IT conservations

I quickly needed to check the monthly progress of a certain variable over time. Problem was that those bookings/incomes are spread over the...

So I posted two (only 2 !!) pictures of a garden on instagram, and all of a sudden I get dozens of followers with garden-related accounts/n...

So, haven't posted here in a while... sorry 'bout that... Here's what happened most recently: My Nexus 5X decided to get stuc...

Just two weeks after I upgraded my DSL line to 100/20 Mbps, my employer was nice enough to move our mobiles to a new contract where we fin...

After a chat with a friend (and former colleague of mine) I decided to trust my telco (A1 Telekom) to upgrade to a higher speed, though I o...

So, as every year, just after CES the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is starting right now. Time to go offline for a week... or be bore...

Last week my son approached me, because his Samsung all of a sudden started to show networking errors for YouTube, the PlayStore and G+ app...

So, as you noticed, I did not really blog a lot this year, i.e. 2015. Let me quickly recap what I was busy with in the last couple of mont...

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 /...