The ultimate iPod repair hack: dust off your broken 3Gs
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Sebastian
So, you have an old iPod in the drawer which stopped working for some reason you cannot figure out? You get the folder symbol or nothing? You exchanged the battery but still it will not play your music dependently, just play silence after a couple of minutes or forwarding one track thumbs you through the […]
Some thoughts about Friendfeed
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Sebastian
I have a Friendfeed account, of course I do. But I don’t get it. It is even a bigger distraction than Twitter. Here is my theory: People like it for two reasons. 1. They get more than just tweets from their subscriptions (also blogs, youtube, stumbleupon etc.) and now have the opportunity to comment on […]
YouTube Insight launched – more information about your videos
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Sebastian
Via Techmeme came the story in the Official Google Blog: YouTube insight is launched, basically enabling you to see when your videos hat traffic spikes, popularity spikes and where the audience is located. The above screenshot is from a video with close to 3k views, I think my highest apart from the Speaking English Podcast […]
New version of the ScribeFire blog editor
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Sebastian
Maybe you do know, maybe you don’t. 99,5% if my blogging I do via the Firefox/Flock extension ScribeFire (formerly called performancing). I press the F8 key and invoke an interface covering as much of my browser window I want. I have written about it previously here. Now there is a new version out, with changes […]
Twitter, Facebook, or else?
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Sebastian
There used to be a time when I was on Facebook a lot. I joined groups, created groups and looked at my people’s stream several times a day. It turns out though, I no longer doing that. Of the 20+ groups I am in I only track happenings in 5, opening them up manually. I […]
last.fm – A great idea, but the learning curve is not good enough
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Sebastian
Before I start complaining: last.fm is a great service. It let’s me listen to music I like, give some input about my likes and dislikes and also get recommendations for artists I am not yet familiar with but might like. And I will keep using last.fm, sure. (well, until something better comes along I guess). […]