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iPhone papercraft

MacWorld San Francisco 2007 Keynote
was great as expected, although much of the long time awaited
smaller things didn’t show up yet.

At least Apple TV is now ready to be pre-ordered, and finally the
iPhone became reality. If you didn’t see anything yet, it is a must
to visit Apple’s
iPhone site and walk through all the quicktime videos or even the
now published keynote livestream.
paper iPhone sideviewpaper iPhone frontview
Now for the fun stuff. For those of you, who have kids, or the
completely desperate guy – who can’t wait any longer (Hi Alex,
Reyk, Gerd…) to have the new iPhone in their own hands – here’s a
guide how to build your own paper-craft iPhone. Winking

paper iPhone openfoldedpaper iPhone bottom
(Please, excuse the red color shift in my pictures, as my laser
printer is missing cyan toner at the moment.)
iPhone papercraft
A bigger version of the paper-craft cut template can be downloaded here. Feel
free to modify with your own iPhone front-cover.
Also the measurements are not completely true for now, see the
apple spec page for exact measurements to scale your image to the
printer.

Have fun, Winking
Kobaan.

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Waiting for Keynote 2007

Only a few hours left until MacWorld
2007 Keynote in San Francisco.
check the live event coverage here:
http://www.macrumorslive.comHere’s a list of the expected announcements:

Category: Devices

– iPhone like iPod nano + touchscreen wheel
– iPhone Pro like iPod Video with Blackberry like features
– iPod nano with doubled capacity
– iTV as previously announced, a settop-box to beam iTunes and
maybe more to your TV

Category: Computers

– MacMini with Core2Duo processors and a bundled version with
keyboard/mouse + 17″ Cinema Display
– MacPro with improved memory and maybe dual-quad cores ?
– reveal 600Mbps Airport Extreme already working inside a few
devices ?

Category: Online Services

– .Mac Account with increased storage capacity up to 50GB for iDisk
and TimeMachine usage
– Own domain names and eMail addresses

Category: Software

iLife 07 Package:
– iPhoto + Google maps integration and GPS tagging features
– iWeb faster updates/websyncs + .Mac statistics plugin

iWork 07 Package:
– Pages improved
– Keynote improved
– standalone Spreadsheet added

Leopard Mac OS 10.5:
– release end of january 2007
– faster user interface
– new sreensavers
– TimeMachine (backup and archiving)
– CoreAnimation (GUI library)
– Spaces (workplace switcher)
– iChat with screencasting, video feature and videoeffects
– Dashboard onTheFly (iFly?) Widgets / easy and completely new
DashCode
– Spotlight with network functions
– Finder instant previewing
– 64bit support for the entire system
– ZFS filesystem, but not as system filesystem
– Mail pretty messages using templates
– iCal CalDAV share/publish calendars via Internet
– VoiceOver fluent, new better voice including japanese and chinese
language support
– Quicktime subtitle support

…lets hope that at least some of this widely rumored stuff will
become true…

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23rd Chaos Communication Congress

The annual
Chaos Communication Congress, will be held 27th to 30th december in
Berlin.
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This year there will something very special, since internet live
streaming of events reached its limits last year, the Chaos
Computer Club folks managed to get a license for broadcasting
events in DVB-T. And they broadcast their selfmade DVB stream by
themselves with a selfmade
DVB-T transmitter, and all this for less than 1000 Euros.

To be sure that noone gets disturbed they got a licensed fequency
and are allowed 5 Watts sending power, enough to cover direct eye
contact distance to Alexanderplatz in Berlin. Isn’t that great. I
guess a lot of TV station get pissed when they recalculate their
investment for their DVB equipment. Winking

The agenda is still not final, but a major issue will be trust and
security, especially dedicated to voting machines, RFIDs, DRM,
DataMining, forensics, electronic passports, bluetooth, biometric,
console hacking, VoIP, Web2.0 and the end of traditional TV.

Be curious….

Archive, Games, Japan

Real tough Sudoku

Sudoku became
world famous in the last months, although it exists since 18th
century when swiss mathematician Leonhard
Euler discovered a puzzle game called Latin Square.
3doku
The name Sudoku comes from the japanese sentence:
数字は独身に限る,
meaning as much as: limit to unique numbers.
Although published in various newspapers over the years, it reached
world wide fame quite recently.Meanwhile there are also a lot of more complex sudokus for “the
advanced puzzle fan”.

Sudoku
with 16 sqaures and numbers.
sudoku4
Sudoku
as jigsaw puzzle, non square based:
sudoku-puzzle
And for the real freaks, pre-requistiting a computer, and probably
a 3D graphics card:
The ultimate 3-dimensional Sudoku called:
3doku, available for Mac and PC.
3doku
If you’re interested in the different mathematical approaches to
solve a sudoku take a look at wikipedia.

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Journey to the moon/space/orbit whatever…

Finally Jules Verne’s idea of shooting
a man to the moon will become reality, almost.
verne_gun
The US AirForce is building a 2.4km long magnetic accelerator,
which shall be used to shoot up to 100kg of “baggage” into the
orbit, thus saving the cost of the expensive supportflights with
traditional rockets. Although it will not be possible to transport
human beings or any other lifeform with this “vehicle” into space,
it might work fine for already dead meat Winking or miniature
satellites.The principle of the “cannon” is quite familiar to the particle accellerator at
CERN, which just finished installing all the superconductor
magnets of its 25km ring.

I can already see the headline: Chinese spy satellite seriously hit
by frozen french fries….

Archive, Operating System, Security

Good news, it works. Bad news, it works.

Bad awakening for Mac users, Apple
fixed a bug.
andy-scared
It took almost 2 years for Apple to release a security fix so that
it’s not anymore possible to hijack the builtin or even the
external USB camera from within a webpage.
At least everyone believed that this issue has been fixed in the
security update 2006-008, and people became already sad about
missing the feature to preview realtime effects on local video like
on this page: (only works for Mac people.)

But there’s also good news. It still works.

Oh wait, or is it bad news ?

Anyway the good news is, that the bad news of a killed feature is
not true, and that the security fix works, as your realtime video
cannot be sent via ajax/javascript or a java applet to someone you
don’t even know by just accessing someone’s evil website.

How do we check that ?
Apple doesn’t say anything about it.

So the real good news is, enjoy the feature as long as you’re not
sitting naked in front of your mac. Winking

Oh, uhh, aehh did I mention the bad news is, we don’t know if its
really fixed, or apple became so much interested in your homevideos
that they patched something in your system to get much sharper
pictures of you than anyone else does. Winking

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Thai / Laos Food Cooking VideoWebsites

One of my big favourits is thai food,
I like almost everything of it.
Meanwhile there’s more and more recipes on the net on how to cook
thai food, but it comes even better, more and more sites come up
with short cooking howto videos for the different meals.

Here are some links for thai and laos food cooking videos.
(Please mind using a quick search on youtube to get the same video
as on these sites, to save the peoples homepage bandwidth.)

http://www.thaifoodtonight.com/thaifoodtonight/recipes.htm
http://www.enjoythaifood.com/videos/
http://thai-laos-food.blogspot.com/

Enjoy cooking !
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The magic table

Seen on a podcast, this table is used
on a Yacht, must be pretty expensive, but the technology is simply
great.
Never seen something like it before.


Who wants to bet with me on how many fingers got lost when changing
the size of the table ?