“Deutsche Post” say’s thank you

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For more than one year it is possible to print out stamps on a home computer. Deutsche Post has a software to print them on any ordinary printer. Two weeks ago they released version 2.0, which didn’t have many improvements that I would need. So, because it would cost € 10 to upgrade I did not choose to go to the new version.Then, last Friday, the Deutsche Post sent me a package with the new version. First I thought I had opted for regluar updates. But after reading the letter in the package, I new it was a gift for using their service so extensivly over the last months. Thank you Deutsche Post.

Update
Free registration for StampIt WebFor those of you who also want to use StampIt and don’t want to pay for it – check the free registration until October 31st.

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Color schemes go cracy

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After a long time I visited PC Welt again – the German pendant to PC World. Apparently they have changed their navigation which now has different colors for each section. Unfortunately their colors are not very nice to read, how about red on blue, red on green or even red on orange. Might be easy to read. Here’s my favourite:red on orange color scheme
Maybe they’re still in beta – like many others…

“One Million Bucks” – pullover

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I got a new pullover from “One Million Bucks”, a company that produces completly in Germany. The label inside has this list:

  • accept who you are
  • keep active
  • learn skills
  • communicate
  • be creative
  • keep in touch with friends
  • get involved
  • relax
  • ask for help
  • fear nothing
  • be positive
  • survive

And on the back side

  • Don’t ask your father

Some kind of motivation. Read every time you put it on and you feel like that.

Reboot 7

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I am very crazy about going to Reboot 7 the next weekend (June 10th – 11th). Lots of good speakers from around the world. Don’t know yet what to expect. More to come soon. [Update] Reboot was great. A lot of new ideas, good speaches and nice people. What impressed me the most was that nobody talked about money, business opportunities, or even VCs. This was good because the people, community and the technology used had been in focus. Some ideas may generate money but that’s not the main focus of those people. They are passionate (like David Heinemeier Hansson of 37signals) about development, crazy about the new web (Christopher Locke), or just into the web. My conclusion: go there next time again.

iTunes vs Media Player

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Everybody has learned to use a stereo with these symbols:
> , « , », [] (stop/pause). Even children could understand that scheme very fast. So, when you use a computer now to listen to music, what would you do?iTunes: Apple chose to use those keys that would come to mind very easily. Right arrow, left arrow, for skipping to the next or the previous track. Changing the volume of the music, you use arrow up and down. If you want to play or pause you hit the space. Everthing is very easy.

Windows Media Player: Ctrl + P for play, Ctrl + F for next, Ctrl + B for previous track. Volume up is F10, down is F9. Nice way to learn where your keys are on the keyboard, but not very useful if you want to skip through the songs or have to change the volume. You always have to look where the key is.Why does Microsoft have to reinvent the wheel again. It would have been so easy to use Apples layout. This has the advantage that it is the same for each language, Microsoft has to change the key assignments for each country. Even in English it’s not very straigtforward. Instead of using the text label Forward for Ctrl – F they use Next (or Ctrl – N, to make it even better).