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Archive for April, 2008
Steve is not amused
30 Apr 2008In one of his latest posts Fake Steve Jobs says that he does not think the following video is funny. Well, I do:
Internal Spec Sheet for BlackBerry OS 4.6
In: Blackberry|Mobile|RIM
29 Apr 2008What a great day for BlackBerry fans. First some pictures of the BlackBerry 9000 devices from ebay, and now BoyGenius got hands on an internal specs sheet for the upcoming OS 4.6. Very interesting are the browser enhancements: JavaScript 1.5 CSS 2.1 (Lists, Box Model, Positioning, Floats, Visual Effects, Tables, Colors, …) DOM L2 HTML [...]
BlackBerry 9000 devices in the wild
In: Blackberry|Mobile|RIM
29 Apr 2008It seems like there are BlackBerry 9000 devices out in the wild. Someone tried to sell two devices on ebay but the auction has already been closed. The closeup picture from the auction shows a blurry image of the device with the protection foil on: It seems like the pictures from earlier posts are pretty [...]
JavaScript games
29 Apr 2008Lately there a lot of people are experimenting what is possible wiht JavaScript. Libraries like prototype and scriptaculous are building the base für writing extensive object oriented JavaScript code. Some weeks ago the nihilogic blog presented a Super Mario implemented in 14kB of code playable in the browser. It even includes music Today I found [...]
Reveal Product Keys
In: Software
28 Apr 2008Sometimes you want to reinstall a program and you are not able to find the original CD or case with the product key. This is the moment where the Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder comes into action. It allows you to reveal the product keys of many Microsoft Software – Windows, Office …
The last hiking trips I made were something different to what is shown in this video: The video shows a century old trail in Makinodromo/El Chorro Andalucia, Spain. Nothing for people with acrophobia.
The size of java.util.Calendar
In: Java
26 Apr 2008A friend of mine asked me why his Java batch job reading a 23MB text file took over 300MB Memory. He read some text and date values and stored them in String an Calendar objects. A short web search brought up this blog post of Jason Rennie writing about the size of java.util.Calendar. He points [...]
Rampenfest
26 Apr 2008Jeff Schultz made a documentation movie about the big ramp in Oberpfaffelbachen, Bavaria: See the full movie at www.rampenfest.com – funny!
Streaming music
26 Apr 2008In the last months I started to listen more and more streaming music. I have a big music library stored on my home server that I created years ago by ripping all my audio CD’s. I still add some new albums of my favorite bands but when I am working on my PC I found [...]
BlackBerry updates
In: Blackberry
18 Apr 2008This week the BlackBerry Enterprise Server 4.1 SP5 has been officially released. The BlackBerry OS update 4.5 is not available officially but in the darker areas of the web. It is not completely clear to me why RIM removed the HTML rendering function from the new OS officially. I saw the OS in action on [...]
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- tompson: Hi Roman, my main class is a groovy class [...]
- Roman Gonzales: Hey quick question: your main class is a java class that calls the groovy classes or is your main [...]
- Nathan Rodriguez: i am only using free virus scanners like avast and avira but they seem to be great tools though:;` [...]
- sim4000: Yay, it works. Thank you! [...]
- Ewan Matthews: there would be a great demand for mobile browsers in the coming years that is for sure.;'- [...]
- Create executable jar package with dependencies
- Issues with Mylyn and JIRA 4.1
- Equals and HashCode and Hibernate
- Using twhirl with StatusNet
- Problems connecting with jconsole to linux jvm
- BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express and facebook app
- Error code 1920 when installing VMware converter
- tightvnc messes up keyboard layout after Ubuntu upgrade
- The old Bold and the new Bold
- Windows Media player streaming problem
tOMPSON's tweets
- first time restoring new MacBook from a Time Capsule backup worked great! Time Machine FTW #fb
- Being a BlackBerry fan with an iPad I can not understand how people could live that long with an iPhone without multitasking #fb
- Can't wait for the iOS update for de iPad #fb
- Wow, The new official twitter client for the iPad os brilliant - though I think it violates some style guides #fb
- just uninstalled the Google Wave Notifier from Chrome - LOL
- I favorited a YouTube video -- Ed Byrne slates Alanis Morissette http://youtu.be/nT1TVSTkAXg?a
- I'm at Il Teatro Antica Trattoria (Hamerlingerstr 46, Linz). http://4sq.com/7ccwyW
- so the spare parts for my wife's MacBook cost 1000 EUR and a new one the same? wtf #fb
- Livestream of Apple keynote works great so far, no bandwidth problem, looks great on the iPad #fb
- RT @timr: new post: More report options: Today we released a new version of timr including the long awaited feature ... http://bit.ly/9QqNgy