Technospeak

google revamped their video service . you can now buy a big selection of videos. but the more important thing (for me, personally…) is, that you can download pretty much every video, readily formatted for your psp/ipod/big box on the floor.

now i really need tho fork out those 15 bucks for pspware , so i don’t get that nag-screen when synching my movies over to my new gadget.

oh, and google earth is now officially out of beta and available for the mac , too.

jan has a short rundown, chregu has a more thorough post, also explaining the ping-service . i’ve added a blogug.ch-button to my sidebar (it used to be sub.scribe.to for some days…) and time will tell if it’s gonna kick in…

yesterday i read on fscklog.com , that there’s a leaked version of google earth for os x in the wild. and today the uaw posted a link to macupdate.com , where you can download an unofficial beta release of the program. it works nicely on my mac, but your mileage may vary, and keep in mind that this is not an official release, so it might contain stuff you don’t want, i’ve warned you…

this tutorial works , the pweeew-sound it makes when it fades in is just fabulous…

but now i gotta run, ‘cause i’m supposed to meet nina in 10 minutes and should not be late…

[via iforgotdontblameme]

technorati tags: apple , frontrow

this afternoon i went to buy some gloves (it’s getting cold at work you know :-).

coming home i noticed that they have a normal label and a supplementary qr code (german ) sewn into them. since i couldn’t find a decoder for os x (the java-version of the one urs [1] found doesn’t work for me), i kindly ask the blogosphere if they can decode it for me.

i’m just wondering what adidas is writing in my gloves.

there’s been cooking something for quite a long time , now everything seems to be going along really fine.

jan , nick , matthias and urs [1] fixed a date and set up a website/blog for it, so more infos will come along soon i guess!

if you’d like to add it to your calendar, then you can go here, i put it on upcoming.org .

[via chregu and matthias ]

[1] they even set up a postcheque-konto, so nothing can go wrong :-) (if you can do that, then you can do everything!)

chregu recently mentioned that he wants a feed for every blog (actually for every blog software…)

so i’ve modified my already present comment-feed, which i’ve been using to manage my comments (e.g archive nicely, edit, despam…) into a publicly available format, for all of you to consume.

the comment feed can be accessed via this file: comments.xml .

the full code is as follows [1]:

<rss version=“2.0”

i’ve updated my blog to MT 3.2 [1] and now i lost all my customizations to the sidebar and stuff like that [2]. good that i documented the odds and ends, so i might be able to rebuild it rather fast. in the moment you must bear with the rather terrible view on /blog when you visit in the browser. if you access my blog through the feed, you shouldn’t notice a thing.

i’m starting to really dig those social web-apps.

one the last discoveries of mine is upcoming.org [1]. upcoming. org is a social event calendar driven by people like you and me. people can manage their events there and i have a neat way of showing some of my upcoming stuff i’m planning to attend or just got in my date book.

in addition to that, i can subscribe to events for a certain city i like (as in “bern ”, “zürich ”, “tashkent ” or “trachselwald ”). or subscribe to events of a certain person, no matter city they take place. the subscription is possible as an rss-feed or as as a ical-calendar-file. so if you like, you can add the calendars of your buddies to your ical and see what events they go to and take part or start to stalk them :-)

no matter how you think about trusted computing, you should take a look at that really nice street-art-styled movie [1] from lutz vogel [2] and benjamin stephan . you can either watch it directly on the movie-site or download it here in different formats and sizes or (maybe preferred to all the people involved) leech it with your desired bittorrent-client through this file .

definitely worth those three and a half minutes!

[via pia ] [3]

[1] cc-licensed