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Adium

The new Adium Version is now open for Beta testing. If you care a bout your system and only want stable software (haha!) don’t attempt to install it. But it is well worth the new features. A list can be viewed on the Beta page.
As noted: “Backing up a copy of the folder ~/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/ before using betas or alphas is probably a good idea.”

Most noticeable changes

Major AIM, ICQ and .Mac improvements. This includes working File Transfer, and faster sign on.
Improvements to the default look and feel of Adium.
iTunes integration is much faster, and updates as soon as the song changes.
Added global user profile and buddy icon settings. (Personal Preferences)
General Account improvements. Accounts can now be disabled when not in in use, and friends can now sign on from your Adium without saving their information.
Added an Xtras manager to better handle browsing and removing Xtras.
Major improvements in privacy settings.
Redesigned Previous Chat (Log) Viewer
Requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later (Universal Binary)

The longer, complete list can be found here.
Most noticeable on this list are:

  • Consulted the Vorlon. <- which is awesome considering they might be blasting our planet to hell anytime soon
  • Can now Get Info on contacts who aren’t on your contact list (#2424) & (#193) <- that one’s in there twice so it should really work now 😉
  • Added more popcorn to the general preferences. <- might be good for the hours you spend in there
  • Added a contextual menu for tabs (#1595)
  • Added a contextual menu to make sandwiches tastier. <- nothing to add to this item, food is always good 🙂
  • Message view window can now be transparent <- I’ve been waiting for that!
  • Emoticon text equivalents are not expanded to emoticon images inside of URLs <- I’ve got to implement this into my AJAX chat too …no – to much work *g*
  • Now with 200% more cowbell
  • Added a dock-like autohiding ability for the contact list <- this might be worth trying out

That’s about it, read the whole list if you’re interested or don’t be a coward and just download it, install it, use it and report bugs to the Adium team.

Update:
Wow! Those folks are fast, we’re already on Beta 3 now.
Apparently they are so fast that they traveled into the future, releasing the Beta 3 today while it will come out tomorrow.

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To fill the growing summer lump several blogs in my “environment” started to populate their pages with MyWorld66 maps to show how cosmopolitan their lifestyle is.

As I am always ahead of the game I’ve gotten a MyWorld66 map since way back in 2005 (wow!) so maybe now is the best time to show you how cool I am.

BEHOLD!
(in case you’re wondering: red means “visited”, grey means “nope, haven’t been there yet”)

world (very rough estimates in some states in this view):

europe:

usa:

fantastic isn’t it?
…now show me yours 🙂

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Hi!

I’m finally updating this abandoned blog again 😉

After suffering from a severe infection with high fever over 40°C and a rapid recovery (under the heavy influence of antibiotics) to allow me to attend the Novarock (klick the link for my photos) Festival in Nickelsdorf/Austria I can now say that I have slept enough again and reached a state of consciousness that allows me to post again.

Busy weeks lie behind me, first there was this awesome festival in the beautiful surroundings of Nicklelsdorf in the east of Austria. It was about one week of very hard work that sometimes brought us to the edge, but also some marvelous concerts with great bands. Especially Metallica, Tool and the local “heroes” Guadalajara rocked a sum of over 150.000 people in three days.

After I barely survived the backstage party on saturday following the Guns n’ Roses gig, I drove home only to be captured by end-term pressure. After finishing nearly all of my work – well, except the biggest project 😉 – I can now hopefully relax a few days at the swimming pool in my back yard and welcome the summer 🙂

Picture 1-1… ah, yes and then there was the Donauinselfest last weekend, a three day festival in the middle of vienna with free entry, ~30 stages and about 900.000 people per day.
I went there twice (hey, it’s free). Once to see the Bloodhound Gang again after the Novarock, who were too drunk to deliver a proper concert but who cares. The second time I went there to see Silbermond, well actually only their female singer 😉
All in all a pretty good festival as well but my feet hurt now after walking the whole of this little island in the middle of the danube for about two or three times (~6 km one way).

That’s it for now …but stay tuned for some more postings in the near future!