Frustration with nasty films.

Tearing off, wrap, lift - because of! To make a scrap of cling film to grab must first amateur cooks usually long and meaningful role in the tug. Physicists show: Many films stretch erstmal extensively prefer instead to tear.
  Advertisers have the cling film already made all possible compliments - "hauchzart" it was these "Film with imprisonment effect, seals the manufacturer Melitta in 1965 in the introduction in Germany. Later raved ads from the "breathing" and even the "extra anschmiegsamen" film.
If this delicate, tender kitchen really help, then it has unpleasant relationship to it confusingly similar.

The victims of the twin complain cooking forums in their suffering. As people write that they were already at the nasty tear film "get the crisis." Because: "This is the package so teeth, only the film never breaks the way I want. Mostly, I need a meter (or two) until I was about a useful piece was demolished."
Because of extra hauchzart and cuddly - stubborn and dogged, the nasty packaging assistance. Sad conclusion from a chef, who advised the film is wrong: "Unfortunately I have not yet found the right one."
Experiments with Extra-cutting tool with the sometimes desperate call for help like this: "The jagged thing on the box does not, the attempt with a knife does not. And then stick it anywhere where it is not. What can you do? "
Try.
Photo: ONLINE Video blogs: sacBeim self-experiment with three supermarkets purchased films showed significant differences: Some films can only be demolished with great force. On the cutting mechanism can not really lie, because he is on the three packages are identical: At the edge of the lid glued plastic prongs.
Much wrangling for a scrap of foil
It should actually go: lid open rausziehen foil lid and close it with a hand press, film upwards at the edge of the lid grouper with your other hand off.
How much power is needed for this, one can see after a few meters demolished slide in the shape of the packaging: When the film plus own brand "Maker," for example, the pasteboard use soon after upwards, the tear is baggy. Because when you need a lot of tear strength - at the beginning of the tear film still clean, but then extends it at some point just yet, you have to properly pull to the role, scraps of foil abzuringen.
Fiese film expands instead of tearing
Even the penny-foil "Sylvana is arduous, it extends stubborn sometimes, instead of break. Gedehne wrenching without wrangling and works only with the much more expensive Toppits film reliably at each time (see video).
RSS: NEW TEXTS PER FEEDFehlfunktion - technology Macken, the millions of nerves Click on the icon. The browser allows you to the RSS feed to add. Help ... Why tear in some films always easy for others not at all times, bad times to work, wants none of the manufacturers. Abreißtechnik? Packaging? Composition of the film? Toppits spokeswoman Daniela Dziedzic: "Unfortunately we can from a competition law, there was no immediate information on the chemical composition of the film type."
An indication, what's wrong, there Plus spokeswoman Silvia Jurisevic. Plus, the film - a persistent in self-experiment - was "15 microns high," the film Toppits only "up to 12 microns thick, and thus at least 20 percent thinner." That would benefit the Abreißfähigkeit. With Plus we have so "some time ago to tear the Papiersäge against a more stable exchange Kunststoffsäge" and "box out of the stable power box" built by the supplier had to offer.
Skew should be on the plus film still - but it cost less at the supermarket.
And the stubborn Penny film? The company, according to spokesman Andreas Krämer "Neither in the product quality, even in the packaging and not in the Abreißfähigkeit restricted", the "strength and elongation values" were in comparison to other films even "exceptionally well". There had been no complaints. Maybe we just stupid tear when employed, even though we have strict instructions have been working (on the serrated edge of a page (sic) other demolish ").
Four physicists investigate three films
What the various cling films differ, have at the suggestion of blogs ONLINE four doctoral physics professor Armin Gölzhäuser at the University of Bielefeld with a lot of effort investigated. Christoph Nottbohm, Heiko Muzik, Mark Schnietz and Matthias Büenfeld have the resilience, depending on the extension of three Cling films tested. Again, let the film Toppits demolish much simpler than the low-cost products from discount brands (Yes, Good & Economy).
As a reason why the physicists make the film from the Dehnverhalten. Here is the film Toppits from others: "First, the two films a bit cheaper than a relevant, the third film, but when the elastic area, the two films dehnfähiger much."
Simple words, you can tear worse. Results of the self-test of the physicist: "While the film Toppits little stretch, and so it seems quite early breaks, stretch the other two quite strong, before they break. They are strong plastic deformation to recognize. This stretch is also the reason why the films are so bad from the edge can demolish. "
Freezing does not help
On the other hand also helps not freezing - in the Web forums often weitererzählten Kaltschneide myth weakened Toppits spokeswoman Dziedzic: "A cold foil is less elastic and more brittle, but they must then be very cold, minus 40 to minus 80 Celsius Graf."
Perhaps a small consolation for entnervte amateur cooks: In the lab it goes to how the budget. From the report of the four films tested physics doctoral students: "It also shows that even the films of Yes, and Good & Affordable difficult to handle because they are relatively quickly and firmly to itself and you are liable to slide new pieces had to be prepared. "

Data protection requires more attention from authorities.

The Federal Data Protection Commissioner Peter Schaar has authorities "dramatic shortcomings" in dealing with sensitive citizen data. He calls for a radical improvement and simplification of the right to privacy for citizens.
  Cologne - The Federal Data Protection Commissioner Peter Schaar, the authorities in Germany to be more careful in dealing with sensitive data of citizens invited. In a review last year had been "some quite dramatic weaknesses identified" were Schaar said on Sunday in Germany radio. It was, for example, the transmission of data on disk gone.
The dispatch of data sent by post - as least for Landesbank Berlin - find sometimes in the public sector instead, criticized Schaar: "And the data are not even encrypted." This relates primarily subordinate federal authorities. Although this was the biggest weaknesses have been corrected before something happened. Nevertheless wants Schaar, according to its own words, is still more care.
The Federal Commissioner made for a more modern and better structured data protection law strong. The recently approved by the Federal Cabinet adopted the draft was a step in the direction. But it was not enough: "We need a general privacy right, which is much easier, better and clearer manner, including technological developments and risks even more into account than the privacy right, which is mainly from the last century," Schaar said that once again the anchor of the data requested in the Basic Law.
The year 2008, he described as "quite unique" in relation to data protection. "Since early 2008, new privacy concern incidents to the public," said Schaar in an interview with the Reuters news agency. "Almost one has the impression that we all were already victims of abuse data." About every citizen every day would be large amounts of data stored on the phone, using the Internet or through video cameras. "It worries me that even large companies are sometimes with the privacy not exactly take it."
In November, the blogs had a big scandal of the data made public Telekom: More than 17 million records from T-Mobile customers were stolen in 2006 - including politicians, ministers and TV stars. It was in 2008, became known that with customer data from call centers swinging good trade takes place.
Rework at BKA law expected
The expert also expressed the expectation that the Federal Constitutional Court again BKA rework the controversial law will require. His own constitutional doubt is only partially taken into account, Schaar said in the radio interview. Generally, however, there remains the problem of when and should be recorded when the recorded data should be stored BKA.
The law see a ban only if alone most intimate information from the core area of privacy incurred criticized Schaar. This was of course in the rarest of cases, so, so that the rule-exception ratio will be reversed. Given, he expects that the Federal another limitation will call.

How to skillfully use the flash.

Flashes like the pros: So many beautiful picture is the wrong use of a flash unit has been ruined. It is about far more than just red-eye in the photographed. The professional photographer Michael Hennemann explains what you need to flash - and how to correct it safe.
  The flash is probably the most universal source of light in photography. Regardless of the power grid, it offers plenty of light in the smallest space, but can do much more than simply offset the lack of brightness, and some special lighting effects will only be by an external flash is possible. Despite the modern camera technology is the use of flash, but still problematic. In this chapter you will learn how to perfect flash photos succeed.
Technical basics of lightning
A flash makes many photo only possible, its inclusion without artificial light only blurred or underexposed would have become. Despite great progress in the flash and camera technology is the use of a flash unit, but still problematic and often leads to the desired result.
Even the use of a digital camera did not alter the fundamental problems of flash photography changed. The most common errors when using a flash unit are:
hard red eye shadow a strong brightness waste, resulting in a completely overexposed foreground dark background leads
The exposure of flash is also compatible with the digital camera is not easy, mainly two reasons:
1. The flashlight illuminates only a fraction of a second.
2. The strong brightness of waste when using a flash unit is the physical basis implies that the light intensity by the square of the distance decreases. That is: If an object is twice as far, only a quarter of the original Light. At daylight shots rarely falls on this, because the daylight is very long way from the sun and back "a few" meters more or less play virtually no role, so that large objects are relatively evenly lit. The flash, however, is only a few meters away from the subject and the brightness rapidly waste is clearly visible. In practice, this means that although the main motive in two meters away perfectly lit, but all the objects that are closer to the flash is completely overexposed and the background in black sinks.
PERSONAL Michael Hennemann has been working for over seven years as a freelance travel photographer. He studied geography and could also train technicians for the photo. Neither the study nor its placement in the editorial offices of GEO and Baedeker could dissuade him from what he prefers tat: Outside, on the way. The avid travelers finally made his passion into a profession. www.michael-hennemann.de
For the correct use of the flash unit and for optimal exposure in the flash photography, it is therefore important to understand how certain settings on the photo are:
The choice of the aperture affects the blitz as well as the ambient light in equal measure. The shutter speed, however, is always longer than the extremely short duration of the flash lighting and therefore has only an effect on the amount of ambient light in the overall exposure, the share of flash on the other hand, is not affected. The only way to share the flash of light throughout the volume of photos to change, is to reduce the flash output.
Michael Hennemann existing long-term exposure to daylight with an exposure time of 1 second at aperture 11

Michael Hennemann long-term exposure with the same settings, but now with a fill-in flash, the more brilliance in drawing and brings the flowers

Michael Hennemann If flash and aperture settings remain unchanged, but the exposure time is shortened (in this case to 1 / 125 s), decreasing the proportion of permanent light in the total exposure. The flowers in the foreground remain unchanged, but the background is sinking in the darkness, because the amount of light the flash quadratically decreases with the distance

SynchronzeitBlitzgerätAufhellblitzBlitzlicht soft machenObwohl the closures of modern digital cameras, short exposure times of 1 / 4000 or 1 / 8000 seconds permit is the shortest exposure time you when photographing with flash can adjust (the so-called synchronous time), at 1 / 125 or 1 / 250 second. The explanation lies in the function of the slot closure, the two shutter curtain is formed. At the beginning of the exposure will open the first shutter curtain and shows the way for the lens through the incident light to the sensor. According to the adjusted exposure time is then a second curtain, the beam closes. At very short exposure time is the second curtain already in motion, even before the first curtain the beam path is completely released. Both curtains moving in parallel between himself and give a slot free, by the light on the sensor can be covered. As the flash lights up only very briefly (for about 1 / 1000 second), this leads to faster shutter speeds mean that !
the flash only on the slot is released. For a correct flash exposure are therefore only possible exposure times, where the shutter is fully open. The shortest time is called synchronous time and is in most digital cameras, depending on the model of the above 1 / 125 and 1 / 250 seconds. For shorter periods, the synchronous speed of the shutter curtains are raised, what with only a high technical effort. Therefore, only absolute professional models Synchronous shorter periods. An alternative to the other with digital cameras shorter shutter speeds can be adjusted, the so-called FP-short synchronization, which offer some flashes. It is not just a flash, but a variety of performing high-frequency pulses, and so has a longer duration simulated lighting, which is also shorter than the shutter speed synchronous real time allow. Of course, this technology is not the full flash output are retrieved and the use of short-FP synchronization means a reduction in the effective flash Lei!
tzahl.Das either at the beginning of the exposure ignited (whe!
n the fi
rst shutter curtain lengang the radiation released) or the end of the exposure (the second before the curtain closes rays). With some cameras, you can choose between standard-TTL and TTL Fill choose. When standard TTL operation when calculating the exposure, only the main subject considered in the recruitment TTL Fill the other hand will also be taken into account the background. The camera's computer doses the flash output automatically so that a smooth illumination of foreground and background with a good balance between natural light and flashlight reached wird.Egal whether built-in camera flash or external flash system with swivel reflector? the flash is always a small spot light source and the relatively harsh light often ugly, hard shadows. To the hard abzusoften flashlight, you can either indirectly or lightning flash equipped with a diffuser. The trade picture, there are a number of such intentions, for example, of substances (www.stofen.com), Lastolite (www.lastolit!
e.com) or Lumiquest (www.lumiquest.com), and even correct Softboxes as professional studio flash systems. ->
Michael HennemannBei a long-term exposure with synchronization on the first curtain pushes An motive moving light track before him, which is a very unnatural causes impression

Michael HennemannBei of synchronization in the second shutter curtain, however, the light trail behind the moving object.

Modern flash units offer a variety of functions that you sometimes at lightning, in part due to the digital camera can set. There are basically three different flash modes:
Michael HennemannAuf the back of the flash information system including a display on the selected mode, and control buttons allow different settings

In automatic mode determines a sensor on the flash of light reflected from the object volume and turns the flash off if the correct exposure is reached. It will calculate the correct exposure settings, some of the camera included. When set manually, the flash is always full power (or a particular, you preset fraction thereof) from. The manual flash control is useful in some special cases such as the Mehrfachblitzen.Beim TTL flash mode (= "Through the lens") attaches to the camera lens by the incident light (both flash and ambient light). With analog cameras, when TTL flash movie from the reflected light is measured. Because the sensor in the camera (or more precisely the Antialising filter before) Reflection other features, the digital cameras can TTL flash operation is no longer measured the reflected light. Therefore, the flash fires just before the actual recording a weak performance from preflash, through the lens is measured. In fractions of seconds the camera computer!
meets the necessary settings for the actual exposure and controls the flash accordingly.
For most of the photos provides TTL flash operation of the best results since its big advantage is that all the lighting effects such as lens properties and perhaps even used lens filters in the measurement to be taken into account.
Michael HennemannMit a milky plastic essay is the flash softer

Netbook is a trademark - allegedly threaten Abmahnwelle.

All the world is called small cheap laptops Netbook. That could soon change - the concept in 1998 has the firm Psion as a trademark protected. Now, a law firm on behalf Psions omission of statements Netbook forums have sent.
  Anyone who blogs WISSEN after a definition of Netbook will find the previously common statement: "cheap and simple-equipped laptops. This Subnotebooks with their 7 - to 10-inch displays small and light."

The computers were pragmatists 2008 the success of the product itself - alone in third quarter sales to manufacturers worldwide, according to Display Search from 5.61 million copies - more than twice as many as in previous quarter. 2012, 50 million Netbooks in operation, predicts market research firm Gartner.
But could it be that these pragmatists laptops then not so hot. The mobile technology blog jkontherun.com reported that some Web pages that contain the term Netbook in name, omission of the London law firm calls "Origin Intellectual Property Consulting" would have received. In the scan of jkontherun.com published the alleged letter says: "We have recently noticed that the term Netbook Psions without permission to use."
The to 23 Letter dated December are the side operators by the end of March, their bid to rename. Within a month they should in the matter. Further steps threatens the letter does not indicate but stressed: "Psion attaches great importance to its trademarks, and your use of the term Netbook such applications could be damaged. Similar letters will be sent to others, the registered number by mistake Wait abuse."
Requests from blogs ONLINE after the authenticity of this letter at 26.12. neither the firm nor the Psion agencies in Britain and Germany answered. It is therefore not sure that this letter is genuine. This seems plausible, however, perfectly: The Psion headquarters based in London, the firm and the Origin of Psion active lawyer Peter Langley are in session programs Trademark mentioned.
Above all, Psion actually owns the trademark on the term Netbook. A search in the database of the European Patent and Trademark Office confirmed that Psion on 9 December 1996 the rights to the word mark "Netbook" and sought on 30 July 1998 has received.
Until the expiry of the trade marks the end of 2016 may be used exclusively in the London-based firm Psion Plc. According to the registration of 428,250 computers, electronic equipment and instruments for processing, storage, display or movement of data "in" lists of goods and services "as described Netbook. Even in the United States has Psion since November 2000, the trademark "Netbook" (Registration 75215401).
A Netbook Psion has actually sold once - in 2000, in Hall 13 of Cebit, the Psion could "netBook see: It was 1.1 kilos, had 64 megabytes memory and a color screen with 7.7 inch diagonal.
A real Netbook also.

So dye-rounder Photoshop cat's eyes.

Umfärben wedding dresses, Christmas balls and cats entblogsn embellish - five tips from the magazine DOCMA show how snapshots with simple steps are real eye-catcher,
  Nicole Niklas einfärbenIris eyes Baake / DOCMAPersönliche stamp Iris Baake / DOCMAMemory game effect Baake Iris / iris image DOCMABild in Baake / DOCMADiamant text effect
FOUND IN ... DOCMA 1/2009Doc Baumanns magazine for digital imaging free booklet & Abowww.docma.infoDOCMA Award 2009 "image forgery"

A network via socket.

House or apartment to network is "in" - but usually far too difficult. A wireless LAN must be configured for a cable network stripping drag. Simple it with Powerline adapters go. The advantage of the local power for local area networks, are usually easy to operate.
  PCs and other devices at home networking, is sometimes associated with hard work. The non-functioning automatic assignment of IP addresses is still the least of evils. Poor driver for a post-installed Wi-Fi card will not only lay people quickly to the Palm. Remedial promise the producers of so-called powerline adapters.
Another new product, and a manual, which you must durchackern are mainly consumer technikmüde say. Far from it: Powerline adapter, the networking in the home easier - and do it well. The idea behind it, data on the power line to send it there for decades.
Powerline adapter for home use are also not new. Meanwhile, the bandwidth to cope with adapters, including the transfer of movies in HD-quality permit. Moreover, the first devices with an easy to use encryption on the market.
Alternative for Ethernet and Wi-Fi
Requires at least two adapters. These have on the one hand, a standard connector for the outlet. On the other side is according to design an Ethernet interface or a USB port for connecting to a computer or another device that is inserted into the network will be. Powerline is an alternative to both Wi-Fi as well as wired Ethernet network.
Especially comfortable Powerline, because relatively few users, or depending on the model did not work must configuration. It is usually the adapter into the outlet to stöpseln and ordering the equipment - and the network stands. So far, however, were supported bandwidths not large, so that for example, the streaming videos are often not very smooth shape.
Digital television by Stromleitung
With the adapters in the current generation are now data rates of up to 200 megabits per second (Mbps) achieved gross. Is the net value, according to Christoph Rösseler by the manufacturer Devolo around 90 Mbit / s. The actual transmission speed may vary from household to household differ, which is much different in the nature of the electricity network is justified. Moreover, other grid connected devices such as refrigerators or washing machines, the quality of the transfer price.
The Internet provider Alice holds the transmission speed is high enough to meet its customers a discounted product to offer. Alice brings to its customers via DSL and television into the house. Now, the phone jack for the DSL connection in most cases right next to the TV. To the TV program yet elegant for the set-top box or the TV to get the adapter.
Beware of multiple sockets
Among the manufacturers of such products include Allnet, Devolo, D-Link, Linksys, Netgear and Siemens. Devolo dLAN 200 has the AVeasy in the program - consisting of two adapters. It allows the power supply for applications such as Internet TV in HD quality to use. The range is as specified by the manufacturer within a 200 meter circuit.
Without a hook is not Powerline: "It is not all as easy as it looks at first," says Peter Knaak from the Stiftung Warentest in Berlin. Apart from the fact that the electricity wiring in the house a significant impact on the bandwidth of the powerline network did, it was recommended that the adapter directly into the wall socket to plug. Even manufacturers such as Devolo disrecommend, the adapter into the multiple socket to plug an extension because of which the transfer could suffer.
The solution is Powerline adapter, which in turn have an outlet, so that the wall does not block it.
And the security?
When it comes to safety via Powerline transmitted data, some manufacturers have been so herausgeredet that own electricity a safe barrier to unauthorized access from some neighbors in the apartment building impossible. Meanwhile, experience has shown that under certain conditions an unwanted intrusion into the network adapter with an identical or with an adapter that supports the same standard, and thus a possible encryption makes sense.
The IT security of Powerline products based, according to Frank Sebastian by the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) in Bonn usually proprietary solutions to the manufacturer. "For most products, each adapter a Security ID, by an adapter may be clearly identified." Over a bundled configuration software can be a network password for the encryption to be created. A part of the manufacturer offers at least in its current devices to an integrated encryption: In order to activate it, enough to a certain button on the adapter itself press.
Very cheap Powerline is not: A pair of Powerline adapter with a gross transfer rate of 200 Mbps is about 100 euro. Models with lower bandwidth is much cheaper. A pair of Powerline adapter with a gross transfer rate of 200 Mbps and integrated power cost from around 130 euros.

Cannibals little louder.

The inexpensive, limited in their performance Netbook are the boom-product of the year and the trend for 2009. Because the original concept is exhausted, begins the cannibalisation of other market segments. Only Apple still hesitates - as a company that could offer significantly more than the competition.
  How much laptop man really need? Not much apparently, if the sales figures for Netbook, the small-laptops minimal viewing. No PC product highlighted in the course of 2008 such as from the mini-computers to go. 14 months after the Asus Eee PC 700 the first device of the new class introduced, passes barely a week in which not a new device, but at least a new design will be presented.
And these things sell, the market still seems insatiable. The once long ago are rare, but when nobly perceived cheap micro-computers and arrived at discounters - the litmus test for achieving a mass market - even in a special sale of DIY.

Alone in the third quarter of 2008, the producer of a recent census of Display Search, according rich from 5.61 million copies - 160 percent more than in the second quarter of 2008. The sudden surge surprised even the experts: It goes hand in hand with the publication of numerous Netbook, hence, eventually, to an adequate supply of the market with goods. The market research company IDC in the summer was still a growth by 27 percent for the third quarter is assumed. In the aufziehenden economic crisis was already an optimistic estimate, when you consider that the PC overall on the year with only half of this happiness will reach margin.
Unbroken boom
Meanwhile, it is clear that everything will be much better for the Netbook manufacturers, and will now count as good as any company, which also produce laptops as well as some newcomers who have never previously on the adventure PC market have appeared. In Germany are now over 40, shipping included nearly 60 different models to have. The number could double within a few months: More and faster is the rhythm of product innovations, CES, CeBIT and IFA promise small publication waves.
Overall, the market value of Display Search experts, are expected this year, 14 million units sold. But since - recession or not - the Netbook sales continue to increasingly rising, the Christmas shopping season could still be a stroke by making this estimate: It could be even greater.
Even otherwise well-informed Marktauguren come because the estimates are no longer behind. By 2012 that 50 million Netbook rich in circulation should be sounded even in the summer as a very risky prediction of the renowned market research firm Gartner Group. It is now clear that its experts were far too cautious. They went at this time of 5.2 million units for 2008 from - were now in the third quarter alone sold more. Now is regarded as conservative, who does not assume that not less than ten percent of all PC sales for 2009 on Netbook be omitted.
Feat when you consider that both the major PC manufacturers and their sales expectations, as well as a preventive measure their production in other market segments throttle. From Acer, Asustek, Dell and Hewlett-Packard has already announced that their production earlier this year by up to 50 percent compared to the same period last year, will restrict, reported in early December, "Digitimes." Only Netbook are always more manufactured.
The Netbook: The calculator on the crisis?
For the surprise success of the Netbook statement, there are three approaches:
Thesis 1: stinginess is cool, when the economic crisis threatens - the Netbook as paranoia PCThese 2: The lightness is mine - the Netbook as an ideal Pleasure PC, second or third computer for pragmatic task Thesis 3: The new pragmatism - users discover that they are no ultra-fast, mega-powerful supercomputers need to e-mails to send or read blogs ONLINE
Probably agrees with everything - depending on users in different weightings. Against the first two approaches statement speaks, however, that you Netbook prices has long since also laptops with far superior performance data gets. People still prefer to buy Netbook, which in turn further pushes on prices. Behold: The Little hope is not so dangerous for the industry.

This reflex cameras rotate HD movies.

High-resolution videos and interchangeable lenses - camera manufacturers praise the film SLR cameras as a completely new generation of devices in the digital photography. ONLINE blogs has the first HD cameras Kombo tested.
  The idea sounds great: Digital SLRs have extremely powerful image sensors and a huge selection of wide-angle and zoom lenses. Why should we not also can record moving images? Would be interchangeable lenses but the dream of every amateur filmmaker.

If we believe the advertising promise of Nikon and Canon, meet the two new SLR cameras D90 (Nikon) and Canon 5D Mark II this dream. Nikon promises the "first D-SLR with the middle-movie functional," Canon "Ganz.Großes.Kino" thanks "21 megapixels and full HD video."

That these cameras were designed to photographs, you can come back to this advertising promises smooth forget - the video function is in the foreground, on the Web courses even a new term "Combocam" for the first generation of film SLR cameras.
HD video, night photography and autofocus anger - ONLINE sampled from blogs, what, the D90 and D5 as a photo and video cameras suck.

Steve Jobs will no longer occur.

The showman of the IT industry breaks with a tradition: Apple CEO Steve Jobs has announced that he would no longer at the MacWorld Expo occur. 2010, Apple itself entirely from the fair retreat. The announcement pushed the share price of the company.
  That jobs will no longer stand on the stage will not mean the announcement. Only at the MacWorld Expo 2009, from 5 to 9 January in San Francisco will be held, is another place on the podium take: the competent international marketing for Vice President Philip Schiller. As of 2010, the MacWorld Expo then completely without participation of the company held to its software and hardware products is there.
Fairs are for the customer is no longer so important for the company, the move was justified. 've Always had Apple in this respect compared to competitors very held back. On the world's largest computer fair Cebit in Hanover, for example, Apple has for many years no longer represented, including the important Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is always from Apple.
The legendary performances of jobs, always in a black sweater on stage happens to Produkteuerungen like the iPhone or the MacBook Air imagine, are not so out of the World: In their own events will be the CEO probably continue to come into the limelight.
As at year end and it has always been rumors about the health of Jobs, who a few years ago, a cancer had overcome. Analysts interpreted the announcement as a bad sign, in the "Wall Street Journal" has been on an upcoming "power shift" in the home, Apple discussed. The shares of the company fell partly by more than five percentage points, at the close of trading in New York Apple was 3.66 percentage points in minus.

The best counterfeiters have the thickest potatoes.

Prices for the counterfeiters, hard search for forensic work: Bildbearbeitungsguru Doc Baumann calls a competition for image manipulation from. Experts assess the creative montages - and the Bundeskriminalamt with some entries may test his test.
  As Wambach Heinrich Bauer has made Elstertal good laugh - such a large potato, he had never harvested on his farm. This had to be ready for the post-World documented. Only - which of the three is the original photo?

When DOCMA Award for digital imaging 2009, it is the responsibility of the contestant's own digital photos through montages and retouching possible convincingly to falsify.
Think of a short story, write it in a few lines on and show you the culmination of the visual "proof" of a gefakten photos. This can be an everyday throughout history, but also something earth. When Godzilla or UFOs landed in the Hamburg harbor, the assessor does not have long puzzle, because what might have been assembled.
Thickness potatoes and wrecked cars
First, you make a little history, about the size of a detailed caption should have. Because it can order the thick potato farmer from Wambach go, a sheet metal damage to your car, landed aliens or a disinterested investment banker.
The problem with the thing: The more spectacular the story is so exciting is probably the assembly? But the easier it is also the alleged photo as a forgery to unmask and identify: This item has been hineingemogelt.
Like "DOCMA" the respondents with workshops and tips to help visually convincing montages without obvious contradictions and breaks records, so little editorial counterfeiters would like to support, manipulate the images to assist in the observing an unzutreffendes worldview and to generate for himself or their principal unjustified advantages to achieve (see Doc Baumann essay on the topic Bildmanipulaton).
FOUND IN ... DOCMA 1/2009Doc Baumanns magazine for digital imaging Free BulletinMonthly & Abowww.docma.infoDOCMA Award 2009 "image forgery" Mathematical procedures that are beyond the control of lighting vision, perspective, sharpness and accurate contour can find out where something is grown together, is really not together, because just come right.
That is why when Award 2009 next to the jury, the images on their mounting qualities and convincing picture ideas assessed an additional Working Group, which with the methods of image forensics will be trying out Fake.
The assembly will be used later material made available so that they can check where their procedures came to incorrect results and therefore in practice would be unreliable.
With landed UFOs, Godzilla in the Hamburg harbor, or a 27-kilogram potato respondents make it easy referees, since they do not have far to look. The other, admittedly - if a man just off a wristwatch or abmontieren, is not so much cheap suspicious image idea. But as a complementary element can be quite exciting, and the experts a little make life difficult.
Photo editors have until summer time
Working together will be "DOCMA" in this competition with, among others, the Privacy and Security Department at the TU Dresden, the department at the Bundeskriminalamt, the evaluators Gerald Huber and Anders Uschold, blogs and online magazines "Photography" and "c't".
Other interested professionals are invited to come forward. The assemblies will be submitted to the said institutions and individuals made available - if respondents do not want, they can obviously exclude when registering. The cooperation with the BKA is limited exclusively to the bildforensischen analysis - the development of automated face recognition, for example, is explicitly not supported.
Participants can enter up to five montages returned. To make it even more exciting to do, they should also mitschicken real photos that show anything unusual? therefore remains open whether a picture on a fake or not.
The judging of the works will take place in summer 2009. There are three groups of professionals, Semiprofis and training. Like every year waiting for the winners in total premium income of around 20,000 euros and the presentation of the best works - the originals are compared - in exhibition and media (for more information on the website of the competition).
But in any case, you can now already with the preparations begin.
PERSONAL Hans D. Baumann, called Doc Baumann, is specialized author and journalist for digital imaging and Photoshop, graphic artists, writers, scientists and art editor of Image magazine DOCMA.

The extremely stable bending display.

Whether you compare it with a hammer worked, it tramples around it or tried to rip: This display is not. U.S. researchers have created a new screen-bending invented much of the bear, delivers sharp images and above all is cheap.
  The development has lasted four years, now is a first prototype ready: Together, the computer manufacturer HP and the Flexible Display Center (FDC) of Arizona State University (ASU) invented a screen, as it is technology enthusiasts have long dreamed. Because unlike the screen on which we are accustomed, is the new supple, contains neither glass nor metal.
Instead of bending screen entirely from plastic. This way you can build it so thin that it is almost as flexible as a magazine. With such films screens several concepts for the future would finally be realized. Phones with ausrollbaren or flexible and thus larger displays, for example. Or mobile computer, which really only exist from the screen, roll together businesspeople and well stowed leave.
May be the sci-fi technology through a manufacturing process that researchers at the Arizona State University jointly developed with HP. The core is a plastic film on which the circuits are printed almost. Since the components in this specific procedure itself is acting properly align it by HP as "Self-Aligned Imprint Lithography," SAIL briefly described.
A screen like eBooks, just better
The manufacturing process should be compared with conventional production techniques have a number of advantages offer. The most important: It saves energy and material. Furthermore, the so-called thin-film transistors layer by layer in a particularly inexpensive procedures to foil upset. Besides, the technique has the effect that the display films are extremely durable. A video in which several scientists destruction screen tests with the slide shows reflect how tough the material is.

Overall, 90 percent less raw materials than standard displays, according to HP for the production needed. This fact should now also be particularly advantageous prices, the manufacturer promises. Notebooks, mobile phones and other electronic devices through the innovative display that is cheaper instead of more expensive.
And they will be equipped with new features and also economical in its consumption. That should be achieved by the HP Vizplex technology, a type of electronic ink from E-Ink in the film screens fitted. In this way, the new plastic displays a similar function as eBooks, electronic books. An image that once on the screen, there will continue to exist even when the power is turned off. This works only with still images, but is still a good possibility the battery life of mobile devices to improve.
A giant business - in a few years
Vinita Jakhanwal the analyst from research firm iSuppli that HP has with the flexible plastic screens, a golden arrow in the quiver. According to his calculations, the global demand for bending screens in the coming years to grow rapidly. In 2007 were 80 million U.S. dollars, with flexible displays implemented, it will be until 2013, according to Jakhanwal already be 2.8 billion U.S. dollars.
So that they can meet forecast, it certainly once appropriate screens in industrially useful quantities of good quality and favorable prices to give. That, however, will still take a while. Finally, the film presented now display only a prototype, far from the mass production center.
In a few years but could face following the example of the type presented now be mass-produced. About the possibilities that such indestructible and will offer flexible screen, until then may still eager to be speculating and fantasized.

Warmer never blinking diodes.

Around one and a half centuries, the bulb our nights for the day. Soon she has run out: Even the EU from 2009, follows the international trend to ban incandescent bulbs. It has also for the Christmas lights in the cities consequences.
  If next year from the traditional light bulb gradually disappear from the market, should also be some change in German cities. Most likely it will probably in time to observe Christmas, when the most inner cities every year in a Lichtermeer transform. In many municipalities will be thought about how for the era after the light bulb can prepare.
Thus, in Hanover City Manager Achim Balkhoff already made some thoughts: For the roughly 20,000 light bulbs, in the Lower Saxony state capital every year at Christmas time are switched on, it Replacement medium ago, as he talks to the news agency AP says. "We need new ideas, but certainly the whole drawing a lead of one to one and a half years." It is primarily about the use of energy-saving lighting - the ultimate aim of gradually coming into force EU ban incandescent bulbs from 1 September 2009.

Long-term approach should be the Hanoverians, according to the City Manager anyway to be reviewed. "My idea is based on the Christmas lights to a light winter," explained Balkhoff and says an extension of time lighting in the "dark" months of January and February. This also contributes to the fact that the then angeschafften more expensive energy-saving lamps made paid faster. Currently, the Christmas lights for words Balkhoffs with around 100,000 euros annually to Beech.
LEDs: Pricey in the acquisition, cheap in operation
Also in Nuremberg, with its famous Christmas market before changes are: "However we have no panic" says Guenter Morsbach, spokesman of adventure Nuremberg, the association of downtown merchants, left. 100,000 light bulbs in Nuremberg care center each year for a festive and welcoming atmosphere. A stark change will be in Nuremberg, but do not give stresses Morsbach.
THE BAN ... bulb of the EU Commission follows the rules in Australia and New Zealand. It is not a question of the use of conventional incandescent lamps from a certain date to prohibit or even a criminal offense, but about the sale of incandescent bulbs gradually einzustellen.Der timetable: From 1 September 2009 will be no clear light bulbs with more than 100 watts or more can buy. Coinciding be - regardless of wattage - especially all the energy inefficient bulbs classes F and G made from the sale. From 2010 the sale will stop at light bulbs with more than 75 watts expanded, a year later on lamps to 60 watts. From 2012 may also be weaker bulbs no longer be sold as long as they do not at least reach Class C efficiency. From 2016 a general ban on all bulbs below the energy class B. The restrictions with respect to efficiency halogen lamps classes conclude with a special exception only Niederenergiemodelle.Bereits from September 2009 is also a ban on the sale of incandescent !
mat underneath the energy efficiency of Class A. Not Sales ban affected are special bulbs in special formats, such as those in refrigerators, auto-valves, ovens, etc. are used.
As the energy-saving technology in the Christmas season makes this year may be New York tourists to look at.
Around 30,000 small light-emitting diodes (LEDs) were several kilometers cables on the famous Christmas tree near the Rockefeller Center in Manhattan installed, also in the ecological sense altogether green is: Do the spruce with hand saws, and in matters of energy, the maker also invented something: The power of the diodes collect solar cells on the roof of Rockefeller Center. After the feast of the tree is visible recycled.
Such a general awareness of efficiency improvement can also municipalities in Germany will not close, as Bernd Düsterdiek from German Cities and Municipalities will take place. "Basically, the decision of the EU in a positive light bulbs - especially for the climate," says the Head of Urbanism and Environment. "But of course that costs money." But bottom line is constructed for the municipalities: "It is a good thing. Moreover, we do not start from scratch. Technically, there are already good opportunities to other umzurüsten lights," he insists.
Bulbs, ALTERNATIVE-LIGHTING WEIHNACHTSSCHMUCKDas AND THE bulbs ban in the European Union is not madness unleashed bureaucrats, but follows an international trend: The approximately 170 years old technology of the bulb is overtaken by time. Energy-saving lamps are up to six times more efficient, are in the acquisition but also considerably more expensive (up to 20 - sometimes with good qualities). Therefore, they live longer. Criticisms: The light of energy saving lamps is considered "colder" than that of incandescent bulbs, they bring their full light output even after an initial period. Accusations that they were in the eco-balance as worse than conventional bulbs, are highly promising umstritten.Als apply LED bulbs, which only in recent years arose. She speaks for an extremely high durability, light yield immediate and very low power: He is comparable light output with 10 to 20 percent of the power of Glühbirne.Dafür LED bulbs are very expensive (up to 40 - at times com!
parable light output). That might not be the last bulbs ban some change, but there are still technological steps: Sun delivers an LED "bulb" with 48 Leutdioden yet more light than a 20 - watt light bulb - for a purchase price of approximately ten euros. To acceptable levels of light to come, you needed a lot of pears and Kleingeld.Schummerbeleuchtung LEDs on the other hand, can very beautifully. The market for Christmas lighting has long been prepared. Garlands with 100 LEDs to get easily to 15 euros. An investment that is quickly calculates, because these things consume only five to seven watts. Because this is so, suffice themselves even in winter sunlight to the necessary energy for the night to refuel - according big is the supply of foreign garlands with a small solar panel (from 25 euros). Quite differently than you would expect initially, could be the lightbulbs ban about the medium even to a revival of last frowned upon as opulent soft night lighting in private home!
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The shares also expected to Jürgen Waldorf from relevant trade association in the ZVEI industry association for. "Especially the halogen lamps are available in all forms - even to clean screws into existing versions," says the managing director of the Association electric lamps. Challenges, the industry still mainly in the LED lamps to master. "This will be considerably higher light output at a reasonable price to be able to offer", says Waldorf.
Despite the likely targets from Brussels revolutions in the coming year in German cities but elusive. However, it is traded: This is a test for Nuremberg planned. "In a road, we will only 2,009 LED lights affixed and look at how this looks," Guenter Morsbach announced by the Association of downtown dealers. Only then will decide on further action.

Eight press, even cook.

Stove, microwave, radio alarm clock, camera - which was filmed earlier, you must now often tap. A step backwards! Knobs are faster and more intuitive to use - but slightly more expensive.
  The kitchen of my old office looked like any well, the graphic artists and editors to share: In the mold of forgotten fridge yogurt, the mold is not always disappeared back to anger the owners, and of course the manual was missing the microwave. And so did at least clean, unused because it was impossible without an instruction set the cooking time.

The chic silver Heizriese had only controls a lot of small black buttons on the front? how to time and temperature setting, remains without a cryptic instructions.
There is, but since the first tube radios an ingenious, intuitively control approach to values such as volume, temperature, frequency or time interval: knobs. It immediately detects the direction in which they are to rotate and can sometimes very fast and then very slowly and carefully.
A high on the knob!
The computer scientists Andreas Butz media, in whose chair at the University of Munich and the usability of IT equipment will be explored, praises the advantages of rotary knobs: "They are faster to use, provide direct visual and haptic feedback and support existing conceptual models of mechanical times. "
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Butz is itself at the key operation of a microwave failed. The usability expert had a device with six buttons, display and menu system purchased. He says: "After I accidentally evening twice the clock to zero and had had to restart, I have it back the next morning and met a model with two rotary knobs purchased one for power and one for the time." How easy to operate this device is, you notice that this one sentence is enough to the operating principle to understand.
Scientists fail on ceramic stove
Zugucken rearing and, as the clock zurückläuft until it makes Ping - so simple can that be. Yet even now disappear on the electric stove knobs. Some ceramic hobs, for example, can have touch-sensitive buttons control. That has an advantage: it no longer needs the rotary switch plates match - next to each hob, the corresponding switch.
RSS: NEW RELEASES BY FEEDFehlfunktion - Technology Macken, the millions of nerve-click the icon. The browser allows you to the RSS feed to add. to help ... The major disadvantage of this approach control I felt so than me on a stove in an apartment the pasta water überkochte, the buttons only reacted with mild delay and the temperature slowly, step for step, keystroke for keystroke lowered, while me the boiling water splashed on the fingers.
This stove buttons, although paralyzed, but at least understandable. Microsoft programmer Tom Hollander complains that the keys stove in his new apartment at the first attempt proved as unbedienbar - "I, I could not even turn on or one of the symbols on the keys to decipher without the manual to read."
Buttons cost slightly less
That requires a programmer who regularly talks about his complex discipline holds. Hollander says the operating problems this way: "This is one of the flock with a completely smooth surface without a rotary switch. He has a number of flat keys, with symbols to remind me of nothing."
The final verdict of the scientist over his stove: "He cooks very well, but if you need eight buttons touches to the plate on the bottom right medium heat to make something is wrong."
The same complaints heard and read about many devices for which the keys have replaced knobs:
Clock radio, where you felt three hands need to alarm, and radio and then save. Monitors, where brightness and contrast with earlier own rotary switches adjust ließen.Anspruchsvollere digital compact cameras, which can trim the number and exposure time manually - with controls such as mini-joystick on the camera back, the noticeably slower than with a simple dial.
Buttons or button? The question is on the Web by users with any device fiercely debated anew. Butz media scientist proposes a compromise: "buttons and switches for selection, buttons for setting values."
What really speaks against buttons?
Butz: "They are slightly more expensive." And at the precise keys are fine-tuning some small knob on. And above all knobs are now even slightly. For small appliances is a real problem, says Torsten jaw of the usability consultant Sirvaluse: "buttons can be on these devices such as MP3 players and mobile phones much easier to integrate."
As an interim solution to miss manufacturer technology dwarfs meanwhile intermediate solutions such as the Click Wheel or switch. Odd that we are now on MP3 players, but not in microwaves and electric stoves found.
Butz scientist has his keys microwave the next day brought back into the business. Since then he has the device exchanges with the two rotary knobs - "I'm so happy."
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Constitutional Court decides against laptops in the courtroom.

When a judge in the courtroom prohibits the use of laptops is not sustainable aggravation of reporting, the Constitutional Court ruled. Unlike pad and pencil could with the PC but the right break - when the cameras included Dinger.
  Karlsruhe - A judge can use laptops during the negotiation ban. This was decided by the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe on Thursday and approved the arrangement so that the presiding judge in Oldenburg "wood-block process."
In the explanatory memorandum states that modern laptops had partially cameras and microphones. Their deployment was during the court hearing prohibited by law. It could during the hearing hardly be controlled if the bodies were switched.
The presiding judge of the Land Court Oldenburg journalists had to use the small computer prohibited. He reasoned that, inter alia, with disturbing noises. A court reporter affected ranged however, the Federal urgent one and made the violation of freedom of the press law. The board of the First Senate rejected the request unanimous.
Ban prevents live reports
The three constitutional judges admits that the journalists so that an efficient work will be withdrawn. After reporting on the ground was thus denied. They also held the justification for disturbing noises operation not entirely convincing. The press coverage was sustained but not so difficult that a significant deterioration of press freedom would be feared.
The journalist argued that because of strict security checks in the wood-block process in the court breaks little time for writing the reports remained. He could therefore his newspaper because of the early Redaktionsschlusses not deliver when he is not with the device in the courtroom could take. These were the Karlsruhe judges noted that all local journalists working in the same way meet.
In Oldenburg must face the alleged murderer Nicholas H. responsibility. According to the investigation, he threw on 23 March, wooden block from a motorway bridge near Oldenburg and killed a woman.

If montages manipulate.

Hardly anyone can display photos so skillfully assembled as Bildbearbeitungsguru Doc Baumann. In this essay asks the expert, in which tradition photo editors face when they manipulate an image or displacement from composing assemble packages - and when they ever allowed.
  Fake photos represent our confidence in the credibility of the media in more than lies, we find in texts. Although we really should know better, let us factually inaccurate statements or spoken text opinions comforting the back door open to the author or the person quoted was simply wrong.

Was the inaccuracy of the alleged overly serious, so their consequences have cost too much taxpayers' money and lives - in that order - are frequently called survey committees. The smooth the transparent lies in the interest of any government, oil companies or arms afterwards to forgive mistakes, such as inadequate flow of information between intelligence services.
FOUND IN ... DOCMA 1/2009Doc Baumanns magazine for digital imaging Free BulletinMonthly & Abowww.docma.infoDOCMA Award 2009 "image forgery" The summit of hypocrisy is reached when the leaders then announce that they have the appropriate steps also be undertaken if then they would have already known that the arguments were wrong, which they then allegedly as crucial for their actions had led.
In short, lies and distortions by word and texts are familiar to us, not least because every person in varying proportions of their occasionally served. A fake photo on the other hand, can not be mistaken as always quite expensive interventions are necessary to implement the intent behind this.

Many small buttons, little operation.

Snake, Lolli, double dash - Remote confuse with such strange symbols on many tiny buttons. Even with Cheap lit the phones, but on the remote, they remain a half-century since the dark.
  Robert Adler, you can not make accusations. As the inventor of the wireless remote control in 1956 in Chicago the first models of the "Space Commander" device designed baptized, he missed the television clippers two buttons. One for channel selection, one for the volume.

Decades later, in an interview for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, "complained Eagle 2004 on the remote from today:" They have far too many buttons. "
While the remote itself should develop, eagle gave employers Zenith already with the successor models of the original remote ago: More buttons, more features, less overview.
"Tone regulated under Lautlosschalten"
The "Space Commander 600" brought to four switches in six functional - probably along with the first example of circuit-overload: To keep the green and red of the television screen by remote control to reinforce or to diminish, it was only the sound off and then actually to Channel-zapping provided keys.
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Today, some remotes have more buttons - 63 are for example, the combination TV-DVD Xoro HTC 1900d, 42 at a Toshiba television. This amount of keys has been consistently high, even in the eighties, there were TV remotes, which also contributed to the VCR. The problem: Apart from the fact that the amount of buttons on the control stick in comparison to the first "Space Commander" verdreißigfacht, is not much else happened: The buttons are buttons remained.
What they actually achieve, try the manufacturer imprinted with symbols to indicate. The works of course not - how could it be for each of 63 features both a symbol which is similarly understandable, as the pros and rewind icons are now?
Lolli an arrow as a symbol mt
The pitiful attempts icon to see, for example, like a great Lolli, on the side and as an arrow shaft (see photo gallery). With this key when you choose your TVs from Toshiba, which image signal they play (HDMI input, DVB-T, component input).
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Even more confusing, some of the 63 buttons on the remote Xoro for HTC 1900d: Da snakes, for example, an arrow from top left to bottom right. Equally confusing: On two of the 63 keys will zoom (even in black and red and round, even in light gray with a button with arrows and dash).
Such symbolism provides remote Nico Jurran, video technology editor for IT-specialist magazine "c't" as a weakness of many remotes. In the test everyday annoyed Jurran also very often these weaknesses:
Micro-buttons, an adult can not press rubber buttons or slides, which no haptic feedback gebenzu facing strong infrared emitter in the remote or too weak in the receiver unit, which targets an accurate erfordernTasten, in various different modes of operation (or none ) Functions habendie bad habit, including keys, which are often used to disappear behind a door to let
Looking at the large buttons monster from now on, you must ask itself what is actually in the last decades of remotes has changed. On most models supplied are the symbols of the buttons on the television evening twilight difficult to detect. Why are the keys are not illuminated, as nowadays with every low-cost mobile phone? And why almost always feel all the keys apart from rocker switch for volume and channel selection - similar to?
Eventually, the gesture control come
The requested manufacturers Sony, Panasonic and Toshiba have specific questions on development projects for intuitive operations, according to specially shaped or illuminated buttons are not answered. Toshiba spokeswoman Kerstin Oppermann promises still possible changes for a future not certain: "Remotes are an ongoing project with which our engineers and designers employ. Toshiba is researching even out completely by a remote control gestures and voices to be replaced. "
"This should be the user interface?"
Until that could help shed some light. blogs ONLINE readers Christian Schlender annoyed: "The devices are known to me with countless buttons, which is randomly distributed, also unlit and mostly very small. The remote is apparently a stepfather of the child development departments. It is not for sustaining the aims and the user interface? "
There are certainly innovations. Accessory manufacturers such as Logitech miss their remotes, for example, high-tech extras such as touch-sensitive displays, but also require a few hundred euros per unit.
That we as a manufacturer also supplied standard remotes miss a few extras may have many years ago the Japanese electronics company Akai for its digital video recorders showed. The turn of the millennium in Germany sold low-cost model Akai VSJ 718 cost less than 300 marks and was offered alongside popular technique (6-head model, NTSC playback, Long Play) also includes an illuminated remote control that can also easily be found again if they once again somewhere under the sofa had vanished.
As with mobile phones today began the Akai remote control to peep at, if the counterpart to the base - the VCR - the Suchtaste pressed. Some buyers, the very pleased ("... families with children know what I'm talking about, this feature can be very high prices ...", "particularly interesting for people FORGETFUL"), Akai could not help it. After a bust brand now belongs to a Chinese electronics conglomerate, operating under the name sells appliances.
With Akai is also illuminated, and if necessary the remote Pieps disappeared and the standard models look like this all again, as always: many buttons, comic icons, no light.
As the co-remote Robert Adler 2004 on the buttons many of today's devices railed, he added: "I can not change it. I would just like to yell at someone, if I would find the right person."
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Ancient cordless phones banned.

From January 2009 is the use of old cordless phones from the time before DECT prohibited. There are not many - in addition to old sweetie are especially cheap imports affected. But the shutdown will be operated with thoroughness: Phone sinners threaten fined 2000 euros.
  Berlin - Conversations with the wrong cordless phone to lead can be from 1 January 2009 really expensive. As of this date in Germany is the operation of all wireless phones standards CT1 + and CT 2 forbidden. In order expires in 1998, announced the temporary admission of telecommunications equipment in the frequency bands 885-887, 930-932 and 864-868 megahertz from. These frequencies are from 2009, partly as an extension band for the mobile networks of E-Plus and O2 use.
According to Manfred Breul, Telecommunications Division, the Bitkom industry federation, the big manufacturers have already talked about this many years ago responded and the production of analog devices in favor of the abhörsicheren DECT standards set.
From the Far East were in the following period, however, still many cheap imports to Germany reached. "It may therefore be that this year even after analog standard devices have been sold," he warns. Therefore it is difficult to estimate how many such phones currently in use.
To determine whether consumers with their phone even after the new year still call can recommend, according to Breul, a glance at the manual. "Should no longer exist, you can type the name of the phone into an Internet search engine, and then get the necessary information," the expert advises. Finally, helping a simple test.
Investigation after the last of its kind
That must be a conversation test ever further from the base removed. Analog Devices breaks the connection is not as abruptly, however, is a growing noise. It comes with increasing distance from the base to dropouts without prior abrupt increase in noise, as in bad cell phone connections are known, then it is a DECT phone.
Who has an analog device, it should be in the collection for electrical and electronic equipment in his community free of competence. Compensation is not, according to Breul, who only recently bought an analog phone has - which are particularly environmentally friendly, especially in circles of electrosmog opponents were - should go to the dealership to ask him, the device against one after the DECT standard exchange . Especially when Internet purchases overseas or Asia Breul advises consumers to the exact details of the device to study: "Those who are not informed, unfortunately, is otherwise self-blame."
To users of phones banned soon after the standard CT1 + by high costs. In order to identify those users, drive Measurement of the Federal Network Agency through residential areas or go ads. "The effort to identify the can disturb from 1000 to 2000 euros and is the user of the phone by the Federal Network Agency's account." In addition, could also still a fine be imposed. At Mildenhall, the user can not set. "There's already been ten years a transitional period. Sometime must also be closing times," the expert stressed.

Telecom restricts their services.

How nice that the services their customers telephone connections can manage online. How bad that when the hacker could also Telekom: Because T-Com customers in part to considerable sums have been cheated, stuck to a portion of their telecom services.
  Sometimes less is more - especially when one's own security services can no longer guarantee: Telekom has been months of problems with the data. One such problem is the lack of hedging their customer portal through which these functions of their phone lines can configure.
This may be evidence of the blogs, however, since hackers months, the telecom customers to bring their money by their calls over expensive abroad Call divert routes.
Telekom is the problem apparently known. It has already responded - with a shutdown of functions. How can millions of T-Com customers for weeks not call diverts more for their telephone numbers on the customer portal on the Internet: The pink giant has disabled the corresponding services to more fraud by hackers to prevent.
Off what you do not get repaired
In several cases, the blogs were present unsuspecting telecom customers within a few days with foreign fee of up to thousands of euros charged. So far, said the telecom, are "a few hundred customers" by the hacker attacks affected. "Unfortunately," there was "always attempts" to "penetrate our systems, to manipulate or other damage," it says in letters to affected customers.
In order "to avoid further abuse," was the establishment of call diversions in the Internet portal customers temporarily blocked. Falsely charged should be refunded.
Whether the transaction in connection with the 17 million stolen customer information from T-Mobile, call center data stolen or poorly secured distribution portals, is open. What is certain is that the recent mishap has not been on the special website for telecom data appeared.