Category: Computers & Co.

  • Miranda doesn’t receive messages via ICQ

    Miranda doesn’t receive messages via ICQ

    Some time ago I had the problem that (probably for months) nobody could send me any messages via ICQ. Well, I was a little surprised about the lasting silence … But I thought that maybe people simply didn’t like me anymore. ;) But the problem lay elsewhere, namely again in my instant messenger Miranda IM. Whenever…

  • Ginchen’s Blog finally online again!

    My website has been offline for about two months now. Someday in November 2011, I received an e-mail from my previous web host WebGo24 to the effect that, due to increasing visitor numbers, my blog was firing too many processes, generating too much server load and affecting other customers. I couldn’t quite believe it, because my…

  • Game review: “Black Mirror”

    “Black Mirror” was released in 2004 by the small Czech developer “Future Games” and was a rather unexpected success. It is said that Samuel Gordon, the protagonist in “Black Mirror”, was inspired by nobody else than Johnny Depp. If you add to this the mysterious story, riddled with some supernaturalness here and there, the style…

  • Android emulator

    Since, even in 2011, I still do not own a smartphone – I simply wouldn’t have enough use for it – I was never able to test the mobile versions of the websites I delevoped under realistic conditions. That was a problem, because nowadays it’s a matter of course that a website has to be…

  • Font smoothing in Firefox 4

    Font smoothing in Firefox 4

    Since the new Firefox 4 is out, many people are being brought to my website again, because they searched for keywords like “anti-aliasing”, “ClearType” or “font smoothing”. They then discover my two year old article Anti-Aliasing in Firefox, which describes how to enable ClearType in Windows XP – where it is not enabled by default after…

  • Game review: “Lost Horizon”

    Game review: “Lost Horizon”

    Well-elaborated Indiana-Jones-like story that takes the player from Hong Kong across the Himalaya and Morocco right to the heart of Nazi Germany. Special finesse at the end: You control two characters located in the same place, but in different times. I wouldn’t exactly say that the puzzles are “bad” – but for hardcore riddlers like…