Archive | March, 2009

Google Docs gets drawing feature

Google Docs becomes more and more a powerful companion for everyday office software needs – and best of all: it runs completely in the cloud. The latest feature which Google added to its Google Docs suite is a very nice drawing tool as one knows from OpenOffice: The drawing is inserted as SVG vector graphic [...]

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Macheist 3 breaks MySQL

After weeks with fantastic puzzles and a lot of free apps Macheist 3 is ready for prime time now and went online yesterday with an amazing bundle. I’m especially impressed by the inclusion of the brand new Espresso editor/IDE as well as BoinxTV. For 39USD this alone would be a steal. Obviously I am not [...]

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MMS, copy/paste, landscape Mail and Notes syncing comes to the iPhone

Great news for iPhone fans – Apple today announced its new iPhone 3 OS with a lot of new features a lot of iPhone enthusiasts have been waiting for: – MMS support – copy/paste – landscape mode for Mail/SMS editing – Google calendar sync – Notes sync – Push notifications – Multitasking – and soooo [...]

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When customers become suckhole jerks…

Recently I bought “Delicious Library”, a nice Mac shareware tool from a company called Delicious Monster which helps cataloging books, movies, software, toys, tools, etc. – REALLY great stuff (it scans the barcode from a book/DVD and gets the corresponding data direclty from Amazon.com). Well, sometimes nomen est omen, so I wasn’t too surprised when [...]

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Carnival in Zurich

Sometimes a picture tells more than words. Here a carnival impression of the main station in Zurich: We are strong in a lot of things here – but let’s admit it: we just don’t know anything about Carnival here in Zurich. Go to Basel or Lucerne – but forget about the Zurich “carnival”.

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