Until recently, it was not easy to find an affordable and easy-to-use software for the Mac to match photos with GPX track logs (see also the review on trick77). There is HoudahGeo, which works very well, but is also quite expensive (€25) for a tool that does only one thing.
PhotoGpsEditor works, but I don’t really like its interface. The Pictures and Track Lists are unsorted and when adjusting it’s not very clear if need a negative or positive offset.
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Fáilte is gaelic and means welcome. We stayed in Ireland this summer and enjoyed it very much. The Irish people are very friendly, and these places were outstandingly so:
Bridgecourt House B&B in Kilkenny Maire Rua self-catering apartment in Kilfenora Sometimes the friendliness of the street signs is a bit overwhelming and you have trouble discovering the sign that you are looking for when you are confronted with a whole tree of signs.
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I have finally updated to the latest version of Wordpress and detected several different spam attempts in my blog.
The index.php and wp-content/index.php files contained a couple of unwanted links (their size should be less than 100 bytes). One of my posts had some invisible links added at its end. One to a chinese site, disguised with the unescape Javascript function and others hidden by setting the style to display: none.
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Lieblings-Klagethema: die MNOs (Mobile Network Operators) in der Schweiz (und nicht nur hier) schaffen es immer noch nicht, attraktive Datenangebote zu schnüren; seit März hat sich nicht viel getan.
Tim Bray bringt eine neue Idee aufs Tapet: keine Flatrate anbieten, sondern einen lächerlich billigen Datentarif. Einige seiner Argumente: Kernkompetenzen von MNOs sind Bandbreite und Billing. Also sollen sie auch das Verkaufen: Bandbreite (Daten und Gespräche) und Billing (als Dienstleistung für Anbieter auf ihrem Netz).
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The Swiss Federal Court recently approved a copyright tax on MP3 players (and harddisk DVD recorders), effective from September 1st. If you don’t like to pay three times for your music (the download itself, the tax on blank CDs and the tax on players), you could write to your representative in parliament or join the initiative of the “Stiftung für Konsumentenschutz”.
Anyway, I took the opportunity to save 90 (!) CHF copyright tax and bought a new iPod now.
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If you are using any SCM that allows cheap branches (like Perforce) and are following the advices from the High-level Best Practices document, you might be interested in (or already know) Laura Wingerd’s presentation Convergence vs. Divergence: Purposeful Merging with Perforce about how to converge to codelines using Merge Down, Copy Up [PDF]. I have seen it many times that a main codeline got broken because the Merge Down, Copy Up idiom was ignored.
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Seit meinem Wechsel zu Natel Easy haben mich als kritischen Kunden drei Punkte am meisten gestört:
Das Ausschalten der Combox wird im “Manual Prepaid” nicht erklärt. Diese kleine Unterlassungssünde ist nicht weiter schlimm, denn online in den FAQ wird’s erklärt: der Code ##004# schaltet die Combox aus. Ich würde gerne meine Mails über die Vodafone Live Email-Funktion abfragen können. Das scheitert leider daran, dass das Vodafone Live Portal POP3 nur auf Standard-Port 110 unterstützt, nicht aber auf dem SSL-Port 995 (Port 995 ist in meinem Fall zwingend, weil Gmail POP3 nur via SSL unterstützt).
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