IT conservations

Finally - thanks to Max, I got my new baby: a Raspberry Pi . What for, you ask? Don't know yet... I'm thinking along the line...

Last Friday, late  afternoon, just when we arrived at our b&b for our 2 days vacation in Styria, my beloved HTC One S went into a reboo...

Oh I really need this. via gigaom

We all know, that no-one ever - ever!! - reads the terms-of-service of a web service. So in a very laudable effort, the guys around ToS;DR ...

No, the Jelly Bean upgrade is still not here for HTC One S, but at least here in Europe we got the 4.0.4 upgrade on ICS. Upgrade w...

So, finally, Google Listen is gone from my mobile. I'll stick with BeyondPod .

According to several reports, the Google Play Store is finally getting gift cards. Google Play Store Gift Cards - Great Idea! : This ess...

Finally, with my move to an ICS device I do have a VPN client compatible with our corporate VPN, Cisco AnyConnect. For earlier versions, th...

The other day Google announced they would discontinue Google Listen (my favorite podcast fetcher and player for Android until now): We ...

Found this while playing around with my HTC One S running Ice Cream Sandwich (aka ICS, aka Android 4.0) while on vacation and roaming (!). ...

Thank you, Facebook... that really helps. btw: I only clicked on a Instagram link on Facebook. The error itself is from http://graph.fac...

Wow, ICS is coming to the Raspberry Pi ... you know that little cheap alsmost DYI computer. This sounds like serious fun! I just might.....

I've been looking for this since my first Android last year, but at that time there was no CalDAV support for Android. So I had to u...

For almost exactly one and a half years my son was the owner of a Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 mini pro. To be precise, he had two of them, pro...

So it appears that the Mozilla Foundation decided to no longer support, i.e. fund, Thunderbird. There will be only security updates and p...

In the last two weeks I enjoyed two  BSOD s on my ThinkPad T500 with Windows XP. Each took me about 15min to recover, i.e. from reboot to g...

What if RIM had bought Palm two years ago (instead of HP)? Well,  we still might  have webOS still around and RIM in a significant position...

According to several articles like this ( Dropbox to kill off public folders? | Internet & Media - CNET News) or this ( Dropbox Will S...

The three top areas where/why I think Android is superior to iOS: #3  Notifications Apple really has to fix them in iOS6... currently the...

So, yet another Firefox update. Version 13 with the new homepage (featuring buttons to bookmarks, downloads, history, add-ons, sync and ...