Archive for January, 2007

synching files with cellphones via bluetooth

Dear Lazyweb, is there a mac application which can easily synch a folder on my Mac with a folder on my cell phone via bluetooth? I know it is very easy to do if I use the phone via my USB cable — it then connects as a local device/drive and all is easy. I would love to have iSync do the job for me ;) And of course iTunes synching the phone like an iPod, as longs as there still is no iPhone to get.

Der beste Espresso in München?

Ich habe natürlich noch nicht alle Cafés in München durch. Aber bisher ist mein persönliches Espressonirvana am Goetheplatz zu finden. Und zwar direkt extrahiert vom Barista persönlich! Nahezu perfekt.

Zu finden hier:

Koordinaten (Geotag 48.12938067 11.55915678 )

Waiting for my new mobile phone

I just love the hitech gadget market. One day before this year’s macworld iphone announcement I had to renew my contract with O2, hoping for a shipping iphone, but alas, none of that. My contract is up for renewal in 18 months, time enough.

In the previous weeks I had the pleasure of comparing various offers of german mobile providers as well as many different mobile devices.

Nokia N73

My choice, after quite some time of serious searching, fell on the Nokia N73, mainly due to its Symbian OS, nice camera with Zeiss lenses and its brick form factor. The direct competition up till then was the Sony Ericsson “Bond” mobile phone, but somehow the feeling just wasn’t right. Hey we are talking mobile phones here, not tech-features. And SE has just put me off with its super-crappy T290i, which I got for free, but which also is about as slow and uncomfortable to use as it gets. Long live my previous Siemens C55. Much better and with more character.

But then I should have known: never get a first-generation technical device unless necessary. And this applies to the iPhone as well. My advice to all: wait for iPhone 2.0, or at least the first true 3G iPhone, iPhone UMTS or whatever it will be called.

fusion power

Another post in the “energy” category, although it is not really the theme of this blog — but very interesting and important.

For many years fusion power has been the hope and dream of many people. Will it actually help solve our energy problem? Save the day?

A current post at The Oil Drum: Europe talks about fusion power and its future developments.

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They let Apple be Apple

I am still drooling over yesterday’s announcement of iPhone, the most promising handheld phone/communication device since — say the tricorder. But even after seeing this it is amazing, and unbelievable, that it could have been kept as a secret for so long. OK, people have been speculating for quite some time, but still: as ground-breaking as it is — somebody must have leaked info. It is just too cool a product to not be talking about.

CNN has some take on it, also talking about apple’s previous endeavors with phones like the ROKR (note the Google lucky hit does not even return a Motorola Link ;)).

Some points to take home:

  1. Apple has a serious interest in security, not only because of patents and their competitive advantage, but also because this culture of secrets gives apple the media hype of these events like Macworld.
  2. If you want to work with a company that is as creative, has that much of an ego and a personality — let them be themselves. That’s why Motorola-Apple did not work in the ROKR case, that’s why Cingular-Apple works: “They let Apple be Apple” (and probably also Steve be Steve…)