Kasper Michael de Thurah

Der er i øjeblikket en eller flere hackere på Facebook der har fundet ud af at sende links til dig igennem dine venner. Det vil med andre ord sige, at du kan modtage et brev fra din gode ven eller veninde i din indbakke der opfordrer til at du klikker på et link. Det er dog meget vigtigt at du ikke lader dig friste og lige tænker dig om - for der er historier om at disse links kan opspore dine netbankinformationer, lede dig til ulovlige sider med pornografisk materiale mm.

Beskederne sendes ofte på engelsk, men pas nu på alligevel hvis du modtager et brev på dansk. Der findes mange online oversættelsesprogrammer og man gør klogest i at kigge godt efter hvad selve url’en er og bruge sin sunde fornuft istedet for bare at klikke.

Som min færd hen over Djurslands smukke bakketoppe, ja nogen vil kalde dem bjerge, men tror mit jydske skinder lidt for meget igennem realitetens lup, gik det op for mig at vinteren er på vej med sin tunge dyne af mørke, kulde og udslettende vejr. En tid der er os alle i møde, hvor folk bliver ensomme, får triste tanker, ja nogen kan helt have svært ved at komme ud af mørket, selvom foråret forsøger at genoplive år efter år. Det er som om vi allesammen bliver lidt dårligere til at komme ud af mørket som årene går… Det bliver lidt sværere, lidt hårdere end da man var barn og bare syntes det var fedt at man kunne tyre en snebold lige i fjæset af en man ikke kunne li for ti minutter siden - nu laver man snemand sammen og har glemt alt om det lille skænderi man havde, kun den røde tud vidner om at der vist var lidt for meget grus med i den snebold - men pyt med det…

Da jeg kommer op på bakketoppen og skuer ud over et mørkelagt landskab, markerne er harvede, skyerne truer konstant med regn -også selvom den aldrig har tænkt sig at komme, ser jeg et funklende lys i bakspejlet - det er som om horisonten brænder bag mig. Som om hele landet står i flammer - konstrasten går direkte ind mellem tøj, hud og knogler (okay, også lidt fedt…). Jeg blev nød til at holde stille og nyde konstrastens univers - som om jeg på den bakketop forlod sommeren i baggrunden der gav det sidste af sig i de flammende gløder på himlen, mens den mørke dyne ventede mig i fremtiden.

Jeg sidder nu en stille søndag aften, har lige taget natbukserne på og har gjort mig parat til den mørke dyne - både i fremtiden og om lidt - har vinket sommeren farvel og kørt hjem.

Som en stor nyhed har jeg, efter flere henvendelser, besluttet mig fremover kun at skrive på dansk. I de sidste år har jeg primært skrevet på engelsk, men da jeg efterhånden sad og postede mange af de samme nyheder som min gode ven og tidligere kollega Morten Grantzau, der også skriver på engelsk, vælger jeg nu at konvertere hele min blog til dansk for at give et alternativ og samtidig skrive om andre områder jeg finder interessante. Der vil selvfølgelig stadig være en masse om iPhone, Apple og andre nyheder indenfor teknologi og gadgets generelt, men fremover bliver min blog også mere personlig. Jeg håber dette tiltag vil glæde alle jer der har bedt mig om at skrive på dansk - nu gør jeg det! :)

Hvis I vil læse nyheder indenfor teknologi på engelsk, kan jeg kun anbefale Morten Grantzau der må siges at være den ondeste blogger med fingeren på pulsen ;o)

“We know that many of you are wondering what is going on with the so much sought after release for firmware 2.x. We have been working really hard lately and today we were able to send the first MMSs between different devices running firmware 2.x on iPhone 3G and 2G!”

And he continues…

“Of course, you are all wondering when will this be made public? It is hard to say, and you all know how bad I am at making guesstimates… There are a few issues left, not major ones, but still issues, until we can make an official 1.2 release for the 2.x firmware. So lets say maybe two weeks from now. Maybe, maybe…”

You can see screenshots over at Swirly’s forum here

One of the things that many people misses on the iPhone is the missing feature to send and recieve mms. But what many are forgetting, is that you can send mms to an emailadress. And THAT is something that you can recieve on the iPhone. So others that wants to send you something on your iPhone just needs to write your emailadress instead of your number. You can then check your email on the iPhone, and voila! If you want to send an mms, you have to get the emailadress that every phonenumber is attached. For instance, Telia has xxxxxxxx@mail.mms.teliamobile.dk - but you have to check that yourself. But this should work on most of the carriers.

Before the 2.0 software was released there was this little neat application called SwirlyMMS that allowed you to send and recieve mms normally on the iPhone. SwirlyMMS is as we speak developed to the new 2.0 software, but no releasedate has been given yet. Until then, you can use the above workaround. Enjoy!

In order to whoop Apple and Google off the market, Microsoft has hired the 54 year old standup-comedian Jerry Seinfeld to make Microsoft more, ehm, cool in a new advertising campaign. The rumors are saying that he is given 10 million dollars out of a 300 million dollar budget. The campaign will be launched September 4th.

So, is this going to make Microsoft more cool? :o) -or is this just another bad joke? While you think about it - Get a Mac!

Good news on the Facebook for iPhone: Their native application is due to get an upgrade to version 2.0 in September. The upgrade should actually make the app reach some sort of feature parity with the web-app version of Facebook, which right now is far superior to the native app.

New features include a revamped profiles view, viewing all notifications in the home tab, friend search and approval, the ability to view your full inbox, and more. Read the official story here and see screenshots of the new 2.0 app.

Many of you have asked me, since the creation of the supporting website for Michael Rasmussen, whether I have contact with him or not. I can now confirm that I have contact with Michael and that I’m going to meet up with him soon in a location that I cannot reveal as you may understand.

Last year I created an online petition where over 55.000 people from all over the world signed their support to Michael. After the petition last year I have been working on a new website, wich I launched for about two months ago. The new support website is now visited by fans all over the world and has become the centre of news and updates regarding Michael Rasmussen. You can visit the website here or become a fan on Facebook!

As you may have noticed there has been several blogs, photoalbums and such on this domain. This used to be my personal playground online, so I’m sorry for the confusion about the actual content on this adress.

The last year in my life has given me opportunity to clean up - both in my personal life and in my work. Therefore I have created a brand new newsblog to reflect the “new me”. In the future I will post news regarding my personal life, but also articles about stuff I find at the net, that I want to share with you.