The tension is rising - I’m just testing mobile posting via iPad and Textastic Editor. Let’s see if the text appears on the website soon. :-)

Meanwhile, I’m watching the current episode of New Girl. Though I’d really like to watch a new episode of Once Upon a Time, but I have to wait until next Monday for that.

Cheers, Lars

It’s Sunday and I was looking for a reason to avoid the ironing. What’s better than testing whether I can get the PS3 controller to work on my Mac Pro. This morning I bought Trine 2 (so I can play coop with Schlaefer) and just now Rochard, and both are classic jump & run games. And for that, a gamepad is simply the best controller. After an intensive Google search and a parallel hangout with Schlaefer, I finally managed to connect the controller. Hurray! And immediately tested it in Trine 2.

Just chatting with Schlaefer about “Which iOS apps do you actually really use” and then thought about what I really use on the iPad and iPhone. I’ll leave out the standard apps like Mail, Safari, etc.

Daily:

• Tweetbot - my current Twitter client
• NewsRack - my RSS feed reader (without Google Reader Sync :-))
• EyeTV - for the morning news

Multiple times a week:

• Lovefilm - in case I want to watch a movie to fall asleep
• TV Forecast HD - so I don’t miss any of the current TV episodes
• On Air - my TV guide
• ARTE - the media library app for Arte
• ZDF - media library app for ZDF
• Instacast HD - my video podcast player
• iOutBank - so I always have an overview of my finances
• DEVONthink - my documents, basically my life :-)
• Things - my tasks, but somehow they’re not getting any fewer
• DB Navigator - okay, I’m sitting in the ICE at least once a week (thanks BahnCard 100)
• Pin Trip - my travel diary
• QMobile - access to my QNAP TS-412 media library
• Kindle - yes, I even read something now and then
• PocketCloud - VNC access to my Mac Pro

Regularly:

Is it noticeable that you’re getting older? At least it applies to me and my blog on the web. Over the last 10 years, I’ve used the most diverse tools. First, the website was based on PostNuke (ah, that was still a nice time, the Mercedes Benz Mixed Tapes caused a lot of traffic, and that at a time when a flat rate was still a pipe dream), then I switched it to Rapidweaver. But both tools used too much PHP, and that has always been my “pain in the ass”. A few months ago, I decided to convert the blog to static HTML pages. What can I say, I finally managed it. But now the server only delivers fine HTML pages, okay, some JavaScript and CSS are still there. But that’s processed by your browsers and not by my server. The creation of the HTML pages is based on the nice Ruby tool Jekyll. So have fun on the new site.