PHILAFICATION

Category: Everything Tech

It’s A Small World After All

While I realize that smallworld.ch is a Swiss initiative for better English language skills, it may as well as be addressed to inertia-laden Austrians. Of course, this is the national motion known as Gemütlichkeit among Austrianos who just don’t realize that it is a small place we are living and every once in a while one [...]

Crawling For The Right Flight

While cramming for exams take up most of the time here, I’m crawling the interwebs for the right flight this summer. Check out this list for search engines that magically spit out the cheapest offers of all airlines known to human kind.

kayak “There’s even an iPhone app for that!”
tripadvisor also offers a broad selection of [...]

Baby, Light My Fire

I just received my Amazon Kindle 2. Let me get back to you on that one once I had the chance to fiddle around with it so I can give you a deeper review than that it’s white, light and thin.

The New One’s A Good One (Flipsaver)

At least for screensaving Mac users this year could not have started better. All I thought was “Finally!” because I was about to do the same as Andy. Take things in my own hand, that is, after my favorite screen saver couldn’t make the jump to Snow Leopard. But it’s time to calm down for [...]

Should We Be Offended?

And by we, I mean our current society that relies on the internet 24/7? We google, check Wikipedia and surf up dictionary.com every single time we need to check a fact or look up the meaning of a word. Memorizing? Why bother! There’s the internet for that, right?
Today’s hush-hush standards suggest that reading a book [...]

“It Autocompletes Me”

Have a look at this little page that collects the curious cases of Google auto-complete-approaches. A nice addition to my RSS subscriptions.
Off you go,… “One day I will rule candyland with an iron fist”

What The Wave Can Do For Us (Review)

Don’t you love it when Google rolls out some super sleek new product in the Web (whatever number we’re on right now… Post-2.0 for sure) and everyone braces and yet can’t wait for what the industry looks like after the impact. Just like after Gmail became somewhat mainstream, several email providers stepped up and allowed [...]

Ride the Wave (Invites Give-Away)

Saturday morning I woke up checked my email inbox and what do I see? Glad I get to preview and test Google Wave. There’s 20 invites to give away and I’m willing to give these away based on who comments on this post (enter it in the email field, not in the text box).
Since Google [...]