Freie Schriften im Mini-Portrait Showcase of some free fonts (in german) (tags: free font typography german design) IDAV Interkultureller Deutsch-Afrikanischer Verein Freiburg (tags: africa culture freiburg)

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Konfiguration des MySQL Query Cache MySQL-Consultant Kristian Köhntopp erklärt Wirkungsweise und Konfiguration des MySQL Query Cache. (tags: database mysql performance tutorial) Su-Shee's mascarpone sauce recipe Tasty, simple, fast. (tags: recipe sauce mascarpone food) Consolidate Firefox's chrome Today we're going to make over the Firefox default chrome and consolidate only the stuff you need into as little space as possible so you can scroll less and see more while you surf. (tags: firefox browser tips hacks)

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German speakers that are interested in the Catalyst framework for development of web applications in Perl can now subscribe to a Catalyst mailing list in german language. As use perl; states, Matt S. Trout created the mailing list after some discussion in two of the german Perl mongers mailing lists.

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Today is a happy day! My 1&1 3DSL got connected, my router has arrived and I'm online with 16 MBit/s downstream and 1 MBit/s upstream. The weekend is saved! It was a huge test of my patience, but the timing is perfect since I have to migrate my web server in the next few days. My hosting provider Alturo closes shop and I have to move all my websites and email services to a new server before the end of the month. I was prepared to go back to Philippsburg tomorrow night to use my brother's DSL connection, but now I can do the work from home when it fits best. Additionally, I have to answer a lot of emails that I had to queue because I didn't find the time to respond at work. And of course there's the second episode of Radio Perl that waits to be recorded. The weekend will not be boring, I guess.

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The noob Webcomic about roleplaying games (tags: cartoon webcomic comic) Overflow Overflow is designed to minimize the clutter in your OS X dock and provide a small, well designed application/folder/file launcher at your fingertips. (tags: macosx software desktop) How to take a better photograph Some simple steps to consistently taking better photos in the most common scenarios. (tags: photo camera digicam photography tutorial)

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Finally, according to the german news site Golem, Skype officially announced a software version of their VOIP client for Symbian-based cell phones until end of the year. Skype hasn't disclosed yet what Symbian platform exactly the client is being developed for, but since it is meant to be available on some Nokia phones first, we can assume that it'll be the S60 3rd edition that the recent N-series and E-series models run on. Needless to say that Mobile operators are reluctant to support Skype on their networks, but I guess I can at least stop looking for a wireless home phone now.

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IT-Dojo is my new website where I publish IT content like training materials and my netcast "Radio Perl". First, I built the site with Joomla, mainly out of curiousity regarding the CMS's features. But I quickly found out that Joomla follows the "feature richness means complexity" rule, too. Yesterday, while updating my and Carolins blog to the current Serendipity version, I read through the extensive list of S9Y plugins and realized that IT-Dojo will also mainly be a blog. So I decided to get rid of the complexity of Joomla and built the site new, now based on Serendipity. Installation was as easy as always and it took me only some more minutes to modify the default template with the IT-Dojo banner. Simplicity rules. As does Serendipity. :-)

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37signals announced new goodies in Backpack, their online organization tool for to-do and idea lists, notes, pictures, texts and appointments. There are no big new features, but the existing parts get quite an improvement: Up until now, on every Backpack page, you had one block of lists, one block of notes, and so on. Lists could only be reordered inside their block, likewise with notes etc. Now, you can mix all different information types at your liking: a list, followed by some notes, then another list, some photos -- you get the picture. In summary: page layout in Backpack gets a lot more flexible. For a video demonstration, see the preview of the new reorganization possibilities. I've been using a paid Backpack account for over half a year now, and seeing how 37signals gradually improve their products with sensible additions, I'll gladly prolong that subscription.

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On one of my recent train rides, I transferred all the contacts from my Time/System paper planner to my Nokia E61. Since it also automatically syncs with my Exchange account via the WLAN at work, I now have all my important up to date calendar and contact information on my smartphone. But with a growing amount of data on my smartphone there came a new problem: finding information. Searching for contacts is no challenge, of course, but what I've been missing, for example, was a search function for calendar events: "When was that certain anniversary in 2007 again?" Thrilled by a post on the E61Life blog, I just downloaded and installed the Nokia search application that obviously already is pre-installed on the new Nokia E50. It enables you to search messages, email, calendar, contacts and other files. Nokia, keep up the good work! My E61 gets more useful by the day.

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Oh yeah, Sony, you really want me to get your new console, don't you? First, my PS2 stops playing my newer game DVDs, and now there'll be a Linux for the Playstation 3 Well, I'm not falling for that, you know! No, I'll definitely not buy your huge block of graphical goodness! At least not before christmas.

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