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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…
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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…
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Better MIDI sound, part III – SoundFonts in Windows with BASSMIDI
Still many readers are coming here because of my posts about MIDI. Most visitors are especially interested in improving their MIDI sound windows-wide, so it won’t sound like a cheap Chinese toy anymore. ;) I described one way to achieve this goal in a previous post. However, this information is more than two years old…
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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…
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(Deutsch) Schick mich in den Kongo!
Sorry, this entry is only available in Deutsch.
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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…