Explain to me ... Twitter!

CommonCraft made a very cool video "Twitter in Plain English". Watch it here:

Commoncraft explains "Twitter in Plain English"

via Netzpolitik.org, InTheChaos.de and SystemWechsel

Supercool Tablet-PC from Motion Computing

Yea! We see a lot of cool stuff at the Cebit! And this is a really cool tablet-pc: the Slate Tablet PC F5

It weights only 3,3 ponds (1,5 kg), has a 10,2" display with a resolution of 1024x768 pixel and can be conroled with a pen. Ok, the 1,2 Ghz processor is even normally for ultraportable pcs. But now the "Extra-Stuff": Wlan 802.11a/b/g, UMTS, HSPDA with 3,6 Mbit/s downstream, RFID- and barcodescanner and a camera with 2 megapixels are integrated! And if you want you can get a SSD instead of an 1,8" harddrive. It will run with XP Tablet version or Vista buissnes an will be avaliable on the German market and the end of this month! the price is between 1,800 and 2,700€ (2,735 up to 4,100 Dollar).

The case (magnesium) is resitend against chemical stuff, water and dust.

via http://www.golem.de/0803/58154.html and http://news.idealo.de/news/14634-motion-computing-outdoor-tablet-pc-motion-f5.html/trackback

Download Music legal and for free!

Today I found this Blog-Post. You can download the ablum You Cross my Path from The Charlatans here for free!

If you don't know the band .... it doesn't metter! Just look at this music video

Tutorial - Virtual PC

This is a short how-To for everyone! At first i like to mention that virtual pcs are very practical: You can use multiple operating systems, set "rescue points" which you can reconstruct and surf through the itnernet without thinking of viruses.

A friend of mine even used it to remove the DRM protection from microsoft (I know, it's illegal, but with an virtual pc is it easy, too).

1. Install

But ok, let's start with the tutorial. There are many different supervisors which you can use. We use a free software called Virtual Box. You can downlaod it here: http://www.virtualbox.org/.

It's very pretty because the host operating system (the system which is installed on a real pc) can be windows, mac os, linux or solaris.

If you install it on windows there will be a message that the drivers didn't get through the compatibility-check. Just ignore the messages.

At the first start there will be a formular which you must fill out.

2. Registration

VirtualBox is free, but you have to register. It will take only a few seconds. Fill in you name, email and check the checkbox if you don't want to be emailed.

3. Create a Virtual Machine

After the registration a wizard will appear:

if not click 'new' in the menu-bar at the top of the window. You have to name your virtual machine. It should be a name with sense, for example "Win-XP-Test" or "Copy-Station". You can leave the selection for "OS/Type" as Other/Unknown or change it, but you don't have to.

At the next stept you can define the size of the RAM.

the half of your real memory is not wrong. After that you have to select a virtual harddrive.

click "New" because you don't have a virtual harddrive :-P

A new wizard for the creation of a virtual harddrive will appear. Select the option "dynamic growing".

Type a name for the harddrive and define the startsize. You can install multiple operating systems on one virtual harddrive, if you want ;-)

After this step click finish to return to the first wizard again.

The new created virtual harddrive will be already selected. This was the last step. Click finish again.

Now you should see a window like that:

On the left you can see your virtual machines, on the right the details for the selected one. Now we gonna edit the settings for our created machine: slect it and click edit.

4. Advanced Settings

Select General and then advanced. Here you can edit the clipboard-settings.

At "CD/DVD-Rom" you can connect your real drive with the virtual one or select an image which will act like a cd for the virtual machine.

At "Shared folders" you can select folders to exchange files between the host- and the guest operating systems.

Howto download MP3s and Music easy and for free

Today I stumbeled over a very cool website, called "ScreemR". It calls itself The World's Greatest Mp3 Search Engine. And you can find a pretty mass of MP3s which youcan listen to directly with an integrated player or even download them by easy clickling on a HTTP-Link.

That means you will not have to install applications, such as Bearshare, Limewire or Bittorrent.

Try it now ;-)

social networks - red, pink and now orange!

I think nearly every German heard about the social network "StudiVZ" or "SchülerVZ". People can create accounts, invite friends, upload and link photos, write on walls and so on ...

The Problem is: SchülerVZ is only for students and studivz is only for Students which go to university and so on. So most of the users created multiple accounts on both networks.

This is already crazy... because it is one company and you give them your informations twice! It is a waste of storage!

But never the less "publishing group Georg von Holtzbrinck" created a third (!!!) network. so we can register again to keep in touch with our relatives and adult friends that don't go to university, college or highschool!

However, the publishing group was very creative to design a new logo (:-P)

studiVZ	SchülerVZ	MeinVZ

In my view, everyone should use facebook :-D

Because it's blue! Read more on this blog.

    

why the Airbook is shit

Sorry for the rough title. But in my opinion apple is a company you should can't trust. You buy a product and gets bounded.

So. Now: the thines notebook in the world. We have a USB-port, wireless lan, gigabit lan, dvi-output and an integrated webcam. The performance will come from an 1,6 Ghz CPU and 2-4GB RAM and a normal harddrive with 80GB.

On the other side is the X300 from Lenovo. The interesting thing is that when you google for Images with the keywords "thinnest notebook" you'll find only pictures from the X300 with titles like "The Macbook Air killer".

In this damn small device are more interfaces and more possibilities: 1,2Ghz, 2GB RAM an SSD (that means there is a kind of SD-card instead of an normal harddrive) with 64GB. A SSD storage is better becaus you don't have movable parts. An 13.3 LED Widescreen with 1440x900 Pixel. for communications Gb Lan, Wlan and a modem, fingerprint sensor, mic+speaker,3 USB and a VGA.

It is made with an stable case, the Macbook Air only with an aluminium... Apple thinks that it is not neccesary to change an akku, but with an IBM you can replace you optical drive (the Macbook Air don't even has a slot for an internal drive...) with an battery and change the normal one with a better one...So

everything will run about 10 hours.

The Macbook is something for posers and people who have too much money to spend on things they'll never need!

http://ghostrider30.blogspot.com/2008/01/why-i-didnt-buy-macbook-air-for-my-make.html

real new invention by nokia - morph

As I read in golem.de nokia designed together with the United Kingdoms's University of Cambridge together a moprh. The Result of a study with the target to combine nanotechnology and mobilephones. The possibillities are countless: Self-cleaning, absorbing energy from the sun, "realize" the world around (such things like smell) and so on...  And then I found today this amazing video:

In my opinion apple will never reach such creative and innovative targets.

you can fold the Morph-Device!

From the press release:

Nokia and University of Cambridge launch the Morph – a nanotechnology concept device

New York, US and Espoo, Finland — Morph, a joint nanotechnology concept, developed by Nokia Research Center (NRC) and the University of Cambridge (UK) - was launched today alongside the “Design and the Elastic Mind” exhibition, on view from February 24 to May 12, 2008, at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Morph features in both the exhibition catalog and on MoMA’s official website.

Morph is a concept that demonstrates how future mobile devices might be stretchable and flexible, allowing the user to transform their mobile device into radically different shapes. It demonstrates the ultimate functionality that nanotechnology might be capable of delivering: flexible materials, transparent electronics and self-cleaning surfaces.

Dr. Tapani Ryhanen, Head of the NRC Cambridge UK laboratory, Nokia, commented: “We hope that this combination of art and science will showcase the potential of nanoscience to a wider audience. The techniques we are developing might one day mean new possibilities in terms of the design and function of mobile devices. The research we are carrying out is fundamental to this as we seek a safe and controlled way to develop and use new materials.“

Professor Mark Welland, Head of the Department of Engineering’s Nanoscience Group at the University of Cambridge and University Director of Nokia-Cambridge collaboration added “Developing the Morph concept with Nokia has provided us with a focus that is both artistically inspirational but, more importantly, sets the technology agenda for our joint nanoscience research that will stimulate our future work together.”

The partnership between Nokia and the University of Cambridge was announced in March, 2007 - an agreement to work together on an extensive and long term programme of joint research projects. NRC has established a research facility at the University’s West Cambridge site and collaborates with several departments – initially the Nanoscience Center and Electrical Division of the Engineering Department – on projects that, to begin with, are centered on nanotechnology.
Elements of Morph might be available to integrate into handheld devices within 7 years, though initially only at the high-end. However, nanotechnology may one day lead to low cost manufacturing solutions, and offers the possibility of integrating complex functionality at a low price.

thanks for reading!

tobi