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Find the difference, II

About a week ago, Nokia announced a new Symbian based smartphone called the Nokia 3230. Nokia clearly didn’t spent much time inventing a new phone design since Sony Ericsson had already done a big part of the job for them.

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Find the difference

What’s the difference between www.google.com and search.yahoo.com? It’s hard to tell, really.

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Panic (2000)

Sarah: Was ist Ihre Lieblingsfarbe? Alex: Grün. Sarah: Meine auch!

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Navigation arrows for text processors

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

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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Loorenkopf

Today, I went to the Loorenkopf on my bike, and I realized I definitely need a new one. It’s 15 years old, the brakes don’t work as well as they should and the chain is somehow enlarged in a way … Continue reading

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Atompilz?

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Oddcast Text-To-Speech

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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AirTunes is smart

What’s makes a product really good? Well, maybe the concern to useful details, like the one pictured here. When choosing to stream the iTunes music to my AirPort Express station, I get an alert, if there are no speakers attached.

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Apple technologies for Windows

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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