IT conservations

Isn't a GUI utterly broken, when the status bar (of the main window (!)) says "Opening Main Window..." for half a minute ?

Just installed the latest OpenOffice.org 3.0 build over the previous one, and all the Windows Explorer integration was lost. I googled aroun...

There's a new maintenance release for Sun's VirtualBox : 1.6.4

I finally moved to Firefox 3. Because one of my favorite extension (add-on) was not FF3 compatible, I was still using FF2 only. ConQuery wa...

via Geek and Poke .

A couple of weeks ago, Dopplr (the social travel network) announced support for twitter (and email and sms). That is, you can send a tweet...

As reported earlier , I had problems with both the new " Always use https" option on and still use gmail from my mobile. So, first...

So, of course, when Google released the " Always use https" feature in gmail I (paranoid as I am) turned it on. At a seemingly un...

For some strange reason that I have not figured out yet I totally fail to reference the „Move“ menu in the Thunderbird Message menu... odd. ...

One of the TB "bugs" that bugged (no pun intended) me most was that a couple of controls (menuitems etc. ) did not have an ID asso...

After a 2 week vacation (a "near offline experience") I managed to reduce my business email inbox from 450 unread items to 17... T...

As followers of my Dopplr profile already know, I'll be offline for 2 weeks, and I guess totally offline. I'm not really use to tha...

Well, the <title> kind of say it all... here's the link .

I've been playing around with the latest OpenOffice.org 3 builds for a couple of weeks now... One of the nicest changes in the Writer is...

Wordle is a cool online tool to create really beautiful word clouds out of a given ... eh .. dictionary, if you will, or list of words, act...

The first set of presentations from JavaDeus08 are ready for download. Just follow the download link from the event homepage .

Walterra has hacked a cool mash up with twitter "weather data" for select Austrian cities and google maps to present a twitter we...

Tupalo (see here ) now also has bagdes (i.e. widgets), which allow to embed a spot on your webpage / blog; in their own words : The Tupalo ...

... as I said ... why then did I still have one here, you might ask. Fair question. So I removed it. I haven't updated it in years anywa...

On Thursday we [1] hosted Austria's first major Java Developer conference [2] in St. Pölten on the FH campus - as I already reported . ...