No surprises at the PhilNote
by Volker Weber
No wonder that Steve passed the buck to Phil.
- New 17" MacBook was overdue. Surprise: you can buy non-glare screen.
- iWork 09. Check. I want it.
- iLife 09. Check. I want it.
- DRM-free iTunes store. Overdue as well. Hello Amazon. And the majors finally get their price differentiation. "Nice price". Yawn.
Notes and Domino 8.5 available
by Volker Weber
IBM closes second half of 2008. Notes & Domino 8.5 are now available from Partnerworld.
Winter in Potsdam
by Volker Weber
Ute and Sabine, Photo Alex
Peter O'Kelly: I am now a Microsoft employee
by Volker Weber
I’m psyched to announce that I have joined a new Microsoft team focused on enterprise collaboration optimization (i.e., communication, collaboration, and information architecture, for large organizations).
Ente Chop Sui
by Volker Weber
[Thanks, Hanno]
Zu verkaufen
by Volker Weber
Smart Passion, 40 kW/55 PS, bay gray met., Tridion silber, Glasdach, Klima, Softtouch (Schaltautomatik), Radio, CD-Wechsler, Soundpaket, Sitzheizung, Winter- und Sommerräder, EZ 8/2002, rund 65 tkm, Standort Darmstadt
Erstbesitz, Nichtraucher, unfallfrei, keine bekannten Mängel. Verbrauch 5,5 l/100 km (Ute) oder 6,0 l/100km (vowe). Interesse? So ein Smart ist größer als man denkt . :-)
Events of the last few days
by Volker Weber
A couple of things happened, that were not important enough to get me to post here. Too lazy. :-)
- On December, 31 all Zune 30 around the world froze. All five of them. Turns out it is a calendar bug. Leapyear, hint hint. Can you spot the error in the code?
- I got a Sanctuary for Xmas. Ute may use it as well. :-)
- Saw a great movie on Youtube with a cat and dog. Can't find it anymore ...
- Watched George Carlin again. Soft language indeed.
- Updated the firmware on five BlackBerrys yesterday: 8100, 8120, 8820 (all .124), 9000 (.217), 9500 (.85). Nothing else shows the speed difference between 8xxx and 9xxx as well as the update process.
- The Apple TV served us well over the holidays. Ever since I downgraded to 2.1 and installed Sapphire, it slowly grew on us. Also tried Boxee yesterday once again, but remain unconvinced. Big benefit of the Apple TV over the EVA: slideshows with "Ken Burns Effect".
- Windows on the Samsung NC10 went kaputt. Would no longer recognize the WiFi card. I was eventually able to repair it. Troubling.
- You really should not yell at your hard disk.
- Genii follows Notebook.de as this month's sponsor. Thank you!
Happy New Year everybody. Don't forget to change your copyright notice.
Lotusphere Online and Offline
by Volker Weber
January, start of the Lotus season. If you are attending Lotusphere, you should have received an email inviting you to https://www.ls09.info.
Your User Name is the email address you provided when you registered for the conference. The password is your Lotusphere confirmation number, which can be found in the upper left hand corner of your confirmation letter.
If you have some patience, you can fill out your profile on Lotusphere Online. I guess there are a lot of people doing just that right now, bogging down the system. :-)
A better way to access session information is, same procedure as every year, Genii Software's session database for Lotus Notes:
Back by popular demand, we have built a Journal database containing all the sessions listed on the official Lotusphere site. This database is based on the personal ND6 Journal with a few added views, so it should synch with the Palm Pilot and other smart phones, but it also contains a wealth of useful information for planning out your schedule.
As in previous years, the Turtle Partnership is providing a BlackBerry version of that same database:
To download simply browse on your BlackBerry to http://lotusphere.turtleweb.com/bb
For those who just want to get a brief look at Lotusphere Online, here is a three minutes video:
I love to compare load times of URLs containing "nsf" (Domino) to those with "do" (Connections). Too hard to see in this highly compressed video. I am putting the source on me.com.
New poll: how do you expect to be a year from now?
by Volker Weber
2008 has brought bad news for many. What is your outlook for 2009? Will you be better off a year from now? About the same? Or worse than today? Please vote in the sidebar.
[Results of the last poll]
Two screens or one?
by Volker Weber
At CeBIT I saw Samsung coming out with a dual screen display. One large TFT, and a small one attached to it. Lenovo is now doing the same with their upcoming W700DS:
The reasoning behind this design seems to be that Photoshop artists or CAD designers can put their toolboxes on the auxiliary screen.
But why not have a larger screen in the first place. In the case of the notebook, it would make the machine considerably larger, while this design makes it somewhat thicker. But looking at desktop computers, why would I want two displays instead of one larger, even if the screens are the same size? Why have two 19" screens instead of one 24" screen? Why not go to a 30" one? This reminds me of split windshields.
What is your preference, and why?
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