Sometimes when your webspace provider hits you with
a notice to update your site here and there and informing
you about the upcoming obsolescene of certain PHP ver-
sions, things to update become quite ugly…

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It appears as if the assortment of bizarre drinks has
got another addendum. Today it’swater with alcohol
mixed into. The water comes in 5 flavors which are
fruit flavors. The side information: It has 5% vol alc.

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How would Tetris sound on a violin if you put four
different-skilled violin-players at it? This guy has tried
to reproduce the result as feasible as possible. The result
is somewhat funny but also amazing.

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When it comes to new gadgets and releases, Apple
is always in line for surprises. But also the apple fan
community takes it’s time to create interesting
mockup concepts of possible upcoming devices.

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WordPress is releasing a new form of editor to create posts.
Called Gutenberg, the concept of WYSIWYG is brought to a
new Level. Instead of editing your text and insert media the
classic way by using office-like toolbars, you use blocks now.

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Who remembers Steve Jobs when he presented the first iPhone
in 2007? I guess not many have seen the keynote when Steve Jobs
presented the first iPhone to the public. Here’s the keynote that
changed the smartphone market in no time and made Nokia fade!

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Hello there! You might have noticed that my blog is
probably taking longer to display the start page. That
is caused by the number of posts which have been
increased from 16 to 32. Thus representing 1 month!

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Imagine a restaurant and instead of reading a menu
you’ll see the waiter bringing a small device that
presents you all the menu items vivid and in 3D.
Impossible, you say? Then watch the following videos!

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If you ever wondered, how fast Russians can build roads,
This video might give you an idea. What you’ll see,
is a huge bataillion of steamrollers, tar-trucks and other
Equipment. The timelapse gives you a rough idea, how fast they are!

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When businessmen want to travel, they want to do
so with style. Airbus and some intereur building
companies have presented their concepts on how
such a business jet might look like inside.

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The powerful e-mail client Thunderbird from the Mozilla
Foundation has been released in the new version 60. Not
only has the engine undergone some major renewals, also
the look&feel now fits to Firefox 60+ (Photon design UI)

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Ever wondered why the tracks of the railroads in Italy?
are painted in white? One might guess it’s for anti-rust,
others might think of better visibility for trespassers.
But the reason is much more simple and also clever…

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When you remember those 3.5″ drives you most likely
also remember that rattling sound they make when
reading disks. Some guy however thought that with an
Arduino and 12 drives, you can do more. He was right!

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The migration of all video files has finally been finished.
So from now on you will only find MP4 videos on this blog
The reason for the change was the fact that Adobe has
announced to drop support for Adobe Flash in 2020.

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Ever wondered, what it would sound like if you play Super Mario Bros.
themes and sounds on a piano? An artist tried the exact thing and it
sounds somewhat awesome. Okay, when it comes to multitrack sound
then the player fails (you simply can’t merge defferent sounds!)

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…or in german joked “Pausenaugust-Schach”. Roughly translated to: How to
play chess and build up constellations on the chessboard while knowing the
AI already being f***ed up! In this case, my goal was to embrace the king with
queens and checkmate the AI (8 queens at least needed…) and it IS difficult!

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…what’s going on here. Yes, it has become quiet in the
last months here. Lots of work to do and still no time at
home to perform all the tasks I want to apply on this blog.
And then all these updates… doesn’t make things easier!

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It’s time, to bring the embedded video files up to code again.
As FLV seems not to be well-embeddable these days, I decided
to re-encode all previously embedded files to MP4 and have them
played back with a more modern MP4 video player based upon HTML5.

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As you already know, I have a new companion around my wrist.
Now that this Apple Watch is with me for a month now, here’s a
report how this little gadget is performing in the everyday usage.
One thing is for sure: It will sport a whole day with ease!

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September 9, 2014 could be another milestone for Apple. Not only
is the highly anticipated iPhone 6 to be shown then but also another
gadgets may be finally seen by the public. So what’s in this blog
entry for you? Let’s have a close look on some of Apple’s new things.

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With the release of Windows 8, the Sidebar and it’s gadgets have been
disabled as they see a huge security problem in them. Sure, they can grab
information about you, they can allow malicious code to infect your system
but they have good uses, too. Especially, when it comes to System-info!

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When it comes to screen protection for mobile gadgets, you’ll find yourself
on a market where thousands of companies try to get your attention.  One
of them is Spigen who were able to get mine. Hardened glass that’s ultrathin
yet scratch-resistant and easy to install. Big words or reality?

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Sometimes one is detecting flaws in all sorts of Apps for
the iDevice. I have found out that my FTP Client Pro fulfills
most, yet not all my demands. So is the upload of pics from
the Camera Roll not possible. Time to check FTP on the Go!

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Why not? Colin Furze has finalized what no other has done before. He
built the world’s fastest mobile toilet. Not a camper toilet. No, a real on!
Complete with toilet paper holder, an automatic water flush and paper
holder. 16 HP are accelerating the fast shitter to 88 kmph!

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When it comes to SciFi and good thrillers, one can catch my attention fast.
In this case, a good friend of mine has pulled my attention showing me a
trailer about a little device with only one button. But pushing this button
has a far-reaching consequence. The Apple and the snake.

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Of course there are devices who have a builtin charging status indicator.
But few to none have an indicator showing the actual power demand when
charging. In this case I am showing you a charging cable that not only
serves as a data cable but also shows the current flow into your device.

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Long awaited, LTE finally goes online and allows owners of appropriate
hardware to surf the internet with tremendous speeds. However owners of
the iPhone will still not be able to hop on as the hardcoded baseband does
not yet understand the LTE band. And it’s not sure when it’ll be done.

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Even these days, multi-device homepages are a bit of a hassle and so I found
out that most of my video posts are not properly viewable on mobile phones
For instance we have the iPhone which seems to drop out on the video tags
trying to open the player.swf instead. also the iPhone can’t deal with FLV.

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Bern is undergoing a rapid change when it comes to the club scene.
Clubs close, but also there are new ones opening. One of the new
stars in Bern is the Bronx Bar which is opening doors today. A
modern club with modern interior is awaiting you.

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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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AMD has a nice driver structure. The driver installs fine on a clean system and
provides you with a lot of controls over your graphics hardware. But once you
start updating your graphics driver (as the Control Center tells you to do) upon
notification, you may run into deep trouble. Happened to me again just today…

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The iPhone – base for many gadget ideas, enhanced by Apps that utilize
the integrated peripherals such as the flashLED and the vibration motor
in other ways than intended. There’s almost nothing which hasn’t been
tried with the iPhone. But a taser? With the power of 630.000 volts?

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