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Hey, here’s another really cool prog although it’s -only- a widget really. It’s called iTunes Companion and it does the following: It automatically grabs the album title of the song your currently playing and looks for the fitting album art on amazon and google (if you don’t have it already of course). Then it puts it in its own window … Read More

Neues Urheberrecht: Kabinett kriminalisiert Kopierer – Netzwelt – SPIEGEL ONLINE – Nachrichten Apparently they finally did it. Quiet, sneaky and nearly unnoticed the german parliament made a new copyright law. The process has taken some years now and it included new aspects to secure technologies like DRM, copy protection and comparable techniques. They started with banishing all software that breaks … Read More

I’m just doing some updates to a little project of mine hopefully becoming a full story on day. And suddenly I wondered whether there has been any attempt to write a story in the way they do OpenSource Software. Like e.g. Debian with many Developers from anywhere in the world contributing to a single project solemnly over the web. I … Read More

The Dilbert Blog: Too Many Coincidences This is a very interesting discussion about coincidences. I actually don’t believe in coincidences and my favourite quote from above’s comments is: “coincidences are a glimpse of an underlying pattern”. That’s quite close to what I see in all those little things that happen at surprisingly the right time. But maybe we as humans … Read More