Joachim Fornallaz

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Archive for September, 2003

Awesome looking laptop?

Sunday, September 28th, 2003

Ben thinks, his new laptop from HP is an “awsome” looking laptop. First of all, “awsome” is really spelled “awesome”, and second, if you want to know how awesome looking laptops really look like, you better check out Apple‘s brand new PowerBook lineup and third: Please please please Ben, do post some screen optimized images [...]

Customer driven development

Sunday, September 28th, 2003

As Huebi stated on his weblog that he wanted to install ImageAlbum, I thought I might release an updated version of it with easier application setup and some bigfixes. I hope I will have the release ready in a few hours.

SMART-1 launch was successfull

Sunday, September 28th, 2003

Europe’s first science spacecraft designed to orbit the Moon, has completed the first part of its journey by achieving its initial Earth orbit after a flawless launch last night. That’s great. More information.

iSight

Saturday, September 27th, 2003

Since yesterday at 8:05 p.m. I am the owner of a brand new iSight camera. This is such a nice product, both the technical and design aspects are outstanding. Too bad iChat AV requires a 100 kbps uplink network speed for video conferences and I only have a 384/64 kbps ADSL connection at home, so [...]

Die Bahn

Wednesday, September 24th, 2003

On my way from Darmstadt to Paris last friday, the train had technical problems and so I arrived 30 minutes late. The other times I used the “Deutsche Bahn”, the trains were all delayed too. Is that coincidence?

Apple Expo 2003

Wednesday, September 24th, 2003

Last week-end, I was in Paris visiting some relatives and what a coincidence: It was the the last day of this year’s Apple Expo, so I thought I’ll stop by. Of course, I saw the new 15″ PowerBook and other new products like the wireless mouse and keyboard, but I was most impressed by the [...]

Apple uses XHTML

Monday, September 8th, 2003

I was quite surprised to see that Apple is slowly moving to modern Web technologies. The new iPod web pages use XHTML 1.0 with CSS2, the other pages still claim to be using HTML 4.0 Transitional (with a little bit of CSS 1). This is a big step forward for a high traffic website. When [...]

Beaver

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2003

While surfing the web before getting really starting with work this morning, I discovered the existance of a promising RSS aggregation tool running on Windows called Beaver. While it can’t beat NetNewsWire for Mac OS X by any means, it does its job well, but there is a huge drawback – a miserable performance. In [...]