Canon 0D – The Flagship

January 31st, 2010 Category: Fun, Photography

It seems to be official how the new flagship from Canon will look like, several pictures can already be found in the internet :)

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It comes with the following incredible features:

  • Photoshop CS3
  • Nikon Mount (also for Canon, Olympus, Sony and Sigma)
  • Inspiration
  • Blue-ray/DVD/CD-Writer with Nero Software
  • Touch Screen
  • Instant HDR-Button
  • 3x 1TB hard dics
  • Windows Vista
  • TV, Radio, MP3, Phone
  • Umbrelle
  • File Sharing Client

Really incredible :)

“Nude It” for iPhone 3GS

October 30th, 2009 Category: Fun, iPhone

Oh no! This application seems only to work the iPhone 3GS, I definitely need to upgrade my 3G :) But in some situations it’s recommended not to use this application I guess… haha.

Microsoft’s New Smart Phone

October 28th, 2009 Category: Fun, General

It really looks like that Apple’s iPhone will get serious competition from Microsoft :)

BlueScreen Screen Saver

June 17th, 2009 Category: Fun, General

There is a pretty cool screen saver from Microsoft TechNet (formerly Sysinternals) available, which shows a blue screen and the animated boot screen of Windows. If you want to shock your colleagues then you should get it :)

Links

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iPhone vs Stone

May 19th, 2009 Category: Fun, iPhone

Very funny comparison :) But it’s true, the iPhone is missing some important features. In a few weeks iPhone OS 3.0 will be released which will bring some “new” features. Hopefully the comparison will then get more green checkmarks.

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Even worse comparison! ;) Definitly too many features (joking).

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Source of the pictures is unclear, both a spread widley over the Internet.

Never Shout in a Datacenter!

March 28th, 2009 Category: Fun, General

Brendan Gregg from Sun’s Fishwork team discovered some really strange issue about shouting in a datacenter and disk latency.

What do we learn? Always stay silent and never shout your hard disks also if we really sometimes would like to do – never trust a RAID. Hahaha.

See also:

  • direct link to Video on Channel Sun

Linuxcaffe in Toronto

March 28th, 2009 Category: Fun, General, Linux

Received from a friend while he was on a holiday trip in Toronto. A Linuxcaffe pretty cool I think. Nowadays Linux seems to be everywhere! Thank you Bogi for this nice shot.

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The Incredible Notebook Cooler

January 25th, 2009 Category: Fun, General

When my Dell notebook Latitude D820 warms up (means running for a few hours) I hear the fan louder than in the beginning also there is not much CPU load. It seems the whole notebook warms up. Cleaning the notebook with a vacuum cleaner did not help. I got this tip from a woman, for her notebook this works. Ok, a noisy fan is disturbing.

Before purchasing a notebook cooler I decided to check if such a external cooler with fan could really cool down the notebook. I tried several positions with a simple PC fan and finally found one position which cools down the CPU temperature in idle mode from 50°C to 38°C. Now the fans of the notebook are almost noiseless.

A incredible result! But I think I will purchase a more nice looking notebook cooler soon. Cooling down your notebook will also improve it’s life time since all electronic components really don’t like heat. You can read this e.g. from official statistical data from some hard disc vendors, which show how life time increases with higher environment temperature.

Putting the slow rotating fan as shown in the picture below decreased CPU temperature from 50°C to 38°C. Unbelievable!

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