Archive for the ‘The Web’ Category

Google Reader Alternatives

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On July 1, 2013, Google will retire Google Reader (source). A first step should be to save your data (especially your subscriptions). You can do that with Google Takeout. You could also sign a petition against closing Google Reader, but I doubt that this will have any effect. Currently, 106,712 people support this petition, though. [...]

Myth: The Internet doesn’t forget

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I’ve created a playlist with 51 songs on YouTube about two years ago. Let’s see the stats: 6 of 51 are still available 5 had copyright problems 17 songs are not available because of GEMA 22 are gone for other reasons Song Available 4 songs This video is no longer available due to a copyright [...]

Web Engineering

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Dieser Artikel beschäftigt sich mit der Vorlesung „Web Engineering“ am KIT. Er dient als Prüfungsvorbereitung. Ich habe Web Engineering bei Dr. Nussbaumer gehört. Über die Vorlesung In der Vorlesung „Web Engineering“ lernt man, welche besonderen Herausforderungen Web-Projekte beinhalten und wie man damit umgehen kann. Es wird zwar auch über technische Aspekte geredet (siehe Part 1), [...]

Disable Wikipedia fundraising banner

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I didn’t spend this year for Wikipedia because of the advertising. It really got on my nerves: But you can simply disable it: You only have to go to: Preferences → Gadgets tab → Browsing → check “Suppress display of the fundraiser banner” Now I’m happy

Blender Open Movies

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Big Buck Bunny Elephants Dream Sintel More information www.sintel.org Soundtrack: I Move On

How can I sketch an application?

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I’ve recently participated in a medium size software project. This project is rather fixed for a web project, so we don’t suffer from rapid changes (“rapid” in terms of other web applications), but nether the less they change. The task seemed to be clear at the beginning, but bit for bit my team of developers [...]

When advertising becomes spam

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The Web is great. You can easily find and publish information. It is great for trading as you can search through millions of articles and hundreds of vendors to find the product that fits best to your needs and is as cheap as possible. But recently I get a lot of spam from companies I [...]