forget Steam

ai ai ai - you might have heared about the thousands angry european Steam users. Steam europe charges you this way:
$1 = €1

ridiculous

and now read this posting over at the steampowered forums
that's not ridiculous - it's dirty!

Buying games @ steam used to be a great experiance: it always worked fine, updates were served automatically, you could move dollars to the deserving developers - and you also got the games a tad cheaper than the boxed versions.
It's simple: using Steam since the very beginning and pushing it amongst all my friends - I feel betrayed. I won't spend money at Steam anymore until this issue is whiped away.

don't buy

Most people I know spend waaaaaaaaay to much money on computers!

You don't know or earn money with any of the following applications?

- media creation and modern encoders h.264
- compilers
- 3d apps like Maya or blender
- most recent 2d app PS CS4 with files over 50 megs
- or see intel slide march 2010 for a list of special apps


Don't intend to use your PC for a quick game once in a while?
trailer1 (HD) /trailer2 (HD) / trailer3 / trailer4 


well, DO NOT SPEND more than CHF or $700 on a PC!
more than 3gig RAM will boost your productivity close to zero
(4gigs of RAM are a tribute to gaming & Photoshop or virtualization)

THIS makes much more sense than more RAM!
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Winamp Green

Did some editing of color-presets.xml for Winamp's BigBento and Modern skins. Really wanted to see how my beloved *green* suits Winamp.



BigBento TomGreen1 by ~rigelt on deviantART




TomGreen2 by ~rigelt on deviantART

Flying in through Utapao

Lucky me. After having spent 21 looooong hours on tiny Doha airport, everything worked out fine.
After I got out of the plane in HongKong, it took me just an hour to organize a flight to Utapao Thailand. Economy was full though, but I was lucky to get business class for only HK$2700.
Ha! probably the first and only time I'll post from a Thai Silk Lounge ;-) 

Meanwhile the courts in Thailand ruled against the People Powaz fools... [deutsch]
Well then, I should arrive in BKK by midnight thai time. Cheers.

On my way

BKK is still blocked. Trying to get into Thailand through HongKong. Really missing Nick, Stevie & Nuch! Wish me luck.

Firefox Page Zoom Button

You can access Firefox's zoom function with three keyboard shortcuts Ctrl++ Ctrl+- (Ctrl+mouse wheel) and Ctrl+0 to reset to 100%.

But then there's this great tiny add-on which let's me access the browser's zoom function exactly the way I wished to:

move the mouse cursor over the icon
mouse wheel zooms
left click resets to 100%

install & more info here

Soccer again

argh - Basel just went down 0:5 against Barcelona. But hey: it's time for another soccer highlight: Goalie G...

Logitech illuminated keyboard

While I was awaiting an illuminated Logitech keyboard for a while now, there are so few extra keys on the keyboard... raises a touch of skepticism here. I'm really into minimal design though.

All the recently released mice don't really satisfy me either, so I keep wondering about their future products with 'bang' features.

source: logitech.com
prices CH