IT conservations

So for various reasons (mainly the 64bit v 32bit problem with the native driver) I changed my DB2 JDBC driver to type 4, i.e. the Universal...

Usually I hate and hence avoid to slam an app or service like this, but the podcast player in iOS9 really sucks. At least for video on an iP...

With DB2 on my home PC[1] I have a service account for the DB2 instance, makes life a lot easier than trying to map it to you actual user(s...

While I finally made it to a Mac (MacBook Air 13) at work, I gave in and let Microsoft install Windows 10 over my Windows 7 on my home PC. ...

For some while now, the Austrian Railways (OeBB) offer free Wifi at least on their premium trains ("railjet"). The trains are goo...

Can I just say TOLD YA. Here to be precise. YouTube for Android will play vertical videos in full screen As much as we all might wan...

I always found that one of the core features or tasks of a publisher it to spend money made with best-selling artists on the newcomers. Th...

So, Yahoo decided to pull the plug on one of their most interesting services: Yahoo Pipes . So I revisited the service as long as it is...

My regular commute train quite frequently has a delay of somewhere between 3 and 8 minutes, which is annoying when you really hurry up in t...

The other day I was browsing the Internet Trends 2015  presentation by Mary Meeker from this year's Code conference  (and I urge you to...

How about an extension for the Chrome Browser that does nothing for your productivity, almost the opposite: Flickr Tab All it does:...

A couple of weeks ago, I got a Moto360 Android watch/wear, and by now I have been trying it out in daily life, Here's how that works /...

It's really that simple: Using the same password for each and every site or webservice is just not an option: a) because of differen...

The other day - when  I was on the train to Prague - I needed to get some work done on my iPad, but the WiFi on the train was dead. Usually...

In Android-Land the amazon app store is this mythical creature... romoured to exist, but not a lot of people have actually seen it ... exc...

I've been playing with the idea of getting an Android Wear smart watch for some time now. Specifically I had set my mind on the Moto 3...

One of the most useful Android apps - Wifi Web Login - stopped working with Android 5.0/Lollipop. The reasons seems to be that Lollipop no...

One thing that has annoyed me, since Sun started this, was that the Java Installer / Updater would not only have crapware like the Ask Tool...

Now that everyone rushes to tell us how they always knew that Google Glass had been doomed to fail from the very beginning, I just want to n...

While I was trying to access my broken Nexus 5 , I managed to get keyboard/mouse/touch access via the debug bridge ( adb ), but from time ...