- In the early years of the iPhone in Europe, devices were frequently imported from France, Italy, and the UK, for any number of reasons. Some of these came factory-unlocked (really a misnomer, as the lock appears to be…
- Today I was a guest again on Was mit Medien . This time we talked about Apple Watch, media companies rushing out half-baked apps for it, and the possible future of apps on Apple TV. Until now I’ve connected to the…
- Amazon put the Fire TV Stick on sale in Germany at 9 a.m. today. The regular price is €40. Today and tomorrow, Prime members get 50% off; new Prime subscribers pay only €7. Update: By the end of May, the reduced price…
- For three years, Dirk von Gehlen has been working on a new way to package the long reads from Süddeutsche Zeitung. The idea is similar to what some people do with Instapaper: timeless long-form pieces you can read at…
- The new year rolled around and brought new rules for VAT on digital goods. The rules are batshit crazy somewhat complicated and I won’t even try to summarize them and add more confusion. But I will mirror this version…
- tl;dr: Don’t use Skype, don’t do double-enders, do it like a live radio show. In 2004, Adam Curry laments on his second Daily Source Code that Mac software for doing podcasts sucks (and the first show was recorded in…
- Apple Pay seems to be off to a successful start in the US. NFC is gradually being added to new POS terminals in Germany, and banks here have started issuing cards with integrated NFC chips. I hadn't really believed it…
- Today at the Transforming Media conference in Nuremberg, I’m presenting the business model behind Bits und so . Plus makes you happy and all that. I’m skipping Keynote and relying entirely on Yosemite features for the…
- We’re using a custom version of the Knive Streaming Server (“It cuts, live”) to stream video off a Blackmagic ATEM TV Studio video switcher (using atemclient ) to iOS and Mac clients with HTTP Live Streaming. Other…
- #bus300: Rail strike #bus350: Main rail line closed #bus400: Rail strike If the trains or something else keep you from getting to Munich, you can watch all the event videos with an online ticket . We’ll try to stream…
- App Previews aka “PurpleVideo” aka App Trailers finally arrived on the iOS 8 App Store. While Google Play simply leverages YouTube’s infrastructure for uploading and delivering video, Apple uses their own HTTP Live…
- We’re putting on another live show at the Gasteig in Munich on October 18! Tickets have been on sale through München Ticket since the weekend. I’d love to meet all of you in person! You’ll find the latest information…
- The working title was “und.so”. I announced the show at #bus300 two years ago, and we recorded the first pilot episodes back in 2011. The icon is even more retro now than it was then. And now it’s finally happening: the…
- A little over a year ago, Telekom launched its throttling experiment on fixed-line connections—the same one that works so wonderfully on mobile. Back then, I spoke on DRadio Wissen with Philipp Blank, Telekom’s…
- Or: I got a new iPhone. Where are my passwords? tl;dr: When moving to a new device, use an encrypted iTunes backup to transfer as much of your keychain as possible to the new device. Some third party apps may exclude…
- The iOS 8 Release Notes state The file system layout of app containers has changed on disk. Rather than relying on hard-coded directory structure, use the NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains function or the…
- I was in London for the last few days to claim my Kickstarter reward from Zach Braff’s “Wish I Was Here”. The film turned out well, and I can put “film producer” on my business card. Well done, Mr. Braff. I also came…
- I dropped by DRadio Wissen on Saturday to join Daniel Fiene and Herr Pähler. We talked about IFA and the state of things ahead of Apple’s September 9 event.…
- Maybe the initial selection is poor. Maybe Sky Snap undercuts Netflix on price at launch. Maybe the commercial TV channels will wake up, or Amazon Germany will do something with Prime. None of that matters. Netflix has…
- The German Post Office’s new messenger supposedly talks only to German servers and is TÜV-certified, therefore “secure”. Let’s see who the app actually talks to. On first launch, it connects to server 194.42.93.243.…