Well well, one week to go until Buenzli will shake the swiss scene (or what’s left of it ;) ) for the 18th time. As always, preparations are currently at the peak level for most of the staff members. Unlock is as always doing an immense job and everyone else of course, too. If you [...]
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1Password
After using this little App for a while now, I can’t imagine living without it. 1Password saves your passwords in a keychain, much like the OS X keychain already does, but with the ability to add other confidential information (secure notes, credit card information, etc), an auto-fill plugin for *every* OSX browser and an iPhone [...]
Dupin
Dupin is a small utility which helps you getting rid of duplicate tracks in iTunes. You can filter dupes by selecting which bitrates to keep, length, date added, and so on. The free version can take care of 40 tracks per session, for unlimited access, you have to buy the 15$ full version. I didn’t [...]
The joy of having a clean media library
I listen to a lot of different music and thus there have been quite a number of tracks accumulated over the past 15 years. A wacky 22’146 tracks to date. Keeping this enjoyable on a file-system level is almost impossible. One of the first things I did when I switched to Mac 5 years ago [...]
The IE7-js project
“…make MSIE behave like a standards-compliant browser.” I’ve come across this little script which can be loaded in a conditional statement in your website’s header, to enable old IE versions (<=7) to display certain CSS properties correctly. This will help you to reduce the amount of CSS you have to rewrite for classic IE browsers: The [...]
Drupal: WYSIWY(should)G
A rather annoying problem with Drupal is the lack of a *really* standard WYSIWYG interface. WordPress made the example and included TinyMCE as a default which is expandable with a couple of plugins (“TinyMCE Advanced”). Putting together a solution which also allows users to easily upload and include pictures into article texts with Drupal took me [...]
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Xenocode Browser Sandbox
On this website, you can run a browser based “virtual machine” which loads IE 6/7/8, Firefox 2/3, Opera and Safari (all for Windows). Only problem: Requires Windows and IE to run. But still: quite handy if you don’t want to mess around with your installation of win/IE (in my case, the VM running on OSX [...]
Röyksopp – Happy Up Here
Great video, great track. And space invaders. :-) It’s available on youtube in hi-def.
Fileserver: NAS or not, that’s …
…the question. The amount of data I have around here isn’t the problem. I’ve plenty of space left. The thing which makes me worry is the reliability of my space. I’m currently running 2 LaCie Harddrives with a total of 1.5TB space on my iMac’s FW800 port. 500GB for my iMac’s TimeMachine, 1TB for the [...]
BNZ18: Shirts arrived
The new T-Shirts finally arrived. Unlock sent me this picture. Looks cool. Remember, you can order them. :-)
iPhone App: FastFinga
Pretty cool app. Bringing back a personal touch to messaging. Me likey. Check out the developer’s website. They made some cute apps.
MySQL server has gone away
Like almost everyone, we use shared hosting servers for our websites and most of our clients’ websites aswell. This has advantages (monetary/outsourcing) and disadvantages (no custom configurations, sometimes performance). An error which pops up quite a lot recently, at least around here, is the famous database error: [MySQL server has gone away] This is a [...]
My Drupal Arsenal
I use the following plugins on every base installation, since it covers (most) of my client’s needs. The * indicates, that this is a plugin which is active on basically every installation. Also, I only run “real” CRON tasks via cPanel options – no virtual CRON triggers. Additionally, I have a test installation which is [...]
iPhone Games
The iPhone pretty much changed my perception of mobile communication. Compared to all the mobile devices I used so far, the iPhone is far superior. I don’t need to be able to mod the OS – all I want is a smooth user experience and cool and useful little tools. Gaming on the iPhone wasn’t [...]
Posted in games, mac, software Tagged critter crunch, flight control, games, iphone, puzzle games, tower bloxx, zen bound 2 Comments
Transition over
Ok, this isn’t exactly a new design. I just didn’t feel like kicking it already. Also, some people (*hint* you know who you are..) begged me like mad to keep this one. So I ended up converting my existing design to a “Thematic” child-theme. I don’t use most of the supplied CSS, except for the [...]
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