This year some has changed. Just a small detail but with big impact! It is my first Christmas break which isn’t a real break, because I do have to work from 28th till 30th. Okay, as it is holiday season, there was not much to do, but still I had to get up early. I took the chance to work on my final thesis, which is near completion. I hopefully will hand the whole thesis to my professor in the second week of January. Then it shouldn’t take that long, because he read already 70 pages of it and should easily review the missing 20 pages. Therefore, I am expecting to obtain my degree in February and the ceremony should take place in March 11th or 12th.
At the moment there is a more important event coming on – the New Year’s Eve! This year, I used the long weekend to make it a Christmas present to Nadine. It includes the trip to Sabine & Bernd, with whom we will celebrate in Milan. Moreover, we even will have the chance to watch Bernd’s game on January 3rd and have some time to show Nadine the city along with expensive boutiques, where she definitely will start dreaming. Therefore, I am lucky to still be a student – excuse-vice! :-D
So Happy New Year to all m friends & family!

Will be back on January 4th to make all the kissing and hugging!

Hotel Costes 12

It seems as Santa Claus along with "Christkind" stopped by earlier than expected!

As I just found that the new Hotel Costes 12 was released on 9.9.2009. Completely behind my (and Bernd's) back! Therefore, I have to postpone the release of this note due to a surprise present for Bernd, Andy, Bine on Christmas Eve.

Just me listen to the chill sound!!! :-D





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Now playing: Unforscene - Alright
via FoxyTunes


Story behind Hotel Costes series:

10 years ago, Stéphane Pompougnac decides to gather together the best tracks that he plays at the Hôtel Costes in a personal selection.

Shortly after, the first «Costes» compilation makes everyone to discover the luxurious, eclectic and sophisticated universefrom the resident DJ of the Hôtel Costes.

Immediate French and international success, the compilation quickly becomes a series, a unique and yearly rendezvous awaited by all the regarding music lovers.

TripIt for Travels - iPhone, Mac and PC

TripIt is a website, where you can manage and aggregate your travel activities and see your friends’ one. It is really consumer friendly by accepting booking confirmations, which you forward to a certain e-mail address. I started it yesterday, and could easily add past trips within few numbers. In this matter, my Gmail account was very helpful, because I never have deleted any mails since I joined Google-community.

There are more features:

1. You easily can create your own iCal “TripIt” and subscribe it with your iPhone, iCal or Google Calendar. Moreover, you can send it to your family to share your trips, that everybody knows your arrival and departure times respectively.


2. Add the app TripIt to your iPhone and sync all your web content to your mobile device.


3. You receive a nice statistic about your travel activities and records. You could compete with your friends, if you wish...


4. With another iPhone App “Flighttrack Pro” you even can get pushed notification if your flight is cancelled or has a delay.
   

To summarize it, you easily can add your flight details to your calendar, which makes it very convenient, because you don’t have to type any flight track numbers or times into your calendar.

And eveything for free!

Barcelona

It was my first visit to Barcelona and my first trip to Spain since I was 5 years old. So you can imagine how excited I was to spend some time in one of the most famous cities on earth!
After a 4 hour delay at the Vienna Airport, we arrived late in Barcelona and due to the trip back from Croatia the day before, we were really tired and went just for a quick bite close to the hotel. Our hotel was quite in a good position for our desired beach vacation and a city trip. We just had 200m to “la Rambla” and around 1 km to the beach. So it was perfect for sightseeing and relaxing.

City & Beach

Overall, we knew that the city is great and the historic buildings and parks are great, especially Parc Guell and la Sagrada Familia, but as you can imagine, in middle of summer the city was packed with tourists and so we skipped entering buildings. As Barca is a big city, there was no doubt, that the beach would be more crowded than the Croatian coves, but anyway, better a crowded beach as a boring public swimming center in Burgenland.

Food

Usually I always find the right places to get good, but cheap food, but this time we were not that lucky. First, we took some tapas at a restaurant on la Rambla, where we thought that the plates will costs just 2 instead of 5,-, what changed price for the small lunch snack by 20,-, and still starving! Further, a lot of recommended food places were closed because of renovation. Then we tried out a highly recommended restaurant, where we should eat the best Paella in town. It was not bad, but not worth the money we paid. The last night in Barca, Nadine had the desire for a big meat – really, it was Nadine’s idea – but got disappointed by an Entrecote with a lot of fat strips in it. But in the end, we found our greatest place at one of the beach bars, where we had our daily cocktails of the day.

Greatest Place

Was definitely the beach bar, where we had great food, music and drinks. Especially, when a waiter started to speak Austrian: “schleichti oida”. He was a Mexican, who had a girlfriend from Graz. Was quiet funny to hear such words in such bar.
On the way home, we had again a delay, which made up for the arrival delay, because we knew in advance that our plane will leave later to Bratislava instead of Vienna. So, we didn’t have any disadvantages of that change.

Resume

It was a great trip with Schnucki and the right place to end summer 2009!

Back to blogging

Quiet a long time ago, but during my hard time writing for my last hurdle of my degree. I rather spent my time where I didn’t read or write without typing. So now, as I still have some pages to accomplish, I am back with some News. Even better, I am going to try to recap what happened last few months.

First, Nadine and I spent some days in Croatia on the isle Rab, where I had been in May already. Nothing changed to my good opinion towards Rab and its wonderful coves! This time we even had a big experience by a big rubber tube! Nadine’s father pulled us by boat through the Adriatic Sea. Unfortunately, we had to leave Croatia after few days, because we had to catch our pre-booked flight to Barcelona operated by Sky Europe. It was one of the last flights, which took off from Vienna – just with a 4 hour delay, but still took off. But our flight back arrived in Bratislava, which wasn’t a big problem, because Nadine’s father picked us up at the Slovakian airport and by car it was just a 20 min delay, because it just takes 5 min from landing to leaving the airport.

After the vacations, I was back on track to write some pages for my final thesis, but there was not much time, because next event was close. I decided to work at the INFORM for dieBank as a Barkeeper, which was very exhausting on one side, but made a lot of fun on the other side.

By first of September I replaced Tina in the Gunners office, because she went on maternity leave. 20 hours a week didn’t sound that much, but ending up working almost twice as agreed, took me completely out of my writing rhythm. Anyway, it made a lot of fun to work for the club, where I helped out already in summer 2006. Knowing what things have to be done and being familiar with the structure and the workflows, I could integrate myself really easy.

Since November I am doing an internship at the Deutsche Bank in the Global Markets Department. My contract will last until End of February and I am desperate to stay in this sector for my future career. Beside the job I am trying to help out the club concerning administration. So still quite busy all the time, but who cares about watching TV and a lot of sleep. The only thing what I would like to do is working myself out, but there is no time for it, yet.

At the moment, I finished 71 pages of my 85-page final thesis. So now I am entering the last curve in a long a... run.

In my next few reports I will do a more detailed recap.

Regards

Hannes

Translation of Bernd's Interview

For everybody who doesn't speak Italian, read "Google Translation":

Translation: Italian » English
PAVIA. E’ la prima volta da quando è in Italia che Bernd Volcic gioca due stagioni di fila nella stessa squadra. In precedenza era accaduto solo nella belga Mons. Obiettivi? Vincere e migliorarsi. «Mi sono presentato al raduno dopo aver sgobbato - spiega il centro austriaco - ho lavorato con i pesi in palestra, ho corso e cercato di perfezionare la tecnica, ma dopo due settimane di allenamento sono stanco». Ieri coach De Raffaele ha concesso mezza giornata di riposo alla squadra. «La preparazione serve per essere pronti quando comincia il campionato - sottolinea Volcic - Lo scorso anno abbiamo vinto sempre nella preseason, poi è andata com’è andata. In questa fase della stagione non contano i risultati, ma solo lavorare duro, creare un gruppo e capire cosa vuole l’allenatore». Sarà una Nuova da “corsa”. «Abbiamo una squadra piccola per scelta del coach, cui piace giocare con quattro esterni e un lungo che corre e fa i blocchi. Per questo dobbiamo puntare sulla velocità, essere pronti a correre sempre e più degli avversari». Per il secondo anno Bernd gioca in riva al Ticino. «Abbiamo trovato subito l’accordo, io volevo rimanere e la società voleva tenermi. Il presidente Gianmarco Bianchi è un uomo onesto con cui ho feeling. Un altro motivo è che mia moglie lavora alla Sergio Rossi di Milano». L’obiettivo di Bernd è migliorarsi. «E’ necessario per raggiungere la salvezza, poi vedremo. Credo che la differenza la faranno i dettagli perché sarà un campionato equilibrato. Noi abbiamo un mix giusto di esperienza e gioventù, e quando troveremo il modo di stare in campo ci toglieremo diverse soddisfazioni. Personalmente non sono contento di quello che ho fatto lo scorso anno, so che posso fare di più e meglio». La base della Nuova è quella dello scorso anno. «E’ importante, noi sappiamo cosa vuole il coach e per lui è più facile con 5 giocatori che già lo conoscono, perchè possiamo aiutare i nuovi». Volcic da due anni è iscritto alla facoltà di Economia dell’Università di Amburgo. «Penso al futuro. Mi piace scoprire nuove città e nuovi piatti. Preferisco la carne, adoro la fiorentina. Mi piace andare alla scoperta di nuovi locali con la guida slow food».		PAVIA. It 'the first time since Italy is that Bernd Volcic played two seasons in a row in the same team. Previously, it had only happened in the Belgian Archbishop Target? Win and improve. "I presented at the rally after toiling away - says the Austrian Center - I worked with weights at the gym, I ran and tried to perfect the technique, but after two weeks of training are tired." Raffaele De coach yesterday granted half a day of rest to the team. "The preparation needed to be ready when the season begins - emphasizes Volcic - Last year we won more in the preseason, then went how it went. At this stage of the season do not count the results, but only to work hard, create a group and understand what the coach wants. " It will be a new "race". "We have a small team of choice of the coach, who likes to play with four external and one long-running and make the blocks. For this we need to focus on speed, be prepared to take more and more opponents. For the second year Bernd plays near Ticino. "We quickly found the deal, I wanted to stay and the company wanted to keep me. President Gianmarco Bianchi is an honest man with whom I feel. Another reason is that my wife works at Sergio Rossi of Milan. The objective of Bernd and improve. 'It is necessary to attain salvation, then we'll see. I think the difference will make the details because it will be a balanced league. We have a right mix of experience and youth, and when we find a way to stay in camp, we'll take different satisfactions. Personally I am not happy with what I did last year, I know I can do more and better. " The basis of these is the last year. "It 'important, we know what the coach wants and he is easier with 5 players who already know him, because we can help other." Volcic for two years and entered the Faculty of Economics, University of Hamburg. "I think the future. I like discovering new cities and new dishes. I prefer the meat, I love Florence. I like exploring new places with driving slow food.

regards,

Hannes

Wedding Andy & Sissy

Since I didn't make any pictures at the wedding, I wanted to wait until I receive some official, but it seems that it takes longer than expected.

As you can imagine, a wedding of a family member is always nice and great. Why? Because you now the majority of the guests and you don't have to feel always wrong in place. That's the good part, but the other side is a lot of work, if the couple believes a wedding up on a hill, Hannersberg, in a tent is better than booking a hotel where everything will be prepared for you. So, as it turned out Andy's brother, me!!!, had to work his a… off. Sounds familiar! So I had a hard time, but also 4 great days of celebrating a wedding - 2 days official and 1 unofficial bachelor party and the wedding itself. :-D the result was a lot of fun, gaining some kilos and a free pass for the next months to stay at the mansion in Neustiftgasse 131.

Take care,

Hannes

iPhone & MobilMe - Do not let Apple fool you

Yes Mobilme is a great thing! Especially if you have a Mac and an iPhone, because then you can use the full power of it, but nevertheless it is not 79,-€ worth it. I will tell you the reasons:

You can get everything with Google for free - Picture upload, online Storage or pushing your calendar wireless. Yesterday, I canceled my Tryout-Period of MobileMe and it took me about 30 mins to adjust my GMail and GCalendar to use it instead of MobileMe.

1)GMail
Has already IMAP - so you don't need the energy consuming Push-Service

2)GCalendar
is the intermediate we need to update your calendar wireless. First you import your iCal Calendars to your GCalendar by exporting them and importing them. Then you use the "Calaboration" to get your GCalendar on your iCal. Now you can delete your "only-on-your-mac" Calendar. You will not see any difference than before!

3)Exchange Server
Over the Microsoft Exchange Server you can add your Calendar and your Contacts of GMail to your iPhone. They also can be pushed!

So I decided to use only the Calendar for real time exchange and keep the contacts synced over iTunes, but when I do it, iTunes syncs the Contacts also with google. So you always have all your contacts up to date!

Of Course MobileMe is much easier and takes you only few seconds, but it costs you money and might be worthless in few months if you change your mobile for example!

so check out the wonderful Apps of Google!

c u soon!

Orlando Magic - LA Lakers 75:100

Finals 1:0 for Lakers. Impressive Kobe with 40 points!

Watch a nice commercial:

Doing Sport in a different way

Yesterday, Nadine and I wanted to lift some weights. As we entered the gym in Oberschützen, I had the idea of warming up without weights on the court. So we played some volleyball and ended up playing around with the "Hulahup-Rim". Unfortunately my iPhone has no video-function. So I cannot show you how good Nadine is in it! :-D

We don't wanna mention my performance... :-(

Take care

Microsoft strikes back - Zune HD

Will this be the beginning of the end of Apples lead?!

Watch this:

Zune HD Video Hands On from Gizmodo on Vimeo.

On The Boat - Croatia from a different perspective

Last week, from Tuesday till Monday, Nadine's father and me were on the Croatian island Rab, where he has an motorboat for more than 20 years. It was my first time to have a chance to see it and getting the feeling to be free of crowded beaches and noise. As nobody else had time to join him, I didn't rethink twice and accepted the offer!

On Tuesday and Wednesday, we prepared the boat after a long time out of the water for its first "sea-mission" in 2009. The rest of the week we used the time to relax, drink a little bit, meet old friends of Gerald and of course have some great seafood. As Gerald spends a lot of his spare time, he knows a lot of good places for dinner.

Making a trip on a boat is really a special thing, because you are almost free as camping, but camping is already regulated to specific areas, where you have to stay. With a boat you can throw the anchor almost everywhere as long you are safe! Moreover you have access to bays where just few people have access to it.

It was really a big experience for me and I hope to get another chance soon!

Von On the Boat

Consulting & Basketball

Tomorrow, I will attend the career day of Deloitte to apply for a position in the business consulting department. so let's see how it goes! Afterward, I might go to the Basketball game to Wels, where the Gunners have the chance to move to the semifinals with a victory.

A Place to Sleep - II

After some problems with the paint, Mum got somebody paint it again. So it took longer than expected, but now after new floor, new paint and new furniture, the room just looks wonderful! really! it is no match to the old room. Sabine will be surprised when she got back home once! Of course the small details like a holder for the curtains, - don't know the certain name for it! - is missing, but that has to wait until I have time for it!

Tool Time is now over and the real final thesis time is comin' up!!!

A Place to Sleep - I

But enough with my reporting on my new toy! A lot more important is that my mum will soon have a new place to sleep and store her tonns of clothes and other things woman have to buy! She agreed that I will be responsible for the complete renovation. So I started to through everything out of the room, clean the spots from deep cuts and clean after the neighbour put the wires into the wall, where they cannot be seen anymore! Now I am in the stage of putting the finish on the walls and start preparing the floor! Tomorrow I will take a picture of the „greeny“ room. Yes green, because Irene loves green and the enviroment is also green so Irene decided to have more green in her life! No I am just kidding. I have no glue, why she choosed green, but I thing it can match with the new furniture and nice curtains to get a new sleeping experience. After she didn’t changed the rooms for more than thirty years!

C u soon @Rechte Bachgasse 13

The Apple has him

It is my first time to write on my brand new MacBook Unibody. I bought it last week, but due to some problems with my car and the beginning of the renovation of my mum’s room, I was too busy to work me through! So now it is the first time I am laying in my bed and play around with it. Of course, I used the time to transfer 90% of my data from my ancient windows notebook to this stylisch, fast and completely silent MacBook! It is really incredible what time can bring. First i wasn’t sure if I should invest so much money for a thing, which will cause me more more headache and more time to spent in front of the computer. But now I am totally convinced that I made the right choice.

Final Thesis fixed & Happy Eastern

Good news!

I had an appointment with my professor and we could fix the content of my final thesis. So now the time of only reading and thinking is over. Now it is time for more reading, more thinking, and WRITING! Especially, my brother Andy will feel the difference!!! :-D

Everything should be done by 1st September....

Wish you all a lot of eggs! Or rather more thick steaks, which are more likely after the nice forecast for the next days!

Broadway in Oberschützen – „Der Brandner Hias und d'Ewigkeit“

Last Friday, Nadine and I watched the play "Der Brandner Hias und d'Ewigkeit" in Oberschützen. It is played in SoBu slang and the actors are amateurs, where most of them are teachers in one of the high schools in the same town. Some of them I had in school, but that was not the only reason to attend the play. Rather my aunt Inge, who is playing one of the main characters. I think it is the fourth year they are playing, so they are quiet experienced. It was really funny and we enjoyed the evening.

We are looking forward to see another wonderful play next year!

Here is the link: LINK

Graduation Party Part II

As I mentioned in my latest post, Nadine and I were invited to the graduation party of Philipp, nephew of Sissy. On the way to downtown Graz we made a stop at Shopping Center Seiersberg to satisfy the shopping fever of Nadine. :-D Afterwards, we checked in the "Das Weitzer" which is a nice old hotel close to the city center of Graz. We intended to have dinner at Aiola, but the kitchen was closed due to restructuring, reopening April 15^th. So we had no time to search for a long time, because of a starving Hannes, we couldn't waste time! ;-) I had a wonderful steak at the "Herzerl Stubn" and Nadine a special kind of "Schnitzel" with pumpkin seeds. Then we headed to M1-Bar where the party took place. We meet a lot of Philipp's friends and his family. We really enjoyed the night and had a lot of fun! On the way home we had to make a stop for a big hot dog. Actually we had to get two, because the first one was a little bit cold and not Nadine refused this one – she is a really big fan of Hotdogs!!! – so we made a stop at the next hotdog stand to grab another one, but this time the temperature wasn't the problem rather the sausage, which was a Bratwurst. So Nadine was disappointed again, but she was too hungry to refuse it! On the next day, we had an awesome brunch at the Aiola Schlossberg with a wonderful view over Graz and with sunny 15°C.

Unfortunately such weekends always end to fast! So we had to go back to SoBu for studying and some more coffee…

Nadine & Hannes

Sponsionsfeier die Zweite

Nadine and I are going to Graz for this night to celebrate with Philipp Gamauf his "Magister". We are leaving next few minutes to please every women's weak point – shopping. I think it will be the first time that Nadine will be on time… :-D

Full story coming up!

Working!

Last weekend I was completely occupied with working. I was working as a waiter at the MotoMotion in Oberwart, which is a fair for cars, bikes and everything which can be related to it. As it was a success I was really busy! Now I am tired and happy to have it passed.

Before I forget, on Friday there was a Graduation Party of Manuel in Stinatz. It was a very funny party with cold meet and a lot of beer! ;-) Unfortunately, I was not very long, because of working on the next day, but still I enjoyed an "Austrian-croatian" celebration.

Tomorrow morning I will meet with my professor to discuss the register of my final thesis.

Good night and take care,

Hannes

One night in (Rio) Vienna

I spent the last night in Vienna, because of an interview, which worked out quiet good. Now, I have to send them my grades to get invited for second round. In the afternoon I played Tim Taylor and fixed mounting for the curtains in the kitchen of the apartment of Sissy & Andy. One of several things I have done so far, which earned me the title of "Hausbesorger". Sounds pretty awkward to be a caretaker, but as I had to pay in some way my rent for staying with them, I am rather honored with the title. Afterwards we had a late lunch at Schilling, an old Vienna cuisine close to the apartment.

Then I had my next meeting at the department for student affairs to get my American grades for good. I could finish the process for my Irvine classes, but they still want me to send them a new transcript of Berkeley, which would cost me around 50€. Lets see what the head of the department thinks about it?! ;-) The best thing about Berkeley is, that I would get 5 Semesterstunden, it's the Austrian form of credits, for each lesson, which would mean that I have done Irvine for nothing and 2 other classes, because usually a class is worth 2 Semesterstunden, but due to the workload in Berkeley it counts far more. So now you can see, that I wasn't joking in the summer, when I was studying my ass off! Nevertheless, I just have 4 Semesterstunden left, so I will only take each class for 2 SS each.

In the evening, I met with current UCI students and the replacement of mine next fall quarter in Irvine. It was a really nice chat and I hope I could help them a little bit to tackle all the obstacles they might face.

Today, I was for a great breakfast in my favorite café next to the University – "The Roast" and then it was the big time for Manuel, who was honored with his "Magister" degree (masters). Thanks to the long days next to him in the library I was invited to the ceremony which was followed by champagne and a lunch at a restaurant in Vienna. Still full with "Cordon Bleue" and beer, I am lying in front of the TV back home in SoBu.

I wish all of you a great rainy weekend!

Scoring Machines battle each other

Austrian Carnival And Many More

On Tuesday it was the last day of this season's carnival - called "Fasching" in Austria. As I am not a typical fan of such "must-be-funny-days", I joined the party rather late at 4.30 at Oberwart Main street. After some hot wine, I drove to Stegersbach, where my girlfriend was the "Carnival Princess 2009" and Ado and I picked her up. We had lot of fun at P2 and Braumönch, where Laky was working this night. Around 9.30 I drove back home to leave my girl alone for some dancing.

Wednesday, I was working all day for dieBank to get the restaurant back to normal business after the Carnival mess. On the next day, I spend all day with my final thesis and some relaxing with Nadine. Friday was a lot of fun with the guys from St. Michael, who Peter and I visited for some German Beer and some "Unicum", the Hungarian national drink – fu… disgusting!!! Saturday, I worked again on my final thesis and had some coffee with my guys. Nadine and I spent the night at Thermal Stegersbach.

All in all, an ordinary week of my life! Including coughing and sniffing!

Fitness 2.0

Some of you have received this video already, but you never can stop watching it!


Fitnessprogramm 2.0

unbelievable!!!

Hamburg – Pick Up My Car

Sunday, my mother and I took the night train to Hamburg and next morning we had a transfer to Bremerhaven. There I had to deal with the plates and the insurance for the car. Due to good preparation in advance it took only few minutes to get a 5-day-pass. With plates and insurance we headed to the freighting company, where I picked up my car. Unfortunately, it has one scratch, which hopefully can be polished. It was amazing how many cars every week get imported. This week around 20 ships arrived. In summer it was 180. Unbelievable how many took advantage of the good exchange rate. After the process we stopped in the city centre of Bremerhaven to have a "Frigatellen-Brötchen", which is comparable with a burger. It is really delicious! With a full belly we could start our journey back to Hamburg.

We arrived at our Hotel around 6 o clocks in the evening – we stayed at the Marriott in the middle of the city – Thanks to Alex! After quick shower and relaxing, we started to look for a dinning place. After endless walking, I asked for a restaurant and we were lucky. We were recommended a great place with typical local food. I had "Labskaus" and my mum had some fish with mustard. After some drinks at the hotel bar, we fell in our beds for a long nice sleep.

On the next day, we started our hardcore sightseeing-tour with a harbor-tour by boot and afterwards a tour with a bus. This compared with a lot of walking in between made us hungry and tired – the question is when I am not hungry?! ;-) We really enjoyed the city, because the sun was shining but it was chilly. I don't want to mention all the details about the city, because I think it is more about the atmosphere, which makes it so impressive. Of course I have to mention the "Reeperbahn" as one of the most famous party miles on earth, but as it was Tuesday and freezing it was not much going on there. The clean and shiny streets, fleets and bridges make Hamburg one of my favorite cities. On Wednesday we visited the museum for local history, which showed us the development of the city. Our last point on the sightseeing list was a Russian submarine.

At 8 pm, I had to drive my car to the train to get it transported in the rear of it. My mum and I had it comfortable in the front in a nice bed. Yes, you are right. One moment I was thinking of staying in my car, but with freezing temperature it was an easy decision. :-D

Hamburg

Google Sync

Microsoft has Exchange Server and Apple has it's Mobile Me. Both are great applications to sync wireless your calendar, contacts and mails with your account. Both are pretty expensive and not worth to pay for it as long as you don't have a business or a company pays it for you! Now my favorite company came up with something for free.This is the reason why I love this company so much!

read more here:

English

German

enjoy

iPhone Firmware 2.2.1 is out

For everybody with an iPhone, 3G or 2G, since few days, the firmware update 2.2.1 is out. It is just a small update to solve some bugfixes and stability of Safari.

Small Guide for jailbroken iPhones. If you still want to use your inofficial Apps like I do, I can recommand you this guide.

1)download "APT Backup" on Cydia - it is a small App which saves the downloaded Apps from Cydia in a directory, where iTunes syncs it on your computer. That means, that all your programms can be installed after a restore or update easy by clicking restore in "APT Backup". So basically you just have to install this app. So install it and run backup.

2) sync with iTunes

3) after successful sync, you can use the update button to install the update. Everything should stay like it is, except the inofficial apps and cydia, and take approximately 5 min.

4) Now you can run this app, which puts Cydia on your iPhone. Here is a link: QuickPwn for Win

5) Install "APT Backup" on Cydia and run restore to get your apps back!

Good Luck with it! and enjoy your precious!

(This guide is for everybody with an Iphone from an official provider or OTB unlocked)

Never Eat @Schloss Hartberg - Gschü

Two weeks ago, Laky, Madlene, Nadine and me had a dinner at castle Hartberg (Schloss Hartberg). It is a nice restaurant with traditional styrian food, which is run by the family Gschiel. It was my forth time, I think, for me to have the delicious food, but finally it will be the last visit ever. I knew before that the female boss, who does the service tend to be drunk and do not behave like a waiter should behave, but the food was always good and if you don't have anything to do this day, it was always worth to wait. But after this Tuesday it was enough! She was really unpolite and never stopped by. She always treated us like dumm people and we felt like not being welcome! Another couple had the same feeling like us and paid after the appertizer, because the female boss didn't come to pick up the dishes. They did the right thing, which we were planning to but finally we received our food without long waiting time, but never received more water. Moreover we were charged for tape water eventhough we had a bottle of wine! I am also sure that she charged us more for the samon. My baked eggs were salty and I got a bad rude answer from Miss Gschiel!

I really can tell you! It is not worth to go there! Food is good, but the owner will destroy your dinner with their drunkiness and rudeness!!!

Save your money and cook something on your own!!!

Best Regards

Games & Beer

Last four days were full with beer and fun. All started with Mondays work out with Uli at Hotel Paierl in Bad Waltersdorf. Afterwards, we headed towards Gleisdorf on a snowy highway. We started with Hefeweizen beer right away and stopped drinking close to midnight.

Tuesday evening I continued with some Ottakringer during the game-session with Fiedi, Hubert & Andy. We played Puerto Rico and we had to give Andy two victories, because he still had toothache from his surgery earlier this day. ;-) I was not pleased with my performance - once last spot and a good second place! Next time I definetely will do better!

Yesterday, I had an interview with Prof. Eschenbach, who will take care of my final thesis. My topic will be "St. Gallener Strategiekonzepte von Ulrich bis Malik". Before I started to read, I had to drink more beer with Gong and Bendesch @Stylez. And after arriving in OW, you can image what I did @Hooters with the guys - of course some more beer!!! :-D So, a lot of beer these days.

Today, it's time to do some sport!

I will now head out for running! Remember the scenic running track in NPB.

Von Sport in Newport Beach

English is a nice language

Yesterday was a good day. First I received information about my tax laws classes, where I had the exam beginning of January. I successfully passed the exam and still have the chance of getting an average. The other good thing was my management control exam. It took longer than 2 hours and I have a good feeling about the result. Now I have one week off - J. Next Wednesday I will meet Prof. Eschenbach for a first interview about my final thesis. In February I also have my last classes. From 9^th till 12^th I will take the logistic classes BLP 2 in only one week. That’s really fast! It is during the “Winter Uni”, which is for students who are really ambitions or need to catch up with the curriculum. I don’t know to which group I belong, but I rather take the course in one week and have everything done…

At latest, you have wondered why I changed my language to English, but I felt like all my friends at home except my family is not paying attention to my blog anymore, because they are in touch with me over the phone or meeting with me face to face. So now I changed my mind and want to address my friends all over the world.

So I say hello to everybody all over the world!

Von Surfen mit Bine

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Der Onkel frisst sich durch die Präsentationen

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Da ich zur Zeit auf Job/Praktikum Suche bin, besuche ich fleißig die Recruiting Events des zBp's. Gestern stand Roland Berger Strategy Consultans am Programm. Die Präsentationen sind nicht nur reine Recruiting Events, es werden auch aktuelle Themen diskutiert und man lernt die Mitarbeiter des Wiener Büros besser kennen. Nach jedem Event gibt es ein Buffet mit Brötchen und Getränken. Alles im Allen ist es ein interessanter Abend. Es war meine 3. Veranstaltung die ich besucht habe, und immer taucht dieser Onkel auf. Er ist mir schon letzten Juni aufgefallen, wo er sich mit Brötchen vollgestopft hatte, damals bei Shell. Letzten 2 Wochen war er wieder anwesend und hat geschaufelt was das Zeug hält. Aber er sticht nicht nur durch seine Ess-Qualitäten heraus, sondern auch durch seine dummen Fragen während der Präsentation. Auf die Aussage von Booz&Company Mitarbeiter über die enge Kundenbeziehung, fragte er ob sie die telefonisch erzeugen?! Wir haben uns totgelacht!

Bine hat Beckham! Ist ja nix! Er ist der wahre ONKEL!!! (Es ist der Typ rechts neben dem "Sträfling")

Prison Break discontinued after season 4

Alles hat mit Season 1 angefangen und hätte dann auch enden sollen. Mit Prison Break ist US Sender Fox ein Meisterwerk gelungen. Jedoch hat die Serie von Staffel zu Staffel an Reiz verloren. Daher war es nur mehr eine Frage der Zeit, wann sie eingestellt wird. Nun ist es offiziel. Nach Season 4 wird es keinen Michael Scofield mehr geben... Es lebe Season 1

iPhone 3G & Jailbreak - Must Have Apps

Ich bin der totale iPhone-Fan. Was ja die Mehrheit von euch wissen. Seit kurzem bin ich auf das iPhone 3G umgestiegen. Zuerst wollte ich ja nicht, weil laut diversen Foren keine wesentlichen Verbesserungen vorgenommen wurden, jeodch stimmt das nur zum Teil. Das Gerät selbst schaut ja ziemlich ähnlich dem alten, wobei mir das alte mit der Alu-Schale viel besser gefallen hat, jedoch liegt das neue viel besser in der Hand. Ein großer Bonus-Punkt beim 3G ist, dass der Lautsprecher viel besser ist und man problemlos den Gegenüber hören kann. Ob der Empfang besser geworden ist, kann ich leider nicht sagen. Hatte bisher keine Probleme mit Orange, mein neues Netz. Auch wenn ich ein offizielles iPhone mit Orange-Lock habe, werde ich weiterhin den Jailbreak durchführen. Jailbreak heißt, dass man nicht von Apple authorisierte Programme installieren kann. Seit der AppStore einführen, spielen diese Programme, welche über Cydia installiert werden, nicht mehr so große Rolle. Jedoch gibt es ein paar die nennenswert sind. Die möchte ich hier kurz mal vorstellen:

1) BiteSMS
Sieht auf den ersten Blick aus wie das Standard-SMS Programme und wird auch gleich bedient. Jedoch kommt es mit paar Features. Einzelne SMS können nun gelöscht oder weitergeleitet werden. Sehr nützlich wenn man versehentlich an den falschen Adressaten schickt. Desweiteren kann man Kontakte mit Nummer , GoogleMaps Position oder Smileys einfügen. Sehr nett ist auch der Landscape Modus. Auf dieses Programm bin ich in den USA gestolpert, als ich für SMS 20 US ct gezahlt hatte. Hier hilft nämlich das Programm auch. Man kann über Paypal credits kaufen und via Internet (also WiFi) versenden. Dann kostet die SMS nur mehr 6-7 ct in die ganze Welt. Dieses Feature brauch ich jetzt nicht mehr, wo ich 1100 frei SMS pro Monat habe. Dennoch war es in der Vergangenheit sehr hilfreich.

2) IntelliScreen
Ein Programm das diverse Features auf den Lock-Screen holt. Kalendar und neue SMS sowie E-Mails können ohne starten der einzelne Programme rasch gelesen werden. Kostet 10$ und zahlt sich aus, wenn man es von vorigen Handys gewohnt ist, seine Termine sofort zu sehen.

3) Winterboard
Ein Programm um das Summerboard neu zu gestalten. Soll heißen man kann das Aussehen der Icons oder Hintergründe individuell anpassen. Kleine Spielerei also!

4) SBSettings
Ein kleines Programm um rasch auf Flugmodus, WiFi aus oder 3G aus zu gehen. Ein Streichen über der Taskleiste am oberen Rand aktiviert das Programm.

5) GriS
Damit lässt sich der Google Reader Account syncronisieren. Somit bleib ich am iPhone mit all meinen RSS immer uptodate. RSS ist eine Kurznachricht, kann aber auch den kompletten Artikel beinhalten, die von E-Mail Programmen oder Internet-Explorer gesammelt werden kann. Somit muss man nicht mehr auf die einzelnen Seiten gehen um sie auf neue Nachrichten zu überprüfen. Meine Liste an RSS: alle Blog-Einträge, diePresse, Wirtschaftsblatt, iPhone-Homepages,...

Probiert sie aus! Wäre euch dankbar, eure favorite Apps im Kommentar zu posten.

lg

Hannes

2 more & schöner Abend mit Wiederholung

War bisschen schleißig die letzten Tage und nicht oft am PC. Grund war meine 3. letzte Prüfung in meinem BWL Studium. Als erste Prüfung nach Weihnachtsferien und meiner eher lockeren Lernzeit in den USA - Systemunterschied in mehr während des Semesters und eher mäßiger Endprüfung, im Gegensatz zu fast keine Evaluierung in den Einheiten und großer Prüfung am Ende an der WU. Jedenfalls kämpfte ich mit dem Steuerrecht und ich glaube ich konnte das Biest zähmen und werde hoffentlich positiv abschneiden. Da waren nur mehr 2 übrig und eine DA...

Nach der Prüfung ging es schleunigst ins Champions, wo Hälfte des Lokals voll mit Oberwarter oder Basketballbegeistere war. Mit Burger und Bier waren wir beim Sieg der Gunners voll dabei! Für 2 Bier und Burger 17.80€ zahlen, sollte man eigentlich freundliches und schnelles Personal erwarten. Ein echter Minus-Punkt. Obwohl ich eingestehen muss, dass ich nicht ganz so brav aufgepasst habe, weil ich mehr mit Christoph und Sebastian am Quatschen war. Die 2 hatte ich seit 4 bzw. 7 Monate nicht mehr gesehen und daher Einiges aufzuholen. Hier ist zu erwähnen, dass das Service im Champions das Letzte ist. Ging fast, aber nur fast zu wie bei Frauen!!! ;-) Nach Champion ging es weiter in einer meiner lieblings Bars in Wien, die Lutz-Bar. Dort gönnten wir sich noch ein Glas Wein und so gegen 11 brachte ich die Burschen heim um weiter ins Q[Kju:] zu fahren. Hier fand ich Nadine, mit ihre Mädels am Abshaken war. Der DJ traf leider nicht den Musikgeschmack Nadines und daher machten wir sich am Heimweg. Wo wir sich aber den Käsekrainer an der Würstelbude auf der Lerchenfelder nicht nehmen lassen wollten. War die LECKER!!! War das wiedermal toll zu essen!
Übernachtet haben wir bei Andy und Sissy, wo wir sich herzlich bedanken möchten. Heute, ging es dann zurück nach SoBu, weil Nadine arbeiten musste und ich mich nicht wohl fühle mit Schnupfen und Müdigkeit. Daher genieße ich Mama-Service mit Californication und Entourage. My favorite TV Shows...

Back in Life - Matura, Prüfungen, Lernen

Nachdem die Weihnachtsfeiertage und Silvester mit viel Essen und Trinken gefeiert wurden, geht es wieder zurück ins "normale" Leben. Trifft mich relativ hart, weil nächsten Montag bereits meine 1. Prüfung auf mich zukommt. Spezialfragen des Steuerrechts heißt sie und ist nur mehr die Abschlussprüfung. Den Kurs dazu mit Referat und vorbereiteten Fällen habe ich schon im SS 08 absolviert. Bevor ich mich heute ins Lernen stürze, musste ich mich aber zuerst vom gestrigen HAK/HAS Matura-/Abschlussball erholen. Die Kusine von Nadine hatte ihren Abschluss gefeiert was wir unsnicht entgehen liesen. War recht witzig mit ihrer Familie zu feiern. Abgesehen von ihnen habe ich aber nicht viele Leute gekannt. Man merkt schon langsam aber sicher werde auch ich alt. ;-) Nichtsdestrotz haben wir uns blendend amüsiert. Vor Allem war es sehr lustig Roland zu treffen. Einen aus den Augen verloren Freund von Volksschulzeiten. Es gab viel zum Lachen über die Zeit vor BB und Lernen...

Heute gab es auch noch ein kleines Highlight. Nachdem ich 6 Monate nicht oft bekocht wurde, habe ich natürlich auf meine Lieblingsspeisen in den letzten Wochen bestanden. Heute waren Chicken Wings mit herrlicher Chili-Honig-Marinade dran... Mmmmhhh...

Wünsch euch noch einen schönen Abend!

by Hannes

Happy 2009!!!

Willkommen in meinem neuen Blog. Da meine Amerika-Erfahrung abgeschlossen ist, möchte ich hier mit neuen, vielleicht anderen Sachen, aber sicher nicht weniger interessanten Sachen weiter machen. Der 1.1. 2009 bietet sich für einen ersten Eintrag ja an.

Themen des Blogs werden Erlebnisse und Ereignisse meines Leben sein.

Rückblick auf meinen USA Trip gibt es hier.

Silvester war nicht so wie die Jahre davor, wo viel gefeiert und getrunken wurde. Dieses Jahr habe ich und Nadine den letzten Abend '08 in der Wohnung von Laky und Madlene gefeiert. Laky war leider am Arbeiten und konnte daher nicht das leckere Mexikanisch essen. Ja! Bei uns gab es kein Raclette oder Fondue - wollten was anderes Essen, was aber trotzdem lecker ist! Neben Nadine, mir und Madlene kamen auch "Weber" Meli und Lisa zum Essen und Umtrunk. Ich habe es mir auf der Couch mit Corona (zum Mexikanisch ein MUSS) gemütlich gemacht und das ORF Silvester-Programm reingezogen. Das war schon seit Jahren mein Wunsch, was sich aber als leere Unterhaltung darstellte, denn "Wir sind Kaiser" war sehr schwach. Nicht viel besser war das restliche Programm auf den Hauptsender Österreichs. Einzig "Dinner for One" war ein Klassiker, aber sonst habe ich oft mit den Gedanken gespielt auf Musikantenstadl zu wechseln. Auch im deutschen Programm war das Angebot nicht viel besser! Früher, waren immer sehr viele lustige Filme im TV, aber dieses Jahr gab es so gut wie nur Konzerte! Na was solls! Wir haben sich mit Brettspiele die Zeit vertrieben und mit viel Sekt das Feuerwerk vom Balkon genossen.

War mal eine gute Abwechslung zu Menschenaufläufe und lauter Musik, aber für nächstes Jahr muss man sich was anderes überlegen... vielleicht mal italienisches Silvester mit Schwester & Schwager, die wegen Erkältung und kaputten Knöchel zuhause vorm TV lagen. Gute Besserung und

PROSIT NEUJAHR

Wünsche euch allen ein gesundes, erfolgreiches 2009!!!

LG Hannes