When I got my GMail invitation a good half year ago from a friend of mine, I was really tempted to use it as my main account for private e-mails. It looked good, had nice features and above all one Gigabyte of free e-mail space was just fantastic. In the end I decided against using [...]
Professing to be a nerd, I’m always on the search for new useful and cool tools. Some days ago I found two such tools. Somehow I’m always looking into application launchers and seem never to find the right one. The start panel of Windows is the most horrible thing. It takes ages to find one’s [...]
Somehow I feel like downloading some MovableType plugins and playing around with them. These are the plugins I begin with Textile 2 SmartyPants CodeBeautifier Textile 2 allows you to type your blog entries in a somehow simpler syntax than XHTML. You don’t need to bend your fingers to write all those tags. You just write [...]
I remember playing around with Fractint on my DOS box some long years ago. It sometimes took hours to generate those Mandelbrot and Julia images, but it was somehow fascinating. Fractint seems to be dead now. I have no idea why it died and when exactly it died. Anyways, other programs have taken the place of Fractint. [...]
Last week the new JDK was released. Funny thing is that Sun couldn’t decide which version number to give to that new release. The web-site tells us that it is J2SDK 5.0, but the name of the installation file is jdk-1_5_0…. and the default installation directory is also jdk1.5.0. So what is it now? Now we have [...]