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mail-trends

micha — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:35:50 +0000

mail-trends is a nice statistics package which walks the IMAP folder tree of your Gmail account and gives you some pretty interesting statistics about your mail. via Tao of Mac

Goodbye Arthur C. Clarke

micha — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:36:58 +0000

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke who is most famous for his co-authorship of 2001: A Space Odyssey and the “C” in Jaqui’s beloved “Sci-Fi ABCD”,
sadly departed yesterday after 90 orbits.
In addition to his many great books and a lot other things, he was the first one who suggested the geostationary orbit in 1945.
Which is therefore also known as the Clarke Orbit.

via

Simplicity

micha — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:07:31 +0000

Thats so true. via

Look where no man has gone before

micha — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:14:06 +0000

Google released a web version of Google Sky, looks pretty neat. via Google Blog

It’s all about human error

micha — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:30:17 +0000

Did you ever wonder, why some traffic jams appear for no apparent reason?
Researchers from several Japanese universities, experimentally recreated
the whole process and made a nice video about it. via

Social Networks Worldwide

micha — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:46:44 +0000

Le Monde has a nice chart about the popularity of major social networks per region. I didn’t know that somebody besides the Brazilians is actually using Orkut, but looks like the guys down in India like it a lot. via

Phun

micha — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:38:28 +0000

This is so cool, hopefully there will be a mac version soon. via Boing Boing

Sigma’s APO 200-500 F2.8 telephoto lens

micha — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 14:45:57 +0000

Sigma announced, a new must have lens for everybody who likes ~~to know what the neighbors are up to~~ birds. F2.8 aperture at 500mm focal length is kinda neat, though. via engadget

NetNewsWire vs. Google Reader

micha — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:59:48 +0000

I like the combination of client software and web service, especially with a mobile version.Thats why I always had an eye on NetNewsWire, and only the price stopped me from using it. So I gave it a try immediately after it became Freeware, almost 3 weeks ago.

As of today I switched back to Google Reader, because as nice as NetNewsWire is, there mobile version just can’t beat the one from Google. Why?

NetNewsWire’s mobile version just presents you with a list of your feeds and folders, which sure lets you scroll through all of them pretty fast. But first you can’t mark single posts as read, only the whole list at once. So you have to actually read or scan through all posts in one topic before you can mark them as read.After selecting the 50th post to read it in more detail, and coming back you end up at the top of the list again. With a hard time ahead to find the next “unread” post, in that still more than 240 unread items containing list. On the other hand, Google splits your hundreds of unread posts into small lists and you can mark single items as read, or a whole list.

NetNewsWire is still one of the best Feed Readers out there, I just can’t live without a proper mobile version, anymore.Filed under failed attempts to get some data off Google.

A Blogs Life Cycle

micha — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:22:07 +0000

“…Within minutes, if you’ve written about a timely and noteworthy topic, a small army of bots will get the word out to anyone remotely interested, from fellow bloggers to corporate marketers. … Thanks to search engines and aggregators that compile lists of interesting posts, you can reach a lot of people…” via Wired