Summer Holidays!

Currently, I enjoy my summer holidays... several weeks ago, we (sandra, ceryll and myself) moved to a new appartement --> there is a lot of things to do and to arrange still during holidays.. but also we were in the wonderfull city of barcelona for 5 days and we were in Locarno for the depeche mode concert. - So not much time to write blog-entries...

Google SpreadSheet (aka Excel in the Browser)

Google Spreadsheets is Excel in the Browser for free! Using AJAX and Web 2.0 Technologies, Google has produced an other killer application. Read this article for more detailed information or try out directly here.

Sniff at more google browser-software on http://labs.google.com/

Generate Data-Based Web Sites With Blinq

Blinq 1.0 (WeB linq) is Microsoft's prototype of an extension to LINQ to SQL (formerly DLinq) that auto-generates a complete data-entry and editing ASP.NET 2.0 Web site by executing a simple command-line statement.

Sounds great - I will check it out soon. More information:

http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2006/06/22/640978.aspx

TimeSnapper

Did you ever had problems to remember what you did during the last week? What kind of work you did on your computer? - This kind of stuff you needs to be journalized, especially if you have to write your billing reports ....

By accident, I found TimeSnapper - a free Automatic Screenshot Journal. This Tool does help me a lot.

Try it - it's for free for personal use. - But don't mis-use it as spyware! ;-)

Map24 - AJAX API

Map24, a popular map provider, does offer a free AJAX API. More... http://devnet.map24.com/

Hattrick.org (online soccer game)

Hattrick is an online football (soccer) game where you trade players and coach your team in competition with hundreds of thousands of simultaneous opponents from all over the world.

You can find an interview with the Managing Director, Johan Gustafson here: http://www.interviewbooks.com/hattrick_org.htm

I am addicted, I love hattrick and my team... but I still loose too many times.... here you can find my team: Revelstoke B.C. (751819) - feel free to conquer me!

"Fight with the best, die like the rest" ;-)

Read articles without registration

You just want to read a free article from the Internet (e.g. http://www.ftponline.com) but you can't until you are "registered for free" to get the text?

Grmpf!! Registering is annoying and boring.

But there is a handy solution to get the free content without additional work:
http://www.bugmenot.com/

IE 6 and IE 7 together

Did you realize the possibility of running e.g. IE6 and IE7 together? - I didn't till today...

I had installed IE7 Beta2 when I realized, that I can't work on Gadgets for Live.com with IE7 on my development-server because of security limitation (do not allow cross-domain XmlHttp requests from trusted sites). - So I started to google, and found a solution which works for me: I installed IE7 stand-alone with some limitation - but still okay for me.... read the following articles for more information:

http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2006/02/02/437196.aspx

http://www.tech-recipes.com/internet_explorer_ie7_tips1188.html

Ray Ozzie - Microsoft's new brain and Gates' proxy

A very interesting article about Microsofts conquer the Web:

CNN Article

It seems, Ray Ozzie (Lotus Notes creator) will lead the the show @ microsoft.

File-Extensions Source

Test yourself! Do you know all exisiting file extensions?

http://filext.com/

This page is a usefull helper, if you get a file without any idea, what kind of file it should be. It was a *.xpi file. Do you know the content?

It was a Mozilla/Firefox Browser Extension Archive.