Category Archives: technology

the notebook dilemma

I have been away from the blogosphere for a while as I am currently sitting for some exams – and spent a great time of the month looking for a decent, well-equipped and mobile notebook/laptop computer.

Remember my post on …

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The sheer joy of working on a clear, bright, sharp and detailed new TFT flatscreen display instead of an old, blurry, huge, (though also relatively flat) CRT monitor (that heated up the room and blocked 1/3 of my door-turned-table) …

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videre 2.0

Bibi TFT eventually arrived and has sent Mama CRT into aaaarrry (early) retirement :-)

videre 1.0

(left) Gericom CT1997PF 19″ CRT, 130 Watts power consumption (!), 5w/5w standby/active-off, 20.2kgs, really BIG, too dark for image editing (even with Gamma corrections, etc.), …

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Kimendero’s nightmare? Googleardi, part 6

Earlier this week, Google released a new version of its earth viewer programme Google Earth – a stable BETA 4 which I just had to download and try out.
As far as I can tell, the new BETA looks promising, …

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Acermania

Today was a good day.

I was stuck in an unusual traffic jam (hey, this place is quite rural) which made me miss out watching the opening game to the WorldCup but I managed to follow the game on the …

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