Category Archive: Technology

Jul
17

Iphone for CHF 1.–

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A colleague just told me that the IPhone is now sold at CHF 1.–!!!!! Here’s the proof:

Jul
16

Simon’s Cats

I’ve seen these Videos a few times now on the Internet. Last on eigent.li/ch. Everone who has a cat, knows that it’s exactly like that. Simon’s YouTube site (via eigent.li/ch)

Jul
07

TomTom GO 930 – The Test-Drive

Today I used the GO 930 to get to work. I know, its somewhat over-delivery but its good to measure the accuracy of the nav in an area you know. After driving out of the garage, it had a lock almost instantly. about 3 mins later the TMC-Data was downloaded. It kept receiving the TMC-data …

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Jul
05

TomTom Go 930 – First impressions

The Nav already impressed me on the drive home. Operating is very intuitive and doesn’t require long study of the handbook. Although I recommend reading it to take advantage of all the features. I would like to go into a bit more detail and describe the features i’ve used so far. Box Content The packaging …

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Jun
30

New Toy – TomTom Go930T

Yep, that’s right. After doing quite some detours and swearing that I seem to be incapable of finding a place somewhere further away, I’ve finally got myself a Navigation system. I already had some navigation aids, even TomTom. But it was always installed on a PDA using a Bluetooth GPS receiver. IF it worked, it …

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Jun
12

InfBr5 hits the Internet

Today I had the new edition of “Armee aktuell”, a magazine for the members of the Infantry Brigade 5. Unlike magazines of some other formations of the swiss army, this one is not so strict army-style. You get reports about the last WK of all battallions in the brigade and whats coming up in the …

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Jun
05

World Records

The world is mad, and the world wants mad world records. This I know for sure. Thats why I support the Firefox Download-Day 2008. The Goal of this event is to achieve the most downloads ever in 24 hours. Guess the Download-day will be somewhere in june or july. I Wonder if the Servers will …

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May
11

Little Inventions, great impact

What would life be without the little inventions, which eventually impacted our lives in a major way? Imagine, you are a scientist in a leading chemistry company and are working on a new type of adhesive. It should be super-strong and should stick in seconds. You come up with a sample adhesive that develops its …

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Apr
25

XING meets GoogleMaps

I just stumbled over an article in the swiss Netzwoche saying that XING will use GoogleMaps to display the geographical location of your Contacts. Of course, only if your contact has granted you the right to see his business-address. Private adresses are not shown. Here you can find the official statement from XING. Unfortunately it …

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Oct
29

Still gnawing the disk…

My MP3 Tagger is still gnawing the disk while updating the filenames of my MP3 archive. I’ve now found out how to add a URL, yay. TagScanner is the Tool i wrote about earlier. Check it out, i’ve been using it for quite a while now.

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