Category Archives: Software

Navigation arrows for text processors

Posted on September 25, 2004 by joachim

Say you’re writing a big piece of text – like a master’s thesis or some sorts. You have progressed pretty well and have already written over 40 pages. Playing around with the line-height value, you could even push that number … Continue reading →

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Broken listings package

Posted on September 23, 2004 by joachim

The latest tetex distribution (v2.0.2-36) available using fink 0.7.1 (actually I installed it using the apt-get command) on Mac OS X has a broken listings package. In fact, the file listings.sty is missing, but all other files seem to be … Continue reading →

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Oddcast Text-To-Speech

Posted on August 7, 2004 by joachim

While speaking computers are not a ‘new thing’ and nothing exciting has been going on lately in this field, I was given a URL to a very evolved test-to-speech system from Oddcast. Hear for yourself!

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Apple technologies for Windows

Posted on August 5, 2004 by joachim

After having installed Rendezvous for Windows Technology Preview, it was a piece of cake configuring my shared printer (which is attached to the AirPort Express base station) on my Windows XP machine. I must also tell, the AirPort administration tools … Continue reading →

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Tiger Response II

Posted on July 6, 2004 by joachim

My diploma thesis is keeping my very busy, but here is another blog entry concerning Tiger, Ben and Longhorn: Automator: I don’t remember Steve mention it in the keynote, but hey, the imprtant thing is: There is an SDK. Hailstorm? … Continue reading →

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Why chm files suck

Posted on July 1, 2004 by joachim

The original Symbian UIQ 2.1 documentation consisted of a lot of HTML files. For easier navigation, a Java Applet was provided with a tree view and a search function. A week ago, SonyEricsson released the UIQ SDK 2.1 Update 1 … Continue reading →

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Netscape Toolbar

Posted on May 31, 2004 by joachim

Reading MozillaNews, I dicovered a new piece of software: The Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer! Isn’t that ironic?

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Telnet security issue addressed

Posted on May 26, 2004 by joachim

At 21:00 GMT today, Apple released the Mac OS X 10.3.4 Update. The nice thing about this update is, that it fixes the telnet security hole everyone was talking about lately. I don’t know if other URL-related security issues were … Continue reading →

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Apple to slow down the pace of major OS X releases

Posted on May 18, 2004 by joachim

As you can read on News.com, Apple plans to slow down the release pace of major OS X versions. Starting from Mac OS X 10.1 (which was the first really usable version of OS X), Apple has released a major … Continue reading →

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Movable Type 3.0

Posted on May 18, 2004 by joachim

I have updated my weblog system to Movable Type 3.0, and I am very happy about the new version. I have not yet activated the comment registering option (via TypeKey), since there is a much better interface for deleting several … Continue reading →

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