m2cw – my 2 cents worth

a good source for professional photos

and a great tool for finding photos of similar colors: color picker for flickr

here is an excellent site with powerpoint presentation tips

i might actually get one of those. the wow-pen

it’s cheap (only USD 60) and it seems to work with any operating system and it might even help me with my quest for the truly “digital office”…

if only i could find where to buy it!

keyboard shortcuts are of course a matter of dexterity. so it’s difficult to really complain about them.

nevertheless there are a couple of things that i really don’t understand: why can’t i use the cursor keys “up” and “down” to jump to the beginning of a title etc. but instead have to use the “home” and “end” key. granted they aren’t far away from each other but the less movement of the hand, the better…

i also don’t understand, why the “apple” key and the “strg/ctrl” key can’t be in the same spot on all keyboards? and, of course, i prefer the “apple” way as it doesn’t knot my fingers…

the “num lock” key… what a freaking piece of crap! i never had this many problems with a “num lock” on a mac than i now have with my windows machine…

accessing umlauts… on a mac: easy (two more buttons to press to get the two dots over an a, o or u) – with windows: i have no clue how to do it except a very difficult combination of plus a three digit code… (help appreciated)

there are several more which i can’t think of at the moment…

can anyone tell me why windows behaves like “force quit” (i.e. quitting a hung, non-responsive application) when using “close” in the taskbar?

what happens is that if you close an application and all of its windows that way, the application forgets, e.g. the latest opened documents etc. (in excel or word etc.)

closing it that way should be the same as if i do a normal “quit” via the menu or the little “x” on the right top!

i can only scratch my head…

i wish i could write more about what i do these days. there would be plenty to talk about. but the problem is i’m involved in too many issues that can’t be openly discussed or written about as they concern the strategies and inner workings of our portfolio companies.

i would love to find a way to get a couple of things off my chest… i have been contemplating how to do that for a long time now but can’t seem to find a good way to do so…

i’ll keep thinking… 😉

wow! no post in two months! that’s not good. i apologize but there isn’t really much to say these days – at least not what i can say “on the air”… 😉

in any case, i’m currently thinking about what to do with my blog. how to go forward and how to commit to a more regular schedule.

let’s see. i hope to come up with something soon (at least within less than 2 months)

here are my 5 cents worth of predictions regarding the ipod video:

first the facts:
1. apple is preparing itunes 5 (we arrived at 4.9 after that comes 5) and that means: new functions, new layout etc.
2. steve jobs always said: “mobile video makes no sense”… from an interview with david pogue, nyt:

First, he said, on a video player, “there

steve jobs’ commencement speech at stanford last week:
‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says

the best quote:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

he is simply an amazing person!

the killer app of the phone is, well, using it as a phone! that’s why data usage is best with data cards.

here’s a german article about this issue: user nutzen handy nur zum telefonieren