What looks promising at first seems too good to be true. However the idea or
concept to bring touchscreen-operated devices to the visual impaired may be
weird too? Why would someone use a touchscreen-device if he/she can’t see
what is on it. Okay, the idea is cool but the practical usage is not yet proven.

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If you ever thought, kitchen devices, such as fridges are the only thing that are
connected to the internet, well, think again because AGA has given an oven the
functionality to be operated from the web. Although I see some sort of risk in
this (despite virae that may attack the OS interface of it), it may be a cool gadget.

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As you might have noticed, I made some changes to my blog. My blog is active
and living. And with it, also the techniques usable to this date will also take place
here. As you probably noticed when using an outdated browser, you will see a
green ribbon show up to update your browser. See my blog yesterday, why!

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Again, it seems as I have discovered some lacks in Microsoft’s IE. The browser
seems not able to handle CSS3 up to version 9 properly. The result? A really odd
looking button and pagination buttons. This blog will show you what happens,
when browsers do not comply with actual HTML and CSS standards.

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So… April fools day is over. Have you been fooled? And how? I didn’t notice
much of a change and the day went by rather quiet! maybe the fact that this
year, April fool has been on a sunday, that’s why not much has happened…
At least there were some April fools but you probably didn’t hear much.

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It takes much today to make me “Wowzer” about an item in the IT business.
Logitech managed to do so. That’s why I want to give you a preview about
Logitech’s new Touch Mouse M600 and how it performs with an average
computer user like me. Writing this article I am already using the new mouse.

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Good day, fellow readers. Today there’s another issue about my
installed Apps. This day’s issue deals with Apps that may help
you when you’re on vacation. Be it a tube map or hust an airport
schedule view. They all ease your life when you’re out travelling.

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Good day, fellow readers. Today there’s another issue about my
installed Apps. Today’s overview deals with Photo tools. Has
photo editing never been a topic on older cellphones (probably
due to the weak CPUs) do newer cellphones allow photo editing.

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Good day, fellow readers. Today there’s another issue about my
installed Apps. Today’s overview deals with social media and
Instant messaging! These Apps help you to stay online with your
friends while you are on the road and not at your PC.

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Good day, fellow readers. Today there’s another issue about my
installed Apps. Today’s overview deals with network tools. Now
you may ask yourself, why on earth should I have network tools
on my iDevice?

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Hi there! As I stated yesterday, I’ll start a series of reviewing Apps
for iDevices Today I am showing the next category on my iPhone,
called “Media”. This deals with Apps that work with Media files,
such as Audio or Video. Simple as that.

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The idea for this blog entry is based on Rosiv’s blog. His Blog
entry deals with his installed apps. So I’ll show you what runs
on mine. Maybe there’s some App you haven’t discovered yet
and find useful for your convenience.

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Seems that the newest OS of Apple will be called “Mountain Lion”. After “Snow lepard” it’s a
logic sequence. Seems Apple has been into felines recently if you look at the naming of all
OSX versions. But hey, it’s only creative I think, especially when you look up the
codenames for Windows: XP=Whistler, Vista=Longhorn, Seven=Vienna.

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Something to do on weekends when not being stressed out at maximum? Chilling for
example or doing housekeeping stuff. Or maybe also meeting familiy/friends? Well,
whatever the decision is of what to do, one could be grateful if he gets the chance to do so.
Time will get more valuable each day passes by. Had to notice it myself…

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Valentine’s day, the day, where many men promise to spend the day with their dairling.
But also the industry is waiting for this day. Not only Christmas seems to be a cash cow
of the modern society. Also Valentine’s day appears to be of great importance for the
present industry. tons of flowers, lots of jewellery and tons of valentine cards are handed.

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Well, apparently it seems that my iPhone won’t connect to ANY form of network right now,
so my updates will be online on sunday/monday. Sorry for that inconvenience. But hey,
this blog won’t be dead because of this. So what’s coming around today? Well… despite the
fact that this ghastly coldness also is present in Munich, I took the chance to shop a bit.

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I really like impressive videos. This video is a timelapse series about Yosemite
Park. Nature “filmed” with a professional camera looks real beautiful and
moving, too! A young team has made effort to take the timelapse series and put
the pictures into a really nive video scenery. Watch for yourself and enjoy!

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What sounds near impossible to you, seems to have come true because of the endurance
of an amateur craftsman. His idea was to enhance a simple LED nightlight from Ikea with
a bluetooth controller and make it controllable with his android phone. Doesn’t work?
It sure does. And on his blog, you get the source code and instructions for your ideas!

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After a big uproar about PIPA worldwide, the US Senate has set out the ballot for the
PIPA law that would have led the internet into more and more censoring than now.
The most actual case of protest has come from the english Wikipedia, who has blacked
out it’s site for 24 hours between Wednesday and Thursday. With success ans you see now!

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Usually I don’t do many reviews on gadgets and hardware. In this case I could not resist
to tell you about an item one could desperately need when the cell phone squeaks and
begging for power. You all know that crappy situation: You’re out for party etc. and you
want to show your friends some cool stuff. What happens? No more battery!

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This guy had a great idea how to automatize the flip of a newspaper page.
Just with the sip of his coffee mug, he starts off a big chain reaction and finally
the page is turned. Although I prefer a less destructive way for turing a page…
However the idea is nce and the video is nicely made. But watch for yourself.

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Okay, you all know about FullHD. Nothing much to explain here. Quad FullHD
with a resolution of 3840×2160 pixels is about to come to us (also known as 4k)
BBC and NHK think, that Quad FullHD isn’t satisfying enough for the upcoming
London Olympic games in 2012. SHV (Super Hi-Vision) is the answer!

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Today I thought: Would it be possible to push the AI back into the utmost
edge field of a chessboard while maintaining 3 Queens and 8 Rooks?
Just for aesthetic reasons? I played almost 30 rounds to find out!
Mostly I ran into stalemate or checkmated it before my goal!

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So… Apple again. Rumors say that the new iPad 3 will be presented on February 24th, as
it is the birthday of Steve Jobs who passed away this year on October 5th. What’s most
interesting, is that there are also plans for a small form-factor iPad with a 7inch screen.
It’s probably only a rumor but hey, other companies have all sizes in their portfolio!

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It seems as if also my blog cannot be spared form plugin issues.In this case it was the newest
release of FancyBox for WordPress which is, in my opinion, a cool plugin to pep up the blog
especially when using lots of images in a post or page. So what did I do to get the newest
version to work properly. The author posted a tweet asking everyone to default the settings,

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Well, the weather is kinda odd this year. Horror news about increasing climatic temps,
more greenhouse gas effect and the ongoing pollution of the earth are probably the
cause for this year’s winter to start later. Or finally never… who knows. At least the
temperatures are rather mild for November. So hopefully winter will still come.

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Not less than 55 days, 12.255 miles, and over 200’000 pictures later,
a so-called time-lapse video showing a roundtrip from New York (NY)
south to Florida (FL) then west to California (CA) north to Washington (WA) and
then east back to New York has been made up. Travel the USA in 5 minutes!

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Today, Intel celebrates it’s 40th birthday. Exactly On November 15th, 1971,
the first Microprocessor with integrated circuitry has been publicly released.
With 2’300 transistors clocked at initially 108 kHz, later 0.7 MHz, the
processor was able to do 92’600 instructions per second.

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Well… As you have probably noticed, my video from the lightshow
Rendez-Vous Bundesplatz 2011 in Bern may not be available to all users. The reason:
The Music industry, that wants to have control over everything that deals with music
and motion pictures. Sure… copyrights have to be saved… but this way?

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This story describes how the webcam got invented. A small idea grown during
the question on how full a coffee machine’s can in a distant office room is.
Quentin Stafford-Fraser picked up the idea to remotely watch the coffee can by
a camera pointing to the coffee machine shooting a picture every 20 seconds.

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It seems that this young man has spent much time on his NES/SNES.
Why? Because he’s very good at replaying the tunes of the various games on
his violin. The results are on the one hand funny on the other hand also
amazing. There’s not much to say about it. Enjoy the show!

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So… when checking the web again, I found something really disturbing!
The iPhone 4S is yet really desired and waiting times for Apple’s newest
smartphone is at up to three weeks. One of it’s most advertized features:
Siri! Apple says that Siri is demanding lots of CPU power. True?

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