Author: Georg Portenkirchner

iBackup with SuperDuper! now

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Yesterday it was time for my weekly my monthly a backup after quite some time. To back up my iBook to a 250 GB LaCie Hard Drive I have been using iBackup so far and was happy with it.

But yesterday evening when iBackup updated the plugins it froze and after waiting for half an hour I did a force-quit. Starting it new everything was ok and I started the backup.

Six hours later when I came back from a nice dinner with friends iBackup did not react again and seemed to be frozen. And another force-quit.

So I decided to dwonload the backup programme most Apple users seem to prefer and use: SuperDuper!.

So before I went to sleep I started the backup with SuperDuper! and when I got up again I had a current backup of all my files.

And once again I resolve to do backups weekly or montly or …

Web Montag München/Munich

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Today there will be the first Web Montag in München/Munich this year.

Presentations will be:

  • Felix Haas: Amiando – Gründung und Entwicklung: eine frisch gebackene Web-Plattform für “Einfach einladen.”
  • Martin Szugat: Windows-RSS-Plattform
  • Florian Steger: Micro Communities – how brands, media companies and organisations can enhance their customer lifecycle through online communities
  • Rocco Georgi: Mobile AJAX

This time the Web Montag will take place at amiando AG i.G., Leopoldstraße 244, 80807 München/Munich, starting at 19:00.

Hello world! Hello iPhone!

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Finally it is reality! Steve Jobs finally presented it in today’s Keynote at the Macworld Expo: the Apple iPhone.

Beside being a phone, it is also a widescreen iPod (audio and video) and an internet device (Safari, Mail, Widgets). Having only one button and a large multi-touch display.

In my opinion the iPhone will revolutionize the mobile phone industry as the Macintosh revolutionized the computer industry and the iPod revolutionized the way we to listen to music.

Comments now with microformats

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For some time I use microformats on my contact page. Some days ago had the idea why not use microformats for comments to add hCard markup to the comment entries.

So first I had to replace <?php comment_author_link(); ?> with <a href="<?php comment_author_url() ?>"><?php comment_author() ?></a> in the WordPress template. Finally I added some microformats code: <span class="author vcard"><a class="fn url" href="<?php comment_author_url() ?>"><?php comment_author() ?></a></span>.

Safari, forget me not!

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It happened so often to me that I had serveral tabs open in Safari and unintentionally closed Safari and seeing all the tabs going away. There is no warning before closing all these tabs as it happens in Firefox.

But today I stumbeld upon Forget Me Not by Jim Fowler. It is a SIMBL plugin for Safari that remembers all the websites that are open when Safari is closed and opens them again when Safari is started.

I am sure Forget Me Not will save me from time to time from going through the browser history and search for the sites I wanted to remain open.

Opening hours for mux.de

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mux.de is a new startup from München/Munich. I have been testing the site for some time and have been waiting to see it go public.

mux.de offers similar services like QYPE, Google Maps, Yahoo! Local or other sites: Places, shops, service providers and more.

There are some things that make mux.de different. It focuses only on München/Munich and it only is avaiable in German. Beside the addresses and general information you also can see if the place you are looking for is currently open and when it will close.

There are things I like, there are things that can be enhanced. But I still think that it is a useful site for people living in or coming to München/Munich.

So good luck for this project to the three guys at mux.de.

Hello world! Hello WordPress!

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Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

This is the first default blog entry when you install WordPress.

Since some time now I have been planning to use a CMS for my web site. After having a look at Moveable Type, Textpattern and WordPress I chose the last one.

But first I wanted to have a new design, for that I had quite some ideas but not really the time to implement. And looking back now, there were maybe too many ideas.

So finally today I decided to delete all files and install WordPress and use it form now on. Moreover the sites name now is portenkirchner.net and the old title porti’s island in the name became the subtitle.

The theme I use on time is Hemingway by Kyle Neath. I already changed the color, the font and some minor things. And there will come more changes in the future.