Monthly Archives: January 2008

Google as Currency Converter

I want to know how many Euros 100 USD are? I knew that Google is porviding a currency converter on its web search, but I couldn’t remember how this works. Therefore I tried: My first attemp was: 100usd = ?eur … Continue reading

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From the iPhone to the Nuviphone

Garmin Wednesday night surprised the cellphone industry by taking its own leap into smartphones. The Nuviphone aims both to compete with the iPhone as well as to bring Garmin’s experience with GPS navigation to the forefront. Almost entirely controlled by … Continue reading

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GeoNames – A Free GeoWebservice

GeoNames is a geographical data base freely available and accessible through various Web services, under a Creative Commons attribution license. The GeoNames database contains over 8,000,000 geographical names corresponding to over 6,500,000 unique features. All features are categorized into one … Continue reading

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Macbook AirCraft

A lot of people have critizised the Macbook Air because of its lack of connectivity. For all those people there appeared a  new design study of Apple Here is everything onboard: Superdrive Floppydrive 3x USB 2.0 3x Firewire 400, 2x … Continue reading

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ArcGIS and Webbrowsers

I could not believe my eyes, when I read this message in the official support center of ESRI, and ESRI schould be the largest software company for Desktop GIS Systems. Thats poor… The Message can also be seen here: http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=knowledgebase.techarticles.articleShow&d=34262 … Continue reading

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When Streetview goes to far…

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ESRI Founder Jack Dangermond Predicts the Future of GIS

Any discussion about the present and future of the GIS industry is incomplete without perspective from the man some call the “Father of GIS,” Jack Dangermond. He and his wife, Laura, founded industry heavyweight ESRI in 1969. As interest in … Continue reading

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That was Steve’s Keynote

On this video you can see the most important highlights of the MacWorld 2008 Keynote. This keynote didn’t contain any real big hits. The highlight was the Macbook Air, which was not really new. Eyeryone expected this thin subnotebook from … Continue reading

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There’s something in the air

This you can read on Apples Banners. There are a lot of speculations about the new products presented on the World MacExpo 2008. According to the motto “There are something in the air”, many websites predict a new subnotebook called … Continue reading

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NY Times Tech Videos by David Pogue

Tech and Humor is a combination that is seen to less. David Pouge manage this in a great way. Check out some of this best videos here. or this one, I also find this one funny

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