Today I found this funny video on youTube where a guy is testing the Apple
Store workers’ patience to the maximum. The 3 Minutes video show 4 different
situations and the reaction is quite interesting. Where one would get a snarly
comment when bringing food or a pet into the shop, at Apple stores all is okay!

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How long does it take to set a human player checkmate with the fastest possible
combination of moves such as the Schäferzug? The fastest Game I know of between
two human Players was about 45 seconds. Today I was able to set a new personal
record on the iPhone where I ripped that pesky iPhone in 24(!) seconds!

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Today I had to read that Google plans to integrate Games into their social net-
work. That’s another step to be like facebook what I don’t like that much as its
interface gets bloated more and more due to several “apps” that do various
actions. Besides that, I hate tons of requests for playing game XY…

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What still sounds as science-fiction story, is already reality! Google has a car equipped
with GPS steering and video cameras as well as with distance sensors. This study car
has driven 225’000 kilometers without a crash on the Google campus that is also
connected to the public traffic. 3 days ago, it happened… the car crashed into another!

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On saturday I’ve shown you the largest and smallest stop-motion video. Today
I show you what I discovered and it is really amazing what a Commodore C64
can do in music, 2 guys can do with a camera and tons of LEGO bricks.
The good ol’ times… Have fun!

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Today I saw an amazing stop-motion video on youtube after 20 Minuten has
announced a new record. Why is it so special, you may ask… Well, it has been
shot from a big pole crane 40m above ground using cell phones. Yep, you
read right, cell phones! (Nokia N8 to be exact). The results are beautiful!

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Todays’ market mainly consists of three good OSses, namely Windows, MacOSX
and Linux. Probably you may wonder why I am speaking of these today and what
I have noticed during the last 20 years in which I have worked with computers so
far. My insight shall clearly state that I am not favoring only one of these!

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Google is about to code the next major version of its famous browser. A new
feature of it’s website redering engine is “Pre-Rendering”. But what does it mean?
Google describes it as following:  “The browser keeps rendering pages in the
background as it thinks the user might view it as next browsing target”

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I think most of my readers my remember the times when 3D Games became
available on PC. We all remembered the moments when our expensive
500 DM card have been plugged into our PCs to be able to live 3D games
ourselves. So how has 3D Gaming changed within the past 15 years?

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…how do they relate? You may say: One can spot Munich from
atop via Google Maps and try to find all S-Bahn trainstations…
True but as of today, another service from Deutsche Bahn has
reached Internet era.

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…or how you can style your blog and make a specific view available to your people.
One of the issues of HTML or generally the internet is, that HTML displays the fonts
you have installed on your computer. So if you use for example Segoe UI (delivered
with Windows Vista/Seven, a user with XP or other OS might probably not see your font.

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As you probably know, microSD cards are the smallest known memory cards ever available.
With its 15mmx11mm size at a thickness of 0.7mm it is very small and still these cards can
hold up to 32GB of data. Reading speeds of up to 20MB/s and Writing speeds of up to 16 MB/s
make these little fellas a very good alternative to conventional SD cards.

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Again I had to wait for a Test-Computer to be prepared for installation of a test application.
While waiting, I decided to play Chess again and trying to bone the AI again.
As it is rather difficult to gain six Queens AND NOT to Stalemate the AI.
Stalemate means that the opponent can’t make a move without being checked.

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…where all those airplanes you see on the sky are going to?
I always wondered about the immense amount (spotting almost 5 or 6 planes on the sky
above Bern on a busy day!). More and more modern planes are equipped with a special
GPS sender that allows them to send their position to the different ground controls.

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iPhone here, iPhone there. Some people might say that
it is boring to read about Apple’s wonder device, being
owned by more than 20 million people every day. But
did you know about the funny things about it’s camera?
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Last but not least I am also part of the Google+ community. Why, you ask?
Because my other friends have done so, too and being recently informed by local news that
there’s a new facebook killer on the way garnished with a demo.
What shows up now seems to be a potential facebook alternative…

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Again I had to wait for an application to finish maintenance on my workstation.
So I decided to play chess again. Funny to see, how the iPhone can loose at medium settings:
I think, the AI seems to be either very dumb (easy), not deep-analyzing (medium) or a real
pain in the a** when using a higher difficulty setting as it analyzes every move (hard).

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As today, Nokia seems to have decided to bring out another new cellphone that is not
yet using Windows Phone 7.
Instead, the N9, as Nokia calls it’s newest development, comes with MeeGo 1.2
(Codename Harmattan) and thus with an already known OS that has given life to the N900.

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The new Top500-list of the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world is out now and the
Japanese domain the top again!
How did they do that? Well, read the full article about their new wonder machine, it’s
specs and technical data…

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…for your computer at work to reboot and install some software.
 
While waiting for my Computer at work to restart and doing some maintenance,
I decided to play a quick round of chess at medium setting. I did quite well…

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Yesterday, Nintendo revealed their new game console, called the Wii U,
to the public on the E3 in Los Angeles.
 
What will come to us looks outrageously promising:

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…and their curiosities!
Today while reading my news sites about what’s new in the computer scene, I stumbled
over some rather strange pictures. The made me think only this: What the F…-prompt!
If you think, CPU cooling is going to reduce in Size as the chip structure is being reduced,

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