Over at the TED conference this year, Evan Williams gave a 8 minutes talk on Twitter and a short history of it. He said one thing that should be of great interest for Entrepreneurs, that is that he started Twitter as a side business to their startup and that he learned to give ideas a [...]
My primary Linux distribution of choice is CentOS. CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by RedHat. Thus CentOS is merely speaking a copy of RedHat and provides the same stability and security. The trade off with stability and security is, that you mostly run packages which are [...]
Usually, I’m a happy camper with my MacOS X and with the built in applications (not that I use them a lot, but when I do I like how well they are built and “feel”). The only application I use a lot of the built in applications is Apple Mail. Lately, Apple Mail, has been [...]
The fifth major revision of the HTML markup language (HTML5) brings some real power to web applications and will close the bridge for Online/Offline application. As an example, Google has just showcased how they would leverage the power of HTML5 with the integrated database and Caching with the use of their famous GMail service. Since [...]
The other day I posted about “Exchange, Kerio, Zimbra and Google or the Quest for the perfect Collaboration Tool“. In that post, one of the main goals was how to keep all your eMails & Calendar entries up to date on different devices. Today, I want to share my experience with Google Apps (eMail & [...]
Since I got myself a new iPhone this week, I thought of posting my experience here, especially since I used to work with a Blackberry the last 2 years. But before I am going to post them here, this post over at the CNN Fortune site caught my eye: iPhone now represents 51% of U.S. [...]
My favorite virtual machine provider, just released an update to it already perfect application. The new version brings the capability to import virtual machines that you might have created with Paralells 4.x. See the video below how easy it is. Also, they apparently fixed a bug with the Shared Folders feature that would add a [...]
Today I had the need to create a custom RSS-Feed from the blog posts over at the SixSigns Blog. Somehow, I ended up searching for hours around on the WordPress Wiki pages, but could only find how to customize it, but not how to build it and integrate it. This is a summary of the [...]
One of my main goals in my everyday work flow is to keep all my informations at one central location and have access to them from everywhere. Meaning I want all my emails, contacts and calendar entries in sync, whether I use my mobile phone, my own laptop or I have to get to my [...]
I know that some people don’t like Bill Gates for his work on Windows, but really, apart from that, he is a good guy and deserves all of our respect with what he is doing in this world. It takes a great person to share his wealth and trying to do good for the human [...]