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Sometimes the little things make the difference. This one is no exception. Since the introduction of HTML mails nothing has been so badly used. I for myself still prefer plain text mails, not only because of their lower size but also because there is no good about color coded emails with all kind of whacky fonts.

humanized.com has a nice article where they show how to make notations with a simple bracket system. This system is so plain simple and amazing. But take a look for yourself.

Humanized > Weblog: Collaboration Made Simple with Bracket Notation

I am still looking around for lists of software people are using on a daily basis. Especially when they are coders. I was looking for some information on how to code in HTML with TextMate. This software is pretty cool for coding but it seems they don’t have the right guys for marketing their software. Garret Dimon gives some insight on how to use TextMate.

Other than that he also has a nice list of his favorite software he uses on his Mac.

When was the last time you made a backup of your personal files? Did you burn them on a CD, DVD or did you store them on an external harddrive? Well at least you make backups. But how reliable are these things? Is it safe to keep all these things in one place? What about a fire and how long does a CD last anyway?

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You probably heard a lot of opinions about defragmentation tools, the need for them and the problems they might cause especially with older defragmentation software. On a Windows based machine the answer is without any question that you need a defragmentation tool. But what about the OS X platform?
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This morning I read an interesting article on one of my favorite weblogs pixelgraphix.de. Manuela asks what your favorite applications are that you use on a daily basis. Read the rest of this entry »

Here is an interesting gadget that you might like because it will help you to be more efficient. I have seen it before, but I was not quite sure if it really works the way it is said. It is the worlds first sleep phase clock called aXbo. Before there were only 3D stills of this clock and a lot of hype about it. But now there’s actually a real product that can be bought. So how does it work?

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Apple’s brand has always been the choice of the people that had a taste in quality and design. Apple’s market share peaked at 15.8 percent in 1980 but that’s a quarter of a century ago and this was even before the introduction of the Macintosh. Apple has tied all things together with software, hardware, design and marketing in their hands. This might seem like a stranglehold to some but it has always led to a user experience that is missed for sure on the PC market. Now that Apple has made its leap to the x86 platform, namely the Intel platform, it won’t take much time until Apple truly starts to shake the PC market.
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Recently I’ve bought a new PowerMac G5, with which I’m very happy. With it came Apple’s latest pointing device innovation the Apple Mighty Mouse. The mouse itself is pretty cool and the vertical/horizontal scrolling wheel is working fine. But after 3 days my lower arm started aching. At first I thought it might be a problem with my desk because I’ve got a lot of stuff on it and so there isn’t much space for me to move the mouse comfortably. I switched back to my old Logitech Pilot Wheel Mouse Optical also because I wanted to know if it worked with my Mac. After a while I missed the vertical scrolling and the additional fourth mouse button of my Mighty Mouse. So I switched back to it. Only two days later my arm started aching again even after I had made room on my desk to let my arm rest on it.

It felt strange to me that such a well designed Mouse should cause RSI symptoms. It had to be me, Apple wouldn’t design a mouse that could cause such problems. So I did some research on the web to see if there were other users just like me.
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I’m now a happy owner of a free iPod. At first I was very suspicious since it sound too good to be true. You’ll get a 30GB iPod video just for signing up for some promotional offers, you’ll need 5 more friends that do the same, and that’s it. Hard to believe isn’t it. But here’s the proof.
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So a few weeks ago I decided to buy myself an upgrade to Alias Sketchbook Pro 2. Which by the way features some nice art from Bobby Chiu on their website, which you can buy from Bobby.So I went to their online store entered all the needed information and finished my purchase with downloading the software. I received the usual e-mail receipt which usually also contains the serial number. But guess what, not this time.

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