some personal, more technical – by Thomas Einwaller
In: Uncategorized
9 Feb 2008As I stated out again yesterday my favorite program is Launchy. Because one of the other programs I use the most is Putty I created a workaround that allows me to open my saved Putty sessions with Launchy. Therefor I created shortcuts in my start menu that start putty with putty.exe -load “sessionname” Yesterday I [...]
In: VDR
9 Feb 2008Within the last weeks two friends built their own VDR system and installed ct’ VDR 6.1 on it. I helped them a bit configuring their remote control with lirc but all in all it was a quite smooth installation. One thing that I had to do on both systems was to correct the time, on [...]
In: Blackberry|Mobile|RIM
8 Feb 2008Russell Shaw add ZDNet points to a very interesting BlackBerry Patent. You can read the original patent here. Russel thinks that the very short time frame between the Patent was filed and published could mean that the implementation of it is imminent. Could this mean we will see a touchscreen BlackBerry in the very near [...]
Nearly a year ago I stumbled upon a post on lifehacker about Launchy. I downloaded, installed and used the tool – and I had to blog about it. Now for everybody who does not know it until know: I love Launchy! It is THE tool that improved my whole using-a-PC-experience to most in the last [...]
Maybe you have noticed my new booklist widget in the right sidebar. In the last years it occurred very often that somebody asked me if I know a good book on a certain topic. I recommended books to my colleagues, students and friends. Some weeks ago I thought that it would be easier to have [...]
In: General
8 Feb 2008I am talking directly to you because I want to improve my blog. I want to know what you think about it. What do you like and what do you not like? Which topics are you interested in and why do you visit my blog? I am recognizing the strange fact that while the traffic [...]
In: Blackberry
6 Feb 2008Again BoyGenius is the first who comes up with more information about the new BlackBerry OS version 4.5 and the Enterprise Server 4.1 SP5. I am really curious about how the HTML rendering and rich text view of emails will work out. I already tried out third party solutions like the BBSMart Email Viewer but [...]