Nothing is more annoying than an update to a newer version of a software
part of your smartphone or tablet. I got me a Google Nexus 10 which
initially runs on Android 4.2.3. After setting up everything including the
Google Play Store, I got notified about Jelly Bean (Android 4.3).

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For all those who wonder, why they see only a blank page on
Captain Campus’ site. The Captain is redesigning his blog. So stay tuned
when the new blog comes online again. It’ll take some days but I guess it’s
worth the wait!

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Nokia’s event is over, unveiling some new goodies in the way to us. Apple’s
event is just around the corner and at 7p.m MEST, we will witness Apple’s
new gadgets being unveiled. What’s coming on to us? Most likely the new
iPad 5, which is anticipated much and said to have Touch ID.

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Is this the last bunch of devices branded “Nokia”? – The currently finished
Live event has brought up six new devices for us to expect in the near
future. Beginning the sales in the USA, the EMEA will see most of them in
early 2014. So let’s have a close look, what’s coming on to us!

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Ever thought of a restaurant where you sit on a toilet bowl? Or even eat
out of one? In Los Angeles, a new eatery has opened with toilets as theme.
The result looks quite disturbing yet funny, however it may not hit
everyone’s taste. Interesting to see that such weird ideas still come true.

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Windows 8.1 is out. With it, the start button came back (although the function is
still doubtful as a single left click simply shows the tiles surface again. Sure the
update brought back some functions back to the user. Yet there are essentials
missing, Windows 7 users (like me) still want to have.

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Some people think, a railway gate that is down, still invites for trespassing.
Tough luck when the nearing train is so near that you get hit by it. But the
real tough luck is, when a second train is arriving. In this hit’n’run, a
woman tried to outrun the police for unknown reason.

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A question, many people would answer with: “Loud enough” or “loud as a
pneumatic drill”. While the first expression cannot be clearly defined, the
second one is defined with 90 to 100 db (quite loud). But these days,
the fans of the Kansas Chiefs have set a new world record in crowdyelling.

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Otherwise you might find yourself also confronted with a gun. This hap-
pened in Brasil where a younster with a (fake?) gun forced a biker to
dismount his vehicle. The driver’s helmet camera took the whole thing.
Some racing, the hit’n’Run and the car driver who “helped” the driver.

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…the phone. A phrase, Apple iPhone users see since the iPhone 5s. But
not only Apple has this feature now! HTC is the first manufacturer to
have a phablet (5.9″) in it’s portfolio to allow users to secure their device
by fingerprints. The HTC One Max is the first Android phone with this!

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Nokia more and more combines with Microsoft. Another big indicator
for this is the closure of SymbianOS and Meego. While the step for Meego
is somehow understandable (the N9 is the last phone using Meego!), the
closure of SymbianOS is a bit odd since all LowCost-Nokias use it!

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Samsung appears to hate it’s customers. There’s no other explanation than
that after recent plans have been revealed that upcoming updates of the
firmware include a nasty region lock of foreign SIM cards. So you won’t be
able to pop in a local SIM to avoid roaming fees in certain countries.

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The financial crisis over? For sure not. Although many indicators point
to a recreating economy, the USA has another black day in it’s history:
Last happening 1995 when Bill Clinton had to shut down administrative
services, the scenario has now happened again. 18 years later!

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Funny to see… Apple just has released it’s iPhone 5S in a new flavour,
namely White-Gold (which looks good btw… I must admit!), and just
now, Samsung sees itself in a position to “fight” back and brings out
a Galaxy S4 that is all shiny-gold. Like I said before… “Us, too!”

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It seems, that more and more veterans of the cellphone industry are
about to die. Just recently it has become public that Microsoft is taking
over the smartphone division from Nokia. So the time we see
smartphones from Nokia are over. Now Blackberry is going to fall.

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Usually I am critic against beta and preview Releases of system-near software
Since I have used IE10 for a while now and can clearly state that it is running
good on Windows 7, the new Preview release of IE11 made me have a look.
Just to take it away ahead: IE 11 seems to come closer to all other Browsers.

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So Apple finally revealed what most of us have expected. The 5S once
more underlines the minimalistic, yet appealing way of style. While
the iPhone 5 came in two colors, the 5S now has a third, golden case.
For sure not everybody’s taste but hey, looks great anyways.

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It’s time to show Garrosh who’s the boss in Pandaria.
The fight against the most mighty foes can begin. With
a whole revamp of most of the classes, the fighting
strategy has changed while other classes seem the same.

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The new gadgets are just around the corner.
And, like every half year before the events, there’s
one big question: Will all the expected gadgets be
shown finally and when can we get them.

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Believe it or not, but once more, the japanese people have found an
ingenious way for birth control while maintaining a high educational
level of the contestant. Too stupid = no kids seems to be the motto
of this gameshow. See what happens upon a wrong answer…

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So now we have ultra high resolution TV sets
available, though HDMI seems not to be ready for
handling such high resolutions without compromises.
We speak of HDMI 1.4 and the upcoming HDMI 2.0.

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Usually one would expect Apple or Samsung
to release the Uber-gadget first when it comes
to new technologies. In this case, however,
Acer seems to fire it’s aces from it’s sleeves

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Most people have denied the existence of total surveillance. George Orwell
has predicted it in the late 40’s when his novel 1984 was released. Just after
the public rumors that have been yielded due to Edward Snowden’s reveals
we really see ourselves confronted with Orwells perspectives nowadays.

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So the IFA 2013 has shown new gadget to us.
4K TV, new HiFi components, Home entertainment…
But until we can benefit from all the new goodies,
some more days will have to pass by.

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On the IFA, Toshiba has announced new memory cards
which shall break the 100MB/s limitation, today’s UHS-I
cards are actually facing. Although, there’s only a low
number of devices available which could demand…

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You all know these fancy signs and chars (not Emoticons),
which most browsers can display by default. All these chars
are unicodes mostly 16bit (meaning they consist of four
hexadecimal chars (0000 to FFFF). But how to use them?

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This guy seems to have had one (two, three… many!) too much and then tried
to impress someone who was actually filming this. The result is funny and
somehow I think for myself: Gee! I hope I wasn’t trying this myself while
bing heavily drunken…

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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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While we’re still fighting the mighty foes from Patch 5.3, Blizzard is already
working on the next step of WoW and planning to release the next patch.
Besides some char class tweaking and new items, there are also new
battlegrounds to explore and fight on. The official trailer is available now!

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Dazzling news for all those who like to game Diablo III:
It seems as if we get new gaming food in the 1st half
year of 2014. A new Level capping of 70 and a new
character class plus a new act give us more to grind!

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This guy caught the idea of filming an ICE3 (Deutsche Bahn) passing by at
300 km/h (186 mph), According to his shout-out I guess the wind wave that
hit him was somewhat strong! But despite the fact of a heavy wind striking
you I guess it’s really dangerous! Do not try this for yourself!

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LG has recently shown a prototype of a new IGZO display at a
thickness of 1.2mm only. But not only the slim production factor but
also the jaw-dropping resolution of 2560×1440 pixels (508ppi) make
this display outstanding. With a diameter of 5.3 inches, this display…

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