So… now again one year has passed and the next jubilee birthday is just 365
days away… sigh… well, gotta have to do the best of it. Thanks to all who sent
me SMS, WhatsApp Messages, Facebook posts etc. as bday greetings. I still
have no idea how to celebrate my jubilee anyways.

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Sunday, funday? Not really… the weekend is all over again *sigh*
Time to get home and begin the everyday-life again. It has been a great
weekend and I want to say “Thank you” to all who contributed that these
three days have been so worthful waiting for. See you next time again…

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When it comes to sharp displays,one thinks of Apple’s famous Retina display.
In fact, the Retina display has a pixel density of 326ppi. Sharp however has
now increased this already sensational pixel density and produced a 5 inch
display capable of FullHD resolution. That’s a whopping 443ppi.

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When it comes to time, history is one of the words one may think of. In
this case, we speak of Macy’s, New York at Herold’s Place. It is the world’s
biggest shopping mall and has ever been. 10 stories of goods presented on
198.500 m² (2.13 million sqft.) fits everyone’s needs.

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hardly announced, the first people in New York are already waiting for
Apple’s new gadget. Although the phone will be available on Friday, there
are some people already camping at the Apple store just to be first in line
to get the new iPhone. How long are you willing to wait?

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So the WWDC is over, the news are spread and this is what it brought to
you. At first, we have the iPhone 5 which is, as expected, an iPhone4-
similar device slightly higher, thinner, and with a new display size.
The other devices presented: the new iPod nano and iPod touch.

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Today in about 7 hours, Apple will open doors to it’s Keynote event in
California, USA. The long awaited (new) iPhone (5) will be presented.
With it, also the iPad mini will celebrate its debute to fire against Kindle
and other small form factor tablet PCs. So what will the new iPhone be?

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WhatsApp had to deal again with security problems. While the older
versions didn’t encrypt the message traffic at all, the newer versions used
an AES algorythm to encrypt the messages when sent. Yet the security
was weak as the key is based on the device’s IMEI and thus can be hacked.

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The fight never stops… As Apple and Samsung have a still ongoing patent
fight, there seems another light ray for Samsung. As recently known, the
jury seems not to have checked the validity of Apple’s patents properly.
The questions concerning the check process have not been answered.

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Nothing much to laugh for kids in the russian Federation. All in the name
of saving their children from “bad influence”. What sounds sort of crazy
has become true just recently in Russia. Besides Tom and Jerry, there are
already The Simpsons off the Air and Winnie The Poo Bear.

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The International Consumer Electronics Fair (IFA) in Berlin is open
and showing the latest inventions of various technical gadgets from many
companies. Once being held for Television, Video and radio, the IFA also
deals with IT products and Multimedia apart from common radio/video.

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Sony Optiarc, manufacturer of many of the optical drives that spin your
discs in stereos, computers and other devices, has declared to stop the
production of optical drives. In times where most of the data is streamed
via cloud services and the internet, this seems logical.

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Okay, you all know cell phones. Put in a SIM card, and you’re good to go.
Then there are phones to put in 2 sim cards (maybe one local and one
traveller prepaid card for roaming. Seems feasible and logic. But one
manufacturer thought, hey, there’s room for more. another SIM slot.

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Microsoft goes for a new logo. The new logo appears to be a close call to the
new Windows 8 operating system which is about to release in the upcoming
weeks. This is why the new logo is rather flat compared to the Windows XP or
Windows Seven logo.

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The cell network. Reason for many users to start turning red as if they have eaten
a hot pepperoni of Habañero. You know this situation probably. At your home
(in my case Switzerland) the cell phone works like a charm, and *BANG*, just as
you cross the border to the neighbor country, your signal’s gone. Black hole!

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Fellow blog readers! I know you’re waiting for daily updates. But at the moment,
my smartphone is either on snail network or even having no network at all. The
lack of a free public WLAN doesn’t ease up things. So I decided to write the
articles offline and put them online as soon as I am back for good!

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When it comes to Copyright and filesharing, the music industry is taking every
attempt to cross borders. In this case, the german Federal Court has confirmed
that ISPs have to issue private data from persons who violate the copyright.
That means, if a copyright owner files a lawsuit against a user from whom he…

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Heyya blog readers. I am now off for three weeks and thus, this blog may not
receive all updates in time. So don’t be afraid if one day there aren’t posts online
as I am not online very often. I guess most of you are n holidays anyways, so
this should not be of a great thing anyways. Enjoy your holidays!

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If you ever wondered, who’s behind the german voice of Homer Simspon,
this video might be interesting for you: The following short portrait of
Norbert Gastell (82) gives you a short insight of his career. For 22 years now
he lends his voice to Homer Simspon. With great success!

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Just yesterday I have written about plane-based city surveillance in
Germany. The next step onwards to total surveillance of citizen is just
one step away. The project, called INDECT is just being enrolled and
already basis for wild speculations and citizen-enforced protests.

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What sounds like a scene from Minority report or other SciFi movies has
actually happened in Germany. A little town, called Bocholt, has been
inspected using a plane and with it, a infrared camera was taking warmth
zone pictures to identify bad-isolated houses.

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Ever dreamt of a fast internet? So fast that even modern network components
at home reach their capacity? Google plans just this. In Kansas, USA Google
plans to offer Gigabit(!) Internet for everybody. And with that, a price of US$ 79
seems just too good to be true. But what makes this the sweetest deal ever?

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Ever wondered about the QR-Tags that are visible to the left of my blog?
When you have someone around who wants to know what you’re reading
on my blog, let them have it instantly. No copy&Paste of the URL into
the other’s cell phone, no mail, no SMS. A QR scanner is all he/shee needs!

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Olympia – Everyone has probably heard of it and watched it on TV to
favorize one’s country. What was fun before the millennium is now only
one more frustration when you see how money rules the world actually.
have tickets become available to the worker class to fair prices, it seems…

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Interesting to see, how Facebook has performed just four weeks later.
And it seems as if the stock won’t go any further up so far as it’s value is
at 28.75 US$ by now. Thus, the stock noted still below initial value.
Rough time for Mark Zuckerberg and his try to go for $100 billion value!

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You probably know this very well. You’re on Inferno difficulty and hitting Act 2.
But as soon as you start wandering the desert fields and running into champion
groups, you find yourself being slain very quickly although your equipment
is good. yet it seems as if Blizzard has risen the difficulty to an unhealthy level.

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When it comes to free speech and censorship, it’s mostly the USA, China and
islamistic countries that limit these as far as needed. Also Twitter is affected
by this and the new transparency report shows the amount of requests for
tweet removals have been issued within the last 6 months.

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So Spain has finally won the EM 2012 and devastated Italia’s hope to do
likewise. The Italians have been humiliated with a 4:0 and a 90 minutes
bullfight. After that time the only conclusion was: Italia didn’t have the
breeze of a chance. The team from spain was just too strong.

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What seems impossible for the most people seems to have just happened. Steve
Woznia has visited the grounded Kim Schmitz for an interview. Wozniak has
stated, that the current ongoing lawsuit against Kim Schmitz is nonsense and
not having any fundament to be serious. Kim Schmitz also fought the charge.

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Patch 1.0.3 has been just released offering some easing but also some
annoyances. While playing the game on Act II Inferno, I again had to face
some annoying things. Among these are classical: champion groups having
two or more magic attibutes and dealing massive amounts of damage.

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Another hardware test. Believe it or not but I recently have acquired a
Microsoft hardware and want to compare it against the primus Logitech
who brings in the TouchMouse M600. What makes me test the Microsoft
rodent anyways? I thought, why not check out Microsoft hardware.

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Summer, sun, and th fresh air of summertime feeling. But what sounds like
heaven, can be of a big annoyance soon if you’re allergic to different kinds
of spores from trees and grasses that are developing at the current time.
Tearing eyes, running nose is only one of the many allergic reactions.

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