Monday, August 25th, 2003
Futurephones
I don’t know how they are doing it, but the folks @mobile-review always get their hands on new toys way ahead of anyone else.
Siemens st55 review
Motorola v700 hands-on preview
Sony ericsson t620 rumor roundup
Made some tiny design changes
I added a footer with a copyright notice, moved the validation links to the new footer, changed the post count on the index page from 15 down to 10, changed the post count of the rss feed from 15 down to 5, fixed some minor glitches which most probably wouldn’t have ever been noticed by anybody, cleaned up my css file. Still no changes regarding the lineheight.
Sunday, August 24th, 2003
Sobig.F finally hit me
Sometimes i really wonder if i live on the same internet as the rest of the world: people started complaining about sobig.f almost a week ago, yet it took this bloody worm till today to send a meagre 41 infected mails to one of my three active mail accounts. Sure, it pays off spamwise to treat your address like a secret, but when you don’t even get some mails in these worm infested times, one starts to feel kinda antisocial…
Btw, even though the virus uses one of my addresses, as several "undeliverable:re:…"-mails have proven: no, i haven’t helped sobig.f spread by being a dumbass and clicking any executable attachment i get.
Playin` around with my CSS
I’ve played around with my css a little today and increased the lineheight of the body of the blogposts. Things look better now and i also think they should be a little easier to read. However, imho it looks also a little unpolished, it just doesn’t fit perfectly. I’ll have to continue playing around with my css in the future. I don’t wanna promise something like a redesign, ’cause whenever someone promises a redesign, it takes at least 4 or 5 decades to finish, but i’ll see what i can do to improve things in the near future.
Rumored iPod peripherals
Ipod-mania keeps rollin’ on this blog, sorry: macrumors reports of two upcoming ipod peripherals, no details available yet. Even a page one rumor, so there’s a slight chance that it’s true. I so much hope for a recording device. Or a dock with optical in- and output. Or cool portable speakers. Or a decent case by apple. Or wireless headphones & remote. Or a wireless dock to connect with your pc. Or…
Saturday, August 23rd, 2003
Some eComics for your reading pleasure
I have to confess that things got a little ipod-centric lately, so here are some of my fav ecomics for your sunday morning reading pleasure as a compensation. Some are classic panel-by-panel comics, others are fancy flash cartoons, but all are imho great and brought me uncounted hours of great entertainment.
Without further comment, in alphabetical order, the best of the best (i’ve heard of):
Angst technology
Broken saints
Buffy ecomics
Ghosts of albion
Gotham girls
Penny arcade
The spiders
Varla dayne
Weakend warriors
For further suggestions, feel free to drop me a note.
Finally found a name for my iPod
I named her idzumi.
Friday, August 22nd, 2003
Pods unite!
I really love this pic! My brothers and my own ipod united (mine is the left one, with the incase sleeve).
My brother wasn’t a big fan of the ‘pod originally, but as soon as he saw mine, he decided to get his own. While it took me two weeks and a 200km ride to get one, it took him just one day and a 120km ride - lucky bastard!
Wednesday, August 20th, 2003
Tiny PalmOS Smartphone
I always thought that the gsl xplore g18 smartphone (powered by palm os) would be a huge ugly brick, but now mobile burn points out that it’s about the same size as the sony ericsson t610. Lovely.
Monday, August 18th, 2003
iPod link-o-rama
A few links to websites and software i found interesting/useful as a new ipod user, briefly commented:
ephpod - great windows tool to manage your ipod and sync your music library; screw mmjb, get ephpod!
id3-tagit - great freeware tool for windows to properly tag your mp3 collection.
ipodlounge - great community site
ipoding - another community site
ipodhacks - yet another community site
head-fi - discussion board focusing on headphones and the like
headwize - headphone-site, again
the care and feeding of your ipod - article on how to treat your ipod to get the most out of its battery