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So here I go: I am now an offline blogger. I started using a tool to write blog entries while being offline: MarsEdit. It really feels different: You can use keyboard shortcuts, you can write while being offline (although I must admit I haven’t used it so far), you can easily add pictures…

This is what nice pictures look like:

OK, we’ll see how this feels over time.

Ahoj,
– Till.

A realy nice idea of how the human interface of PCs could evolve. And nicely presented!

Comes from 10/GUI.

When will Apple release it?

– Till.

Check this out: Paris on your iPhone, superrealistic!!

The company that built it is called Mobile 3D City (good name they selected) and claims it’s on the way through acknowledge process for the iTunes app store. Looking forward to play with it, although I guess one needs a 3 GS iPhone to use it…
Enjoy your day,
– Till.

77%How Addicted to Apple Are You?

That’s because I’m a junior Apple User: Only using Mac since 4 years….

– Till.

This is a vision I have. A piece of software that doesn’t exist yet (at least I didn’t find it) and that I think would be great to have.

The problem This is my situation when it comes to digital photos: We have 2 cameras (a big one, a small one), 2 mobile phones with integrated cameras and 3 Macs: Our stationary MacPro, my MacBookPro and an old MacBook. So we have iPhoto libraries all over. On every Mac there’s one.

What I would love to be able to do is

• easily create one big iPhoto library with all photos in it
• back up our pictures – all of them
• have a selection from within the “big library” on my smaller Macs (the MacBookPro and the MacBook)

What I do nowadays: Every once in a while I export all my pictures from the MacBookPro and import this stack into the iPhoto library of our stationary MacPro. After this act, the iPhoto library on the MacPro contains all of our pictures. But this export/import procedure takes hours: We currently have about 15′000 pictures and I haven’t found a waay to use the smart “Do not import duplicates” feature of iPhoto unless I import the pictures from my camera…

The vision Why not use Flickr as the picture repository. It’s always available, 25$ per year is a price I would be willing to pay, and the services offered are a good value:

Here’s what you get…

• • Unlimited uploads and storage
  • Unlimited sets and collections
  • Access to your original files
  • Stats on your account
  • Ad-free browsing and sharing
  • HD playback for high-definition video uploads NEW

Take the first 3 points, and you have all you need for an iPhoto-Repository. All you need is a piece of software, that syncs the pictures between your iPhoto libraries and Flickr.

I would imagine an iPhoto plugin (or have it just as separate piece of software) that

• pushes all my new pictures from the local iPhoto library to Flickr
  including the meta data that goes with it: album and event structures, comments, tags, geo-information…
• downloads pictures from Flickr to my local machine
  including all the meta data
  based on rules. Examples:
  - Always wanna have the most recent 5GB of pictures on that MacBook
  - All pictures or albums flagged with work
  - Whatever ideas
• Properly handles deletions: Somehow I need to be able to get rid of pictures – for real. Otherwise deleting a picture in one iPhoto library brings it mack with the next sync…
  

And now to the seniores software engineers: iPhoto has an API and Flickr has an API. So hurry, put together the stuff and please send it to me – I won’t charge anything for the good idea     Or let me know if I missed something and this tool already exists!

What a shame that I can’t program at night anymore – then again: may be there are better ways to spend the nights…

Buenas noches,

– Till.

The first virus I heard off that specializes on mac look really good:

Sexy virus on mac

It’s the first time I’m tempted to actively install a virus on my machine!

If you are interested in installing it too, you can get it here.

Bonne nuit,
– Till.

HTC Magic

So that was it: my iPhone is dead. A tiny, little bump blocks the on/off button and it permanently goes on and then goes off and then goes on and then goes off and then goes on and then goes off and then goes on – got the pattern?

What’s next? iPhone again? No! Battery sucks, it’s slow (ever tried to open the contact app with 2.500 addresses in it?), the keyboard w/o keys is not for my fingers… But it was also really nice: The UI is top, it’s the most beautiful phone I ever had, it had great apps (fun as well as information as well as productivity). But it’s time for a change.

So now I wait for vodafone to finally bring out the HTC magic. And I am soooo curious: Will it be as nice as the iPhone to use? Battery life???? It doesn’t have a physical keyboard – which I would prefere, but anyway.

I’ll keep you posted and will let you know my first impressions as soon as I hold it in my hands.

For the one that already have an Android-Phone: What Twitter-Client? What Facebook-Client? What other must-have-software?

Have a nice evening,

– Till.

Zumindest mit cooler Werbung:

Schönes Wochenende,

– Till.

Seit 3 Tagen läuft bei mir nun der Safari 4 (Public Beta). Das Ding ist heiß – weil es schön ist, und echt nette Features hat.

Laut vielen Aussagen, ist er auch der schnellste, und das kann ich gefühlt gar nicht so bestätigen. Vielleicht liegt es an meinem Netz? Oder womöglich an meinem Rechner?

Wenn jemand einen einfachen, systematischen Test zum Vergleichen der Browserperformance hat, wäre ich neugierig.

Gute Nacht,

– Till.

Seit über 3 Jahren habe ich nun meinen MacBook Pro 17″. Die Kiste macht richtig Spaß! Trotzdem, würde man sich über eine neue freuen – ich zumindest.

Allerdings gibt es im Moment von Apple nicht mein Traum-Notebook. 2 für meine Anwendungsszenarien wichtige Feautues fehlen. Aber der Reihe nach: Folgendes würde ich mir zusammenstellen:

• MacBook Pro 15″
• Den 2,8 GHz-Prozessor
• 320 GB Festplatte mit 7.200 U/Min

Die Kiste ist toll, echt mobil, flott und schön. Und folgendes hätte ich noch gerne, was es z.Z. nicht gibt:

• Matter Bildschirm – Z.Z. habe ich das Hochglanzdisplay, und das würde ich nicht mehr nehmen. Ist allerdings kein Drama, würde mich nicht vom Kauf abhalten.
• Echte Exchange-Integration – Und micht echt, meine ich echt: Emailen kann ich ja jetzt schon einwandfrei über Exchange-Server (jaja, das ist mein Alltag), aber ich sehe nicht die Termine meiner Kollegen, sie sehen nicht meine, wir können keine Kontkte gemeinsam nutzen… Die komplette PIM-Integration fehlt einfach. Angeblich bringt Snow Leopard ja diese Feature, so ganz kann ich es aber noch nicht glauben. Und dann muß Snow Leopard ja auch erst noch rauskommen…
• Integrierte 3G-Karte – Alle haben es. Sogar Fujitsu-Siemens, und das will was heißen. Es ist mir ein Rätsel, wieso Apple soooo langsam ist, mit einem Feature, das für typische Apple-Nutzer (jaja, die Mädels und Jungs sind mobil) so wichtig ist.

So, lieber Apple-Leute: Wenn Ihr das bald baut, dann kauf ich es Ich finde, ich bin ein netter Kunde…

Schönen Abend,

– Till.