Nokia Tripod DT-22

The Nokia DT-22 is a tripod for various camera phones from Nokia. Possibly usable with the iPhone, too.

Karl Heinz Hackl cabaret in Vienna

On 5/30 at 7.30pm there is a cabaret evening with Gabriela Benesch and Karl-Heinz Hackl, called Verliebt, Verlobt, Verheiratet at the Volkstheater in Vienna, Austria.

WiebeTech Ultra Dock

WiebeTech announced the Ultra Dock for IDE/SATA hard drive connectivity via USB2, FW400, FW800 and eSATA, for less than 200$.

Big Book of Apple Hacks

Oreilly just brought out the Big Book of Apple Hacks. 640 pages for 35$. Highly recommended.

DIY fair

From 5/27 to 6/10 the DIY fair takes place at the net culture lab at the museums quarter in Vienna, Austria.

HotBox for MacOSX

HotBox is a background application for MacOSX, that allows you to make anything on screen full screen. Just press a keystroke and drag a box around whatever you want, and it will fill your entire monitor. It works great for things like webpages with videos or flash movies that don't have a full screen button, games you want to play full screen, text or images you want to enlarge, or anything else you might ever want to see become big.

Veuve Clicquot Globalight Champagne cooler

From Luxurylaunches.com: Veuve Clicquot sells a limited edition (only 500 pieces) Champagne cooler called Globalight for 4000$.

Vidalia MacOSX Tor client

Vidalia is a MacOSX Tor. client.

Dialectic

Dialectic is a scriptable dialer for MacOSX for 25$.

remind me when I am at...

Just found this great idea at Internet Tablet Talk: remind me when I am at: When you have a portable device with built in GPS, it should be able to remind you of events, depending on your location.

Enter SIM card PIN via script for Huawei 3G USB modems

Directly from MacOSXhints.com: Enter SIM card PIN via script for Huawei 3G USB modems. Great time saver if you use 3G WAN connectivity on your Mac. Or you just disable the PIN question of your SIM card ;-)

TravelSIM.at for free roaming

With TravelSIM.at you get a standard GSM SIMcard with a +37 area code for Estland. If you travel with this SIM card to various countries, you don´t pay for receiving phone calls there. The caller pays the standard calling fare to a mobile phone in Estland. Pretty interesting. I will try to test this ASAP.

Newton Connection for Mac OS X

With Newton Connection (NCX) you can backup your Newton data to your Mac desktop, import and export Dates, Names, Notes and NewtonWorks, install packages and use your Mac desktop keyboard to enter text on your Newton device. In fact, most of the functions provided by the Newton Connection Utilities (NCU), but without the need for the Classic environment. Version 2.1 supports screenshots, too.

Ferrari auction at Fiorano

On 5/18 there will be a Ferrari auction at the Circuito di Fiorano in Maranello, Italy.

Brando Universal Solar Charger

Brando sells the Universal Solar Charger for less than 70$.

Brando 2-USB-Ports Multi-Solar Charger

Brando sells the 2-USB-Ports Multi-Solar Charger for less than 60$.

Linuxwochen in Vienna

From 5/15 to 5/17 the Linuxwochen 2008, the open source roadshow, took place in Vienna, Austria.

Huawei E510 with built in DVB-T receiver

Mobilkom Austria launched the Huawei E510, a USB based HSDPA/HSUPA modem with DVB-T receiver. Includes a built in TV antenna, an external TV antenna and software to use it as a HSDPA 7.2Mbps/HSUPA 1.4Mbps modem and DVB-T receiver under Microsoft Windows. Mac software should follow soon.

ElGato EyeTV 3.02 with H.264 support

ElGato just brought out EyeTV 3.02 with full support for H.264 broadcasts. BTW: all EyeTV 310 digital satellite tuners shipped since November 2007 are capable of receiving DVB-S2.

WiebeTech Molex removal tool

WiebeTech announced mrTool , a Molex removal tool for less than 10$.

Robexotica US

On 5/10 from 8pm-2am the first Robexotica US exhibition, a celebration of cocktail robots was opening at Space, 354 5th St. San Francisco. The Austrian cocktail robots that came to the Bay Area for Maker Faire were joined by several local creations, ones that have been to Vienna for Roboexotica before, and some that haven't.

Les Grand Marques automobile auction in Monaco

On 5/10 the Bonham Les Grand Marques automobile auction takes place in Monaco.

Mobilkom Austria shows live I-HSPA and LTE

On 5/8 Mobilkom Austria showed live I-HSPA and LTE data transfers with 10Mbps in Vienna, Austria. I-HSPA should be commercially available in Austria in 2009 and in 2010 LTE should start in Austria with data rates up to 173 Mbps.

MEM in Cannes

From 5/8 to 5/9 the annual MEM, the mobile entertainment market, takes place at the Hotel Palais Stephanie in Cannes, France.

Alpha Community at the Le Meridien hotel

On 5/7 at 9pm the Alpha Community meets at the Le Meridien hotel in Vienna, Austria.

Nortel Forum 2008

On 5/6 the Nortel Forum 2008 takes place at the Hotel InterContinental in Vienna, Austria.

3 goes 5

On 5/5 the Austrian mobile phone provider 3 turns 5. Lots of specials: e.g. 15GB/month data for 5€/month until the end of the year. Attention: next year it will be the normal 24€/month, again. Runs 24 months!

more iPhone repositories

At iphone-hacks.com you find even more iPhone repositories.

MAKE volume 13 available

The newest issue of MAKE (volume 13) is available right now.

Stadtfest Wien

From 5/2 to 5/4 the annual Stadtfest Wien takes place in the inner city of Vienna, Austria. Highlight: a live performance of Nena on Saturday evening at the Heldenplatz.

free range kids

From BoingBoing, a directory of wonderful things, something truly wonderful: Free Range Kids is a blog for raising kids without being freaked out about safety all the time. After all these nonsense years, this might be the start of a revolution. Maybe there is still for this planet to survive?