A few random thoughts on Apple’s new multi-touch Magic Mouse: Apple killed the third mouse button! I am conditioned to open tabs in browsers with the a middle click, so this is quite some problem for me. (I still hoped for an Open-in-a-New-Tab gesture for Apple’s touch pads but I guess it is unlikely now.) [...]
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Thoughts on Apple’s Magic Mouse
Monday, November 2nd, 2009Contact Album Plug-In for Adium
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009Something for the Mac users this time. I have written a little plug-in for Adium recently. It can be downloaded and installed from the Adium Xtras site. The plug-in, called Contact Album, stores all the icons that your contacts use over time and comes with a viewer for the icons. After installation of the plug-in, [...]
Apple Praise
Thursday, June 14th, 2007Here is a quick follow-up to my recent rant about Apple: After a few more emails and phone calls, I will be the proud owner of a MacBook Pro with a US keyboard soon. I still don’t understand why it is so problematic to get a US keyboard from Apple as a German customer. Anyway, [...]
Apple Rant
Friday, June 8th, 2007I want one of those new MacBook Pros. I want one with a US keyboard! Unfortunately Apple seems to be unable to provide US keyboards to European customers : ( The German webstore offers an International-English keyboard but that is different from US style keyboards: narrow Return key, additional key between left Shift and Z. Several [...]
The Sky Is Falling
Monday, June 6th, 2005Debian Sarge is released (unfortunately the installer doesn’t like my Inspiron 9300) Apple is switching to Intel CPUs
