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Currently I’m in the refresher course of the swiss armed forces in Andermatt. So I get plenty of time to test my new Apple iPad. I have the 16 GB model without the 3G (UMTS) modem. I decide to buy the cheapest model because I think I don’t need much storage on my web tablet. The 3G option was for me secondary because I own a notebook with built in UMTS modem. As a side note you can use the freeware Connectify to switch any pc in to a wlan access point http://www.connectify.me/. Or create a wlan network proxy with an iPhone and the app NetShare (10$) from the Sydia store.

First I will make my coming out as an Apple fan boy. So this article reflects my personal meaning and may not be 100% objective. The physical dimensions of the device are 243mm x 190mm x 13mm. The weight of the iPad is 0,68 kg or 0.73 kg for the 3G model. By the way the 3g models have also an compass and a GPS module. The display is 9.7 inch and has a resolution of 1024×768 (132ppi). The battery live is beyond 10 hours witch is very, very, very impressive. There are only three points witch are semi optimal. The reflecting display is not my favorite option. And if you use the iPad in the Sun in became a little bit hot and shuts himself down. The iBook store of Switzerland only host’s only free book from the Gutenberg project. As you can imagine Nathan the wise from Lessing is note my favorite bed lecture.

My top 5 apps for the iPad are:

FunBox: It is an very simple app. There are 60 buttons each of the buttons play’s a funny sound.
fun box

GoodReader is for my case the best eBook reader for the iPad. I assume you don’t need it if you buy books in the Apple Store. At the moment I buy e-books on the Exlibris web store and print the Adobe DRM contaminated files to a pdf printer (Freepdf) and send it to GoodReader.
GoodReader

NewsRack (thx Dani for the hint) is very nice RSS reader. A very nice feature is the sync with the Google reader. The reader can cash posts and pictures.

PocketCAS is a very nice function plotter. Which is very usefully in my studies at the university of Lucerne
PocketCAS

Dropbox the best way to keep your files in sync.
dropbox

After all I like the iPad and give him 4.5 geeks from max 5 geeks

Remote software for free

Normally I’m not a big promoter of software. But this tool is amazing. Every, and I mean every IT Professional are having the same problem. Everybody in the world looks at you and sees the free helpdesk. Ok I must admit most of the time this is not a problem because helping is caring friendship. Helping over the phone is good because you don’t have to travel. But this is not easy for each occasion. There are a lot of good remote software programs for companies. But the use in private environments is not so as easy as it should be because you need port forwarding, special firewall rules etc. Looking around in the Internet I found a very exciting tool for remote support. It’s called TeamViewer.

http://www.teamviewer.com

The benefits of TeamViewer are:

•    It’s free for personal use.
•    No installation needed.
•    No firewall changes are required because remote clients create an outgoing connection to the team server.
•    It works on PC and Mac, even cross-platform, connect from Mac to windows is no problem.
•    It’s Fast and
•    It’s free for noncommercial use.

At least it’s the Holy Grail of remote software

Regards Konrad

comming 2009

So bin dieses Wochenende endlich wieder mal zum CS Source Spielen gekommen. Leider wollte wieder mal nichts gehen die “kiddis” haben einfach zuviel zeit zum Üben . Ich habe aber dann von einem Freund den Tipp bekommen meine Rates anzupassen. Das bringt echt ein paar Frags mehr und ist ganz einfach zu bewerkstelligen. Zuerst laden wir eine extra config (“dambeck.cfg”) Datei  von herunter und Kopieren dieses ins Verzeichnis “…\Steam\SteamApps\ACOUNT\counter-strike source\cstrike\cfg” Verzeichniss. Jetzt wird in der Datei “config.cfg” ganz unten noch dieser Befehl eingetragen “exec dambeck.cfg” und die bessern Einstellungen werden beim CS Start geladen.

Weiter Infos zu den Settings findet ihr auf dieser Web Seite http://www.baerlinonline.de/cs-config.html.

Und für alle welche cs nicht kennen noch ein kleiner Einblick in das Spiel