Saturday, 26.04.08
€uro ranked the 25 best Smartphones
Posted by Arne Hess - at 11:47 CET under Job - Editor and Journalist
In a recent survey,
German magazine €uro asked some experts for their ranking of the 25 best
smartphones and beside Erik Friemuth, director of Vodafone Germany, Michael
Schuld, director at T-Mobile Germany and Ossi Urchs, a long-time multimedia
expert, I was also honored to be part of the jury.
While I cannot republish here the results (as you can imagine) I can tell you
that one Windows Mobile smartphone made it under the top 5 and three more made
it under the top 10.
If you are in Germany, you can get issue
05/08 of €uro to see the whole list which is published in the "€LITE"
section as "Exklusiv: Die Liste wider das Vergehen von Hören und Sehen: Die 25
besten Smartphones".
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Thursday, 06.03.08
the::unwired Videoviews - now with funky background music
Posted by Arne Hess - at 11:46 CET under Job - Editor and Journalist
During the past months, I've produced a good amount of
videoviews for
the::unwired. And while I wasn't a big fan of videos in the beginning, I've
completely changed my mind because videos are definitely a great addition to
photos, screenshots and texts and it adds some additional benefits for the
readers, especially
if used on exhibitions and congresses.
So while I recorded the first videos with the photo camera of my girlfriend,
because my Nikon SLR isn't able to record videos,
I've upgraded late last year to a dedicated video camera as well as changed the
video software. Nevertheless, most videos had the same problem - they were a kind
of 1900's silent movies which is somewhat boring to watch. However, adding some
music to videos is somewhat tricky because the rights management.
Thankfully, the nice guys of
sonar.brandmusic
threw in some tracks they have the rights on (which makes sense since their core
business is sound branding and music marketing) and therefore, from now
the::unwired videoviews will have some funky background music as well:
The first real video which uses the::unwired's new background sound you can
find in our yesterday's
review of Spb Mobile Shell 2.0.
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Monday, 07.01.08
Video: I've (nearly) touched the Rainbow
Posted by Arne Hess - at 16:47 CET under Off Topic
Yesterday, when I drove home to Munich, I was close to touch the rainbow in
front of me - but have a look yourself:
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Thursday, 06.12.07
Installing Windows Vista SP1 RC via Windows Update [UPDATE2]
Posted by Arne Hess - at 12:01 CET under Digital - Gadgets
Quite cool - for registered Beta tester, Microsoft is providing the new
Windows Vista SP1 RC via Windows Update. All you have to do is downloading a
small file which updates Windows Update that it finds the Service Pac 1 RC on
the Windows Update server:
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Microsoft releases Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC1
Posted by Arne Hess - at 11:05 CET under Digital - Gadgets
I've
already tried some previous Betas of Microsoft's upcoming Service Pack 1 for
Windows Vista on several PCs and while it (still) works fine on my Media Center,
it had some trouble on my Notebook.
If you haven't heard about it so far, Windows Vista SP1 is an update to today's
Windows Vista that, along with improvements delivered to users via other
channels, addresses feedback from Microsoft customers. In addition to previously
released updates, SP1 will contain changes focused on addressing specific
reliability, performance and compatibility issues, supporting new types of
hardware and adding support for several emerging standards. SP1 also continues
to improve upon the IT administration experience. Unlike Windows XP's SP2,
Windows Vista's SP1 is not intended to be a vehicle for releasing new features;
however some existing components do gain slightly enhanced functionality in SP1.
While SP1 contains valuable updates to Windows, organizations don't need to
wait to deploy and can experience the improved security, management and
deployment benefits of Windows Vista today.
Currently, Microsoft is targeting a RTM release in Q1-08, depending on
customer feedback and the quality of the beta. The SP1 RC was released to the
15k Beta Testers on Microsoft Connect and on Thursday, December 6, the RC was
made available via MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Furthermore, Microsoft plans to
release the SP1 RC bits to the public on TechNet anytime next week.
SP1 is going to be released in two waves. The initial release of SP1 will
include 5 languages (English, French, Spanish, German, and Japanese). The second
release containing all 36 basic languages will occur afterwards.
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