Monthly Archives: September 2004

“It‘s my blog and I cry if I want to.” "It‘s my blog and I cry if I want to."

Cocoal.icio.us, a Cocoa del.icio.us Client for Mac OS X, is getting better. The latest release already makes it a lot easier to re-tag your bookmarks and makes searching your distributed bookmarks a breeze. Recommended for all Mac OS X del.icio.us … Continue reading →

For many years Apple is struggling with providing the user a clean and easy hotkey interface for system services. But they failed with Mac OS 9, they failed with Mac OS X and even the latest addition in Panther is … Continue reading →

Okay, I am overstating here a bit but NewsFire really took me by surprise. NewsFire is a very, very simple program. It is a RSS News Reader, like NetNewsWire or Shrook. But unlinke these established tools, it is really breaking … Continue reading →

Berlin in the cold war: on the top of an artificial hill called “Teufelsberg” (devil‘s mountain) that was erected from the rubble of the final stages of the Second World War the NSA operated a huge field station essentially sitting … Continue reading →

A couple of weeks ago, I was happy to be able to attend the EuroFoo Camp, organized by O‘Reilly for small group of geeks and similar life forms. They really succeeded bringing together a bunch of bright heads and overall … Continue reading →

I never understood my Mac OS X does not provide an easy way to combine multiple PDF files into a single one. However, PDFLab fills that gap quite nicely. Recommended. I never understood my Mac OS X does not provide … Continue reading →

IE7 by Dean Edward is such a cool hack: a bunch of JavaScript files that enable good old Internet Explorer for Windows to actually do CSS2, transparent PNG and other modern web techniques that standards-savvy web designers are begging Microsoft … Continue reading →

Oh yes: 0:18 Chaos is joy. 0:19 Order a necessary evil. 0:24 Death is o.k. 0:34 Religion is a party game for at least 2 persons. 1:01 Arcadia is everywhere. Spend five minutes on reading them all: the english/german version … Continue reading →

As so many, I tried Skype for Mac OS X and tried to compare it to iChat AV which has been a quite impressive experience so far. But I must say that Skype has been at least impressive if not … Continue reading →