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Are you a student?

If you are a student, you should check out iAppsForStudents.com.
It’s back to school sale action from August 15th until September 1st 2010.
You can get amazing high discounts on a lot of software (like QuickScale).

Be sure to check it out!

DropBox: Public beta

Since a few months, I use Dropbox.
A very nice idea/application that has the next main function:
You have a main folder on your computer (or multiple computers) and DropBox will sync this folder with a virtual folder on the internet.

I use it to share some files, like screencasts or images…

More information at Tuaw.com about the public beta and see at GetDropbox.com for more information about Dropbox.

My desktop background

I’m not a good designer but a coder.
Sometimes I try to draw something with DrawIt. Most of the times, it is very ugly, but yesterday, I had the idea to create a very easy desktop image.

I just created a white rectangle with size 1280×800. In the center of the rectangle, I just putted my company icon…

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In my eyes, this background is very cool. Some other persons said me that it is too white… but I love the power of white :)

My Performa 630CD

A few months ago, I moved back to my old house. Today I’ve moved my first Apple computer back into my room…

My first computer is from 1993-1994, an Apple Performa 630CD with Mac os 7.1.2p.

  • System: Mac os 7.1.2 Pro (with system enabler 405)
  • Motorola 68LC040 33MH processor with 8KB L1 cache
  • bus speed: 33 MHz
  • internal drive: 250MB
  • I guess 4-8MB RAM

I had one game (demo) on this mac… called ‘Marathon’. A very cool game!


marathon.jpg

The game is a first shooter and rocks!!
Okay, it doesn’t have the graphics of to say ‘waaw’, but don’t believe the age of this game!

180px-Marathon_2_Screenshot.jpg

The game is still available on the internet as free download. You can download 3 versions of the game (you need also to download the engine). It is a little bit confused to get it installed but… it has a multiplayer feature!!!

Okay, it was historical to see my old computer back… and he still works. I’ve filmed the boot process and it is just… to love! I love the old computers of Apple!

Spam at the AIM network…

it is crazy…

you visit a website… and you see adds
-> I saw adds, because ‘Safari AdBlock’ blocked every add for me!)
you want to read your mail… and you got SPAM mails..
-> But the Gmail engine has a very good spam-filter… so no problem

So, I was spam/add free… until a week ago.
If I’m working on some projects, I have always Apple’s iChat running… (my codingmammoth screenname: CodingMammoth). And this works very very smooth.

But since a week ago, I receive some messages from an AIM-Bot. His name ends always with ‘trout’ and he is talking about strange stuff… but yeah, it is just a ’stupid’ bot… but ‘he’ is smart…

For example this ‘chat conversation’. This image is a screenshot of his first ‘conversation’ with me… and if you take a look to his answers… you should think that this is a really person and not a bot… is it a bot? or a person… I hope a bot!

Does anyone notice this problem also?
I asked another friend of me and he noticed the same bot, but every time with another name… (always ending with ‘Trout’)…



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