April 2008

When I got my MacBook back in November I initially wanted to buy a license key for iWork. Unfortunately that was not possible back then for Apple IDs registered in Austria (don’t know about other countries in Europe). I called the Apple hotline and the woman told me that she has several requests every week for an online registration but it’s not possible at the moment to do that.

Today I prepared a presentation for some parallel programming lecture I will be giving tomorrow and when I fired up Keynote I discovered that it wasn’t registered. I could remember that it was not possible in November but gave it another try. And, voila, it worked! Cost me some bucks but so far it really paid off.

So Flickr got video. Wait a second… Flickr? Video? Shouldn’t Flickr be just for photos?

Well, for me Flickr is Beauty. Beauty, because there are so many people who are sharing the best and most beautiful moments of their lives with thousand of others. (Whatever beauty is for each individual in detail, I say that everyone will find his own definition of beauty on Flickr.)

Photos are Beauty. But videos can be Beauty, too. I’m not talking about those ordinary YouTube clips (and for me, personally, I’m not talking about everyday photos you can find on Flickr, even some of my pictures are just bog-standard) but about special moments in the lives of people. Seconds of their life which have a special meaning because they are just beautiful.

So video on Flickr might be a good thing, to add another piece of beauty to the lives of all of us.

My iPod mini’s battery is running quite low on power, just holds for a day or two. In addition, its disk is clicking and it takes me two or three tries to get it to play the song I wanna listen to.

So yesterday I purchased a replacement, a silver iPod nano, 4gb. It has the perfect size for me and enough space to hold the most recent music. Perfect. And even better are the new headphones, which are smaller than the ones I had until now (Sennheiser and original Apple headphones) which makes them much more comfortable.