Star Wars Flickr Set

[Update] Unfortuanately this great collection of Star Wars Pics is no longer available, cause Lucasfilm accused Mr. Heilemann of copyright infringement and had flickr.com delete the albums. Read the whole story here This is a very sad and according to me not very clever move, though eexecuted technically correct, due there really was a infringement. But is this behaviour reasonable? Read More …

CSS Mouse Over Opacity Effect

Generally this is no rocket science, using the CSS3 attribute “opacity”, unfortunately CSS3 is not supported by many browsers. As an alternative one could use JavaScript, which also might not work everywhere (if disabled due to security measures). So the easy way only works in the latest versions of Firefox and Opera. (Take a look at a live demo here) Read More …

Star Wars: The Old Republic MMORPG announced!

The San Francisco LucasArts office announces the next sequel of the StarWars KOTOR series will be a MMORPG. All availaible information still is quite vague, but some statements can be found on kotaku.com: Art Director Jeff Dobson says that Old Republic will not have a totally realistic art style; but neither will it be too cartoon-y. The idea here, he Read More …

Mozilla releases mobile Browser Fennec

Mozilla.org offers an early developer release of the mobile version of their web browser Firefox called Fennec. A fennec (Vulpes zerda) is a fox subspecie, which can be found in North-African Sahara and the Sinai. It features huge ears and a extra large tail, making that little night active critter look extremly cute. Thus, so far for the donator of Read More …

Win Ad Space on 10 Blogs!

Here is an interesting opportunity to get your advertisement displayed on ten differents blogs for free:The AdSpace Contest The idea is simple: Get as many entries as you can (very easy to do) before October 15th. The more entries you get, the better chance you have of winning! Shortly after the 15th, they’ll announce the winner. The prize? A 125×125 Read More …

Unlocked iPhone 3G available at the apple Store in Hongkong

Officially unlocked iPhone at the Apple Store HK The Hongkong Apple Store has the legally, officially, hakkx-free unlocked iPhone 3G! The unlocked iPhone 3G purchased at the Apple Online Store can be activated with any wireless carrier. Simply insert the SIM from your current phone into iPhone 3G and connect to iTunes 8 to complete activation. About $700 will get Read More …

Wanna have! A gadget round up

Even James Bond would be desperately lost, if Q would not provide him with his genious masterpieces of technikal gadgets. Same as Double-O, those amoung you who have to cut their own path through the street jungle without a license to kill will inestimably value to be able to conjure up the right tool at the right time. So here’re Read More …

Social Media Study

Interesting study about the usage and the behaviour of social media platform users from over 29 countries from webguild.org: A new study by Universal McCann called When did we start trusting strangers? found that rather than being passive, consumers have taken not only active, but also creative roles in consumerism. In fact, consumers have become true “consum’actors.” The study was Read More …

Arrr! Friendfeed switched their beta version live!

Pretty cool! The new features, like application filters, contact categories and und subscription management of the “secret” test version one could try out via beta.friendfeed.com now are implemented on the main stage. Just see: friendfeed.com/mrmojorisin This is really neat and definitely will make friendfeed even more informative and addictive! Nice job!