Windows Mobile 6.5

SE Idou ( >> video)

I am
- EXTREMELY Apple skeptic (rip-off, quick time washout, quick time a trojan for itunes, worse than MS etc.)
- iPhone skeptic (actually everything fine with it, but it's from Apple)
- disappointed by the Xperia (lame CPU, bad cam)

All of a sudden I think - hey Windows Mobile doesn't look all to bad after all...
watch the upper video [german, golem.de]
Well I'm looking forward to the presentation of Xperia2 and the next gen Androids [nvidia] - siehe auch bei heise.

Pictures of the new Sony Ericsson W995 [golem.de]
and Sony Ericsson's potential Cybershot future: Idou [golem.de]
[Idou update and videos see here]

still very happy with my SE C905 though.

Customize Firefox' Search Bar

The Firefox search bar has been the source of constant annoyance recently. Whenever I was using it, google woudn't behave as expected - all google & igoogle settings weren't applied to the results page, plus the results were served from Google Switzerland. Similar to the situation, when you don't accept the google cookie.

Believe me, I almost freaked - Google Switzerland behaves like crap, compared to google.com, nope I won't go into details here.

The cure to all this was not to choose "Manage Search Engines" within Firefox (100% futile and sterile since ff3) , but to head over to the Mycroft Project as in the old FF days. You'll find gazillions of ready to use FF search engines.

I installed "Google Search (En any unfiltered 100)" and all my problems were solved at once.

Sony Ericsson SE S001

New Cybershot phone anounced in Japan:


3.3" wide screen / resolution 480 × 854 / up to 26 million colors (organic)
8MP Camera (LED flash) / up to iso 1600 / smile shutter / BestPic
capturing video in VGA: 640 × 480 (up to 90 min, 1GB)
GPS / jap. cellphone TV / three colors: black, pink, greengold
145g / lithium-ion battery 870mAh /


web presentation here
more pictures @ sony ericsson

source: sony ericsson japan

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.