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Evercube is finally ready for shipment.

What is it? It’s a smart little storage server — designed for 24/7-operation in your living room. Small, stainless steel and up to 5 TB capacity. Here are the facts:

And a few images

Last week I did a talk at ‘Hochschule Mittweida‘ about making successful Social Games.

I think I will write a little bit more about Simplicity in the future, but at first this is a good Talk about it. It’s about the tendency developers have to create bigger and more complex systems, but don’t trying to be simplistic.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simplicity-Architect

I searched a long time for a good Safari browser extension for blacklisting some of the most time-wasting sites. In my daily work a have to do a lot with facebook and facebook games, its very cool but I have to avoid too much procrastination. With WasteNoTime I found a good solution.

With this extension you can set white- or blacklists for sites and define a time how long you can visit the blocked sites today. So you can have a look on your favorite facebook game, but after your defined time runs out, the game will be closed and a site opens up which says “shouldn’t you been working” or something like this. Of course you can also define your own ‘Block Page’.

Try it out. Its free and I think its for Safari only, but maybe there are some similar AddOns for Firefox or Chrome.

I started to write my own blog a few years ago. It has been in German and about Flash Lite. After I ended my Diploma Thesis about Flash Lite, it became uninteresting for me, but also the Technology itself became unnecessary. So I wasn’t writing any articles anymore.

The second try to restart this blog was again in German and than about Flash, Flex and the Technologies around that. But after my third post I stuck again, because I didn’t focused enough on this blog to keep it running.

Finally this will now be the last try to run a blog. This time in English, because I currently work at wooga  and the main language spoken there is English. With writing a blog in English I try to improve my English, and of course a lot more people can read the blog now. So if the English is not perfect, no matter I’ m working on that. The content of this blog will not be a specific one. It’s all about technology, development, productivity and so on.