I used to hate airplane mode. The first draft I wrote of these small post I did on my phone on a plane from Brussels to Malaga. It has been dismissed. Because of the Airplane mode. But the post was about the advantages of using Airplane mode. What do I…

⌘↵ — For sending a mail, I am bound to the key combination CMD+Enter. Of course the Mac OSX default mail application, Mail.app uses something else. I won’t even spend time on finding out the combination for sending mail using 3 keys so I get tendonitis after 5 mails sent. There is…

a startup idea for gamers — It is not unusual, that somebody has an Android tablet and an iPhone or vice versa, an Android phone and an iPad. I know it can be more complicated, when we add other platforms to the game. ☺ In the old times, there was Openfeint. A great platform to create…

how does your company use Twitter? — Almost every big company is present on Twitter. Almost, because Apple for example isn’t there. You can find @Tim_Cook tweeting sometimes, but @apple on Twitter is an empty account without a user avatar nor any information. But still an impressive number of followers. ☺ How do companies use Twitter? There…

I had a dream… — It was a geeky dream. In my dream I was banned from Google. Later I got a trial and the jury made it’s decision upon how many likes each party can get on Facebook. I had to publish a link to Facebook and the prosecutor had to do the same. …

retweet, reshare, various platforms — My time is precious, that’s one of my most valuable property. So redoing something again and again makes me think I am not spending my time right. But still redoing something many time is the way how we learn. Imagine how many times you told your kids “daddy” and how…

In our modern world, people look for the best product. Or the cheapest (I could have linked one of the many price compare sites here). Nobody cares about happiness. Do you? In the IT world the competition is maybe bigger than anywhere else. Startups come and go, everybody wants to…

Changing operating systems like the PC time? — Do you remember the time, when you bought a PC and you or a friend installed Windows on it? Or was it Linux? Hardware without operating systems and the choice to install the one on them, you think is the best. This is where smartphones and tablets are heading. There…

discontinued startups — A friend of mine just asked about Android apps. He wanted to have some suggestions, which apps should he install on his new device. At first I had a look at the my Apps section in the Play Store. When I was scrolling down, I found quite a few apps…