2.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 US$ (= 2×10^36)
You may probably wonder about the big number followed by a dollar sign.
No, this isn’t the actual finacial debt of the USA. And no, this ain’t the
world’s total economic finance strength.

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According to several mobile news sites, Windows Phone is getting
a File Manager which is desired by many WP8.1 users. There are
indeed Alternatives in MS Appstore but why not have it on board
already? It seems as if the File Manager will be available soon.

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Firefox has released the new version of it’s browser. With Version 29 there
are a bunch of new things to look at: The Interface has been redesigned and
is now called “Australis”. Thus you’ll probably have noticed that the big
orange Firefox Menu button is now missing.

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And Toshiba shifts up the gear! It seems that speed is crucial even with
the smallest memory products. According to size and capacity, the
microSDXC memory chip still beats them all as SanDisk has recently
released it’s 128GB microSDXC card. So what’s new?

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Since the leak got public, every IT service provider is going crazy about
the heartbleed bug that is active with OpenSSL 1.0.1 to 1.0.1f. But what
exactly makes the heartbleed bug so dangerous? This website has com-
prehensive information available for those running OpenSSL.

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AMD fights back… and seems to be successful. While NVidia is currently
promoting it’s TITAN Z series GPU (2x Titan Black), AMD goes ahead with
a dual 295X GPU card. The tremendous heat dissipation of 500 watts is
managed by a pre-mounted watercooling solution from Asetek.

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Long time, the IT seems to have slept the winter over in order to feed
us with new data storage gadgets. Seagate has announced a 6TB drive,
SanDisk has announced it’s 128GB microSDXC and Hynix seems to
have built the first 128GB(!) DDR4 memory stripe.

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Noone would have believed the Nightly News that has hit lots of local
media and tech magazines. But it’s true and official: Facebook has
bought WhatsApp. A whopping $19 billion whereas of 4 billion have been
paid directly, has been forked out by Facebook to seal the deal.

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As usual I am in front row when new things have to be tested. In this case it’s
cablecom and their new internet packages. The bandwidth has been ordered
(250/15) and was instantly set up. Not more then one hour did I have to wait
to benefit from the new speed. The speedtest.net result speaks for itself…

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There was a short break for Garfield but he’s back with some new Top 15.
Have fun reading his next 15 Shorts where he is in Action with Jon and
the rest of the world. Can’t exactly tell when the next Top 15 appear but
stay tuned and have fun!

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Happy new year to all of you regularly following my blog. May 2014 be a
year of happiness and the fulfillment of all your plans for the new year!
See you again here in 2014 with loads more posts from stuff happening
around the world. Enjoy your new year’s celebration party!

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Not only can unspeakable names cause trouble during communication but
also when it comes to official documents that simply don’t have enough
space to write out an entire surname. In this case, a 54 years old woman
from Hawaii had to deal with the very same problem for years.

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Here we go again, and it looks bad for Germany to process an Anti-Spy-Act
with the USA. Susan Rice has officially stated that the USA are NOT willing
to give a non-spying warranty in the future and thus create a precedence
case for other countries to demand such from the USA.

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Funny enough to see that it takes 2 minor releases ’til Microsoft recognizes
that you’d better not change a running system. While Windows 8 is a real
goalgetter on tablets and touchscreen notebooks, it cannot get ground on
stationary PCs and classic notebooks. Win7 makes it’s rounds there.

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It was time to upgrade my cell phone as the iPhone 4 was on it’s way to
complete the 4th year of service. Don’t get me wrong – the iPhone 4 is
still an outstanding device. But you notice that iOS7 is giving it serious
headache. Apps start sluggish and iOS7 drags power as hell.

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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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Detroit has hard financial times ahead. So hard, that Detroit has finally
applied for ordered bankruptcy according to Chapter 13 of the United
States bankruptcy code. This means, the city is undergoing an ordered
reorganization of the finances in order to get up to shape again.

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So… finally the US cartel authority has given green lights for Microsoft to
take over Nokia’s cellphone business. With a total sum of 3.6 billion US$
and additional 1.45 billion US$ for patents held by Nokia today, the deal
is also okay for the european cartel authority in Brussels.

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There was a short break for Garfield but he’s back with some new Top 15.
Have fun reading his next 15 Shorts where he is in Action with Jon and
the rest of the world. Can’t exactly tell when the next Top 15 appear but
stay tuned and have fun!

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Some saw this acoming, many of the early MP3 adopter will miss it.
Winamp 5.666 will definitely(? be the last release of the legendary,
15 years-old media player that revolutionized MP3 playback on Win95,
Win98, Win2K and XP. With Vista/Seven VLC and MPC HC took place.

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Well For a very long time, TV sets were nothing more than an image
projector. Since TV sets nowadays have a computer built-in so they can
display entire online content and smart innovations like image
improvement, their abilities can reach far beyond your imagination…

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Once more it seems as if the end of HDD isn’t reached yet. Have we stated,
that Western Digital has brought out a 12.5mm HDD with 2TB capacity.
Now it seems as if Samsung (also part of HGST/WD now…) has managed
to squeeze 2 TB into a 9.5mm high HDD case which is just amazing.

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If you see 20m tall trees vanishing then you make yourself think about
what made them vanish. In this video, some boaters are just filming a
tree group sinking into a giant sinkhole in Assumption Perish, Louisiana.
The sinkhole is the result of a hidden gas and oil reservoir below the lake.

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This is indeed a spectacular fail during a sports event. A basketball player
celebrates his slam dunk in a rather unusual way and wanted to impress
the spectators. The basketball hoop however thought itself: “I must teach
this guy a lesson on how not to treat me!” – The result: Pain and damage!

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As the title suggests, this is all about the upcoming expansion of Diablo III.
More darkness, more spookiness, a new loot system, a new character class
and a new Act to play through promise some more excitement and longer
lasting difficulty steps.

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There are costumes that shouldn’t be worn. No matter, where! Especially
when it’s about a sensitive subject where many, and I mean MANY,
people could be pissed off when seeing that. In this case, two british girls
from Chester slithered tremendously from fame into shame.

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When “Providers” get fed up with customer-unfriendly methods of the NSA,
they start mocking up. In this case, Google has decided to lock out the NSA
from sniffing the communication between Google’s server farms. Google
announced to encrypt their traffic between the data centers.

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If it has ever been a concern to you if Nokia is outdoors capable, this story
might help you build a better opinion. So has a swedish man picked up a
Lumia 800 from the ground of a lake which resided 3 months down there.
Freeing it from mud and other dirt and let it dry has shown: It still works!

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There was a short break for Garfield but he’s back with some new Top 15.
Have fun reading his next 15 Shorts where he is in Action with Jon and
the rest of the world. Can’t exactly tell when the next Top 15 appear but
stay tuned and have fun!

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I hate it when good game series get wasted because a gaming company,
let alone the biggest among them all, doesn’t have the financial outcome
it has prospected in advance. So what happened, you may ask? Well, as
of today, Electronic Arts has officially stated, that C&C and it’s studio…

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The recent spying actions and scandals of the USA and NSA are drawing
their circles. Not only are several countries sort of pissed off being spied
on, no it is also the fact that Barack Obama is still defending the attitude
that it is perfectly okay to “monitor” allies’ operations and actions.

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iFixit has now found it’s way to Europe. This option now allows European
residents to order iFixit’s tools to repair devices like the ones from Apple
or common gadgets like gaming consoles and all the stuff. So you’ll no
longer have to worry about taxes and overseas mail.

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