I am really really tempted to officially drop IE6/5.5/5 support and just show those browsers a big, huge “UPDATE NOW” image ASAP. I can’t tell you *how* very excited I am that it seems like IE6 is going to vanish probably during the next 6 months or so. Life is going to be so easy. [...]
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Well done.
I don’t get around writing down some thoughts about this topic. The law which was passed last week in switzerland is in fact absolutely ridiculous. It boils down to this: The campaign of the SVP was building upon fear. It didn’t really matter wether it would have been a law to prohibit anyone from building [...]
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Say “hi” to drupdater v0.1
After some bugfixing and testing, Drupdater version 0.1 is ready. Not for download yet, tho. I am still trying to find the perfect balance between stability and ease of use. I also rewrote the update procedure to gain performance and stability: Instead of running a synch over the whole “modules” directory, I know Tar/BZip the [...]
iPhone game “iFluenza” available!
We just published our first iPhone game in the AppStore: iFluenza is finally available. :) Here’s a little gameplay video. “We” being Michu Vogt who did all the coding and yours truly, responsible for the weird colors and music. ;) iFluenza – just another iPhone game… Save the world! Stop the evil virus. Kill all [...]
Drupal: Limited drush magic (update)
I was trying to figure out how to create a simple way to keep my 15+ drupal installations clean and up to date with a single mouseclick for a long time now. Of course, drush was the first thing I looked at, but since it is a command line tool and all my clients are [...]
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Drupal: Columns for the Body
Probably not entirely groundbreaking, but a nice way to achieve nice layouts using Drupal + WYSIWYG occured to me about 3 projects ago when I was trying to figure out a way of haveing multiple columns in a page’s body field. Sure, you can do the same thing by using CCK and define a couple [...]
My Drupal Arsenal V1.1
I previously introduced you to a list of my favourite plugins. Some time has passed and I am able to present to you an updated version of it. New plugins are marked with *, removed plugins are marked with † and the “swiss knife of modules” is marked with a +. Keep in mind that [...]
SGU: Stargate Universe
It was too bad that SG Atlantis was cancelled. I got to really like the plot and the characters. But shortly after, we are now blessed with it’s “offspring” – which has not much to do with it’s parents, honestly. I like the change of direction they introduced with the new series. Before, every character [...]
StarTrek
Oh my, the new StarTrek Movie is really nice. It’s pretty much a break to all of the previous movies and it opens a wide area for new timelines and events. Already looking forward to the next one. :-) For those of you not into the whole StarTrek thing: This movie isn’t as “trekky” as [...]
Drupal: Session, Cache and other Mysteries
Drupal is a nice and massive tool for deploying websites, but not everything is perfect, as we all know: Session Management: Drupal’s session management is somehow inconsistent. But as I found out later on, it is due to the fact that IE sucks. However, this should be a known problem and the workaround is to [...]
Welcome PS3
Okay this is not really news, just giving a little heads up what was cooking in the past couple of weeks. I was actually offering myself a little luxury good: A PlayStation 3. I sold my Wii with all the stuff I got for it and was able to finance a PS3 this way. So [...]
Posted in games, hardware, movies Tagged MediaLink, MKV, Playstation 3, PS3, PS3 Media Server, UPNP 3 Comments
Erratic Calibration Results
Thank god, my eyes aren’t messed up: It was just a bad calibration device. I tried to match both of my screens yesterday and I couldn’t figure out why the heck a calibration target of D65 has a huge tonal difference on my iMac monitor and on my Eizo CG242W2 – apparently, my eyes didn’t [...]
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GUI shame: Touchpanels
I’m currently doing a lot of design-work for high-end touchpanels. One should expect that a touchpanel in the price range of around 3’000$ to 5’000$ each should be able to render truetype fonts smoothly. Bad luck: AMX doesn’t even support OpenType fonts to date and looks as bas as Crestron-rendered fonts. This is really disappointing. [...]
Mass Effect
I like RPGs, and I like Science Fiction. And some time ago, I was thinking “Hmm, something which mixes the two would be greatly appreciated.” But I didn’t find anything in the massive ammount of games which is listed on IGN for example. Turns out I just didn’t look around good enough: Thomas (gamester.tv) told [...]
Welcome: Mac Mini
After much of back and fourth and sleepless nights, I ordered a Mac Mini and a Lacie 4big Quadra RAID (4TB, 3TB/RAID5) this week. I’ve gone through countless options, even a low budget Hackintosh-setup with a PCI-Express RAID interface/Hotswap-cage and a FreeNAS setup. The thing which made me end up with a Mac Mini was [...]