Kunst und Antiquitäten Messe Vienna

From 10/31 to 11/9 the annual Wiener
Internationale Kunst & Antiquitäten Messe takes place at Palais Ferstel and Palais Niederösterreich in Vienna, Austria.
Update: very dog friendly location, so there are quite a lot of dog visitors, too.

Q10 air from Mobilkom Austria

Just received a Q10 air for testing purposes. It is a netbook with an Intel Atom CPU, 1 GB RAM (expandable to 2GB?), 160 GB 2,5" SATA hard drive (expandable to 500GB right now), WSVGA display (1024*600), WLAN, Bluetooth, webcam, Ethernet, 3 USB ports and last, but not least: a built in HSPA modem with 7.2 Mbps HSDPA downlink and 2Mbps HSUPA uplink capability. Size is 259*180*28.5mm, weight 1.5kg with the 3600mAhLithium-Polymer 6-cell battery. Cost is 696 Euros including the required 29 Euro/month data tariff (includes 5GB per month) from Mobilkom Austria for 24 months. Basically you pay the data tariff of 29€/month and get the netbook Q10 air for free.
P.S.: as it is a Atom based netbook I guess it should be quite easy to install MacOSX 10.5 instead of the supplied Windows XP. More on this soon.

Steppentierpark Pamhagen

If you happen to be near Pamhagen in Burgenland close to the Austrian/Hungarian border, then take a look at the Steppentierpark Pamhagen. Lots of animals to see (and feed with carrots and corn), very friendly with kids and dogs. Perfect for a family excursion.
P.S.: I didn´t see any of the animals doing a step dance ;-)

offline Wikipedia for iPhone with OS2.1

Finally! Just found the German language recipe to install the Wiki2Touch offline Wikipedia on an iPhone or iPod touch with OS2.0 or higher. Supports multiple languages, tables and even images. IMHO the most important software for the iPhone/iPod touch and one of the best reasons to jailbreak my iPhone.

Pinnacle PCTV nano

The Pinnacle PCTV nano is a very small USB based DVB-T tuner with included software for PCs and Macs (EyeTV light). Small and stylish for around 50 Euros.

Unter uns gesagt

The German language book Unter uns gesagt from Georg Markus gives you a view into the souls of famous Austrian people for less than 23 Euro.

Fotomesse Wien

On 10/25 the first Wiener Fotomesse takes place at the Messe Congress Center in Vienna, Austria.

Quantum of solace

On 11/7 the newest James Bond movie Quantum of solace starts in Austria. No Q who supplies Bond with gadgets, but at MI6 they show some amazing computer systems with multi touch capabilities. Once you see a Sony UX UMPC, but very briefly. Hopefully a Sony UX model will be available in Europe, soon. All in all a nice movie, but for my taste some scenes with too many cuts per second. Sometimes less is more.

Modellbau Messe Wien

From 10/23 to 10/26 the Modellbau Messe takes place in Vienna, Austria.

Die EURO Lüge

The German language book Die EURO Lüge from Wilhelm Hankel is a collection of economic fairy tales for less than 20 Euros.

Helmut Zilk, meine drei Leben

In the German language book and autobiography Helmut Zilk, meine drei Leben from Conny Bischofberger the former mayor of Vienna Helmut Zilk talks about his first 80 years for less than 20 Euro.

offline Wikipedia for iPhone 2.0

Patrick Collison just announced the availability of his English language offline Wikipedia for iPhone 2.0 at the Apple appstore for 7.99$. The availability of an offline Wikipedia for my mobile phone is my most important criterium in choosing a mobile phone, and up till now there was no offline Wikipedia for iPhone 2.0 devices. Essential software!

Blickfang Vienna

From 10/17 to 10/19 the annual Blickfang, the design fair for furniture, fashion and jewelry takes place at the MAK in Vienna, Austria.

Virginia Woolf in Vienna

On 10/18 there is the premiere of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria.

Viennale film festival

From 10/17 to 10/29 the annual Viennale, the Vienna international film festival, takes place in Vienna, Austria. Trailer by Jean-Luc Godard!

Wohndesign Wien

From 10/16 to 10/19 the annual Wohndesign takes place at the Hofburg in Vienna, Austria.

Gschmierte, Kieberer und die Häh

The German language book Gschmierte, Kieberer und die Häh from Max Edelbacher and Peter Steinbach talks about the real world models of the fictivious police series Kottan ermittelt. 287 pages for 20 Euros.

Apple announces new MacBooks

On 10/14 Apple introduced new aluminium MacBooks with glass trackpads, NVIDIA GPUs and mini DisplayPort (dual DVI capable). The new 13" MacBook looses the Firewire port, the 15" MacBookPro gets a new casing, the 17" MacBook pro looses the low res configuration and is only available in WUXGA, either glossy or matte. The MacBook air gets a 120GB hard drive or a 128GB SSD, but still lacks an internal 3G slot. And starting november there will be a new 24" LED cinema display with webcam, mic, speakers, LED backlight, mini displayport and MagSafe adapter for powering a MacBook.
Update: no more target disk mode on MacBooks, optical drive is now SATA.

mipcom in Cannes

From 10/13 to 10/17 the annual mipcom, the worlds audiovisual content market, takes place at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France.

Parks und Gärten in Wien

The German language book Parks und Gärten in Wien from Peter Autengruber gives you a complete overview about the green spaces in Vienna, Austria for less than 18 Euro.

Freedom Not Fear 2008

On 10/11 we call for an international action day called Freedom Not Fear 2008 in as many European capital cities as possible and elsewhere around the world to demonstrate against the total retention of telecommunication data and other instruments of surveillance. We would like to recall the remembrance of the historical achievement of civil rights and liberties as a heritage of the Age of Enlightenment and to support the trust in security in our free society.

Die 4-Stunden Woche

The German language book Die 4-Stunden Woche by Timothy Ferriss is one of the most interesting books, I read in a very long time. Absolutely essential required reading for everybody who cares about life!

Yellow fog by Olafur Eliasson in Vienna

On 10/9 at 6.30pm there is the official opening of the yellow fog by Olafur Eliasson art installation at the headquarter of Verbund Am Hof 6a in Vienna, Austria.

iPhone, the missing manual

The book, that should have been in the box: iPhone, the missing manual, 2nd edition from David Pogue covers the iPhone 3G for less than 25$.

Stadtfüchse

The German language book Stadtfüchse show how formerly wild animals like foxes are living in urban spaces.

newLISP

newLISP is a LISP-like, general purpose scripting language for MacOSX, Linux, Unix, Win32 and soon for the iPhone, too.

Naomi Klein book in German

The German language book Die Schock Strategie by Naom Klein is the perfect present for German reading people, who don´t read English very well.

Naomi Klein book

The book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein should be required reading for everybody.

Choco Vienna

From 10/3 to 10/5 the annual Choco Vienna, the chocolate festival, takes place at Haus der Industrie, Schwarzenbergplatz 4 in Vienna, Austria.

Mobile content day Vienna

On 10/2 the mobile content day takes place in Vienna, Austria.

Vienna design week

From 10/2 to 10/12 the annual Vienna design week takes place in Vienna, Austria.