Published in Employee Tech·May 5, 2021The MacBook Air M1 is the new corporate power-horse!Probably you already read a lot stories about the new M1 Apple Silicon Series of Mac’s… so I will not bore you with technical details, how SOC’s actually work, what’s the difference between CISC and RISC, and make it short: It is fast, it is super light-weight, it does it’s…Apple4 min readApple4 min read
Mar 7, 2021How I tricked myself into cracking my own legacy App — and failed.I jinxed it. last week, my boss and I were talking about legacy code, technical depth, etc. when I mentioned that I’m proud about an Application I build for a former client, which ran without an incident or production errors for over 4 years. Yet, one of the most IT-Wisdoms came true once…Programming7 min readProgramming7 min read
Published in Employee Tech·Feb 28, 2021A Big Shout Out to all Sysadmins out there — enabling the pandemic digital transformation!You all did a great Job! All the things you moved in such a short time, is just fabulous. Amazing. Way to often not valued. You are amazing! Usually: One year is not time. But this year also felt like no year, or more than one year: It depends on…Sysadmin2 min readSysadmin2 min read
Feb 14, 2021Five beautiful non-Apple dynamic Wallpapers for macOS“Kunst liegt im Auge des Betrachters” — What I like must not appeal to you. See the magic between Sunrise and Noon to Sunset, thanks to some math and its appliance to make your Desktop more vivid. You may ask: what’s the difference between calculating the sun position and…Lifestyle5 min readLifestyle5 min read
Feb 1, 2021My Favorite macOS ExtensionsI call them Extensions because they just compliment the OS. Not a fancy Buzzfeed List. Okay, maybe it is. ;) Magnet $4.99 — This is by far the best and easiest to use macOS Window “Manager” on the market. It will bring back flexibility when working with windows like it did…Macos3 min readMacos3 min read
Dec 26, 2020Merry (remote) X-Mas — or any other holidaysThis year was full of challenges, many social obstacles, and we had to adopt new behaviours almost every other month — even in the fast track technologic ever-changing world we’re already living in, this year brought the most changes to all of us — across the globe. Improvise. Adapt. Overcome. …Lifestyle6 min readLifestyle6 min read
Nov 15, 2020Please rebrand Bing to Cortana!Hey Microsoft! The name Bing does no good. It may feel like a well recognised brand, but it’s not; and I will name a couple of reasons in short. So, to make it short: please rename Bing to Cortana. Why do I “care”? A couple of weeks ago my mother reached out to me…Microsoft5 min readMicrosoft5 min read
Published in Employee Tech·Oct 23, 2020One Browser that finally don’t suck!For a very long time I would not have thought about using a Microsoft Browser anymore. Really — this was a no go. But Microsoft Edge flipped the coin. The time is gone where you used Internet Explorer (Edge) just to download Chrome. This browser is based on Chromium!Edge7 min readEdge7 min read
