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Screw that acoustic guitar you had to practise on in middle school. Guitar Hero is way "funner" according to user experience polls.

Amazon.com: Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock Bundle With Guitar: Windows & Macintosh: Video Games.

Usually this time of the year I would spend a large amount of time in front of a Playstation playing video games with my host brother. He’s in the lucky position, since he possesses a Wii, Playstation, Game Cube, Nintendo something thingy. You name it.

Stuck in Austria, I don’t really have any of these time-consuming but fun-giving (fun-emitting would be the fancy way to say it, I suppose) products. I “only” have a Mac, so what am I gonna do then? I’ll go with waiting for Amazon Germany (nearly and almost Austria) to ship the Guitar Hero bundle (Mac version, preferably) to my house. More on Guitar Hero after the jump…

Das Setup, so stellt sich heraus, ist gar nicht so einfach…

Mobiles Internet Setup GuideT-Mobile am Mac

Dieses Wochenende kaufte meine Schwester für ihre Wohnung in Wien eines der am meisten gehypten Produkte in Österreich. Mobiles Internet boomt in keinen anderen europäischen Land und ist nirgendswo preislich erschwinglich wie in good old Austria. Da auch unsere Mobiltelefonieverträge bei T-Mobile laufen, war der Griff zum Fairclick Smart (mit 3 GB/Monat) nicht weit. Als Apple User, so stellt es sich herraus, muss man jedoch einiges beachten. Mehr nach dem Jump.

Look at this freak, his iPhone is so last year.

In late June (obviously the iPhone month in the US) a new generation of beggers has emerged. Unlike homeless people living in the streets, these people already have what they wanted. Too bad their iPhone (first generation, obviously) now is “so last year.” A point that gets rough on them. An explanation for this and even more, after the jump.

Begging for an iPhone 3G · by geekculture.com/joyoftech

Lean back and let the internet feed you with yummie content… Great concept, isn’t it? Just like a zoo personal feeding this little fella · photo byRaghuram

“Never compare apples and oranges”, we have been preached since we waved goodbye to kindergarten. I’m afraid that I am going to do exactly the opposite of what this old saying (en-de equivalents can be found here) implies. Now that we signed up on heaps of online services like Facebook, Google Reader, Digg, Del.icio.us, Twitter and Co, we are having troubles sharing that content with people from other platforms.

The web goes cross platform with content aggregators who suck content from specific sites and gather its content in one place resulting in one huge diverse feed.Find out about apples, oranges and aggregators after the jump.

Sick of “Lost your password?” and “Forgot your username?”

Living the Web 2.0 life, we’ve heard about OpenID a lot lately. Redefining the concept of online personalities (the web seems to be the weird and only place that allows multiple personalities without getting others judgmental and has people end up in a shrink’s office.

Fed up with this huge pile of passwords, user names and tons of profiles to maintain? Well, I think Phil’s got something for you. OpenID. Explained for once.After the jump.

iPhone 3G - The only cellphone that gets to beat the iPhone

I can’t help but make this shout-out post confirming the rumors that I want it. Really badly.The new iPhone 3G. 200 USD. UMTS. 8 GB. Available July 11.

Is it me or does the new iPhone look even more fancy?

• Watch the new adon apple.com/iphone - Not iPhone style, if you ask me.
• Take a glimpse at the ridiculously high set monthly plans of T-Mobile Austria. If they keep their plans like that, I will pass on the iPhone, once again… I am paying 25 EUR a month with unlimited talking, so what the heck?! The new plans are said to be “more flexible.”
• Apple conversion of 199 USD to EUR: 199 EUR. Haha! Turned out one (Austrian carrier) uses a fairer conversion factor. See below.
• Finally, I get over the Post-Keynote-Craze and realize I signed a contract that continues until October ‘09.

What will US Americans have to pay for the iPhone plans? AT&T have monthly plans for about USD 59.99 - consumer.

The Unoffical Apple Weblog writes… “the base iPhone monthly cost for most consumers will go from $59.99 a month (that’s the base first gen iPhone plan with unlimited data, 450 minutes a month, and 200 text messages) to $69.99 a month. High speed networking costs money, people!”

The Austrian carrier for the iPhone are one and T-Mobile.

• One offers the 8GB for EUR 149, the 16 GB for EUR 229 with a monthly plan of EUR 39 (Große Plaudertasche + iPhone Pack) - Further conditions on one.at (click the iPhone 3G banner). Until the end of 2008 the monthly costs are reduced to EUR 24.
• T-Mobilehas confirmed thereallegedlymore “flexible” plans and prices. Classic is EUR 39 a month (35 for the first 10.000) and the Supreme EUR 55 a month (with a EUR 10 discount a month for the first 10.000, so it’s EUR 45). The iPhone costs either EUR 149 (8GB) or EUR 229 (16 GB) with the Classic plan (EUR 39/month). It’s “only” EUR 99 (8GB) and EUR 179 (16GB) with the Supreme plan (EUR 55/month). I now want to know where their deal is more flexible…?

Okay, I really am into blogs, that my lieber Reader you will probably have noticed. This is probably the media that got most attention during the first decade of the 21st century. Unless they come up with something cooler than blogs, but I seriously doubt that.

Blogs are really neat, yet there is one thing I hate about bloggers out there. There is one species that is wide-spread in the World Wide Web. A species that keeps blogging, has an endlessly scrollable start page (with more than 10 entries) and, that is the point, NO about me page. That, my fellow bloggers is really annoying. Get an about me page providing an introduction to the person, the content of the site. IF you offer this, the reader will be more likely to come back and file your feed in his bookmark bar. Trust me. I would have so many times, but unfortunately some blogs didn’t have that crucial feature.

It isn’t that hard. See for yourself.

Fake Steve Jobs gives quite an interesting view on the Web 2.0 bubble (at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco) that according to new Internet giants isn’t gonna burst - not this time - not again. This video is 25 minutes “you’ll never get back”, but is highly recommended. Witty sense of humor and good stories. I had to laugh out loud several times. More on the Web 2.0, after the jump.