Do you know where you are?

Juni 17th, 2011

If you do not know where your WLAN router or your Andoid mobile is, just type in the MAC address at the following website and you will know…

http://samy.pl/androidmap/index.php

I was a little bit shocked and I still did not know if it es good or bad…

“android map exposes the data that Google has been collecting from virtually all Android devices and street view cars, using them essentially as global wardriving machines. You can use this tool to accurately locate virtually any router in the world, as well as position iPhones and Android phones.
When the phone detects any wireless network, encrypted or otherwise, it sends the BSSID (MAC address) of the router along with signal strength, and most importantly, GPS coordinates up to
the mothership.
This page allows you to ping that database and find exactly where any wi-fi router in the world is located. Note that iPhones also send this BSSID and
Cell Tower Information up to Apple, as well.
You can enter any router BSSID/MAC address to locate the exact physical location below, or try the demonstration router by hitting "Probe" below.”

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Speeeeeeeed

Juni 17th, 2011

If you want to test how fast your DSL-connection to the internet is, you can use the Computerbild speedtest.

http://dsl-speedtest.computerbild.de/

It is small and did not show to many information. Just the things you want to know…

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Mango will be released in Fall 2011

Juni 3rd, 2011

I think I will still wait until I buy a new mobile …

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2011/may11/05-24WindowsPhone.mspx

Office and Facebook

Mai 19th, 2011

Sharing Office documents on Facebook? If you want to know more or if you want to test, you should read the following informations:

http://docs.com/Main/About

http://blogs.office.com/b/office_blog/archive/2010/04/27/cloud-creates-new-opportunities-for-office-thoughts-on-docs-com-for-facebook.aspx

“Free tibet” is still up to date…

April 27th, 2011

http://freetibet.org/node/2283

Apple knows where you are…

April 26th, 2011

IPhone and IPad store you position in a secret file on your device. After a backup with iTunes the file is also on your PC and can be read with this software: http://www.chip.de/downloads/iPhoneTrackerWin_48607289.html

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In the moment it is not clear if Apple uses this information for advertisment of if they sell this information to others.

More information can be found e.g. on the website of the (german) Tagesschau:

http://www.tagesschau.de/multimedia/video/sendungsbeitrag106548.html

Vision of the Future

März 31st, 2011

 

Microsoft’s Vision of the Future

Testing IE 9

März 29th, 2011

If you are interested in Internet Explorer 9 and if you would like to see some nice demos, visit the Test Drive.

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( http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Default.html )

IE 9 is RTM :-)

März 15th, 2011

Since 45 minutes,  the final version could be downloaded from the Microsoft server in the US (In Germany there is only still the RC version available).

IE9final

ULSViewer

März 1st, 2011

If you want to check an ULS log, you should use the ULSViewer. It is much easier than reading the file in notepad.

http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/ULSViewer