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StarOffice 8 Update 10 has finally been released as patch 120187-14 for Windows. Contrary to previous patches, this one was quite troubl...

Xing just added great (beta) feature to the Contacts page. You can now view your contacts as a map using - of course - Google Maps. Here...

Just stumbled upon this nice piece of not-so-useful tricks... but fun. via Tim Bray ongoing � History history | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ...

I ranted about this earlier , but there is still no improvement. Dopplr does a lousy job regarding its 'catalog' of city data. Sad.

I heard a lot of rumors during the last year or so about Microsoft buying Citrix... now IBM and Cisco joined the list... Rumors of IBM or Ci...

I had the chance to "lift" an MacBook Air recently, because a co-worker got himself such a beast. Boy... great device... really. ...

Whoever changed the application or infrastructure behind docs.sun.com ... Thank you. Performance and responsiveness is now on a level where ...

Finally, Sun talks Java again in Austria. [1] On June 19th there will be a one day Java Conference called JavaDeus[2] in St. Pölten. Free ad...

Strange... I have been using the Speed Dial extension for Firefox for quite some while now, and a couple of days it started to kill my Fire...

A couple of days ago I got rid of my printer at home... and old Lexmark [1] ink printer. First of all because it was broken. Secondly becaus...

Well, maybe not the eternal #1 ... but still a good candidate is .... drum roll ... SCHALTFLÄCHE This is the german term quite frequently us...

The best indicator if a piece of software is malware (i.e. any kind of malicious software that wants to harm you or others) is that it does ...

I just created a litte Java app that downloads prefedined (=selected) photos from flickr down to my palm. I noticed that I can do this quite...

(today's episode) ... known twitter 6 years ago . At that time I was working for a mobile operator in Austria, and my department (SW dev...

Why is this ? Look at the regular Flickr home page: You have a clear structure there. upload your photos / recent-activity / comments photo...

Just when I almost forgot about Safari - the Mac web browser - on Windows , Apple brought it back to my attention, by including it in the A...

Joel Spolsky has an excellent explanation on why you'd want closures ... without using the term "closure" at all. Can Your Pr...

Sometimes it takes someone "from outside" to point out the obvious... I knew that the Sun instant messaging service (IM) was XMPP...

The always omniscient Dilbert must have heard of my role change within Sun... from Dilbert Comic Strip Archive - Dilbert.com - The Official ...

So - according to El Reg - Google finally takes side in the ODF vs OOXML war. And - personall I'd like to add - the right side. Details...