The Imperishable Evolutionhttp://www.kostik.de/home/en-US2010-03-11T23:35:28ZSquarespace Site Server v5.9.2 (http://www.squarespace.com/)Times Digesthttp://www.kostik.de/home/2010/2/17/times-digest.htmlK. Gonikman2010-02-16T23:29:03Zapple microsoft steve jobsThis is priceless

]]>Predictions And Realityhttp://www.kostik.de/home/2010/1/30/predictions-and-reality.htmlK. Gonikman2010-01-30T16:57:35Zapple apple tablet ipad predictionsAbout a month ago I made some predictions about Apple's event on January 27th. Let's take a look on the results:

- "iTablet": 100%
Yep, iPad is there 

- iPhone OS 3.5/4.0 (should be the same OS for tablet, makes sense): 100%
OK, the version number is 3.2 but should be 4.0 when it's ready. So yes, this is the same OS as for iPhone. 

- iLife '10: 90%
This is a weird one, because january is the annual time for iLife updates.

- some TV deals: 50%
- own maps app/service: 20%
- Safari update (it's time): 20%
100% missed :-) 

- I don't believe the rumors about the "iSlate" name. It sounds awful.
100% true. Although I don't like the name iPad either. 

 

]]>The Most Complete List of Live January 27th Event Coverageshttp://www.kostik.de/home/2010/1/26/the-most-complete-list-of-live-january-27th-event-coverages.htmlK. Gonikman2010-01-26T20:52:01ZCoverages apple apple tablet eventLike for every WWDC in the past [1,2], it's time to create a new list of live coverages for this Apple event. This will be updated constantly, so keep an eye on it.

Live Sites 

Twitter (may be down)

Video 

 

And 9to5mac is going to do something different... 

 

Localized times:

07:00AM - Hawaii
10:00AM - Pacific
11:00AM - Mountain
12:00PM - Central
01:00PM - Eastern
06:00PM - London
07:00PM - Paris
09:00PM - Moscow
02:00AM - Tokyo (January 28th)

Did I miss something? Tell me on Twitter.

 

]]>Internet Explorer vulnerability used in Operation Aurorahttp://www.kostik.de/home/2010/1/16/internet-explorer-vulnerability-used-in-operation-aurora.htmlK. Gonikman2010-01-16T10:07:32Zexploit ie microsoft vulnerabilityGeorge Kurtz on the “Aurora” Exploit In Google Attack Now Public:

As reported on Thursday by McAfee and confirmed by Microsoft, the security vulnerability affects Internet Explorer on all recent versions of Windows. An attacker could gain complete control over a vulnerable system by tricking a user to visit a rigged Web page. New versions of Windows make this exploitation harder, but not impossible.

Waw, this is pretty insane...

]]>Aromatic & City Wave Reviewshttp://www.kostik.de/home/2010/1/16/aromatic-city-wave-reviews.htmlK. Gonikman2010-01-15T23:26:05ZCity Wave My iPhone Software appstore aromatic reviewsIf you can read german, here are reviews from the german print magazine "iPhone & Co." for Aromatic & City Wave apps:

]]>Predictionshttp://www.kostik.de/home/2009/12/25/predictions.htmlK. Gonikman2009-12-25T02:16:12ZappleBefore every Apple event I (like many others) try to guess what's going to be unveiled. Last time I was good. And yes, it simply makes fun :)
So, here're my predictions for the january event:
- "iTablet": 100%
- iPhone OS 3.5/4.0 (should be the same OS for tablet, makes sense): 100%
- iLife '10: 90%
- some TV deals: 50%
- own maps app/service: 20%
- Safari update (it's time): 20%

And what are yours?

Update 1: I don't believe the rumors about the "iSlate" name. It sounds awful.

 

]]>Cool Building Projection Advertising Videohttp://www.kostik.de/home/2009/12/8/cool-building-projection-advertising-video.htmlK. Gonikman2009-12-08T20:08:40ZvideoCool video of amazing advertising method using buildings to project stunning graphics to advertise a product. Check this out! 

]]>Weezer, plane crashes and everything else that’s worrying about the real-time webhttp://www.kostik.de/home/2009/10/25/weezer-plane-crashes-and-everything-else-thats-worrying-abou.htmlK. Gonikman2009-10-25T12:41:06Zreal time webPaul Carr on the real-time web:

Cuomo was joking of course – a ham-fisted attempt at a target reference – but there was a strange and tragic truth in his plea. I mean, what were we all doing? Filming and tweeting and checking in rather than just putting our phones away and enjoying the gig. Why does the world need two thousand photos of the same band on the same stage, all taken from a slightly different angle. That kind of 360 degree imagery might have been useful on the day Kennedy was shot – not least because it would have kept Oliver Stone quiet – but for a Weezer gig? And what’s the point of checking in on Foursquare at a ticketed event that no one else can get into. You might as well tweet “I’m a dick” and be done with it.

 

]]>Tim Berners-Lee Looks Back: the "//" in Web Addresses Was Unnecessaryhttp://www.kostik.de/home/2009/10/13/tim-berners-lee-looks-back-the-in-web-addresses-was-unnecess.htmlK. Gonikman2009-10-13T10:37:54ZwebAsked what he would have done differently in creating the Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, says in this video that  the double slash, the "//"  after the colon in Web addresses, was unnecessary.

]]>Pentagon: Our cloud is better than Google'shttp://www.kostik.de/home/2009/10/7/pentagon-our-cloud-is-better-than-googles.htmlK. Gonikman2009-10-07T14:54:19Zcloud pentagonHenry Sienkiewicz on Pentagon's Cloud Computing:

We have service-level agreements with all of our services for all of our applications. We're using the same method of SLA inside the RACE environment as well as our regular computing environment. We achieve 99.999% availability at all times

In contrast, Google claims 99.9% availability for Google Apps.

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