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Canon LBP5050n Drivers for Mac OS X 10.6

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 by Daniel Gattermann at 20:16h (UTC)

After the Canon support told me there weren’t Snow Leopard compatible drivers for my color laser printer LBP5050n available yet and they didn’t have a timeframe I found this site at Canon Asia with one month old drivers called CAPT Printer Driver V3.00 for MacOSX. After installing, cursing and rebooting I could use my printer [...]

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Dear Facebook: Seriously?

Saturday, August 8th, 2009 by Daniel Gattermann at 10:52h (UTC)

Dear Facebook, you’re telling me my mail@DOMAIN address is invalid because individuals can’t use generic mail prefixes. The reasoning behind this: they are often used by organizations. NEWS FLASH: It’s 2009 and I am indeed allowed to buy a domain name and do whatever I want with it! In ten years I’m using said mail@DOMAIN [...]

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Perfect Example for Really Bad Product Naming

Sunday, August 26th, 2007 by Daniel Gattermann at 23:15h (UTC)

This has to be the worst product name ever: TrekStor sells an MP3 player named i.Beat blaxx. Via Daring Fireball TrekStor removed the i.Beat from the player’s name. That was quick.

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Learn to Fix it Yourself and I Will Spare You the Mowing

Saturday, September 30th, 2006 by Daniel Gattermann at 00:55h (UTC)

Please don’t take this as an insult, but I can’t fix your computer! (Well, probably I could but maybe I don’t want to. Do you want to mow my lawn for free?)

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Nur Originale! Aber wo ist das Musik TV?

Tuesday, September 6th, 2005 by Daniel Gattermann at 23:43h (UTC)

Neben besoffenen Elchen und verrückten Fröschen für das jugendliche Telefon gibt es – wenn man der Legende Glauben schenken möchte – auch Musik auf MTViva. Doch wo ist die gute Musik geblieben? Es folgt eine kleine Suche in der deutschen Fernsehlandschaft.

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