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Shopping 2.9 Beta – the new impressions…

July 30th, 2009 No comments

You mean you’ve already seen every online-shop? You won’t be impressed by a new concept?

Well – then maybe this one gives you some new impressions about online-shops:

http://producten.hema.nl/

Click on the link and then… WAIT…

Categories: fun, Others

How cool is that??

July 29th, 2009 No comments

That’s one of the best ads ever seen…

Tja, sixt.de hat's wohl richtig erkannt...

Tja, sixt.de hat’s wohl richtig erkannt…

And it’s getting better…

und noch eines 'drauf :-)

und noch eines 'drauf 🙂

Categories: fun

Ein illegales Programm von Microsoft

July 28th, 2009 No comments

Unglaublich… Ohne Worte:

Categories: fun, Others

Weekend stuff… Drobo again & Philips Latte Select

July 26th, 2009 2 comments
Latte Select

Latte Select

And again I have troubles with two items in my flying circus.

The brand new Philips Latte Select failed now the second time – after it was delivered the first time by amazon.de I had to return it immediately because the watertank was broken (the water indicator).

They sent me a new one and everything worked fine – until yesterday evening. We made two cups of Latte Macchiato – but then the machine stopped working. Normal coffee worked, but as soon as a ‘milky’ version was selected the start/stop button light was just flashing… not the fast flashing indicating that milk or water is missing – no a slower one which is not described in the manual…

Drobo 2TB

Drobo 2TB

But not enough – I started to move large files to my drobo (about 5 files each about 2GB). While the move was performed my MacBook Pro decided to start a backup via TimeMachine to my drobo. After 2mins the light indicators of the drobo where black. It just stopped working.

I disconnected the drobo from the Airport Extreme, pulled out the power line, waited some minutes and then re-powered the device. Re-connected it to the APE and tried again. Same procedure… this time much faster :-(… after seconds the lights where black and the drobo didn’t respond any more.

Because it was already two o’clock in the morning I decided that I wait until the next day to try it again.

This morning I connected the device directly to the MacBook Pro because it was not possible to restart the drobo again while it was connected to the Airport Extreme – and it worked.

So I think this time the Airport Extreme seems to be the device to blame. I restarted the device and then reconnected the drobo – and now everything worked. Strange behaviour….

The Airport Extreme was not dead during this time – everything else worked fine…

Update:
The Philips Senseo LS has been picked up yesterday (Aug., 3rd 2009) evening to take a little repair session… we’ll see how long this session will take.

Update 2:
As promised by Philips Support the Senseo was sent back within 10 workdays. And works great 🙂

Categories: Apple, MacBook Pro, Others, Storage

‘Offline’ the last days… because of ‘Flight Control’

July 19th, 2009 No comments

You realized that there have been less entries in my blog over the last days?

Yes – you’re right… and it’s all because of ‘Flight Control’

FlightControl

FlightControl

I’m in fact not a gamer – just sometimes I like it to play around with new games… but never for a long period.
Well – with Flight Control maybe this will change… I’m playing around with this game now for several days and it is still pure fun 🙂

Categories: Apple, fun, iPhone

200PS on the river ‘Inn’

July 12th, 2009 No comments

Yesterday Nico & Marco – my two sons – had an appointment with our local Firedepartment in Kufstein, Tyrol. They have been invited to have a ride with their 200PS jetboat on the river ‘Inn’.

Feuerwehr Kufstein

Feuerwehr Kufstein

So we started at 9 o’clock and where shown the equipment of the firedepartment – their cars, trucks, watertanks, uniforms, helmets and much, much more – the kids had fun, really fun 🙂

After half an hour we where picked up with one of their trucks and rushed to the docking station of their jetboat in Zell. The kids – and we too – where very excited. They got their lifejackets – a little too big for Nico… but no problem at all… and then we started to a ride over the Inn.

It was really great and we all had fun and learned much about our firedepartment. Photos will follow on flickr soon – check them out!

Thank you to all involved who made this event happen!

Categories: Events, Others

Update day

July 5th, 2009 No comments

WordPress has been updated today to the latest version – took some time but now we are up to date 🙂

Categories: Others