Geekness – closer to the world

I actually thought this one would go smooth, many registration, many ideas and many blog reactions. Well, looks like I was wrong and the Swiss geek community is much smaller than I was thinking. SuperHappyDevHSR is comming! After the big success (I’ve heard, I was sick that weekend and I missed it, damn) of the […]

Erinnert sich noch einer an die Aussage von Bill Gates (einst reichster Mann der Welt und ex-CEO von Microsoft), dass “Spam in zwei Jahren unter Kontrolle” sei? Das war im November 2004. Im November 2006 war das Problem noch grösser als im Jahr 2004. Und die Spamflut wächst weiter. Heute hatte ich eine tolle E-Mail […]

Never been on the Times Square in New York? Or the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco? Now you can. With the new Google Earth 4.2 client you have the chance to visit some nice sightseeing points in the USA at an insane high resolution. All you need to do is active the Gigapixel layer […]

Dear Microsoft, eBay, New York Times, MSN and xxx. You are the most viewed web pages on the Internet and you have more in common than you all think. All your home pages are at the center of my screen. And this is because most of my displays don’t have a 4:3 resolution. You see, […]

I actually thought I have traveled and seen a lot of things in the world. With exception of the Arktis I’ve visited each continent, seen many various cultures (Europeans, Americans, Canadians, Egyptians, Greeks, Arabs …). But according to beenda.com (a new tool from Douwe Osinga) I have only seen 7 of the top 100 destination […]

Adobe released their newest Flash Player Beta tonight and I had to try it. First of all: Finally, Flash/Flash Video gets wonderful. I am very, very impressed by the quality AND the processor use. While playing the H.264 video my processor never was over 30%. If I compare that to YouTube where the processor is […]