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Happy New Year

Wow, what an eventful and interesting year 2007. I hope all of you enjoyed it as much as I did. All the best for 2008 and a wonderful New Year’s Eve! Wolfgang :) continue

Back again

This is just a quick note that I’m back from our vacation in beautiful Rab, Croatia. I would have enjoyed another week or even two — but nevertheless it was relaxing and I could stock up on some sunshine. If you are interested you can have a look at some photos. continue

RSS Reading Preferences, Part 2

As promised here are the results of my latest survey concerning RSS reading preferences. Generally speaking there were no real surprises, but quite strong tendencies towards certain products respectively behaviors. continue

RSS reading preferences

Within the last couple of days I talked with a bunch of people about RSS reading behavior. Astonishingly the preferences of the specific persons diverged significantly. So out of curiosity, how do you preferably handle RSS feeds? continue

Ruby on Rails workshop

Just a quick note for all those of you who wanna get started with Ruby on Rails. Sebastian Gräßl is doing a workshop on the 21st and 22nd of January right here in Graz, Austria. continue

Merry Christmas

I just wanted to take this moment to wish all of you a Merry Christmas. Thanks for your support and input. All my best wishes and enjoy the holidays. Cheers, Wolfgang. continue

Hard disk advice

Once again I need your advice: Some days ago I noticed that the S.M.A.R.T. status of one of my internal hard disks of my PowerMac has been set to “Status Bad”, indicating that a failure may be imminent and that it should be replaced. continue

Back again

All good things come to an end and so did my vacation. After relaxing down in sunny Croatia, I’m now back keen on creating new stuff, writing tutorials etc. Hope I can answer your mails as soon as possible. continue

Pictures of the day

Wow, yesterday was definitely one of the hottest days in this year with temperatures up to 36°C — at least here in Graz. continue

Book Baton

Some of you may have already noticed that another baton is going round these days. This time it is all about books. I’ve been passed one by Sebastian Schmieg from Kingcosmonaut. So here we go…. continue

RAM Purchase

Inspired by Veerle’s newest toys I decided to buy some additional RAM for my PowerMac. Now with 3GB of RAM working with huge images in Photoshop is a piece of cake :) continue

A musical baton

I think most of you may have already noticed that a musical baton is going around these days. I’ve been passed one by Steve Smith from Ordered List. So here is my musical status quo. continue

Illustrator CS Easteregg

Beim Erstellen des iCollection Iconsets bin ich auf ein amüsantes Detail gestoßen, wobei es sich offensichtlich um ein Easteregg des Adobe Illustrator-Teams handeln muss. continue

Microsoft gibt Windows XP SP2 frei

Zunächst steht nur eine Netzwerk-Variante des Service Pack 2 zum Download zur Verfügung, mit der das Update auf mehrere PCs verteilt werden kann. Der Webinstaller soll in Kürze folgen. continue

SimpleBits und SimpleCode

Will man auf seiner Webseite Code-Beispiele zur Verfügung stellen, muss der Code für diese Zwecke in entity-encoded Markup konvertiert werden. Dan Cederholm stellt auf seiner Seite ein Tool zur Verfügung, welches einem die lästige Arbeit abnimmt. continue

Die 3-Klick-Regel unter der Lupe

Vielen Interface Designern mag die 3-Klick-Regel bekannt sein — „Jeder Inhalt sollte mit nur drei Klicks erreichbar sein“. Josh Porter veröffnetlichte auf User Interface Engineering eine Studie, welche diese Regel genauer beleuchtet. continue

Jede zweite E-Mail ist Spam

Wie eine Untersuchung von Message Labs im Juli ergab, war von mehr als 156 Millionen untersuchten Nachrichten jede 166. von Viren befallen. Dabei handelte es sich üerwiegend um aktuelle Viren wie Yaha.E., Klez.H., BugBear.B oder Sobig.A. continue

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