IT conservations

Ok, not strictly a technical topic. But a couple of weeks ago I stumbled over the Serial podcast . Serial is a new podcast from the crea...

Finally a Google Calendar Provider for Thunderbird/Lightning has been released that's based on the gdata api, and not just a network XM...

The other day, I noticed that Google Maps rendering on my Chrome (v 36.0.1985.125) on Windows (7) was so broken, that Google Maps essential...

It is described all over the internet, so let me repeat it here :) To USB debug your Nexus 5, first enable USB Debugging in the Developer...

Frequent readers - or close followers - of this blog will know, that the share feature (SEND intent) is one of my favourite features on And...

So, I finally did it. The lack of Android updates and the (inevitable) decline in battery duration - my HTC One S was already 2 years old...

A couple of weeks ago, I enabled Google Now notifications in my (desktop) Chrome browser. One thing I noticed, that on the weather card t...

What should my next Android be? HTC One M8  As much as I hate HTC for dropping further support on the One S, they still have the bes...

Just discovered this: Enter timer in the Google search or awesome bar of your favorite browser, and Google will present you a nice little...

With all the (justified) uproar about the NSA and GHCQ, which should actually be an uproar against the Telcos and ISPs (and backbone provid...

A couple of months ago, the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) opened their data for Google (maps). Whether this can be already considered ...

In my earlier post (and comment discussion) about Opening ICS Files with Thunderbird/Lightning we mentioned that you can also drag the .ic...

Since mid December Google Maps Navigation is finally available for Croatia . I drive from Vienna to Zagreb every month or so (for business...

How embarrassing. In my tiny review of Read Quick I lamented about the fact, that one could not mark an article read (in Pocket ) direct...

And finally... on my iPad in Safari I use the Reader. It has about the same features as Evernote Clearly , except that it is not an exte...

Now for something quite different: While I studied at TU Vienna (Computer Engineering) I took some lectures in Computer Linguistics offe...

Beeline Reader is a Firefox and Chrome extension very similar to Evernote Clearly, but with a little twist... They use a color gradie...

Evernote Clearly is an extension to both, the browser and Evernote . I guess, it is fair to say, that it only makes sense to use Everno...

Pocket (formerly:  read it later ) allows you to save an article / URL to your pocket list for later consumption. The pocket list is no...

No worries, this is not one of those link bait "10 best..." posts... I simply want to introduce 5 tools for online reading that I...