Core tumble log

The music of cities

Jul 31st

#itunes synch triplicated my contacts on the #iphone again. Next to the eternal spinning ball on Mac...

Jul 31st

#followfriday was gettin old. Now it is old.

Jul 31st

Thinking about big changes lying ahead.

Jul 31st

Grid—A—Licious – Wordpress Grid Theme

Jul 31st

Dropular - Media Bookmarking

Jul 31st

TypeInspire

Jul 31st

Christopher Hewitt

Jul 31st

Hype for Type

Jul 31st

R.fm

Jul 31st

Checking out the #mobile-me #iphone #app that #apple released a minute ago.

Jul 30th

It’s interesting how #apple chose to ignore the standardized sharing icon and went for a...

Jul 30th

Do You Feel It, by Joe Cuba http://bit.ly/srvwT

Jul 30th

On #office 2008 for #mac-os, the functions #action and #link are so buggy, they are rendered...

Jul 30th

#evernote for iPhone ignores repeated edits of the same text note, no matter if you saved it. #fail...

Jul 30th

No, #tweetie for Mac. I do not wish you to remind me later to buy you. I am fine with the ads. I do...

Jul 30th

Kickstarter

Jul 29th

New York Times: For Mozilla and Google, Group...

Jul 29th

Helium

Jul 29th

After using it for a couple of weeks, I really dig http://grooveshark.com. Unlike Last.fm, it is...

Jul 29th

Google Wave Federation Protocol

Jul 29th

Once you have more than one account on iTunes Store, #authorization becomes a total mess. #apple...

Jul 29th

“Sorry, but this house has reached its limit of people authorized to visit.” #apple...

Jul 29th

Imagine this with books: “Sorry, but this book has reached its limit of users authorized to...

Jul 29th

What do you mean, #itunes #store, I don’t have the rights to transfer the apps I bought on the...

Jul 29th

“Of 2,025 adults surveyed, 69% don’t know what Twitter Is.” *Silicon Alley Insider...

Jul 29th

Enjoying self-made latte machiato.

Jul 29th

Because I’m located in Switzerland, #yahoo doesn’t let me use my American e-mail account...

Jul 29th

“There’s plenty of will in Washington these days to go after the telecoms and impose net...

Jul 28th

“55.6 million or 33% of adults in the U.S. use social networks today, up from 15% in...

Jul 28th

LavaLamp 1.3.2 Demo

Jul 28th

Great #google #wave presentation by @jstuker. Now checking out to continue working at home.

Jul 28th

If I had a penny for every time #office let me down, I could found a company that buys #microsoft.

Jul 28th

The Great Escape by Patrick Watson: http://tinysong.com/1n9H

Jul 28th

Leave Them All Behind by Whitey: http://tinysong.com/16ej

Jul 28th

A&E by Goldfrapp: http://tinysong.com/XFZ

Jul 28th

#microsoft #office 2008 for #mac makes you feel humble. You’re running into walls all the...

Jul 28th

Ever tried to put a #javascript #text-file into #evernote? It’s always replacing the script...

Jul 28th

I joined #twitter some time in August 2006, not “14 January 2007”. http://bit.ly/spJee...

Jul 28th

Work is calling.

Jul 28th

Verizon Uses Twitter To Trash Talk AT&T Too

Jul 28th

It doesn’t take much to guess which theme I like best: https://friendfeed.com/settings/themes...

Jul 27th

My article on the #namics #blog about #brand-streams (in #german): http://bit.ly/1L1LjH

Jul 27th

RT: @stoweboyd: I really like the NY Times ‘Skimmer’ http://bit.ly/bwFxa

Jul 27th

Finally getting around to write an #article about #brand-streams (in German), which will be posted...

Jul 26th

Sitting in front of the Apple Store Zurich Bahnhofstrasse, enjoying the free Wi-Fi.

Jul 25th

Apple Store Zurich Bahnhofstrasse just called. My MacBook Pro has been repaired, five days before...

Jul 25th

After a couple of weeks using the #iphone 3GS, I love the improved experience. If #apple will change...

Jul 24th

RT @mikearauz: Yay. sneak preview of Dexter Season 4 http://bit.ly/17kDHu

Jul 24th

My short list of software I #hate the most, in hierarchical order: #lotus-notes,...

Jul 24th

#twitter still doesn’t get that dashes in hash-tags don’t mean the end of a #hash-tag.

Jul 24th

RT @stoweboyd: “Maybe, @brett, #followfriday is a meme that’s a bit played out?” -...

Jul 24th

#twitter may be hunting down #spammers, but the question is, who is the hunted here? They’re...

Jul 24th

Four #people-i-admire: Natalia Khusainova Estemirova, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Albert-László Barabási,...

Jul 24th

To clarify, I should add I admire von Neumann not for his contributions to the nuclear bomb, but for...

Jul 24th

Elgg

Jul 24th

Open Atrium Features

Jul 24th

joshua's blog: on url shorteners

Jul 24th

Socialgo

Jul 24th

Twitterfeed

Jul 24th

Still smiling over the Swissification of the word “follower”; they’re reluctant to...

Jul 24th

#apple Store Zurich Bahnhofstrasse is making promises it can’t keep, and they are unwilling to...

Jul 24th

Assuming your native language choice, by sniffing the server IP location, is a disease I hope Google...

Jul 24th

First time I had to file a complaint today at the #apple Retail Store, Zurich Bahnhofstrasse. A two...

Jul 24th

RT @stoweboyd: 86% of business PCs still running #windows XP - #microsoft is stuck in the ’90s...

Jul 24th

Found the nearest Starbucks. It saved my life.

Jul 24th

Now the magnitude of my addiction becomes apparent. #starbucks at work is closed today for...

Jul 24th

To understand this better: people are willing to pay 14 Swiss francs for a coffee mug with...

Jul 24th

I missed you, #twitter. Despite all the spammers.

Jul 24th

Henning in San Francisco

Jul 23rd

First, I thought this was an elaborate joke. But “The Manhattan Airport Foundation” is...

Jul 22nd

#tweetie for Mac, if you don’t turn off your nagging purchase reminder, or give me an option...

Jul 22nd

Ribbit

Jul 22nd

With popularity of #twitter growing, #spammers start getting annoying like flies. Out of five new...

Jul 22nd

Endless loading cycle fun with #gmail in #safari. One would think they’ve taken care of that...

Jul 21st

After all these updates, #tweetie for #mac still does not recognize hashtags with hyphen. It cuts...

Jul 21st

Kind of the holy grail: Apple’s documentation to change system default settings in the command...

Jul 21st

Mac OS default settings documentation

Jul 21st

The Hasselblad EDC (Electric Data Camera) was left on the moon. http://bit.ly/bKbgi

Jul 21st

Suddenly extremely tired. But I had a great conversation tonight. Well worth staying up late.

Jul 20th

RT @Veronica: There was a great concept video of an iTunes app organizer a while back that I posted...

Jul 20th

“The Hit List” beats “Things” in my experience.

Jul 20th

Monday morning, and already I’m staring at a spinning beach ball. #apple #fail

Jul 20th

This is amazing stuff. Literally. http://www.storyofstuff.com/

Jul 19th

Change one city, a street number, or add a dash to a phone number, and sync will surely mess up your...

Jul 19th

Cleaning up addresses, LinkedIn connections and rethinking my #person-brand.

Jul 19th

♬ Exo Politics, by Muse: http://tinysong.com/3eCA

Jul 19th

Twitter supports entering special HTML 4 characters. #tweetie for #mac doesn’t. ☹

Jul 19th

Leave Them All Behind, by Whitey: http://tinysong.com/16ej

Jul 19th

Really interesting story about the recent hacker attack on #twitter, and a few lessons to learn....

Jul 19th

Even watching a bad movie can be somewhat fun, if you’re looking at the mistakes and learning...

Jul 18th

If you want to follow my live stream of everything I do, on Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, Friendfeed, and...

Jul 18th

Message to God. With the release of Earth 2.0, can you please include more hours in a Saturday?...

Jul 18th

An essential acknowledgement

Tumblr is probably the best invention after sliced bread, the condom and fire. Oh, and Stephen...

Jul 18th

I know this may sound ambitious. I’m thinking about a new OS interface. No folders, just...

Jul 18th

Seriously, the day Steve Jobs hits the stage to announce the “end of the spinning beach...

Jul 18th

The #mighty-mouse was likely the worst #apple-design ever produced. I don’t know a single user...

Jul 18th

#dropbox has an almost good user experience, except for the fact it uses only 10 to 20kb for upload....

Jul 18th

#apple Retail Store in #zurich Bahnhofstrasse rocks. They just replaced my #iphone 3GS screen, which...

Jul 17th

I think my iPhone’s motion sensor is broken. It flips to wide screen mode only in one of five...

Jul 16th

Only 10% of #twitter users account for 90% of all Twitter messages, according to Silicon Alley...

Jul 16th

On the surface, I don’t see many changes on #boxee. Maybe the Mac version doesn’t...

Jul 16th

AppStorm: 30 iPhone Apps with Sexy Interfaces

Jul 16th

How To Finance Your Startup

Jul 16th

If you use a new startup sound for #skype on #mac (mp3), it will crash as soon it started. Deleting...

Jul 16th

If Windows never existed, people wouldn’t miss its existence. If Mac OS never existed, there...

Jul 15th

Killing time while Windows Vista korruptet itself again so severily, it went to disk diagnose mode...

Jul 15th

Swiss Railways always mixes up trains at St. Hardbrücke. Trains are never there in time; the ones...

Jul 15th

Two new followers. Wait, they’re both spammers. As usual, lately. #spam #increase

Jul 15th

If you became a member of Mashable once, you’re doomed. There is no obvious way to cancel...

Jul 14th

iPhone-Facebook has a serious bug. Icon shows 1 new message, app shows 3, but there are only 2...

Jul 14th

Less important than target audiences today, are behavior patterns of people, in context of their...

Jul 13th

A big misunderstanding of #social-media is that #brands create it. It’s a people-thing by...

Jul 13th

The Facebook iPhone app is broken. It doesn’t show content of messages, and it doesn’t...

Jul 12th

Two hours editing in iMovie. All of a sudden black screen and eternal beach ball. Restart. Last hour...

Jul 12th

iMovie is likely the buggiest program of all Apple software.

Jul 12th

The lesson Microsoft could learn from Google is, you get away with a goofy name if your product...

Jul 11th

Google named itself with a spelling error, because it was cool. Microsoft named its search engine...

Jul 11th

Impatience is a bad advisor, but a damn good driver.

Jul 11th

After a long day of work I feel exhausted. Now, why is it that a simple fix on Windows gives me the...

Jul 11th

Windows is a great source for excuses. There’s always a driver that needs to be fixed, before...

Jul 11th

CSS-Tricks: Color Fading Menu with jQuery

Jul 10th

CSS-Tricks: Better Password Inputs, iPhone...

Jul 10th

Change style sheets by clicking on a link

Jul 10th

Advanced Javascript 3D Animations and...

Jul 10th

Wikipedia: Ambient Intelligence

Jul 10th

I just installed #postbox on my Windows Vista installation. It was about time!

Jul 10th

Interesting: 60% of the Online population in the US uses Social Networks. That is only 10% more than...

Jul 10th

To specify the one percent difference: I was rounding up.

Jul 10th

#ubiquitous, #sensoring, #behavior, #awareness. A few keywords to be armed for the near #future.

Jul 10th

The funny thing is, in a couple of years, people will say “you know, when we still had...

Jul 10th

Here is another #keyword for the #future: #ambient-intelligence. http://bit.ly/19iBOR

Jul 10th

Save My Soul, by The Whip - http://tinysong.com/1uLx

Jul 9th

Paper Aeroplane, by Angus & Julia Stone - http://tinysong.com/1Zd8

Jul 9th

Up Against the Wall, by Peter Bjorn and John - http://tinysong.com/2uyo

Jul 9th

A Walk In The Dark (Reprise), by Whitey - http://tinysong.com/5YWu

Jul 9th

A Walk In The Dark / Reprise by Whitey on Grooveshark: http://tinysong.com/5VzN

Jul 8th

I’m involved in processes that take way too much time. Feeling my time is wasted. Impatience...

Jul 8th

“Your free trial to Last.fm Radio has ended. Subscribe to continue listening to non-stop,...

Jul 7th

Enduring a download that is slow as hell.

Jul 7th

Somehow, #tweetdeck works much better on Windows than it does on Mac OS. I thought Air programs are...

Jul 7th

Philtro

Jul 5th

MySoti

Jul 5th

Space Collective

Jul 5th

The Long Now Foundation

Jul 5th

Trendrr

Jul 5th

Incremental backup of my user- and applications data. My MacBook Pro’s screen needs a repair next...

Jul 5th

Various attempts to cool down my apartment.

Jul 5th

Ok, @tweetie for Mac. That was the last purchase reminder, without an option to never remind me...

Jul 5th

Strange, iTunes and App Store on the iPhone are caught in an eternal loading loop. It never goes...

Jul 4th

Spent a great day in the city with friends from the East Bay and Germany. Got a sunburn, now winding...

Jul 4th

A full Saturday is ahead of me, but the sun is out unexpectedly, so I’m more enthusiastic than...

Jul 4th

#followfriday is getting old. Here are people I #admire: Esther Dyson, Steve Jobs, Malcolm Gladwell,...

Jul 3rd

#html E-Mail, with responsibly applied styles (relative, no font-family, no forced font size, just...

Jul 3rd

I keep getting an average of three to five followers a day. Yet my follower number stays the same...

Jul 2nd

Will Firefox 3.5 finally let me choose which kind of Google search I want? I HATE being redirected...

Jul 2nd

Sitting at a Starbucks in Zurich. They’re playing Angus & Julia Stone back and forth. Love...

Jul 2nd

Let’s swap #followfriday with a new idea: Make a statement about a person you admire....

Jul 2nd

iPhone Day at Namics Rotweiss

Jun 30th

iPhone Day at Namics Rotweiss

Jun 30th

iPhone Day at Namics Rotweiss

Jun 30th

iPhone Day at Namics Rotweiss

Jun 30th

Thank you, @evernote, for replying directly to my request. Made good 100 years of brand devastation...

Jun 30th