The heading says it all: This deal was worth approximately $3.4 billion, and Adobe basically inhaled Macromedia and all their software packages. The shareholders of Macromedia were given Adobe shares in return, and the Macromedia shareholders will own about 18% of the final Adobe-Macromedia company. Adobe will surely empower its marketshare for enterprise software solutions and mobile communication, especially by combining the web- and graphicdesign departments. How the final spectre of futurous applications for developper tools, the resulting contents and related media equipment might turn out to look like, it’s yet another prospering business.

How to reset a frozen I-Pod? How not to throw it against the wall? How to soothe your girlfriend if she’s angry and making a fuzz about it? These questions stroke me this morning… and her comment was nothing else but „my fucking I-Pod hates me“. I-Hate it too. Even Apple has some suggestions for this thing, but I tried it hard – following their instructions a dozent times, but the little I-Hate did not change anything into the Apple logo. Why not? Why in this life not? If I put it closer to my ear, it sounds like an old cassette tape being rewinded… for hours. I hope the batteries will empty soon and we can start it all over. What a joyful morning. Her laptop dismantled our souls, the I-Hate tuned nothing on, and I have to go to the doctor to get my results.

I have recieved 50 possible invitations this morning from G-Mail, and if anybody is interested, please comment here or drop me an email. Let’s be network-happy!

Recently, I got an invitation to the G-Mail service by Mario Sixtus and created my account under the name sichelputzer gmail com. I hardly use the service because I only wanted to obtain an account at G-Mail. After waiting for about a year, I was generally satisfied to become a part of this invitation-only community. But apparently, G-Mail chose to invite the users waiting on their notification list on which I signed up in the past. I received my official invitation by G-Mail today… don’t they check by using a simple regular-expression-match operation if somebody has already been registered via user-to-user invitation? It’s quite amusing how the G-Mail service can annoy its users with spamming. I might register a second G-Mail account if this is possible… the purpose of the idea by using invitation-only methods has become voidable.

After GPS, GPRS, UMTS and whichever other network services have proven to be able to find your nearest gasstation or hotel and transmit this data to your mobile phone, Google introduced their own „Google Local“ search tool to browse the web for local informations. And being the Sichelputzer who I am, I immediately wondered where to find my local dealer? After rushing to their site and searching for a Pizza in Flensburg, I was prompted an error as result. I am not listed? Of course, because the new service is limited to the United States only. Disappointing.

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We’ve been made for suffering – Google’s power increases since the company announced its own role in the registration process for Domainnames. Google became a proud member of the ICANN’s registrars who may offer the registration for com, .net, .org, .biz., info, .name and .pro domains. Another episode of the continued reign of Google terror made by the Googleopus.

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Another venture for Google – the Google Video Search (beta) enables the user to search the recent (US) TV channels. The company introduced the new tool this tuesday. Since December 2004 the software indexed the program of e.g. PBS, NBA, Fox News, and C-SPAN. As result, the user will be prompted with a screenshot and a small text passage from the moment in which the search-phrase has been mentioned. Apparently, real video will not be shown by Google but up to five screenshots, more text passages and program functions of the TV channels containing date and time stamps. Yahoo uses a similiar software which has been integrated as a tab into the US version of the Yahoo portal and search engine, however they search the web for video files instead of indexing TV channels.

Upon entering „blog“, I strumbled upon 51 results on Google Video.

Grafedia is an amazing idea to merge ourselves with other people to overcome the limitation of the digital world of the internet and the complete physical environment.

[…] Grafedia is hyperlinked text, written by hand onto physical surfaces and linking to rich media content […] With grafedia, every surface becomes potentially a web page, and the entire physical world is joined with the Internet. […]

Created by John Geraci, a New York artist and student for Interactive Communication, this software allows interactivity with three easy steps. Since anybody can become a „Grafedia artist“, you just have to send a word with the media file (images, videos or sound files) to their server. I created an entry for the word „sichelputzer“, and you might want to look at it by mailing sichelputzer@grafedia.net – a few other fellow bloggers did it here and here, too.

1. Choose a word. 2. Send a media file from your cell phone to that chosen word plus ‚@grafedia.net‘, e.g. ‚sichelputzer@grafedia.net‚. 3. Write that word anywhere in the real world in blue with an underline.

Several people express themselves through the past, presence and/or future in respect to their daily life and possibilities for a tomorrow. Certain cultures and individuals respect the past as a way on how to learn and to be educated in order to avoid mistakes and errors or to achieve a progress and advancement. Another group has no true bond to the past nor future as they strive for survival in our modern world without looking back at their past or consideration of the future. The third group is represented by those who are aware of the past (especially their own past), the actual and most present situation, yet prefer to create a future by stepping ahead of the commonly known sphere of existence into a state of art which enables them to see beyond the situation, to find a solution that is nearly impossible to be found by the others.

For myself, I have decided to build up three phases in order to create my own personal future planning. At the first step, I create my goals which are usually centered around the now and nearer then. However, these goals are not limiting myself in my actions and activity, but only to support and serve as a base for focus. Therefore, these goals may change as time progresses. The goals are tightly created, shortly knitted together and serve as the first set of steps towards the following phases, and there are plenty of goals within a human being’s life. A second phase is found within the motives for life with and within the current society. While the goals provide a foundation to create and maintain order, the motives give the essence to counter against the normalities of life. Within this phase, the progress broadens itself and allows an even wider focus towards the futurous plan. These motives either depend on the previously defined goals, but may even exist without relation or respondence of these since their role is more important and more creative than the original set of rules applied by the goals. All of these two phases lead to the final stage where goals and motives become visions. These visions serve as expectancy for my personal future. How I see myself and my role for society, the work done in the past and the reference to my personal satisfaction can be found here as well as my most monetary and fundamental thoughts concerning the progress and advancement of my life. All these phases may exist under several topics – i.e. societal, financial, emotional, educational, or sacret themes, and each of these individual strings serve as a root towards the overlaying vision of the future.

Ich bin ein wenig irritiert, dass ich es noch nicht gepostet habe, aber ich bin dagegen! Wogegen? Dagegen! Ich bin nicht bereit, eine perfide Idee der Politiker zu akzeptieren, dass spezielle Steuern auf Computerspiele erhoben werden. Sinn und Zweck der Aktion sei es, dass man die Entwicklung von „typischen deutschen“ Spiele unterstützen soll. Sind diese Spiele dann aus dem echten Leben gegriffen und erheitern so den Zocker, in dem man sich nicht in Monsterschlachten oder in Zweiter-Weltkriegsspielen mit den Bösen schlägt? Heißt das für den Mediamarkt, ein neues Spielgenre der „Strategic Osterweiterung“ oder „Die Sims – Politisch zur neuen Europäischen Union“ im Regal anzupreisen? Werden unsere Nachkommen durch bildungspolitische Spiele gefördert? Wird der „Pactus Rex – Der Anti-Amerikanismus“ in einem pazifistischen Eroberungsfeldzug mit der virtuellen Blume im virtuellen Gewehrlauf gerendert?



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