Scribbled on July 25th, 2008 - filed under Miscellaneous Stuff.
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I just purchased the German version of Knockout 2 which works as a plugin for Adobe Photoshop, Corel PHOTO-PAINT and Corel Painter as well as Corel Paint Shop Pro X.
So, what does it do?
It makes masking nice and easy!
Quote from the website:
(…) it lets you retain the finest image details, including hair, smoke, liquid, fire, [...]
Scribbled on July 16th, 2008 - filed under Miscellaneous Stuff.
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Suzan and I are now officially leaving Hannover to see R.E.M. live tonight in Berlin (Waldbühne)!
Tomorrow, we’re heading towards Dresden where we stay until Saturday.
We might even stop by in Leipzig on our way back.
Scribbled on July 15th, 2008 - filed under Miscellaneous Stuff.
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I just tried to update XAMPP for Windows to version 1.6.7, using the installer version.
Somehow, it did not work without removing the old version first: Apache changed status to “Running”, then suddenly stopped again. There was no way I could access the admin panel. Same happened with MySQL.
After removing the old version, Apache started (as [...]
Scribbled on July 15th, 2008 - filed under WordPress Stuff.
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Right from the beginning, I spelled this nice blogging software I use “Wordpress” with a small “p”. The more I searched the internet for blogging-related stuff, I came across the correct spelling “WordPress” with a capital “P”. That was already a long time ago. But as I had also already written a few posts that [...]
Scribbled on July 15th, 2008 - filed under WordPress Stuff.
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As of today, WordPress 2.6 “Tyner” is available for download on wordpress.org.
It comes with
wiki-like tracking of edits,
a powerful “Press This!” bookmark,
support for Google Gears,
theme previews,
word count,
image captions,
etc. pp.
Scribbled on July 11th, 2008 - filed under Fun Stuff.
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Puh, nochmal Glück gehabt!
Scribbled on July 10th, 2008 - filed under Miscellaneous Stuff.
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I just recently rebooted my Windows XP after downloading the latest patches via the built-in automatic Windows Update Service when I suddenly noticed that I could not get any internet connection via Firefox any longer. Ping and tracert worked, though.
Scribbled on July 8th, 2008 - filed under Personal Stuff.
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On Saturday, 5th of July, 2008, I had my scheduled dental implant for my missing tooth “34″ that was extracted last year. Normally, I have no fear of the dentist, but this was something totally new to me, so I was quite excited when I got there.
But what can I say? I feel awesome!
After the [...]
Scribbled on July 7th, 2008 - filed under WordPress Stuff.
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As I am still trying to make my website load faster, I thought about getting rid of some plugins - mostly those who hook into the header action to write some statistics-related stuff into the database.
Popularity Contest is really a nice plugin - but I must admit that I never really looked at the results [...]
Scribbled on July 7th, 2008 - filed under Firefox/Thunderbird.
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Thanks to Tim for providing the link on how to make Gmail the default mail client in Firefox 3:
gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/power-tip-set-gmail-as-your-default.html
After you’ve done as suggested, Gmail will open up when clicking on a “mailto:”-link.
Nice!