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Der Axel-Springer-Verlag laesst in einer Pressemitteilung verlauten:

"Apple steht für Kreativität, Innovation, Ästhetik und Kompetenz und ist damit der ideale Partner für Axel Springer", sagte Dr. Mathias Döpfner, Vorstandsvorsitzender der Axel Springer AG. "Die Umstellung auf Apple ist für uns nicht nur ein technologischer Fortschritt, sondern wichtiger Beschleuniger der kulturellen Modernisierung im Unternehmen."

Nun, wenn ich mir die Bild-Zeitung(und die Variante mit mehr Buchstaben ... auch "Welt" genannt) so angucke, koennte dafuer mehr notwendig sein, als der Erwerb von Systemen aus Cupertino ...

(Danke an Local fuer den Hinweis)

Apple published an update for Mac OS X yesterday: 10.5.4. This update isn´t as large as the last one, but it still contains some important bugfixes. You will find the combo updater and normal updater at the usual locations.

I wrote some days ago in Twitter, that i purchased some Ultimate Ears super.fi 4vi as my old original iPhone phones. This was a little bit tricky, as i wanted headphones with an integrated mic for telephone calls.

Now i used them for a few day and it´s time for a recommendation. These headphones are excellent. Good sound, good bass. I suspect, that the users complaining about a weak bass weren´t able to seal the ear with the ear pieces. In-ear headphones need to seal the ear to get good bass. Once this seal is closed you get a good and precise bass response from the headphones. My tip: Throw away the original headphones, they are an insult to the sound of an iPhone or iPod, there are much better alternatives.

The build quality seems to be good from my view. The metal casing of the drivers looks excellent. There is a big disadvantage with this ear phones. They close out the ambient sounds around you very effectivly. Nice for hearing music, but somewhat disturbing when you stand on the platform for your train, and you wonder from where all the people come because you didn´t heared the incoming train on the other plattform.

They are not effective as active noise cancellation headphones, at least in a turboprop Dornier 328. My QC2 are better in this category, but the sound of super.fi´s is better.

The Ultimate Ears burn quite a big hole in your pocket. I´ve paid 129 Euros at Amazon. That´s an huge price tag for some in-ears. But at the moment i think the headphones are worth each Euro i´ve spend.

Yet another reason, i´m glad that i didn´t purchased a Macbook Air yet. Now it´s up to others to explain the TSA that the MacBook Air isn´t a stylish bomb designed by Jonathan Ive

Apple announced a beta program for their new Software for the iPhone: iPhone in Enterprise. The new features sound really promising for enterprise usage: From push services to a mechanism to wipe the phone from remote.

Adam Leventhal made an interesting observation while using Dtrace on Mac OS X and wrote about his findings in"Mac OS X and the missing probes". According to this articles, Apple do not allow the dtrace-ing of all processes. Whenever a process has the flag "P_LNOATTACH" you can´t look into it with dtrace.

Perhaps, they are in fear of disabling or examination of certain DRM functions for example. It leaves a very bad aftertaste. But as Darran Moffat wrote in the comments: "Now we just need a port of mdb so that the proc flags can be changed ."

This was sooooo obvious. Steve jobs used a manila envelope to hide the MacBook Air. Some people in the States offer now something similar: A laptop sleeve made out of fleece and vinyl in the shape of a ... manila envelope.

I have an Apple iPhone for a few days now. And while it´s doesn´t have this feature-creep like other mobiles, it´s a really usable gadget. But there is one question: There some companies out there working on phones for years now, they should now the needs of their customership. Why did it need Apple (a company without any track record in building phones) to show the rest of the competition how the GUI of a phone should look. I gave my iPhone to my brothers and sisters (we use virtually all known mobile brands, so a forgotten power supply is really problem) and all were able to use the phone within a minute or so. This is the way an ubiquitous gadget should work...

Neat idea. A daemon for the iPhone to log phonecalls into a calender. Would solve my problem to remember when i called someone the last time ....

Das iPhone ist ja ein richtig schoenes Telephon. Vor allen Dingen, weil es sozusagen das mobile Internetterminal "for the rest of us" ist ... nungut ... nichts ist aber so gut, das die T-Mobile da nicht wieder ein Argument liefern koennte, sich das Ding nicht zu kaufen: T-Mob hat genaueres ueber die Bedingungen ins Netz gestellt. Volker verweist auf diese in seinem Blog.

Die Preise sind schlicht indiskutabel und ab abhängig vom Tarif wird relativ schnell auf 64 kBit/s inbound 16 kBit/s outbound gedrosselt. Ganz ehrlich, bei diesen Preisen und Bedingungen darf man später nicht wundern, wenn die Hälfte aller iPhones in Deutschland gehackt werden.

Ich bleibe bei definitiv erstmal bei meinem E61i ....

When you look around, there is one thing even more ubiquitous than last year: The biten apple on the lid of notebooks. Looks like Sun engineers have a profound affinity to well designed technology even for their notebooks. And optically a MacBook Pro matches better with our server as a boring black notebook.

Greed is one of the capital sins. Not only in this book from an really old organisation called church. In the relation to your customer, it´s an even greater sin. The retalitation for the sin will follow soon. NBC is an organisation, that forgot this simple fact: They want $4.99 for a single episode the iTunes store Five bucks!!
Well ... in times of P2P and ubiquitous digital video recoders there is no shortage at the content side. And the difference between $1.99 and $4.99 may be the difference between buying it legally and downloading it illegally. So ... instead of getting richer even faster, they will get: Nothing! May you burn in hell, you greedy corporate droids.

Ich will die Apfeltaste behalten! Rettet die Apfeltaste!Save the Apple-Key!

Wow! The Instant Alpha feature in Keynote is exceptionally efficent. Removing the background in 3 seconds.

It´s so easy to protect your iPod from theft: Hide-a-pod made from 100% genuine disembowled Zunes:

How can you do this so cheap?
There were a lot of disappointed kids last Christmas who wanted an iPod but were given a Zune by some well-meaning friend or relative. Consequently, there is a glut of Zunes available on eBay every day. We buy ‘em cheap and throw away the guts to make our product at a great price.