Monday, March 11, 2024
Continuing from week 09, here are a few thoughts and things that caught my attention in the 10th week of 2024: 🌸 Michael made incredible paper flowers and you can help him picking the best one: Battle of the Blooms 2024. 🎥 In addition to Office Space, Jason made The Matrix Gifs available as well 🥳. 🎞️ Full of Themselves: An analysis of title drops in movies (thanks Robb).
Sunday, March 3, 2024
In continuation of week 8, here are a few thoughts and things that caught my attention in the 9. week of 2024: 🎥 Inspired by Jason’s awesome OfficeSpace.gif, we (re)watched Office Space (1999) as a family. We had a lot of fun. 😆 Cool: RSS IS DEAD LOL. 📚 Bookmarked Calibre Sync. It seems like a great way to access your Calibre library on the go.
Sunday, February 25, 2024
Continuing from week 07, here are a few thoughts and things that caught my attention in the eighth week of 2024: 📱 Simple Scan • Quick Scanner was teased by Agile Tortoise. Curious to see if this will be a better solution than just opening the Files.app and initiating a scan from there. (Actually, I’ve never checked if those generated PDFs have automatic OCR.) ☑️ Twodos - Simple Todos: Interesting concept but definitely too basic for my needs.
Monday, February 19, 2024
Continuing from week 06, here are a few thoughts and things that caught my attention in the seventh week of 2024: 👌 So, I think I’ve read and seen enough about the Apple Vision Pro for now. I hope I’ll stay firm and wait at least for Gen 2 and not want to buy it as soon as the AVP is available in Germany. However, I still find this video noteworthy: What Reviewers Aren’t Telling You About Apple Vision Pro.
Monday, February 12, 2024
Continuing from week 05, here are a few thoughts and things that caught my attention in the sixth week of 2024: 🤦♂️ Last week, I failed to configure my Mac as a WIFI Access Point with NordVPN. This week, I tried to do it with a Raspberry Pi 4. Since I no longer have a monitor with an HDMI input, I connected the Raspi using a micro-HDMI to HDMI adapter, HDMI cable, HDMI Capture Card with a USB-A connection, and a USB-A to USB-C hub to my iPad 🤯 What a mess but it worked with HDMI Monitor - Orion perfectly fine.
Saturday, February 3, 2024
Continuing from week 04, here are a few thoughts and things that caught my attention in the fifth week of 2024: 🎮 This week I had to repeatedly curb my nearly uncontrollable urge to buy gadgets I don’t need - so far quite successfully. I did not order the Ayaneo Next LITE nor pledged the Ayaneo Flip - World 1st Dual-Screen Windows Handheld on Indiegogo. I definitely do not need more gaming handhelds at the moment, even though I don’t own one that supports Windows games yet.
Sunday, January 28, 2024
Continuing from week 03, here are a few thoughts and things that caught my attention in the fourth week of 2024: 🌐 I didn’t quite understand the commotion about the DMA this week. Gruber proved himself to be a true patriot once again, and I still don’t understand where exactly the doomsday mood is coming from. Whether Apple has chosen an appropriate strategy, I don’t know either, see also Apple ruins its big week.
Monday, January 22, 2024
In continuation of week 02, here are a few thoughts and things that caught my attention in the third week of 2024: 🖨️ Almost 2 years after Anker introduced its V6 Color Engine for the M5 3D printer, it cancelled it. You can either get a $600 discount for an as yet unannounced product, or they will refund the paid money. I’ve opted for a $330 refund. Although it’s a pity, I think it was the right decision for Anker to pull the plug on this product.
Sunday, January 14, 2024
In continuation of week 01, here are a few thoughts and things that caught my attention in the second week of 2024: 🏋️ After my Covid infection in early December, followed by exhaustion, I started with a training program. It includes (indoor) cycling, strength training, and yoga sessions. It’s exhausting, but it also feels good to finally be able to challenge my body a little again. 📚 Additionally, I wanted to read more, watch movies more regularly, meditate daily if possible, and do other nice little things more frequently.
Sunday, January 7, 2024
In continuation of week 52, 2023, here are a few thoughts and things that caught my attention in the first week of 2024: 🤔 I read some blog posts about One Month Without and I always find it interesting to see what people are willing to give up for a month. I did this spontaneously in the first half of 2023, giving up alcohol, caffeine (not entirely true, I did drink green tea a few times, but completely abstained from coffee, cola, etc.
Sunday, December 3, 2023
In continuation to week 47, here are a few thoughts and things that caught my attention in week 48, 2023: 🦠 My wife was plagued at the beginning of the week with severe headaches and especially nausea. The Corona test was negative. However, on Friday it turned out that she did have Corona, for the first time (proven) since the beginning of the pandemic. She is now slowly getting better, but it has really knocked her down.
Sunday, November 26, 2023
Adam told me to stay on the path, so I’m trying to motivate myself to get back into the habit of writing down what has interested me throughout the week. So, here comes week 47. 🎮 I finished playing Horizon Forbidden West. It was my first computer game in years, and probably the first AAA title in decades that I actually watched the end credits for. Usually, I start playing and then eventually stop.
Friday, November 24, 2023
It feels like every day for weeks now is a special day and everything is and will be discounted. Oh, wouldn’t life be nice if things were just generally cheaper and my inbox was spared the flood of advertising? Anyway … There’s another Indie App Sale this year and there are now over 400 (!) programs listed for macOS and iOS. Fortunately, I already own the ones that interest me most and bought three additional apps this year:
Here are a few things that caught my attention in week 35: week.esamecar.net/35
Teaser: iOS and macOS stuff
#weeknotes
Tuesday, July 11, 2023
So, the Indie Dev Sales for #macOS and #iOS apps is currently running. Here is what I bought Classifier: Collection Tracker Home Widget for HomeKit Mastowatch Signals For HomeKit, Plus In-App Purchase Subtrack: Track Subscriptions already have Controller for HomeKit HomeCam for HomeKit HomeLog for HomeKit HomePass for HomeKit HomeRun for HomeKit MacWhisper Pro Söka: Bucket Lists Made Easy Where To? – Search nearby places Zenitizer consider Personal Best – Workouts - wrote about my initial thoughts here; it’s not exactly what I was looking for but seems like a real bargain right now Reading Time - still tempted to buy this, but it only works with page numbers and Readwise Reader does not provide them considered Hello There - Greeting Card Organizer - too expensive Kaleidoscope - still too expensive for my personal needs PlaylistAI: AI Playlist Maker - way too expensive What apps are your favourites?
Sunday, January 29, 2023
I still felt sickly, so I refrained from cycling. Hope that I get the curve then next week. 🍿 Watched Raymond & Ray (2022) - ★★★★☆ and enjoyed it. 🎙️ Listend to a bunch of different Podcasts: Accidental Tech Podcast: 518: Deconstructed iMac, Core Intuition: Episode 545: Lawful Evil, MeTacheles Tonspur: Return of the Mac - Ode an den Apple Macintosh, Playdate Podcast: Flipper Lifter, Playdate Podcast: Echoic Memory, Techmeme Ride Home: Tue 01/24 – ALL The Details On Apple’s Headset, AppStories: Imagining Apps for an Apple VR Headset, Launched: 54: Sofa - Shawn Hickman, Upgrade: 443: Core Variations, and Hemispheric Views: 076: Find Jason a House!
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
2023-02-17 Security Contacts (iOS 16.3.1) I am quite sure, that I did not add my security contact on 01.01.1970. Screen Time and Messages (macOS 13.2.1) Screen Time for children is completely broken. And the feature to receive requests via Messages.app renders the app useless on macOS. 2023-02-08 Mail (macOS 13.2) My smart folder with the rule to only show unread emails shows a couple of read emails. 2023-02-04 macOS Ventura 13.
Sunday, January 8, 2023
I was motivated by muhh’s blog entry to write down what was on my mind in the first week of January. I’m not sure yet if this will become something more regular, but I wanted to start putting something online more often anyway - more on that below. I’ve had the last two weeks off. The weather was bad, I had a cold 🤧 and therefore a lot of cycling wasn’t an option either (at least that’s what I told myself).
Thursday, December 22, 2022
One app that I’ve been using a lot for a while now is Anybox. Both the Mac app and the iOS app are very functional and the developer is friendly. It has completely replaced pinboard.in as my bookmark manager, although there is also a very nice iOS / macOS third party companion app called Pins, which is currently no longer being developed as rapidly as it was in the beginning, but is still great.