about 1 year ago - 5 comments
This is an update to an older post: My perfect TV setup I recently upgraded the whole media consumption set-up in my apartment. This post describes all of the different aspects, hardware and software components in use. Hardware Mac Mini – this is the main hub of the whole operation. It sits in my living…
about 1 year ago - No comments
With the introduction of Apple’s newest operating system OS X 10.7 Lion, the company has taken one step further to disconnect their users from other competing user interaction schemes. Let me elaborate on this rather strong statement by going back in history a bit. I can still remember, when I got my first Mac, it…
about 2 years ago - 3 comments
For quite some time Mac users where searching for a way to paste the currently playing song from iTunes in chat messages etc. I never thought about it much but recently a friend of mine, who was a former AMIP user on Windows, needed a similar functionality under OS X. Together we constructed a working solution.…
about 2 years ago - 1 comment
If your mobile strategy for 2011 is to hire someone to build an iphone app, then you are probably missing the big picture. A quote from a very interesting article over at The Next Web blog about the “Free Day of Javascipt on Mobile” Event at Google HQ. It offers some pretty good insights on…
about 2 years ago - No comments
<Pomax> 20 years from now, someone is going to have the radical idea to give users access to the underlying OS, rather than to the browser API, and he will be heralded a revolutionary. <Pomax> All manner of programming languages will pop up that work outside “the browser”, giving access to “offline” applications, storing files…
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iOS 4.2 is available, adding some impressive new features and finally getting iPad’s and iPhones up to the same OS version number. And Google releases “Cloud Connect”, a plugin that syncs Microsoft Office and Google Docs. Google Docs syncs with Microsoft Office Google Cloud Connect is an add-on for Office that syncs documents, spreadsheets and…
about 2 years ago - No comments
I really like that concept of connecting the online- to the offline-world. via Breakfast
about 2 years ago - 13 comments
Last weekend I sat down and built a surveillance system, including an iPhone webapp, for my apartment using my old iBook, an external iSight, the Webcam Software EvoCam and a set of scripts in AppleScript, PHP and some shell scripts. The whole thing is pretty custom made but I’ll document it here anyway and with a basic…