When people around the world think of Germany, images of the currently ongoing Oktoberfest or of a beer drinking nation in traditional Lederhosn’ (leather trousers) come to life.

inside a Festzelt @ Oktoberfest, image (c) by MB
What people often don’t know is that these impressions come from the free state of Bavaria in the South of [...]

A phone is a phone is a phone is a phone. Well, is it?
When it comes to Nokia’s N95 smartphone, this simple conclusion isn’t that clear. Nokia introduced their flagship model in December 2006 and started shipping it sometime around March/April this year.
I got mine some three months ago through a 24-month plan with Germany’s [...]

Has anyone of you ever used this little solar charger called “Free Loader”?
Found it advertised in a magazine, a blogged review here (in German), sells for EUR 49,90 or GBP 29,99 and it comes with the cables & adapters as shown in the picture.
I am bit sceptic about these gadgets because my experience based on [...]

Eben habe ich mich kurz ablenken wollen vom Lernen – und mir das MySpace Profil einer Bekannten angeschaut.
Ganz unabhängig vom Inhalt und des immer noch schrecklichen Layouts bei MySpace, gibt es eine Sache in dieser virtuellen Welt, die mich immer wieder aufs Neue abschreckt: die Verwendung von kitschigen Fantasienamen.
Während mein ehemaliger Mitbewohner noch relativ harmlos [...]

Flying from Frankfurt (Germany) to Jerez (Spain, ~ 2460km) is cheaper…

…than taking the train from Frankfurt to Bremen (Germany, ~440km).

In other words: it’s cheaper visiting my friends in Spain than seeing my family over the weekend in Bremen. Crazy.

While going through my feeds, I learned that Nintendo sold over 10 million Wii video game consoles since December 2006.
Amazing.

There are a million subjects one could blog about – and while I prefer those that add a value in some way or another, I sometimes get carried away to turn this page into a tumbleblog.
Social networking services like Twitter, Facebook or even the commented links on Delicious often help to substitute these tumbleblog-tendencies in [...]

So you have spend US$ 599 on an iPhone and now you are pissed that HRM Steve Jobs reduced the price to US$ 399?
Well, dear Apple fans, rest assured: Nokia did the same with us last week by introducing another N95 with 8GB fixed memory (instead of a microSD slot), a bigger display, a [...]