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Monthly Archives: September 2004

Firefox 1.0 PR and Thunderbird 0.8

Firefox 1.0 PR and Thunderbird 0.8 In the last week Firefox 1.0 Preview Release and Thunderbird 0.8 were released. The Firefox release was originally planned for July, but has been postponed again and again. Finally it is here. Two new features of Firefox are really neat. The first one I stumbled upon is that the URL [...]

Squareness 2.0

After a long wait there are finally news from Squareness. The new release – 2.0 -, which was long planned and takes even longer to finish, concentrates on color theme support. The new tool – Colorizer – allows you to create new themes in no time. You don’t have to deal with theme files and RGB values [...]

I Robot: Product Placement

Yesterday I got carried away with talking about the dream and fear of robots. I actually forgot to talk about the thing because of which I started writing the blog entry. I will make up for that now. The thing that really annoyed me about “I, Robot” was the very unsubtle product placements. Ok there is nothing [...]

I, Robot: Dream And Fear Of Robots

Yesterday I was to the movies again. Hmm, spending much time in cinemas lately. Anyways, the film I watched was ”I, Robot”. I was warned that the German dubbing is horrible and some jokes aren’t as good as in the original English version. Unfortunately the cinema in Hamburg where you can watch the movies in their original [...]