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Oh joy! Seems like ahzf took out an ad and guess for what? Yeah, for our unfriendly neighbourhood Herr S..

Oh you could search for this...or for "Tino Seeber"

Source: http://blog.ahzf.de

After about a week of "thinking about it" she bit the bullet and got herself a Nokia 5300. She wanted to have something that has some dedicated buttons for music playback control and she needed a new mobile phone. So the 5300 seemed the perfect match.

She wanted to sync her new phone with our Mac so we had to look for something that would allow that to happen. Apple iSync does not support the 5300 out of the box but there are several plugins available on the intertubes. One of them is free and does the job just like all the other ones that need to be bought. It"s called "iSync-Plugin 2.4" and is available here. Just grab it, drop it to the ~/Library folder and restart iSync. iSync should now recognize the phone...just like it did in our case:

Source: http://www.s60themes.co.uk/

Just about a month and Forza Motorsport 2 hits the shelves. I cannot wait!

 This is the tv-commercial:

Source: http://www.forzamotorsport.net/

This post is more of a reminder for myself. ;-) I need to remember that obviously great multi-track audio application that just became available.

"Ardour is a digital audio workstation. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. You can produce your own CDs, mix video soundtracks, or just experiment with new ideas about music and sound.

Ardour capabilities include: multichannel recording, non-destructive editing with unlimited undo/redo, full automation support, a powerful mixer, unlimited tracks/busses/plugins, timecode synchronization, and hardware control from surfaces like the Mackie Control Universal. If you"ve been looking for a tool similar to ProTools, Nuendo, Pyramix, or Sequoia, you might have found it.

Above all, Ardour strives to meet the needs of professional users. This means implementing all the "hard stuff" that other DAWs ( even some leading commercial apps ) handle incorrectly or not at all. Ardour has a completely flexible "anything to anywhere" routing system, and will allow as many physical I/O ports as your system allows. Ardour supports a wide range of audio-for-video features such as video-synced playback and pullup/pulldown sample rates. You will also find powerful features such as "persistent undo", multi-language support, and destructive track punching modes that aren"t available on other platforms."

Source: http://www.ardour.org/

 I wrote about geomerics approach on realtime radiosity lighting less than a year ago. They now have something to show and be proud of: Enlighten is there and they are working on porting it to the 360 and PS3.

Watch what"s possible:

Source 1: real time radiosity lighting
Source 2: http://www.geomerics.com

Oh damn. So Apple said that Leopard - the next iteration of OS X - is coming in October instead of spring. I planned buying a macbook early this year but now I have to wait ... Damn! I wanted to reorganize my hardware...

To make one thing clear: I do not buy a macbook because of OS X. I am buying it because it also runs Windows. Diversity is a good thing. I currently already own a PowerPC mac just because I wanted to see what all the fuss is about two years ago.

I had a talk yesterday about Windows Vista for developers. You can grab the slides here:

Source: dotnetcommunity.de

21st May to 22nd May 2007 in Duisburg, Location: Landschaftspark

From Software Architecture, User Interface and Robotics to Games Development with the XNA framework: in use and brand new technologies of the IT – industry will be presented and demonstrated at technologically advanced level. Microsofts Student Technology Conference is the perfect opportunity to engage with potential employers and to get in touch with Microsofts .NET technology. Additionally the German Finals in Microsofts premiere technology competition, the Imagine Cup 2007, will have its final in the Software Design invitational right here!

Two Days, you can"t afford to miss:

• State of the art technical presentations, especially designed for and by students´ interests
• Workshops
• The German finals in Imagine Cup 07 in Software Design
• Fun and action parts embedded
• Evening event
• Full board during conference
• And more and more

Here"s the agenda of the event:

So now go and register! ;-)

If you want some impressions of the last two Student Technology Conferences, just take a look here and here.

 Source: http://www.studentconference.de/

FeM e.V. - which translates into "Forschungsgemeinschaft elektronische Medien e.V." which then translates into "research community for electronic media" - is now officially 10 years old. Happy Birthday!

And to celebrate this birthday there will be some great events:

25.04., 2100h: iSTUFF - FeM Geburtstagssendung (Public Viewing im BC-Club - entrance free!!!)

26.04., 2100h: hfc Sondervorführung - "12 Monkeys" (Helmholtz-Hörsaal - entrance free!!!)

28.04., entrance 1930h - starts 2000h: Spezial Chillout Lounge (Mensa der TU Ilmenau - entrance free!!!)

Source: FeM e.V. blog

I finally made it!

I tried for more than 2 years to get this done: A new design and layout for this website. And now it"s finally done!

I hope you enjoy the new colors and elements like the nice tagcloud there. Feel free to tell me what you think!