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. Read More ...

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. Read More ...

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. Read More ...

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). Read More ...

Peter Steiner

Software Developer and Opinionated Citizen

Switzerland