- From the Q&A at WSJD Live, November 2014. Starts at 28:45 in the video. Q: [Why did you kill the iPod Classic 160GB?] Tim Cook: “Because we couldn’t get the parts anymore. Not even anywhere, they’re not made anymore.…
- Amazon launched its free Dash IoT button in Germany a few days ago. After ordering razor blades once, you can repurpose it for more useful smart-home actions. The process is extensively documented online for the first…
- Paydirekt is a mess , made in Germany. Back to the drawing board: let’s design ZASTER (quickly paying at online shops instead of a terrible advance transfer). The goal is to connect online shops to online banking at low…
- Paydirekt customer in “tiger leggings”. Image: Sparkasse Ask Paydirekt—or its marketing-heavy champion, Sparkasse—what this is all about and you get this answer: @nickoffff paydirekt follows German security and…
- Apple has this support document about 4K display compatibilty . For my MacBook Pro (Late 2013), it says it can drive: HDMI: 4K at 30Hz DisplayPort (SST): 4K at 30Hz DisplayPort (MST): 4K at 60Hz It lists the following…
- Heise reports on the Katwarn disaster-alert app : The Katwarn smartphone warning system was completely overloaded during Friday evening’s attack in Munich. “We reached the limits of our capacity,” a Katwarn spokesperson…
- I’ve been looking for a nice blogging tool that isn’t WordPress for a while. Dave Winer just showed an interesting solution called 1999 . He calls it “blogging like it’s 1999”. The name is a bit awkward, but Dave Winer…
- Wirecard has some interesting products in the electronic payments market. We’ve already talked here about Vodafone’s NFC cards and, on Bits und so, about Boon, an NFC wallet for Android. Now there’s a new offer that…
- Just like Windows version checks could have got hung up on checking Windows 95 and 98 with “9*”, Mac installers can hang on a check like this with the minor version number rolling over to 10 or more. The installer…
- I’m about to go live on Trackback on Fritz , talking about the first ten years of Bits und so and the Undsoversum. Here’s the recording . Thanks, Dennis, for the invitation and the conversation!
- I waited quite a while after the release of this official WordPress app. Surely the worst bugs would have been fixed by now. But:
- IFTTT Note lets you post short entries directly to your blog. There are plugins (of course!) that then mark these posts as asides. It’s still missing much-needed image support, but the idea is good. Is there an iOS…
- I spent a day or two trying to get this to work, so hopefully this helps someone searching for this. The Blackmagic Desktop Video firmware updater failed updating my Blackmagic Intensity Pro card from a very old,…
- On Bits und so #434 , we talked about how hard it is to run WordPress in a low-maintenance, foolproof way. The €2.45 bargain-bin LAMP hosting and the $2.50 VPS are both lousy options for the average blogger. A possible…
- At least the radio people agree: Beats 1 is quite a hit , maybe even the new MTV. We had to talk about it. Shortly after Beats 1 launched, I spoke with Johnny Haeusler from Spreeblick . He had already shared his…
- I don’t run a regular podcast on this site, but from time to time I certainly want to post audio clips with a nice player and a good mobile and offline experience. WordPress for podcasting is broken beyond repair. Save…
- From Apple’s Podcast Feed Spec : Pick a reliable webhost. Podcasters sometimes create a feed and then find that their ability to move or edit the feed later is limited by the webhost they have chosen. To avoid this,…
- I spoke with Daniel Fiene about the future of radio, podcasts, YouTube, Facebook, and WhatsApp. Here’s a clip about Responsive Radio, where the programme could adapt to the listener: You can hear the full two-hour show…
- Choosing a podcast app for a phone seems to be a very personal thing, much like podcasts themselves. We don’t even say “podcatcher” or “podcast client” anymore. That was 2007. After a long series of misunderstandings,…
- I’ve written several times about my efforts to reduce latency to the Mumble server. DigitalOcean recently opened a new data centre in Frankfurt, with a very low-latency connection from my networks (Telekom and Kabel…