November 2011
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October 2011
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Oct 21st
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“Thank you. I’m honored to be with you today for your commencement from one...”
– Transcript of Commencement Speech at Stanford given by Steve Jobs in 2005.
Oct 6th
July 2011
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Anatomic Wax: Installing Xcode 3.2.6 On Lion →
This may be very useful for some of us, at least temporary… anatomicwax: Today on Twitter I noticed a conversation between @ccgus, @rbrockerhoff and @radiofreelunch concerning running Xcode 3.2.6 on Lion. The consensus was that if you had it installed before upgrading to Lion that it seemed to work alright but it wasn’t possible to install it while running…
Jul 22nd
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May 2011
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May 30th
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April 2011
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“I never bother to write reviews, but I had to for this app. I’ve tried...”
– Review for Metropolis Compass on the US App Store. Feedback like this is what really keeps me going, both for the Boinx Software and the Munich Appsters products. Thank you very much!
Apr 29th
Apr 29th
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“Only people who buy the paid app — and therefore have no problem paying $5 for...”
– The App Store ecosystem has a few very dark sides, and this is one of it. Marco Arment in his blog on why Instapaper Free is no longer available. Recommended read!
Apr 29th
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Pilotmoon Blog: Scroll Reverser — get in practice... →
pilotmoon: You might have learned that a certain upcoming version of Mac OS X may have scrolling that is “bass-ackwards”. That is, when you push up on your trackpad or mouse scroller, the page content moves up too, just like on iOS devices. I made a very minimal little app that lets you reverse…
Apr 15th
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Apr 6th
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March 2011
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iPhone Simulator Beautification
backslashn: The default frame for the iPhone simulator looks awful. So I decided to fix that (again). Here’s what my iPhone Simulator looks like now: If you’d like your simulator to look sleek like this, grab this zip file. Locate iPhone Simulator.app in Finder, open up its Resources directory, and extract the two PNGs from this zip into there. This looks a lot nicer indeed. Thank you!
Mar 17th
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Apple's Three Laws of Developers
yourhead: A developer may not injure Apple or, through inaction, allow Apple to come to harm. A developer must obey any orders given to it by Apple, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A developer must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. — I. Developer There’s some truth to this.
Mar 8th
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February 2011
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Pre-Paid Mobile Internet In Spain
When traveling foreign countries it becomes increasingly important to be able to connect to the Internet. I use a Huawei ES830 to act as a mobile WiFi hotspot. Advantage compared to using a Micro-SIM in your iPad is that you also can get your iPhone, Mac, … online at the same time with one SIM card. Similar devices like MiFi work as well, as long as they are unlocked. Here’s my working...
Feb 20th
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December 2010
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October 2010
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Oct 18th
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Mit Frauen besser denken →
Wer also einUnternehmen ruinieren möchte, ruft am besten regelmäßig männliche Runden egomanischer Eierköpfe zusammen. Article today at sueddeutsche.de. Always nice to get scientific backing for your feelings…
Oct 1st
September 2010
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Myth #25: Aesthetics are not important if you have...
Fully agreed! uxmyths: There are usability practitioners who completely dismiss the importance of aesthetics, often citing unattractive but popular websites such as Craigslist. However, aesthetics do have a function. Attractive things work better. Studies show that emotions play an important role in the users’ experience. If a website has a pleasant visual design, users are more...
Sep 21st
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Sep 20th
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July 2010
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WatchWatch
Thanks, awesome! ran-dom: MouseOver Events and the iPad via @MacLemon
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Jul 20th
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“Remember: The cheapest energy was slavery. Energy is a moral issue.”
– Carl Safina on TEDxOilSpill
Jul 19th
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set selectedRange in a UITextView
A short Cocoa Touch post as I could not immediately find the solution on the internets. I wanted the cursor to be at the beginning of a UITextView when the user taps anywhere in that text view. The straightforward approach of doing it in the delegate does not work and I found a couple of posts saying so. It turns out that performSelector:withObjects:afterDelay is your friend: -...
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May 2010
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April 2010
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Apr 26th
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March 2010
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January 2010
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Jan 24th
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Jan 16th
“Kleine Tochter: Ich wünsche mir zum nächsten Weihnachten ein Polizeiauto. — Und...”
– 9. Januar 2010
Jan 10th
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My favorites albums of 2009
Being a huge music fan I decided to go through my iTunes collection and identify the albums released in 2009 that impressed me most. Out of the more than 9000 single tracks (including loads of mashups and kids titles) added to my library during the last year I found 16 defining albums. There are quite a few great albums missing that I only discovered in the last year but were released earlier. ...
Jan 6th
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Albums of 2009: The Who Boys — Now That’s What I...
Along with the Kleptones and DJ Schmolli, The Who Boys are my absolute mashup heroes. The don’t not just combine two matching songs but create completely new music by using tracks by other artists as basis instead of traditional musical instruments. Apart from that difference I think their work is about as original as any other composed and hand crafted music. Styles used on this album...
Jan 6th
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Albums of 2009: O Teatro Mágico — Segundo Ato
This is music I found by pure coincidence through a Portuguese only web site from Brazil. More great stuff to be found there BTW. The group O Teatro Mágico delivers an absolutely mesmerizing blend of traditional Brazilian elements with all sorts of different genres from classical to funk music while never loosing the beauty of the song itself. The whole album is available as a free download,...
Jan 6th
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Albums of 2009: The Base — 16 Songs In Self...
I first heard the catchy tune “Dirty Little Hole” (iTunes) on Austria’s fantastic FM4 radio station, the only radio station I can bear for listening to music. Immediately took a screen shot of the FM4 iPhone App (iTunes) showing the title and bought the album after checking out a few tracks. The style is labeled Indie or Alternative, which doesn’t tell much, except that it’s...
Jan 6th
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Albums of 2009: Bugge Wesseltoft — Playing
Another example of an album very hard to classify. On his latest work “Playing” (iTunes, Gubemusic) Bugge Wesseltoft (MySpace) mostly only plays the piano, at least it seems at the first glance. Listening more careful reveals some electronics, percussion and even a vocal track. The style could be summarized as Jazz, but that does not really describe the music well enough. Die-hard Jazz fans...
Jan 6th
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Albums of 2009: Nils Petter Molvær — Hamada
Another great album from Scandinavia, unfortunately not (yet?) available on iTunes US. Norway and Oslo in particular seems to be the perfect spot for creative minds. Like his fellow Bugge Wesseltoft, Nils Peter Molvær (also on MySpace) does not care too much about fulfilling listener expectations. If you can stand a certain amount of noise check out the track “Cruel Altitude” (iTunes). It...
Jan 6th
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Albums of 2009: OSI — Blood
This one is a bit more straightforward. OSI (Office of Strategic Influence) do quite hard hitting Progressive Rock. At times the sound is very much Electronica and Ambient, at other times it is just Metal. Blood (iTunes) is their third and so far best album, featuring Gavin Harrison (drummer with Porcupine Tree) in addition to the two members Jim Matheos and Kevin Moore. Perfect album if you can...
Jan 6th
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Albums of 2009: Dave Matthews Band — Big Whiskey...
Being sort of a fan of Dave Matthews Band since my time in Atlanta back in 1995, “Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King” (iTunes Pass) is definitely one of their strongest albums in a while. It has always been incredible how well these guys play together, but this album really rocks and has very nice grooves, Carter Beauford on drums is at his best! Check out “Shake Me Like a Monkey” (iTunes) for...
Jan 6th
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Albums of 2009: Street Sweeper Social Club
Another tasty blend of styles: Tom Morello fame of Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave teams up with the Hip Hop vocalist Boots Riley to create the explosive Funk Rock album / project “Street Sweeper Social Club” (also on MySpace). They call their songs “revolutionary party jams” and add the following quote on their web site: “This is a time when the working class is being fleeced left and...
Jan 6th
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Albums of 2009: Dredg — The Pariah, The Parrot,...
A bit more on the Pop side than their previous efforts, “The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion” (iTunes) is a really great album providing a lot of variety while showing a quite consistent experience. The style of Dredg is probably best described as Progressive Rock. I totally dig the crystal clear sound. It’s magic how the album still feels “natural” and hand made while providing...
Jan 6th