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Since I'm getting asked about twitter on a regular basis now even from people who are into IT I figured I should do a post about it.

Twitter is basically a service to broadcast status messages whereever you are and get the status of your friends on the go. It sends you text messages (SMS), instant messages or you can use twhirl, an excellent AIR client or your browser to read and post new messages. It lets you configure who's messages you want on your phone and who's not, etc. Go watch the video below and sign up for an account. You can find me here.

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As most of you have already heard, I passed all my exams last week at the Technical University of Munich! To leave something for the poor souls who will have to go through the Diplomhauptprüfung in years to come, I have just uploaded my compilation of information on the classes that I was tested in. I don't assume this will be very useful except for the person who wrote it, but sometimes it can help to get a short explanation of something before diving into the matter. So here it is [600k, pdf], I hope it is of some use.

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Just came across a really scary story on schneier's blog: Apparently the FBI is planting fake links in online message boards claiming to lead to child porn. Once you click on them, your IP address is recorded and your house might be searched and you might be arrested. Here are more details on one case on ars technica.

So watch out next time someone is sending you a funny link on IM or in emails. It's hard to imagine how anyone with a half way decent knowledge of internet technology and IT security can come up with such an idea? There are so many ways of how you could end up on the list without ever doing anything related to visiting such a message board, and using this as the only basis of a federal investigation is just unbelievable.

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I want a chumby, too! Seems like they are only shipping to US addresses for now :(

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Been waiting for this feature ever since switching back to safari (Firefox was just behaving to strange in longterm use). Enter this into your command line and safari 3.1 will open anything that has a target=_blank in a new tab instead of a window.

defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true

Thanx to fscklog for another useful hint!

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New approach to web design ;)

(via laughingsquid)

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Just came across this excellently crafted ad on facebook:

I guess they still have a long way to go before they can make money off of that ;)

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