Archive for May, 2007



Today I came across a very nice tool. With it you can for example integrate your console directly on the desktop. Which looks like this:

For a small tutorial how to achieve this please visit the ubuntu forums.

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StudiVZ kicked me!!! :)

Yesterday evening I already thought that something is wrong with my Firefox’s brain. I could not login to THE studivz datacollector community. Can it be that they got hacked again? They even said they don’t know my mail adress anymore. You don’t know what studivz is? Basically they are just some, in my opinion bad, [...]

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Google unveiled a new version for the search page. The icons are animated and it doesn’t look that old style anymore.

The first place where you can enjoy this feature is Korea! Even though I am located in Europe, the site is still loading as fast as usual.

I hope they will transfer this redesign to [...]

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Google introduces Streetview

Since yesterday Google is offering “Street View” on their maps service.
I tried it out this morning and first impression was, “ok now you can see the street”. But if you click on the arrows you can even move along the street and with the other arrows you even can turn around!!

This is awesome. The service [...]

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LinuxDevices is talking about ‘a kind of holy software grail’ when a startup announces “LINA”. This piece of software should enable the possibility to run Linux applications easily in a OS X or Windows environment.
Some keyfeatures are:

Low overhead
Runs without recompiling
Access to Hostsystem resources
Native System integration
No porting necessary
Native look and feel
Support for legacy [...]

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