new software

if you own a mac, then go and download these two:

sidetrack is definitely a must! i never thought i’d miss these features until i installed this nifty piece of software. sidetrack is a replacement driver for your trackpad on the mac. it enables scrolling features i now heavily rely on (it almost makes my mouse obsolete…). you now get a defined zone on your trackpad in which you can scroll the screen (preferably the left part for vertical and the top part for horizontal scrolling…)

collage is a funny little plugin for itunes which displays freely available images from the internet as a visualisation. it’s quite hard to explain, just give it a go.
ah, and most important: both pieces are freeware.

tomazobi

tomazobi will be the hit soon :-)
one of these guys went to school with my sister and all three of ’em have the potential to be the new troubadours of bern (like mani matter and others)
especially their song lulu is just about the best song i ever heard (at least in swiss-german :-)
you need to check out their website, it’s a marvelous example of funny webdesign and crude little ideas (how about their stage-plan for small and big stages?)

btw: my sister is the one on the right :-) the bloke is björn hering, the “used-to-be” host of joya rennt, COO of faro tv and my potential brother-in-law.

tandem movie II

today i finally got the time to grab renzos pictures and movies from last friday.
and since sigi liked the first tandem movie so much, i thought i’d give it a go and made a second one.
this one here is a 5.7 mb movie, renzo and me driving from the main station in bern to the university hospital of bern (actually with some blood in my backpack).

ps: the movie has no sound from driving because it was just too muffled, absolutely no chance to understand a single word.
ps2: watch out for the upcoming tandem feature movie “drü poschis i drü minute” (three post-coaches in three minutes) with an almost crash…

going for a sunday walk

today i thought i needed to go for a little walk.
as i live really near the allmend here in bern i thought, thats a good idea to go there. but then i discovered that it’s not your typical sunday walk today, instead there was some motorbike exhibition.
although i am no fan of motorized stuff, i couldn’t help watching those guys doing some truly impressing FMX stunts.


now i go and read my newspapers.

les triplettes de belleville

through some circumstances i could not go and see les triplettes de belleville last tuesday, but managed to go and see it today with sigi & baba (i simply forgot something and could not go to the movies, no big deal).
it’s a really magnificent movie, go and see it! even if you don’t really like animated movies, it’s got so much charm and a huge amount of far out ideas and little heart-warming details.
if you do not know what i’m talking about, go and see the website (which is a really nice flash-site) or download the trailer here.

tandem movie is up

well, if you’re interested, one of the tandem movies can be downloaded here.
i have to issue a warning, the file is about 9mb in size and if you got a weak stomach, then you might get ill :-)
further infos: the timeline of the movie is absolutely unedited, we drove down the frickweg with the speed you see on the movie (btw. B. and Hermann, i could not show your house, because i had to concentrate on the sharp turn at the end of the badgasse, sorry) and had exactly those two and something minutes to drive down.
the annoying noise is the wind blowing in the microphone of my cam. remember it’s supposed to take pictures, the movie-ability is just a nifty feature…
and yeah, gimme a break, i know the sound is not edited very thorough, but as i said before, it’s my first try with imovie.

keep it simple

do you remember the movies i made last friday? i’ve been fooling around with ’em in imovie and must say that this app is quite straight-forward (as soon as you figure out how to import the sound from non-standard-mpegs which my camera produces).
i know there are much fancier products which are also free, but with imovie i was able to make a nice little movie with soundtrack, a little transition and stuff like that in a matter of some dozen minutes without even thinking about reading the manual.

but now it’s really late, i got a terrible cold and just want to go to bed, i’ll upload the movie tomorrow or thursday. i think it’s quite funny for a first try in video-editing :-)

good night.

nokia n-gage (todays fun link)

this is why the new nokia n-gage gameconsolemobilephonetacoshell is never gonna be a hit!

update: it might not be obvious, but nokias designers do not read books on industrial design. this means, that the user has to hold the n-gage sideways to make a phone-call with it. how daft is that?

update: see what gizmodo has to say to bad industrial design :-) (actually not really about the n-gage, but about the new nokia 7700 which is sidetalking-enabled, too…)

ego-googling

taking a look at the referers to habi.gna.ch i found that when you search for habi on google, then you get quite relevant hits:

ps: and if you take a close look on the referers, then you see some interesting keywords that list my page really high: “fleisch werbekampagne“, “streetparade 03“, “Grosstierklinik+Bern+Tierspital”

ps: and searching for siegfried and roy on search.ch ranks me quite high. b. (CTO @ search.ch), i think you have to tweak your algorithm a bit :-)

tandem-movies

well, i just can’t help posting some more:
the back seat driver made some pictures and even some movies.
i’ll try to reencode them into a more web-friendly format (the longest one is about 60mb, exactly 3 minutes, which is just too big) using imovie and then post them here.
they’re all quite funky to watch, because you feel like being on the bike actually.

todays fun link

well, if you google this, then you get this :-)
i guess, expansys should have a better quality-control…
and yes, i’m an avid fan of ricardo.ch. i guess i bought about half of my digital equipment there. including my ibook, my ipod, my palm (old, but works like a charm), my web-cam (which arrived today, but i wasn’t home, so i can go and pick it up tomorrow), my telly, my telephone(s) and numerous other stuff…