December 7, 2008
I am currently looking/searching for a simple cordless VoIP phone that may be used at home and ONLY connects to the local Wi-Fi/WLAN (802.11). Are there any such models on the market? A few, it seems, but still too expensive or with too many extra options.
What I want is to set up different Sipgate.de telephone [...]
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February 25, 2008
Ppl use Wikipedia to access encyclopedic knowledge on a certain topic.
Ppl use Google for a broader search on a topic.
Ppl use Del.icio.us to receive selected search results that have been pre-selected by human users.
Ppl use Amazon for buying books online.
Ppl use eBay to find a used spare part or other interesting items available for purchase.
The [...]
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February 3, 2008
Some of you may remember my blog post from March 2007 about fake USB sticks: A friend of mine had gone to China on a business trip and bought two 8 GB sticks for EUR 11,- each, only to realize at home that he had actually acquired two 16 MB sticks. The problem is that [...]
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October 20, 2007
“What’s the best mobile device for blogging on the way?”
I just twittered/tweeted (?) this as a question and decided to turn it into a blog post, so please feel free to comment.
Yes, mobile blogging, blogging content to an online blog as most posts/ideas come up when I am on the way to work/home/downtown. Blog content [...]
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Pictured below is the help screen from Twitter’s website:
Obviously, someone over at Twitter HQ paid attention to the Cluetrain Manifesto (yeah, pls, come on…I like it :-) and came up with this brilliant customer feedback interface. Simple, but quite efficient, I guess.
(…just how do they finance the short message service on twitter?)
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August 29, 2007
Just a short notice to those poor souls who are confronted with the scenario in which they are forced to run an executable file (*.exe) on their machine which requires an installation and don’t have administrator privileges in a Win NT/2K/XP/Vista environment – so an installation often isn’t possible.
I am currently working on a proposal [...]
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August 22, 2007
There’s this lady who was recently forced to buy a new mobile phone as her old one had decided to go into early retirement.
With the option of storing names + numbers on a SIM card, the transition between two phones should be relatively easy. Storing capacities for SIM cards depend on what the network provider [...]
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July 29, 2007
Fortunately, I haven’t yet come across the “Raila Virus” on my systems, but my colleague in Embu told me earlier this week that it took him two days to organize someone who cleaned all machines – one by one.
Some months ago, I switched from an older Kaspersky 5.0.x release to FreeAv/Avira AntiVir by the (German) [...]
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