Hello! My name is Lars Schwarz (aka Bitrocker)

I'm a Freelance Web Developer from Oldenburg, Germany

     

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    Firefox 3 Window Redraw/Ghosting Bug – fixed?

    Using Firefox has always been a nice Experience until the day this nasty Redraw Bug occured. Opening a larger Amount of Tabs/Sites caused a Bug that made Firefox (3.0.5 in my case) to redraw only Parts of the Site. A Ghosting Effect that was really getting on my nerves, because you had reboot completely to [...]

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    Apple’s Mini Facebook In iTunes: Ping

    When Steve Job’s introduced “Ping” yesterday my first thought was: “hmmm, looks, feels, sounds like Facebook… but just for music”. Comments, follow, like, dates and even the color scheme.. After downloading iTunes 10 i gave it a quick try: 1. My “Follow recommendations” seem totally out of context. Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, U2… i never [...]

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    Facebook Developer Wishlist

    While creating my first Facebook application for a client i’ve been going through a lot of problems, bugs, missing documentation, missing methods and more. Facebook developer community support is quite bad as most posts on the Developer Forum stay unanswered and lot’s of examples found on other pages are outdated (due to the high change [...]

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    Black MacBook of Death

    … it doesn’t seem to get any better. After my first MacBook Harddisk Crash one year ago, three dying Batteries, now my second replacement Harddrive crashed yesterday. The first (original) Drive was the Seagate Momentus 5400.2 one, the second (replacement) Drive a Hitachi OEM one – both died with the same good-bye Headcrash Sound. So [...]

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    MacBook Battery and Snow Leopard

    There are a lot of Discussions recently on “dying” Batteries after installing Snow Leopard. My Battery Problem started when i bought my first Intel MacBook – the Black one. The first Battery died just after some weeks (X Symbol above the Battery Icon). I called Apple Support and got a new Battery some days later. [...]

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    New Twitter Experiment: Twitter Magnets gone wild

    Did a new little Sandbox Experiment called “Twitter Magnets gone wild”. It displays local tweets around you (based on your GEO IP Location) and allows you to drag and throw the words. Also it displays twitpic images and LongURLs for Services like tinyurl, bit.ly, is.gd and some others. Play: Twitter Magnets gone wild

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    No more (bad) URL Shortening Services please

    On Sites like Twitter.com it’s quite common to use a URL Shortening Service to reduce the Text length posted. Lot’s of this Services already exist, like tinyurl.com, is.gd, bit.ly just to name a few. From the Users point of view it doesn’t make a big difference which one to use: some have bookmarklets, some have [...]

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    Why don’t you validate?

    I assume most of you guys are aware there’s a service called “Markup Validation Service”. If you develop Websites it’s a good idea you validate them before publishing to make sure the conform the Specifications that exit for HTML/XHTML or even CSS. If you wonder what validation is all about you might want to check [...]

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    Pre-Christmas Harddrive Crash

    hey, what a present! just 2 days before christmas my internal macbook harddrive went boom. just while i was away for 5 mins getting milk (to serve delicious coffee to our dear guests), “timbo” had to reboot from windows to osx. when i came back all we saw was the “blinking question mark on a [...]

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    Less time or less good movies?

    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 [...]

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