for less than 20$.

Fujitsu announces USB powered ScanSnap

Fujitsu showed their new portable USB powered ScanSnap scanner, which ships 3/15 for less than 300$. ADF for 10 pages and 8 ppm portable duplex color scanning!

DisplayLink soon with Mac drivers

Finally: within a few weeks DisplayLink will publish their drivers for MacOSX, so you can use up to 4 additional monitors on your Mac with USB2, such as the shown WVGA prototype by Samsung, which gets power and display data via USB.

Hypercard is back

The real sensation of this Macworld expo in the South hall at S-1338: Hypercard online through any modern browser or offline via a Java based client. Hopefully the guys from TileStack follow through with their promises. More on that soon.

Apple introduces MacBook Air

Today Apple introduced the MacBook Air. 13" display with LED backlight and 1280*800 pixels resolution, USB2, headphone jack and miniDVI out (up to 1920*1200), internal 1,8" hard drive with 80GB or SSD flash with 64GB (and 1000$ more cost!), 2 GB RAM, full backlit keyboard, IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR and 3 pounds weight for less than 2000$. No internal optical drive (optional external USB powered SuperDrive for 99$), no Ethernet (optional USB-Ethernet dongle for 29$) and believe it or not NO slot for built in 3G WAN card (HSDPA/HSUPA, CDMA, LTE...).
P.S.: in the evening I attended the Microsoft Office 2008 launch party (and all the other parties, too!) and the catering in the Yerba Buena Center by Melons Catering and Events was among the best food I ever ate in San Francisco.

Berlin and Beyond film festival San Francisco

From 1/15 to 1/21 the 14th Berlin & Beyond Film Festival, the annual German language film festival with movies from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, takes place at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco.
Update: and don't forget the opening party on the first day at 6.30 before the first movie starts at 8 pm.

Macworld expo in San Francisco

From 1/14 to 1/18 the annual Macworld expo takes place at the Moscone center in San Francisco. If you want to know about the really important stuff at Macworld expo head over to Ilene's partylist.
BTW: if you plan to visit San Francisco and need an inexpensive place to stay: at the Green Tortoise Hostel you get a dorm room (two bed room optional), real breakfast with bagels and fruits, dinner on monday, wednesday and friday, Linux PCs with internet access and best of all: wireless internet access in the complete building without passwords, all for 24$/night. Located near Chinatown and Little Italy in North Beach at 494 Broadway, CA 94133, San Francisco, USA, just a few minutes from the Moscone center.

ANSI art in San Francisco

Yesterday on 1/12 there was the opening of the 20goto10 ANSI art exhibition at 679 Geary in San Francisco. You can buy ANSI art for 200$, which gives you a small computer with VGA output and SD slot to display the art, and the ANSI art itself stored on a flash card. I also saw a Chumby there, a small personal internet player with Linux, WiFi, touchscreen and motion sensor, that can run widgets written in Adobe Flash Lite 3.0 for 180$.

Art in San Francisco

When I visited 77 Geary Street, 2nd floor, San Francisco for the Robert Altman opening, I found another art gallery on the same floor, just next to it: the Togonon Gallery. They currently show a mixture of different artists, but the piece of art made entirely out of wooden ice cream holders impressed me the most.

Robert Altman at Heather Marx Gallery

Yesterday, on 1/10 there was the opening reception of Robert Altman's Sixties exhibition at the Heather Marx Galleryat 77 Geary Street, 2nd floor, San Francisco, took place.

Berlin and Beyond film festival San Francisco

From 1/10 to 1/16 the 13th Berlin & Beyond Film Festival, the annual German language film festival with movies from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, takes place at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco.
Update: and don't forget the opening party on the first day at 6.30 before the first movie starts at 8 pm.

new tickets for Karl Heinz Hackl performance in Vienna, Austria

All of the performances of "Ich, Hackl..." from Karl Heinz Hackl at the Stadttheater Walfischgasse in Vienna, Austria were sold out since the beginning. Now the theatre announced that the gig will run all through February with 14 additional shows. So grab these tickets while they last! Definitively worth seeing and hearing!

Apple announces faster Mac Pro and Xserve

A week before Macworld expo in San Francisco, but at the same time as CES is happening in Las Vegas, Apple today announced their new Mac Pro and Xserve. No word on BlueRay DVD or any competing high definition DVD format. I guess they either wait for their new Cinema displays or skip high definition DVDs altogether and push downloadable high definition content ASAP.

P.S.: sorry for the huge image above. As much as I like the iPhone, but having a browser without being able to save (e.g. a picture from the web) locally to the iPhone just sucks. How are you supposed to do blogging from the iPhone? Even from my old Treo it was possible to save a JPEG picture from the web locally, and then send it to Flickr and Blogger for publishing it. The iPhone could be such a wonderful device, if Apple would not cripple it so badly. The lack of select-copy-paste and the inability of the browser to locally save files makes it impossible for me to use the iPhone as my primary and only phone. Apple really becomes the new Microsoft with tons of money, but crippled products :-(
Update: I finally managed to take a picture of the Xserve with the camera of the iPhone to mail it. Which reminds me, that I might be able to do a screen shot on the iPhone and send it via email. Complicated, but should work. But I always thought using Apple products should make life easier?

back in San Francisco

Xmas bear in Chinatown for a beary welcome.

GizmoSMS sends free SMS

With GizmoSMS you can send free SMSs from your web browser.

LG Electronics GGW-H20L SATA

The LG Electronics GGW-H20L is a SATA DVD burner, that reads all current DVD formats and writes all formats besides HD-DVD. Supports LightScribe and costs less than 400$.

Windows Mobile internet sharing

This great article from Gizmodo tells you how to use a Windows Mobile device as a portable router.

Hauppauge WinTV-HVR900 with EyeTV for Macs

The Hauppauge WinTV-HVR900 is a USB based TV tuner for DVB-T and analog TV reception including a video in port. With optional EyeTV software from ElGato you can use it on Macs with MacOSX, too.

Apple sub-notebook saves earth from extinction

New Years resolutions from Joy of Tech.

MissingSync for iPhone

MarkSpace announced their MissingSync for iPhone for less than 40$.