Recently i noticed the number of good Movies i’ve seen hasn’t increased for a long time. Most Movies i’ve seen within the last 2 Years are “okay movies”, but not “real Movie Movies”. Am i missing those really good Movies, did i change my own Rating for a good Movie or did the Number of good Movies decrease?

Well, here’s my own List of movies i really enjoyed recently:

1. In Bruges (one of the funniest Movies i’ve seen for a long Time)

2. Vantage Point (one Story, different Perspectives, good one)

3. Taken (Liam Neeson to be the next James Bond?)

Well, yeah, that’s it! All others have been watched, rated “o.k.” and that’s it. All other’s are not in the “recently” Category like “11:14″ or “No Country for old men”. Any Recommendations? I’m really missing those good Movies.

There are 2 new Sites online which kept me busy in October:

1. Deichkind.de

2. Sportlichestalent.de (Mitsubishi Lancer Microsite)

The Deichkind Site uses the Kyte Player which caused some serious Problems, because we were bound to embedd it within Flash. The Site itself was done is AS 2.0, but the Kyte Player is AS 3.0. Though AS 2.0 and AS 3.0 are 2 completely different engines (AVM1 and AVM2) it wasn’t easy to “sync” both (Main Application and Kyte Player).

Check out those rotated Cities (Liverpool, Marseille and Lissabon) on the Mitsubishi Microsite. In the Prototype we first used Five3D to sync a 2D Animation (the rendered 360 degrees City Views) with a 3D Space for the Flag Hotspots (thanks Mathieu for your Support!), tried the same with Papervision3D but skipped that Idea for the current Version, because they aren’t dynamically positioned anymore.

Just saw the Soulwax “Rockumentary” Part of the Weekend never dies - really enjoyed it. The DVD comes with a Mix CD. It’s a bargain, buy it. Somehow it reminded my of Air’s “Eating, Sleeping, Waiting and Playing”.

The Movie contains nice Titles by “So Me“, lot’s of live Footage, lot’s of Good Music, lot’s of People going crazy while dancing, appereances by Justice and other Kitsune Artists, James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem (and his bottomless Porta Filter) and lot’s of Vintage Equipment in the Studio 54 and of course not only Soulwax Performances but also 2 many DJs Gigs… any way: go watch!

Recently i noticed a Bug in the Flash Player which is there for a really long time and hasn’t been fixed by Adobe since then:

http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-479

It affects all Input Fields on not showing the correct User Input, especially for Specialchars. So if you are for example typing a double Quote Flash will display the at Sign. When using WMode Window all works fine, but when using WMode Transparent it all screws up (in case you don’t know: using WMode Window is fine as long you don’t need to Display any HTML Content on Top of the Flash Movie, like when embedding a SWF and you have to Display a HTML PopUp above it).

Thanks to Max there’s are partial Solution available here:

http://analogcode.com/p/JSTextReader/

The JSTextReader comes in 2 Favours: a Class File and an “load at runtime” SWF. If you use it, be so kind at Donate - Max did great work finding a Solution for a problem Abobe hasn’t fixed for Years. “Partial” because it doesn’t work on Safari.

p.s.: if you downloaded JSTextReader recently and couln’t make it work, download it again, Max just updated the Download some Days ago because the old one was broken

I registered as iPhone Developer on that Day the SDK was released. On the Day the iPhone 3G was released i bought one. 1+1=2 so on the same Day i started doing some Stuff with XCode and the Emulator but soon i wanted to try some real World testing on my Phone and not on the Emulator so i applied for the Standard Developer Program… Instead of dropping the Program into the Shopping Card i ended up on a Page that told me that i’ll shortly receive Information about my Enrollment Status. What?

I tried again. Same Result.

I contacted the ADC Support via Email. No Repsonse (except an automatic Confirmation Email letting my know they received my Request).

1 Week later i tried again. Again i ended up on that Enrollment Status Page…

Antoher Email to ADC Support, another automatic Reply, another no Answer.

I tried again, but this time not with my existing Developer Account, but creating a completely new Apple Account and “TaDa!” the iPhone Developer Program went into the Shopping Card.

Ain’t it strange? Existing Users get an Enrollment Notice but no chance to buy the Program and new Users can shop it directly? Tsk Tsk Tsk.

It’s been a Problem since i upgraded my good old 12inch Powerbook G4 from Tiger to Leopard:

WiFi Connection drops when moving more than 1 metre away from the Router.

There are various Websites and Forum Threads describing the same Problem, mostly when updating the OSX Install (not doing a Clean Install). I tried nearly all from removing the Airport Startup Preferences Plist File, changing Channels, turning of IPv6 Support, disabling DNS and so on. Latest try was changing the Encryption from WEP to WPA: Still no WiFi Connection when the Powerbook is more than something like 2 metres away from the Router.

Guess my last try will be doing a clean Install, after i backuped all my Data… Thanks Apple for nearly no Support on this Thread.

This weekend we did a little Trip to Groningen (Holland). Shopping, Coffee, relaxing… I thought it would be a good idea to use Google Maps “MyMaps” Feature and collect some “Points of Interesst” before starting the Trip. So i added some placemarks to the Groningen Map and sent the link to my iPhone.

… trying to open that Google Maps generated Link on my iPhone opened Google Maps but did not show any of the Placemarks i placed. Hmmm, ok, let’s try to export an KML File and open that… Error. Na, nothing, just the Map, but without any Placemarks. Diggin’ a little deeper i learned that Google Maps on the iPhone doesn’t support KML Files (even it did prior to v2.0). Even there’s a little Hack by changing the original Google Maps URL and redirect to the KML File stored on your own Webspace i could not make it work.

I ended up in taking a Screenshot and adding it to my iPhone Photos… but, well, as you maybe know they get scaled down, resulting in a pixelated Map of Groningen with no Chance to read a single Street Name. Lovely. So back to good-old printed Street Maps.

p.s.: i’m aware that Applications like Nearby allow you to create own Maps with Placemarks, but i was looking for a solution to access that Maps without any further Roaming Costs when accessing it in a foreign Country, something like a cached Map or even a static Screenshot one.

UPDATE: Thanks to Tim i now have a working Solution for the next Trip: http://adlr.info/mymaps-iphone.html

I was trying out “Habari” for some weeks, but switched back to Wordpress now. The so called “next-generation Blogging” was easy to install, easy to manage and simply worked, but…

… why stick to HTML 4.01 which is a nearly 10 Year old specification???

So, here’s good old Wordpres back in action.

New Mitsubishi Offroader Site is online: www.mitsubishi-offroader.de

Running Gag through Development: Sorry, no time, i’m mitsubusy

Just a few of those digital Stuff i enjoyed recently:

Music (no Last.fm or Virb Statistics here, just what came to my mind):

• Cocosuma - We’ll drive home backwards
• Martina Topley Bird - The Blue God
• Sporto Kantes - 3 at Last
• The Horror The Horror - Wired Boy Child
• Greenkeepers - Vagabond (The Music of GTA IV)
• Radio Brooker (“inside” GTA IV)

Games:

• Grand Theft Auto IV

Web:

• Google Analytics (used it for a long time, but after integrating Analytics into most Flash Sites i did recently it get’s more and more interessting)
• Brightkite Beta (like the Site’s Layout, even i can’t beta-test if for real because they are not offering any European/German Carriers by now)
• Flickr (for Photos, not Videos!)
• GMail
• lot’s of Blogs/RSS Feeds (not to be listed here)