Hmm delicious OS-browser-font-soup6. August, 2010

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There you go again … So I think I’m finally done with my web design for now, having tested it with different browsers, on Mac OS and Windows, and there it is – yet another problem: Thanks Sven for pointing me to that issue! Obviously, with certain unfortunate OS/browser combination, the fonts get badly pixel’ed. [...]

Hello New Website World!1. August, 2010

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Phew, there it is eventually – my new website! Well, it is really my good old wordpress blog extended (R.I.P. www.projectzone.wordpress.com). Please remove your old bookmarks and subscribe to the new RSS feed. Hope you’ll enjoy it. It was quite a bit of fun to do some form of coding again, after a long long [...]

One afternoon in Presentation Land11. Mai, 2010

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Yesterday, I ‘just’ wanted to import a Powerpoint presentation into OpenOffice.org Impress and create a rather simplistic presentation. Phew, what an experience… It started off pretty well. After importing, the slides didn’t look too messy, so I wanted to adjust the Slide Master, for some better alignment and a few issues of personal taste. To [...]

No Prince2 manual on the iPhone?!21. April, 2010

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So I bought this heavily DRM-restricted Prince2 2009 PDF for roughly 100 EUR. It is easy to read on the laptop. So far, so good. I didn’t try printing it yet. Now I thought, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to read it on my iPhone, too? This way I could look things up [...]

Released from keyboard agony!21. November, 2009

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Since I installed the Keyboard Firmware Upgrade on my MacBook Pro, I got these REALLY annoying effects like: Shift key sticks whenever I press it a nanosecond too long. Unnerving clicking sounds whenever I press a function key. And these wonderful cryptic signs in the bottom left corner of my screen… well at least they [...]