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.