Map of the Internet by Peer 1: Discovered this app this morning and I’ve been playing with it here and there all day. As the title suggests, it’s a 3D interactive map of the internet, and it’s quite nice to play with. =D
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On Tuesday evening I attended the “Zürich .NET Developers” very first event, with the topic of “Windows 8 development with MVVM Light”, at the Microsoft Zürich building. I had a bit of a misfortune, or perhaps miscalculation getting there, as it started to wet-snow pretty heavily just before I got to the Wallisellen train station, and the 5 minute walk between the station and the MS building was quite sufficient for me to get thoroughly soaked. When I got to the door I was dripping, and the first thing I said to the gentleman who opened the door on me was “is there a bathroom here somewhere?”. =)
But once I managed to get myself dry and comfortable, all was great. Laurent Bugnion gave a rather thorough and pretty interesting presentation about MVVM, as well as a nice demo of some of the cool features available for .NET development, on Windows 8. I might not be a fan of Windows 8 itself… well…. at all, but I’m definitely interested those development goodies.
Oh, and a friend just sent me these…. You can probably spot me in there. =P [Click for high-res.]
“Lightflow” is an app for Android devices that have multicolour LEDs. I don’t know how it is 
on devices other than mine, but on my Sony tablet, by default there’s no way to manage which notifications from which apps turn the LED on, or the colours for every notification. Lightflow allows you to do all of the above. You can assign pup-up or LED notifications for a rather long list of supported apps. This is something that I find very very helpful.
Oh, and the support team for this app seems to do a pretty great job too. I requested support for “FreeNote” [about which I wrote here] to be added, and in the next release it was there.
After about a decade and a half of using various other mail clients, the latest one of
which was Windows Live Mail, I’m back to using Thunderbird again. Throughout the years I’ve checked back on the development of Thunderbird, but every time I gave it a try, I came across various usability issues… until now. Right now Thunderbird looks like it’s finally baked properly and ready to be served.
My biggest reason for switching to Thunderbird now, is the large collection of pretty useful plugins that allow things like integration with Google calendar, Google contacts, Google reader and so on that are pretty important to me.
The only thing I’m not currently enjoying about Thunderbird is that the client still doesn’t have 2 line preview for emails… and apparently due to a million and one technical reasons, on one hand the devs don’t like to work on this issue and on the other hand no one has been able to write a plugin to fix this. Smallest silliest thing…. oh well. Everything else is good, so for now I think I’ll be sticking to Thunderbird. =)
Here’s something that’s been eating up a lot of my time lately. LEGO Digital Designer is an application by LEGO, which you can use to virtually build whatever you like, using all 
the LEGO pieces ever made. Yes, huge collection of pieces. That itself is something that made me a very very happy girl. But the fun doesn’t end there. Once you’re done building, you can actually order what you just built! Isn’t that fabulous? =D
So here you can download the app. Enjoy the addiction! ;D
