Searching for German Blogs…

This afternoon was meant to become boring: I decided to search for preferably German blogs which weren’t on the cover of every other blogroll. I used Das Weblogverzeichnis to scan through blogs that interested me, and until I found 14 blogs after scanning approximately 560 blogs for content. I ended up at number 150 of the letter D after finishing A-C… about 1/5th is done, more later or tomorrow!

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Doom Movie Trailer

While I’m not necessarily the fan of Mr. Dwayne Johnson, the new DOOM trailer has just been released. It looks somewhat old because of last year’s game, yet it has some amazingly interesting feature: We can see a movie adaptation of First-Person-Shooter acting. I believe this was never done in that intensity. Nevertheless, movie-game adaptations such as the latest one(Alien vs. Predator) are quite messy movies, and who knows if Doom will rock.

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Photoshop CS3 Details

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Think Secret has obtained several notes regarding Photoshop CS3. What strikes me most is that it took only a couple of months to overtake CS2. Further, the report indicates that Adobe may be developing two other yet unannounced products: Adobe Acrobat 3D and Adobe Full Frame.


More details about the standard and premium editions including the package „on-top“ programs can be found in their article.

Another product is their new idea of Apple Photo Pro: A survey by Adobe presented Photo Pro as software tool for especially photographers, but at the moment, none could confirm the product’s development status. Might be a trick, might be true.

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Google Talk Hacks – more of them…

Yesterday, we already figured there’d be some connection problems in Google Talk while using a wireless LAN (54MBit) to connect at least one station. Katharina and myself confirmed this last night a second time, and these difficulties do not exist while using Skype. But within the short timeframe of publishing the VoIP chat Google Talk, people already came up with many other reviews and of course their own tweaks for the system. There’s a nice collection at Initial Dawn which currently cover:

  • sleek text
  • parameters
  • button codes
  • registry settings

For the full list, refer to the long instructions…

[via FluXionTech]

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Grow3

This small Flash game has always been a cute gimmick for a long night. It’s old, but always a lovely entertainment for these hours in which you’ve got nothing else to do.
Screenshot Grow3

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Google Talk’s First „Hack“!

Its not a real hack but something I’ve already expected to happen. Here’s a nice tutorial on how to Broadcast MP3’s, Podcasts and other audio over Google Talk. Is Google Talk that the personal radio station for everybody now?

Step 1: If you have a mic plugged in, unplug it

Step 2: Double click on the speaker icon in the lower right corner. This will open up „Volume Control“. Select „Options“ and then „Properties“. Then check the button next to „Recording“ then click OK. You may also have to change your setting under Mixer Device.

Step 3: Now the Recording Control screen should be up. On my computer I selected „Wave Out Mix“

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Socialized

The Digg.com got me. Just after one hour of digging in the digg, I’ve added their feeds to my RSS Reader and continously browse their compound of a bloggish delicious social software. It’s not addictive, it is addiggtive! Not that the service allows me to optionally integrate their entries with a simple „blog this“ button, but its a web space filled with people. Fast, living, and entertaining!

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First Review: Google Talk

Google Talk – easy to use, easy to install, no big problems with that software. The instant chat function appears to work quite natural in comparison with ICQ or Skype, and as seen in the chat with Shi it was easy to handle, too. Nice to have is the information about incoming mails at the gmail accounts.

But while having a first test for a voice-chat with Robert, the software had some difficulties. Both of us had in a high-ping connection. Since we live in Germany, the idea of having a stable connection is surely on the hand. There shouldn’t be any kind of disadvantage from time lags or similiar problems, which might happen while skyping with Katharina in California (what will she think of Google Talk?).

But Google Talk had an intensified lag which occurred every 3 minutes. Furthermore, in comparison with Skype, the quality of the voice is lower for Google Talk. Robert was not even sure if the data packages were encrypted or not, since the entire setting administration does not offer any clues about establishing a secure connection.

In the end, both Robert and myself believe (see Robert’s short review in German) that this voice chat software is lacking features and capability. The almost too simple interface will surely be used for upcoming expansions, and files, pictures, and many other gimmicks are meant to follow…

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Blog Day 2005

Blog Day 2005Perhaps there’s time to push yourself above the limit of reading blogs in these days. First, Duncan pulled the 100 Blogs in 100 Days out of nowhere, now Nir Ofir created the Blog Day 2005. The idea is to maximize the blogosphere on August 31st 2005: Every blogger from all over the world is supposed to post a recommendation of at least 5 new blogs (in the same time). As effect, the readers of the participating blogs will find new unknown blogs and authors. I’m with this useful idea which reminds me of somehow of a push-and-pull marketing campaign! This Blog Day will push the blogs that either don’t maintain their daily reads as a blogroll or don’t link other blogs for giving credit as sources, but will these others who are being linked by the participants of the Blog Day honor being pushed?

Many authors do not communicate with other authors, and various blogs do not even offer to discuss within comments or trackbacks. Instead of living from this inter-connectivity within the blogosphere, some quite good authors (and their blogs) won’t be recognized elsewhere but in the niche of unknownness.

[via Light Within]

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Google Talk is out

The big secret these days of Google is out. I just downloaded Google Talk to see which features it actually got. I think I’ve even been the first user since it window pop up to say thank you to me for being the first user.

So I far I could see it didn’t got much features until now. Maybe I have to explore it more… but I probably will need other Google/Gmail users to figure out what Google has to offer me after all. I’m just wondering how they want to make money with it since this tool is still free. It’s not like the hardly need it but come on: it’s Google which seems to get richer with each day. Or am I wrong? Maybe they try to make it like with Skype and offer something which is close to SkypeOut/In. If Google reallly wants to make the world a favor they should figure out how to offer this service for although Skype is not very expensive in offering this service after all. Let’s see where this will lead to and if somebody still should need a Gmail account: leave a note with your email here ;-)

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