This is an archive of the former personal blog at www.juergentreml.de
This article is a short tutorial on how install WebOS applications on your Palm Pre independent of the region they are intended for, e.g. install US only apps that do not even show up in the app catalog ...
5 comments / Computer & Devices, Featured Articles, Hardware, Programming, Software, WWW
A quick post sharing a video of some impressive, yet-to-be-published Bing Maps features, several of which go well beyond what Google Maps offers at the time.
QR deCODEr, a webOS app for the Palm Pre & Pixi that decodes QR Codes and lets you follow links, dial numbers or send texts straight from the scanned result, is now available.
11 comments / Computer & Devices, Featured Articles, Hardware, Programming, Software, WWW
A hands-on review of the Palm Prē compared to the iPhone, covering Synergy and multi-tasking, the keyboard, Touchstone charger quirks, and European software shortcomings - with a later update on Android 2.0's rise.
1 comment / Computer & Devices, Electronics, Featured Articles, Hardware, Software, Misc
A look back at using the free Google SketchUp to design a new apartment, weighing it against pro CAD tools and its Pro Version, plus a note on buggy behavior under Windows 7 RC.
A detailed how-to on using Eagle3D and POVray to render photo-realistic 3D images of Eagle PCB designs, including fixing missing/misplaced parts via the 3dpack.dat/3dusrpac.dat mapping files and building custom parts in Google SketchUp w...
A step-by-step workaround for a silent installer failure that prevents the Palm Pre Mojo SDK from installing on Windows 7 RC, fixed by editing the installer's MSI with Orca to drop a failing Windows Update Framework package.
RTL cloned the Windows Vista Sidebar gadget the author designed for Formula 1 news, copying its design down to the settings dialog, and only swapping a color and a button or two.
A university project to design a hardware device managing data distribution among an unmanned aerial vehicle's subsystems, presented here through two HD videos of the board rendered with Eagle3D and POV-Ray.
A short tutorial on getting Microsoft Installer (.msi) packages to install on an unsupported OS by editing the LaunchCondition table in Orca, using the Samsung LightScribe installer as a running example.
News that Microsoft is canceling Flight Simulator hits hard, given his long-time love for the simulator and the FSX DVD box he bought just two years ago.
After Windows Vista's rocky release, Windows 7 finally shows Microsoft getting it right - a faster, more polished OS with a stunning new taskbar UI and dozens of small improvements that are hard to live without.
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A quick note explaining the roughly six-month silence on the blog and on FSXGET, caused by working on his master's thesis, with reassurance that the FSXGET project is not dead.
A look at the Magellan Triton GPS series and its lack of detailed European maps out of the box, and how free OpenStreetMap-based maps from the community fill that gap.
3 comments / Travel, WWW
A quick follow-up to my OpenStreetMap post pointing out one more thing it's missing: routing - plus a link to OpenRouteService, a free route finder built on top of OSM data.
A look at OpenStreetMap, a community-driven, copyright-free alternative to Google Maps built entirely from user-contributed GPS tracks, including its cycle map and ski map overlays.
A pointer to the Museum of Modern Betas, a list of the 100 most bookmarked Web 2.0-style software projects and online tools.
A workaround for Tablet PC users who need to write non-English characters (like ä, ö or ü in their name) while their input language is set to English, using text-replacement macro tools PenCommander and ActiveWords.
A registry tweak (SendPersonalCategories) that makes Outlook 2007 automatically tag replies and forwards with the same color categories as the original message.
A pointer to free mindmapping alternatives to Mindmanager - the open-source FreeMind and the web-based, Web 2.0 style MindMeister.
A rundown of favorite Tablet PC applications discovered after getting a new HP 2710p convertible, including OneNote 2007, InkSeine, Ink Desktop and SnagIt.
Windows Vista's Tablet PC handwriting recognition works impressively well, until it comes to learning a name with a special character like Jürgen's ü - handwriting personalization turns out to be limited to English, Chinese, Japanese and...
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Microsoft's 64-bit Office 2007 support has some annoying gaps - fax, Groove Filesharing, and the Send to OneNote printer driver still don't work on x64 - and a blog post confirms Microsoft has no plans to fix OneNote in the current version.
Google Earth's new beta adds 3D building models for several big German cities, including Munich — a quick look at Munich's skyline rendered in 3D.
Two recent website updates: slides and paper from a university talk on rendering smoke & clouds, and a new Windows Vista sidebar gadget for a German Formula 1 live text ticker.
Computer & Devices, Inside Live Runway, Sports, TV, Movies, Music
A quick update on the Formula-1-Ticker Windows Sidebar gadget, adding a settings dialog to control gadget size, docked/undocked sizing, and adjustable text size.
FSXGET 0.1 Beta 2 is out, adding selectable display units (meters or feet) plus bugfixes around OS/service pack checks, SimConnect detection, and single-instance handling.
A look at two Google Maps mashups showing realtime positions of Swiss trains and planes over Zurich, and how the latter compares to FSXGET.
Three approaches to restricting a .NET application to a single running instance: a named Mutex, .NET Remoting via WindowsFormsApplicationBase, and polling the process list.
Three ways to programmatically detect the Windows OS and installed service pack version in .NET/C#: System.Environment.OSVersion, the WMI interface, and the native GetVersionEx API.
FSXGET 0.1 Beta 1 is out, the successor to 0.0.3.1 RC4, adding a new configuration dialog for running FSXGET and Flight Simulator X on separate, remote-connected computers alongside the new SimConnect Config Tool.
A quick bugfix update for FSXGET 0.0.3.1 RC4, correcting issues on x64 and non-English systems.
A quick look at 'Books that make you dumb', a follow-up project from the wikiscanner author that cross-references colleges' average SAT scores with their students' most-read books on Facebook.
A shout-out to starryalley, a Taiwanese programmer whose application helped power my web-based planetarium project, after he mentioned it on his own blog.
A personal rundown of what's still rough around the edges in Windows Vista after a year of daily use: a USB-drive BSOD bug, a Backup tool that silently skips EFS-encrypted files, and copy/defrag progress indicators that manage to be wors...
The trailer for the new Star Trek movie has hit the web - the film itself isn't due until December.
A short note about consolidating the website onto a single CMS (WordPress), with a follow-up update once the migration from the old site was complete.
A quick, non-preachy look at a nice Firefox-styled icon spotted while surfing the web, compared with the usual Firefox logo.
A pointer to a heise.de article showing that Google Maps can be tweaked to reveal higher resolution satellite images for a few regions of the world, with an astonishing example view.
A pointer to a Vanity Fair story about tracking down the real-world locations behind the default Windows desktop wallpapers, a bit like Geocaching for photos.
A quick pointer to a story about a software bug that crashed the new F-22 jet's computer as it crossed the date line, and why that inevitably brings Ariane rockets and Mars orbiters to mind.
A pointer to Mark Russinovich's article on Windows Vista's User Account Control, and why it's a neutral technical look at UAC's capabilities and boundaries rather than proof that UAC is a joke.
A first look at the upcoming Yahoo! Messenger client rebuilt specifically for Windows Vista using WPF, comparing it to Windows Live Messenger and other IM clients.
A short reminiscence about the 2006 World Cup, sharing a video of the Fan Fest fireworks and celebrations in Munich's Olympic Park after the third-place match.
24 season 6 is about to premiere and a movie is reportedly in the works, while Stargate Atlantis and the 2007 Formula 1 season are also on the horizon.
A look at the podcast landscape from an iPod Nano owner living in Spain: local newspapers and radio stations barely have podcasts worth the name, but the New York Times is doing it right, especially David Pogue's tech podcast.
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