Take a look at Apple

I recently read a few things about Apple products. I hear(ed) things like “IPod”, “Itunes”, “OS X Tiger”, and so on all the time. But I never took a closer look.

A few days ago, Apple announced MacOS X Tiger, here is a short overview.

If you have a broad-band Internet Connection then take a look at the Keynote of the Worldwide Developers Conference 2004 of Apple.

I have worked on many different Operating Systems, but never ever with MacOS X. Right now I’am thinking that i missed one of best.

Movable Type rulez!!!

Ok, the title is a bit crazy, but I realized once again, that Movable Type is really a great publishing system. The option to upload an image is very easy to use and extremely intuitive. Just a few minutes before i thought uploading an image an embedding it into a weblog would be a complicated task, but it isn’t with Movable Type.

Spam comments

I decided to disable the comments on my weblog entries, because spammers used it for entering links to their internet pages.

Iconize Me!

Today I found a great site, offering an online caricature service. You only have to send (a link to) a foto of yourself and after a few days you will receive a caricature of the foto. I was very impressed about the samples on the site, so i decided to buy such a caricature (no, it’s not free if you thought that). And now I am waiting for my first iconized picture.

Yes, of course, here is the link.

Webcam

Today I bought a Creative NX Ultra Webcam, and it’s really cool. I never understood those enthusiastic users of webcams and video conferences, but now friends of mine are living in other cities, it’s not so easy to meet them that often as earlier. So I decided to arrange a few web-meetings with friends. But right now I’m not sure if this experiment of keeping alive friendships via web conferences will be successful …

MSKLC

I found a great tool from Microsoft, the The Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator. With this tool I created my own keyboard layout, because the curly braces {} on the german keyboard layout are not placed very well. So I imported the default geman keyboard layout and added 2 key-combinations. Right now I can press the [ö]-key (or [ä]) in combination with [Ctrl] to get the “{” (or “}”) symbol. And this is a really cool feature for programming “C – style” languages.