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.

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!

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