Apple has just released our iPhone application Benzin to the App Store! Benzin is basically a very nice interface to find the nearest and cheapest gas stations in Austria. We used quite some tricks to speed it up and keep the over thousand gas stations browsable in a fast and convenient manner. We support the [...]
Lena and me. Esad took photo during our visit at this hotel where he stayed over easter.
In protocol design, perfection has been reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. IMHO this applies to any kind of design…
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the [...]
http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2009/02/2010-rolls-royce-pr4-limo-captured-on.html 2 more to come…
“Businessweek profiles “Metro” — a prototype laptop designed by Intel and Ziba Design. The 0.7 inch thick laptop is the world’s thinnest notebook and weighs only 2.25 pounds.“ “Other design-oriented features include different color choices, one side featuring an E Ink screen, and the addition of a shoulder strap (image).“ Source: Macrumors
The new NIN Year Zero album CD has a really cool a thermal secret. It changes from black to white as it heats up in the CD player and reveals some binary code.
I used to run a Joomla blog on schmidp.com and I like the possibility to hack the software I’m running my blog on. But because Joomla is written in PHP and I prefer Rails, it was time to look for a new blog software. The two most popular blogs written in Rails, that I know [...]
As I feel the need to write about stuff that interests me again, I’m starting a new Blog with this post. If you are looking for my old, Joomla based Blog (with posts mainly about Haiku and the few applications I’ve written for the Symbian UIQ platform), look no further. I haven’t bothered importing the [...]