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Google Earth blog		01 Feb 06
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The Google Earth blog shows tons of great ways how to extend Google Earth. We’ll use it for Futurometer :-). I love it! The real power of a tools shows when people start to use it in more and more ways that is was never thought to be used by its creators.

WireTap		01 Feb 06
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WireTap is a utility that allows to record anything that your Mac plays. Snapz Pro is the same thing for video. WireTap costs $19 and Snapz Pro $20. Free trial versions of both can be downloaded.

75 slides about Ruby		30 Jan 06
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An immersive programming course by Brian Schroeder.

Sick of smoke!

30 Jan 06

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As my girl-friend is allergic against smoke, going to restaurants in Germany can be a pain, as most restaurants do not yet have non smoking areas. I am jealous of Italy in that respect, where smoking is simply banned in all public spaces.

To make our life easier, I invested 5 hours to setup a simple website to build a database of nonsmoking restaurants. It is a simple rails application.

Help to fill the database.

Engines of Democracy		25 Jan 06
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The General Electric plant in Durham, North Carolina builds some of the world’s most powerful jet engines. But the plant’s real power lies in the lessons that it teaches about the future of work and about workplace democracy. A nice article about discovering the value of the human being.

Google Earth for OS X		25 Jan 06
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I admit this post is late, but better late than never. Grab Google Earth and enjoy it.

Converting .doc/.sxi to LaTeX		25 Jan 06
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Writer2LaTeX is a utility written in java. It converts OpenOffice.org/StarOffice 6/7 Writer documents . in particular documents containing formulas . into other formats. Highly recommended if you are sick of fighting with Word.