Tag Archives: Germany

Free and legal music downloads saga continues…

Posted by coulson on January 27, 2008 None comments

With shake-ups and shake-downs fast becoming monnaie courante in the online music world, music discovery service Last.fm have shook a leg once again: launching its on-demand service in the US, UK and Germany immediately, [Last.fm] plans to roll it out …

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Free Wi-Fi in Europe gearing up

Posted by coulson on October 5, 2007 2 comments

France. Last Saturday saw the official inauguration of the Paris Wi-Fi project. Free wireless internet connection is available to anyone in the vicinity of one of the 350 antennae covering 225 public places, parks, libraries and museums in and around …

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WordPress plugin for one click upgrades

Posted by coulson on September 26, 2007 None comments

How do you upgrade to the latest WordPress version with as little effort as possible ? [btw: WP 2.3 'Dexter' was released yesterday, appears to be a fairly big upgrade] German opensource consulting team Zirona have been working on this …

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Well-formed data visualizations

Posted by coulson on September 21, 2007 None comments

Just came across the work of Moritz Stefaner a freelance information visualizer and designer from Germany – impressive stuff. If you’re interested in visualization design then take a look at his Thesis page – a roundup of work for his …

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Computational craft from Germany

Posted by coulson on September 14, 2007 None comments

Bumped into – Islands of Consciousness from serial Flasheur, Mario Klingemann, alias Quasimondo. Stream of associated images pulled from Flickr tags. Intermingling, distorted photos manipulated in real time by the random soundtrack. Collaboration between Klingemann’s Flickeur project and a musical …

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