How to enter information when travelling, when on the road, while driving, walking – away from the keyboard? If you did not take your notes in the moment when the ideas appear – they could get lost. The easiest way seems to be to use two things that are available in most cases: Your voice [...]

There is a lot of discussion regarding how to secure systems that have network/internet access. We talk about firewalls, virus scanners, authentication, authorisation, passwords, encryption, VPN, SSL  and a lot of other methods to secure access, communication, storage of data. Does the right combination of methods will help to secure a system? Yes? Are we [...]

Who owns my data in social networks? Who decides what is allowed to do with my data? My answer is still: It’s me! I remember that facebook tried to change the privacy terms last years without success in the first attempt. They tried to convince their users that nowadays we have a completely open society [...]

In 2010 I decided to make a rollout with buddypress version 1.2.5 /wordpress for the class of 1985 of my former school. As mentioned below a privacy plugin was missing. There was a expectation for a release of that plugin in a short period of time. Unfortunately this wasn’t the case. As the 25th anniversary [...]

Nach vielen Jahren mit sehr positiven Erfahrungen beim Internethosters all-inkl steht nun ein Wechsel des Webhosters an. All-inkl hat bei Bedarf (was allerdings kaum der Fall war) guten Support geleistet, das Kundeninterface zur Einstellung der Konfiguration ist nicht schön, aber durchaus praktisch und gut bedienbar. Ausfallzeiten konnte ich 2010 keine feststellen und das Preis-/Leistungsverhältnis ist [...]

Update 29-08-2010: This review is based on version 1.0beta8 of OpenAtrium. The system is still in beta and some of the issues were still not addressed until now. Even no feedback in the forums e.g. (SpacesUI) telling the users (testers) that this is a topic we will get in the focus – or not. This [...]

Change of license with version 1.5 of sharetronix Sharetronix decided to switch from Affero GPL to their own license. They said that Sharetronix remains free for personal communities. See here. ———————————————- This review is based on version 1.4.2 of sharetronix No difference to version 1.4.1. ———————————————- This test is based on version 1.4.1 of sharetronix [...]

I really like the iPhone. The design is great, the user interface makes it easy and intuitive to work with the unit. It was a great step to help unexperienced user to use a terminal for more than only telephony or SMS. In the meantime I have some doubts about the philosophy and the way [...]

Update 15-05-2010: This review is based on version 0.9.2 of Status.net The information of the test with version 0.9.0 beta 3 and 0.9.1 is still OK (see below). Now I will wait for the implementation of the privacy settings as mentioned in the product plan: Privacy. We’re going to have to deal with privacy at [...]

This review is based on Elgg V1.7 Elgg is an open source social networking system. It started 2004 and was build with the target in mind to create a social networking platform. This is the main difference to systems like buddypress or openatrium. Their core systems have a different focus. For elgg it is an [...]