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All You Need Is 4 Chords

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Schlimmer geht immer

Immer wenn ich denke, jetzt kann Werbung nicht mehr schrottiger werden, kommt ein neuer Held ums Eck und belehrt mich eines Besseren.

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I feel heavily tempted

What a coincidence. The day after my ZP100 died completely (guess I’ve been too happy there) Sonos announces the S5. Looks like a very good replacement for my ZP100 and as Volker put it: I guess I don’t want just … Continue reading

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Sonos System Revived

Since I had some spare time today, I decided to try Volker’s tips to revive my halfways broken Sonos setup. My problem was that one player wouldn’t show up at all while a second one would drop from the network … Continue reading

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Nistkasten Wolfgang S.

[ Thanks, jpmens ]

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VLC media player 1.0.0 – Goldeneye

The best video player for Linux, Mac and Windows finally made it to version 1.0.0 ;) Go grab it here. You’ll get:

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Open Source inspires Open Music

When O Teatro Magico sell CDs at their shows, they remind buyers “you can download the music for free on the internet, you know” yet people buy their disks by the 100s of 1000s. In fact, they are one of … Continue reading

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Shakes & Fidget – The Game

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Shakes & Fidget

If you’re a bit into computer games and especially the RPGs, you’ll love Shakes & Fidget – even if the current online selection is somewhat crippled by recent actions of Activision Blizzard. Still: A must-read.

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The EVA 9150 has landed

Today seems to be toy day. Right after the Tamron another parcel service delivered the EVA 9150 (aka Digital Entertainer Elite). Since I already own the EVA 8000 with which I’m quite happy, I’m very interested in the improvements the … Continue reading

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Rip, Store and Stream

Just found the RipNAS system on the web. The concept sounds interesting: Use 2.5″ notebook HDDs together with an Intel Atom CPU and plenty of RAM, add a CD-ROM drive and you get your noiseless automatic ripping station.

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Fluke makes iTunes play FLACs

Fluke is a small Mac OS X utility that lets you listen to your FLAC files right within iTunes without needing to convert anything. Simply feed your FLAC’s into it and watch the magic happen! [ More >>> ]

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VLC 0.9.9a released

The folks from Videolan.org some days ago released a new version of the best video player for the Mac (and other platforms, too): VLC 0.9.9a – where the “a” is a Mac only version. Besides improved RealMedia playback on the … Continue reading

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Sonos silently updates Desktop Controller for the Mac

After a clean upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5 (read: a fresh install of one’s Mac) many Sonos users including me were faced with the problem that they suddenly found themselves unable to install the Sonos Desktop Controller. That was … Continue reading

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