The winter is finally arriving in Europe, too. While signs two days ago pointed
to a green christmas time, it seems now as if the nature’s white blanket is most
likely to stay. As one of those people who like the four seasons, I am pleased
to see that weather’s like what it should be in December.

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There’s lots of useless junk sold worldwide. The Anti-Fart-underwear might
be one of these. Okay, farts aren’t really wanted in crowds and one might
want to vanish in a big hole when he/she has dropped one. But you can’t
stop nature. When it happens,then mostly in cases where you don’t want it.

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Voyager 1 has been launched On September 5th, 1977 into space with the
mission to discover what’s behind the lines of the solar system as we know it
and as it could have been explored with the telescopes that time. 25 years
later Voyager 1 is now reaching the interstellar space.

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In search for good headphones and probably with the option to make phone
calls with these, too, the market of headphones is really thin. Either you
have in-ears that often tend to fall out during listening or even the slightest
tuck on the cable or you have on-ears that lack of a microphone.

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These guys found an innovative way how to sort beer crates efficiently.
However I doubt that this sorting method keeps the beer in good condition.
I bet that the opened bottle will instantly start foaming like hell as it is
shaken this way. But hey, they sort them faster as anyone else!

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As posted last month, here’s now this months’ Garfield Top 15.
Again here are 15 assorted strips from the various garfield comics over
the years! Have fun and good laughing minutes while watching/reading
them. For more comics, simply scroll down this page.

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Just today it seems as if Western Digital has announced that in Q4 2013 first
HDDs with 5TB capacity are supposed to leave the gates of the WD factories.
Where 4 TB is currently the hardliner-maximum, WD is still convenient to
release their new data-libraries in time. If they’re helium-filled, is unknown.

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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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Things could not be worse between Germany and Switzerland. The object of
desire: Money! Germany wants of it… lots of it and from Switzerland. As
Germany suspects Switzerland of holding lots of financial ressources from
german citizen who don’t declare their money to the Finance departement.

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And again there are 43 billion Euro for the rescue of Greece so that it doesn’t
have to leave the financial union. While Greece is happy about how the things
finally turned for them, most other countris and their people get upset more
an more. Why is so much money burnt in a country that wastes it so much?

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Well… when you hear “Treat your iPhone like a raw egg”, what would you do?
Right: Bumper, cover, soft cloth, careful usage and all the stuff so that this
hitech gadget won’t suffer any harm. In this case, a guy took the figure of
speech the wrong way. And what do you do with raw eggs?

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it was great but I guess I got a little too much of the good stuff. Some head-
ache and some strange feeling when walking… and the weekend’s over again
Dang! Hate to leave so quick again. Now I have 6 hours of traveling ahead of
me and for sure a very unstable cell network as it is always!

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Time to spend a weekend in Munich again, with my friends. So it’s again the
good ol’ train that will rock me there in 6 hours. Hopefully! But my fears
were without a reason. The travel worked fine. Going from Bern to Basel
Departing in time from there… had a 6 minutes Delay in Freiburg…

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It’s just been a month since Windows 8 is released but there are already some
oddities, you don’t expect from Redmond. However it seems as if Microsoft
is following a weird trend as Apple has shown before. Now you may ask what
I am babbling about? Well, buy yourself a new notebook with Windows 8.

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Winter is coming and with it, streets tend to get slippery. Not that autumn
has these side-effects, too, but most accidents happen in intertime when
snow and ice covers the land. The bus driver in this video seems to have
been surprised by one of these ice covers on the road but acted correctly.

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Usually, people never seem to agree when it comes to size. On smartphones
the curent trend is: the bigger, the better! usually it was, the smaller, the
better. Compare a Nokia 6100 (combined with its battery, it weighs only 76
grams and measures 102 x 44 x 13.5 mm.) and an actual Galaxy Note II.

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When it comes to new gadgets, many people go crazy and tend to do stupid
things. One of them for sure is buying tech gadgets for an incredibly low
price that is hardly covering the real hardware price. The mild variation
is that you get a piracy product that is lacking features of the original.

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WhatsApp,known to many for their SMS replacement and issuer of the same-
named App has recently updated the app to a new version. With this update
there comes a bunch of security fixes. But also a not-so-nice “feature” is now
active on most Nokia, Android and Blackberry phones: A licence notifier!

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Often it is read that companies have lost lots of money due to illegal copies.
Then there’s the mobile market that also takes it’s share. Finally it’s the copy
protection mechanisms that rob most games their reputation, Dilemmas as
Assassins Creed which failed to start up are only one of the many cases.

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The Wii U will hit Stores tomorrow and it’s the most-expected console from
Nintendo since the Wii came out in 2005/2006. offering Full-HD and a con-
troller with a seperate display, there is room for a new dimension of gaming
The motion control already opened new worlds. Will the Wii U succeed?

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Biking is cool and also relieves from the common stress. However all the stress
can come up again, when you’re in danger. This otorcyclist barely was missed
by a misled car driver who happened to drive on the wrong side of the road.
Barely missing the motorcyclist the driver did not seem to worry about it!

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Nintendo and Sony – archrivals since the very beginning of the game console
era. Even now it seems as if Nintendo seems to be much more successful as
these figures underline: While the PS Vita is sold 3 million times, the 3DS has
been sold 22 million times. A factor of 7 to 1 for Nintendo.

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Onlinebanking using the smartphone seems smart. That’s why some hackers
have brought out a trojan virus for Android devices which is capable of
tracing the mTAN. This mTAN is necessary for authorizing payments over
the internet. Usually mTAN should be secure but with this trojan, it ain’t!

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Again ASUS fights against Apple and their MacBooks – ASUS just released their
newest Ultrabook of  the ZEN series. With 15 Inches it’s usually no ultrabook
at all but the other sizes (height, weight) allow this description anyways. With
a Geforce 650M and a 3617 Ivy bridge processor it’s darn fast!

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Apple, being known as THE leader in innovtions lately seems to be stuck in it’s
own success. As the Apple stock shares were at 700 USD per share at the end
of September, the actual share value has dropped down to 570 USD. Sounds
not too bad? Well, get this: The total share loss is 157 billion USD! THATS bad!

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Supercomputer are mostly one’s nation to show, we can compute numbers
as fast as possible. While last year, the fastest supercomputer was situated
in Asia, it is now again situated in the USA. The Oak Ridge National
Laboratory has built up and finally activated the fastest supercomputer.

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For once, all these hassles and fights seem to come to an end according to
the actual news that Apple and HTC have finally buried all open lawsuits.
For a duration of the upcoming ten years, both manufacturers have each
other granted a mutual licence on actual and upcoming patents.

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Usually, you see buildings collapse when ehavy loaded or overloaded.
Especially parking houses have several warnings that they may not be
overloaded or have a certain amount of weight on a predefined area.
When watching the following video, I was just impressed of that structure.

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It seems as if things could not get worse when it comes to lifting heavy
machinery. But when you see this video, then you’ll reconsider your
thoughts: In this case, a giant locomotive has been lifted from a cargo
ship in order to be placed on the pier. But in midst of the lifting it happened.

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When it comes to apple, most of you may think: Innovative manufacturer of
cool gadgets with high potential. A real strong stock market value also has
given you this idea. With the release of the iPhone 5, while the stock market
value per share was 700 US$, nowadays, the value has dropped to 558 US$.

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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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Elections – THE event in the USA when it comes to a big showdown in politics.
Usually, democracy demands that every citizen of a country is requested to
give his/her voe on a party member being put up for elections. In this case
we’re talking about Obaa and Romney.

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