Sometimes crowdsourcing works. Sometimes it does not. This is an example that shows how wrong it can go. Brizzly Guide is a sideproduct from the great Twitter client “Brizzly”. In that guide every user can add a description about a trending Twitter topic. And as of now, easter is a trending topic. The given explanation […]
Continue ReadingSofTax 2009 PDF Speichern/Kopieren
Es ist wieder einmal die Jahreszeit, wo tausende von Schweizer und Schweizerinnen ihre Steuererklärung ausfüllen und abgeben müssen. Wer die Graubünder Software “SofTax” verwendet, hat natürlich den digitalen Vorteil gegenüber der Papierversion. Jedoch lässt sich das generierte PDF nicht kopieren oder speichern. Eigentlich. Dank eines einfachen Tricks für Mac OS X lässt es sich doch […]
Continue ReadingApple iPad on 24?
+ When the iPad was publicly announced in January 2010, a producer of Fox’ tv action series “24” reported on Twitter that they are working hard to get the iPad on the show. And now that the US launch of the iPad is less then a week away, I start to wonder, I we will […]
Continue ReadingGoogle vs. China: What About Mobile?
Google today announced, that they redirect any services from google.cn (Google China) to their services at google.com.hk (Hong Kong). The reasons are, that google.com.hk is outside of the great Chinese firewall and therefor does not need to be self-censored. On the other side, this means that China can just block any traffic from inside to […]
Continue ReadingBill for Bill: Money Wasted
Send Microsoft A Bill For Optimizing Your Website For The Internet Explorer. BillForBill is a new and fun way to display the amount of money that was wasted worldwide to optimize any website for the Internet Explorer browser by Microsoft. All you have to do is connect your Twitter or Facebook account and enter the […]
Continue ReadingFree Online Website Translation Tools
The Bad, the ugly and the worthless It’s Sunday evening and people are waiting for the Oscar ceremony to start. And while waiting, I gave some free online translation tools a spin. If you do not understand German, you will not have to much fun in this post, sorry. Here are the nominations Yahoo Bing […]
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