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November 01 2009

stormgrass

Top 5 artists this week

  1. Air 
  2. The Cooper Temple Clause 
  3. Kaiser Chiefs 
  4. TV on the Radio 
  5. Pure Reason Revolution 

October 25 2009

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Top 5 artists this week

  1. Maxïmo Park 
  2. The Velvet Underground 
  3. Ray LaMontagne 
  4. Patrick Wolf 
  5. Sparks 
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Bei Am Puls

October 19 2009

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Augustin - (5/5)

Set in a rather shabby part in a rather shabby district of Vienna (well, it's true. It just isn't really pretty, that district), Augustin is a great surprise. Not only does its exterior work hard on betraying the splendid interiour, the food is also quite delicious and plentiful. Decked out in Biedermeier sofas, chandeliers, sturdy wooden tables and loads of candles, Augustin is as cozy as it can get. The fact that almost every night there's a chap playing the piano, only adds to the undeniable charm of the place. Foodwise I opted for nothing less than a Bauernkotelett (farmer's cutlet), which consisted of tender grilled pork, covered in loads of roasted onions, with fried potatoes, little cubes of bacon and pole beans on the side. The only problem with the cozy interior of Augustin is, that sitting on a sofa as soft as the one we sat on, means, that your food sits somewhere on eye level, which makes it a tad difficult to eat (having been confronted with that dire situation mysel...

October 18 2009

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Top 5 artists this week

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October 08 2009

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TechBlogs

Stormgrass' shared items in Google Reader

TechBlogs

  • Epicenter
  • Mashable!
  • TechCrunch
  • last100
  • Neowin.net / All
  • netzwertig.com
  • Read/WriteWeb
  • Solution Watch
Preview this bundle

October 07 2009

stormgrass
“ Wir vermeiden Schachtelsätze, Passivkonstruktionen, Substantivierungen, Sprachklischees und Fachjargon ”
— Sind das wirklich die wichtigsten Qualitätskriterien heutzutage? Na servas. Meedia: Hajo Schumacher plant "iTunes für Texte"
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Amazon Kindle for the rest of the world but not for me

So Amazon has announced the availability of their e-book reader Kindle for, among other countries, Germany and Austria. The reader may be pre-ordered on Amazon.com, and will be shipped after October 19th. Costs? About 190€.

It’s good news for anyone who likes to read and especially good news for anyone who likes to read and be able to automatically download new books for a cheaper price than their physical brethren.

It’s bad news though for everyone who doesn’t feel too comfortable with the possibility of a company barging into your home and removing a previous purchase without warning (but with putting the purchase price back into your purse). Sound extremely weird and paranoid? Well, it’s not, because that’s exactly what happened a few months back.

Apparently a company had offered books on the Kindle marketplace for which it, as it turned out later, didn’t have the rights. So when Amazon discovered that tricky situation, they snuck into the Kindles of the people who had already bought the books and removed them. To add irony to injury, the books were “Animal Farm” and “1984″ by George Orwell.

And even though Amazon promised to not remove books in the future without warning, I’m a far too suspicious mind to really believe that. Because as long as they can, they probably will.

October 06 2009

stormgrass
“ Es sollte aber in Zukunft kein finanzieller Nachteil mehr sein, wenn man eine Zeitung abonniert. ”
— Ich versuch schon seit Jahren meinem Friseur klar zu machen, dass ich keinen finanziellen Nachteil haben will. Funktioniert irgendwie nicht, er will seine Arbeit schlussendlich doch immer bezahlt haben. Eugen Russ über Zeitungsabos

September 27 2009

stormgrass

Top 5 artists this week

  1. Muse 
  2. Yonderboi 
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September 22 2009

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Brizzly – The better web client for Twitter

According to research I stumbled upon a while back (and which I’m now too lazy to actually look up, so you’ll just have to take my word for it), the Twitter web interface is still the number one place for people to update their Twitter account. Which to me was quite surprising, considering that the Twitter web interface doesn’t even automatically reload your Twitter stream, doesn’t have built in anything and lacks just about everything other clients have. In a nutshell.

To remedy that situation, Brizzly has stepped in. Basically, it’s a web client for Twitter, the difference is that it includes most of the features the clients we grew to love have had for a while (like TweetDeck). Which features, you might ask? Well, since last week, Brizzly automatically updates your Twitter stream, meaning you won’t have to click refresh in order to see new tweets from your followers. But that’s just the beginning, folks!

Brizzly also automatically displays pictures, videos and full URLs included in tweets, removing the ever so dangerous necessity to click into unknown territory via shortened URLs. And for those who are already absolutely overwhelmed by the number of messages their myriads of followers are shooting into the twittersphere, Brizzly has a grouping feature, which, I must say, really is handy as hell.

Good old Brizzer, as I already lovingly call it,  also includes a rather nifty sidebar tool for direct messages and also displays the newest Twitter trending topics in said sidebar.

To top it all off, Brizzly also supports several users, so if you’ve got a, say, private and corporate account, you can add them both and smoothly switch between the two. Just make sure you don’t confuse them, because, well, you wouldn’t want to tell your company’s followers every detail about your last bowel movement, would you? Come to think of it, I guess your private followers wouldn’t mind being spared that info as well. So please, do keep that to yourself, will you?

Anyway, Brizzly might not be the first alternative web-based Twitter client (there’s Ginx, which has been around for a while but is more bare bones than Brizzly), but it definitely is the most feature-rich. I do have to concede though that the overall design isn’t really that easy on the eye, but I’d rather put function before form, in that case.

Oh, and in case you’ve not clicked over to Brizzly yet, I might have to mention that it’s still in private beta. So if you want to get in right now, leave a comment detailing why you think I’m probably the most talented tech-writer in the long history of tech-writerdom, and I’ll send an invite your way. Good luck!

September 20 2009

stormgrass

Top 5 artists this week

  1. Muse 
  2. Meret Becker 
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September 13 2009

stormgrass

Top 5 artists this week

  1. Foo Fighters 
  2. Gentle Giant 
  3. Brett Dennen 
  4. Wynton Kelly 
  5. Shantel 
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September 12 2009

stormgrass
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Tags: old building mill austria decay burgenland
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Decay in Burgenland Decay in Burgenland Decay in Burgenland Decay in Burgenland
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Decay in Burgenland
Tags: old building mill austria decay burgenland

September 06 2009

stormgrass

Top 5 artists this week

  1. Bill Callahan 
  2. The Beatles 
  3. Deichkind 
  4. Maxïmo Park 
  5. Sparks 

August 30 2009

stormgrass

Top 5 artists this week

  1. Bill Callahan 
  2. Bic Runga 
  3. Blumfeld 
  4. Al Green 
  5. IAMX 

August 25 2009

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