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I wanted to write something about this guy Justin since weeks. So he lives in San Francisco and he has a mobile web-cam that he never turns off. He is live 24 hours a day. On the internet. Via live-stream. On the domain justin.tv. I…
Funny. I just saw 'New AOL.com Beta Rips Off Yahoo! Home Page' on digg (but TechChrunch reported first) and it's so true! Seems like AOL is yet another Microsoft and can't figure out to make their own design, see Windows Live aka MSN and Google.
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/yakobusan/429952197/" title="Photo Sharing"><img loading="lazy" src="https://montras.io/media/posts/183/429952197_8a10256455.jpg" alt="My new blog design" width="500" height="375"></a><br><br>I like pictures. I like to take them with my Nikon D50, I like to share them on flickr, I like to show them off on my blog. Sadly, there seem to be very few elegant Wordpress themes that support a 'normal' blog as well as an image blog. Why? Because most themes try to get the content into a 400 pixel or less wide space. Sure, makes sense, as it is much better readable than a 600 pixel wide content area. But how about making it 500 pixels wide, exactly enough for the so-called 'Medium' resolution that flickr has to offer? And in return, making the content font a few pixel bigger? When it comes to blogging flickr images, you can go with 240 pixel wide or 500 pixel wide images, and 240 pixel were just too small for my taste. A workaround is to download the images you want to blog, resize them in Photoshop and host them yourself. But what do I pay flickr for? So I sat down, designed this theme, and since I release almost everything under Creative Commons, why not this Wordpress theme, too? There is another interesting thing about this theme that I didn't mention yet: The content comes first in the source code, then come the Google ads, then the menu and sidebar. Look at the code if you don't believe me! This way, the advertising bots from Google read my content first, <em>then</em> the menu and the sidebar. This way, the ads should be even more focused and related to my entries. Tricky, huh? Well, the technique I used was called on some other blog 'a weird method, that only print designers use'. I don't care, works fine for me! The magic is: 'position:absolute;' in the CSS file. With this attribute, you can position whatever you want wherever you want.</p>
Since we have neither the space nor the money to buy a real Piano at the moment, I decided to present my wife a MIDI-USB keyboard that she can use on my PowerBook from Apple. She loves to play but has left her 'standalone' keyboard…
<p><a title="Photo Sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/yakobusan/141738938/"><img loading="lazy" src="https://montras.io/media/posts/150/141738938_5812ae475d_m.jpg" alt="HDR 01 - My Desktop. Gotta clean it sometime..." width="240" height="180"></a></p> <p>Reading about other's people computer and software is always fun, so why shouldn't I share my system information and software with you? Maybe nothing in this entry is new to you, but maybe you'll find something you didn't know before. Maybe you recently switched to Mac system and you want to know about cool software? Who knows! Let's get started. This is my setup, as in the picture above: I got a Apple PowerBook G4 with 17" from 2005 (yeah, I don't have the money to witch to a new system every year...), additionally I got a 250 Gigabyte sized external hard-drive from Maxtor, a Mighty Mouse, a Logitech headset for Skype and Sharp stereo boxes - for music, what else! What I do? I create web-sites (for fun, mostly), edit images, create video pod-casts and lots more.</p>
Apple's new iPhone. Let's start saving!
So now that Skype has finally released a beta for Mac containing video chat function, I set up my desktop to chat with this feature - but not with a ordinary webcam, since I got none. It was really easy: Plugged in the XL1s from…
Dank der genialen Software Tor kann ich wieder alle, ich wiederhole: ALLE Webseiten aufrufen. Google Video, alle Google Blogs, der Google Cache, Wikipedia, ... Keine Error-Meldungen mehr! Die Installation war kinderleicht, einfach dem simplen Tutorial folgen, und schon läuft alles. Danach noch Firefox mit dieser…
Oh Mann. Ich hasse die ATMs hier in Shanghai. Ist aber wohl überall im Ausland so? Folgendes ist mir jetzt schon zum zweiten Mal passiert: Ich gehe zu einem ATM, stecke meine deutsche EC-Karte rein, und will Summe X von meinem Konto bei meiner deutschen…
Der Preis einer SMS in China. Wollte ich nur mal gebloggt haben. Auch nicht uninteressant: Wenn man auf dem Handy angerufen wird, zahlt man mit. Nur ganz wenig, aber man zahlt mit. Ausserdem gibt es keine Verträge, sondern ausschliesslich PrePaid Karten. Ich habe vor einer…