Komoot

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Jul 192011
 

Soeben via Spreeblick auf die Webseite von Komoot gestossen: Tourenplanung für Freizeitaktivitäten an der frischen Luft, wie z.B. Fahrrad, Wandern, Bergsteigen, usw…. das ganze natürlich auch mobil via Android App nutzbar.

Die vorgeschlagenen Rad-Touren (zeige Rund-Touren mit Dauer von X Stunden beginnend ab hier) für meine Region sind jetzt zwar nicht so der Hammer, aber ggf. verbessert sich das ganze ja noch? Immerhin funktioniert der zielgerichtete Routenplaner hervorragend. Bisher nutzte ich dafür immer Naviki, aber dort wurde ich schon oft – grade an warmen Sommertagen – von einer überlasteten Website begrüsst.

Pfandgeben

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Jul 072011
 

Auf Pfandgeben.de hat man als fauler Pfandflaschenabgeber die Möglichkeit, Pfandflaschensammler zu kontaktieren. Diese holen dann das lästige Wertgut in der Wohnung ab. Perfekt für mich, leider aber bisher nur in Großstädten verfügbar. 🙁

via nerdcore

Mai 262011
 

Ich muss das grade mal hier festhalten, da ich eben 30 Minuten danach suchen musste:

Here lies my experience moving my entire User Profile folder structure, including Default, Public, and any local users.

In my search for a solution, the only two easy ways I found to move the user profile directory locations from the system drive is to

1.Set the User Profile folder during setup using an unattended install file.
2.Move the individual folders inside your user profile, which can be done using explorer (which will update the registry keys HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders and HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders).
However, this was not good enough for me, I wanted my actual user profile folder to be moved to a seperate partition/volume, including registry settings. I discovered that it is not actually that hard, provided you’re comfortable with mass replacing registry keys and values.

Here is how I moved my user profile location. Please note that I wanted all of the profiles moved, included Public and Default, so some of these steps can be skipped if you do not want that:

1.Make sure you have a complete backup of your system!
2.Copy the original Default Profile directory to the new location (e.g. from C:\Users\Default to D:\Users\Default).
3.Copy the original Public Profile directory to the new location (e.g. from C:\Users\Public to D:\Users\Public).
4.Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList.
5.Change the value of the Default key to the new user profile location (e.g. D:\Users\Default).
6.Change the value of the Public key to the new user profile location (e.g. D:\Users\Public).
7.Change the value of the ProfilesDirectory to the new user profile location (e.g. D:\Users).
8.At this point, you need to restart and log back in as a different user that has never logged in before and therefore does not have a profile created. In my case, the Administrator user had never logged in before so I enabled it so that Administrator could log in and used that. You can enable Administrator login by loading Computer Management and then go to User Accounts, edit the properties for Administrator, and then uncheck Disable Login.
9.After logging in for the first time with the new user account, you will see “Creating Desktop” and other things like that while Windows is creating your profile. Note that the new profile should be created in the new location.
10.After logging in, try to close as many applications as possible. This will prevent most files from being locked so that you cannot copy them.
11.Copy the entire original user profiles folder from the original location to the new location (e.g. C:\Users\* to D:\Users\). (See next step after copy starts).
12.There are a few things to note during this copy. There were thousands of .TMP files that were locked and would not copy. I just skipped these files. I held down Alt-S so that I could see all of the skipped files and make sure that there were only .TMP files being skipped. Yes, this took a little while, but at least I was confident that I got all of my files copied. This process could probably be made easier using the command prompt or powershell.
13.If, in your case, there are some files that will not copy, you can run procexp.exe, which is file provided by sysinternals. Then do a Find Handle and search for part of the filename. procexp will tell you which programs are locking the file. As long as you closed as many programs as you could, though, this should not happen.
14.Find and download a program that will do a Search & Replace on the registry. I will not suggest one because I did not find one single program that worked perfectly. I ended up downloading a few different freeware applications and using all of them.
15.Using the Registry Search & Replace program, do a search for the original user profile folder and replace it with the new user profile folder (e.g. search for “C:\Users” and replace with “D:\Users”. Note that some of the applications I used would only change values and not key names. However, the keys that needed to be chagned were all related to MuiCache. I do not know if these actually need to be updated. I did just to make sure.
16.Log out. Log back in with the same user. Repeat step 14 until there is nothing left to replace. The reason for this step is that on logout, some programs seem to update the registry using the old user profile path.
17.Run regedit.exe and do a search for the original user profile path and make sure it does not exist. The reason for this step is because (as noted in step 13), I did not trust any of the Registry Search & Replace programs I used. I ended up needing to update about a dozen of the keys and values manually, since the search & replace missed them.
18.So that you can easily find programs that do not use the registry and hard-coded profile paths, rename your original profile folder (e.g. rename C:\Users to C:\~Users).
19.Log out. Log back in as your usual user. Everything should be working correctly except for programs that use a “hardcoded” user profile location.
20.There are two easy methods that can be used to find programs that use a “hardcoded” profile location and are still looking for the original user profile path. You can use the procexp.exe trick mentioned above and search for handles in the original profile location. You can also monitor the oringal profile location to see if any new folders or files were created. For example, in my case, FolderShare created some folders and files in the directory C:\Users\MyUsername\AppData\Local\FolderShare\. So, I updated the FolderShare settings to point to the different path and then deleted the C:\Users directory (note that C:\~Users still existed as a backup).
21.Since you are now confident that all of your data has been moved (right??????), you can deleted the backup of the original user profile location (e.g. C:\~Users).

Quelle: http://joshmouch.wordpress.com/!s9y-files/2007/04/07/change-user-profile-folder-location-in-vista/

Grooveshark

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Sep 032010
 

Tipp von einem Kollegen, netter Pandora/Last.FM Ersatz bzw. sogar eine Steigerung: Grooveshark! Sehr geil.

Vorteile auf den ersten Blick:

  • Sieht auf Anhieb sehr übersichtlich aus
  • wenig Werbung (betrachtet mit Adblock Plus)
  • viel grössere Musikauswahl als die Konkurrenz!
  • die Möglichkeit, direkt die Alben/Interpreten zu hören welche man möchte
  • auch ein Radio-Modus vorhanden (->Musik-Vorschläge basierend auf eigenem Geschmack)
  • Spulen innerhalb der Songs möglich
  • Skippen des aktuellen Songs ebenso!
  • Man kann selbst durch Uploads die Liste der verfügbaren Songs erweitern

Warum das ganze in Deutschland legal sein soll, ist mir ein Rätsel. Im Moment scheint es aber der beste mir bekannte Streaming Dienst.

Geocitiesizer

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Apr 282010
 

Noch mehr Nostalgie: Mit dem Geocitiesizer (derzeit ein bissel überlastet) kann man jede Website in die 95er Jahre zurückversetzen… also meine bei Geocities gehosteste Webseite – erstellt mit dem Geocities HTML Builder Dings, sah diesem Format wirklich ziemlich ähnlich. 😉