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The iPad Hype

With 250.000 pre-orders in Germany alone another Apple product is destined to break all records. The iPad will have its debut in 2 hours in the United States. Pre-sales in Germany exceeded 4 times the anticipation and according to my … Continue reading

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Linux does look better in Windows

Just for fun -this is by all means a reference to Linus Torvalds biography- here’s a screenshot of Windows7 with a hacked uxtheme link library. I equipped the mighty Firefox with alpha stage add-ons featuring the upcoming Firefox 4 design. … Continue reading

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Microsoft does look better in Linux

Linux does look good. It even looks so good, that Microsoft’s website seemingly looks better if rendered in Linux.   In my opinion it isn’t that surprising that Jung von Matt, Germany’s Top Tier advertising agency turned down Microsoft as … Continue reading

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Where do you want to go today, Microsoft ?

Nobody can deny that Microsoft is not longer inventing must have gadgeds.   The iPod, ebook readers like the Amazon Kindle, smartphones like the iPhone or RIMM’s Blackberry nor any of the popular web services like Facebook or Twitter were … Continue reading

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Windows7 RC1 phases out

Microsoft shuts down RC1 of Windows7 Continue reading

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Use Hotmail as free Exchange Server

I think anyone would agree that since Microsoft took over Hotmail 10 years ago Hotmail has become a pain. Its Webinterface is slow and even worse incompatible with what MS calls 3rd Party Browsers. Heck, you can’t even forward your e-mail to … Continue reading

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»¿ at the beginning of websites

That cryptic sign, the »¿ is a BOM – a byte order mark. This is set by some text editors, if you encode your page as UTF-8. Most commonly Microsoft Editors like Visual Studio or Expression Web add this BOM … Continue reading

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