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As reported by engadget, Apple will announce new laptops on October 14.  Thats pretty cool, since speculations were rising more and more in the past weeks.

That arrives at the right time for me.  My current iMac is getting too slow for extensive use of Apple’s Aperture. And I want to try to use a new Macbook Pro as a desktop replacement. If this succeeds I will look for a Cinema Display, which should get an update by Apple too within the comming months and maybe already next week.

Stay tuned!

Using Google Search as a calculator is a commonly known feature. One guy (or girl) discovered that this function can provide also wrong results. If you let calculate Google the following subtraction, it will fail:

399999999999999-399999999999998

Funny fact, I just wonder how this person figured that out… too much time? ;-)

The official release date is October 13, but it’s already possible to download OpenOffice 3.0 as the final version on different mirrors. Here you get the list of all available mirrors. Look for the folder “stable” on the mirror site, there you can find version 3.0. Enjoy!

Darina and me are beginning to learn C for diving into professional programming. First we are collecting some sources to get a basic knowledge about how to learn the programming language C. We decided for C because Darina has already knowledge about it and it is a bit easier to learn than C++ or Java. But provides more possibilities than Pascal ;-)

Here is a short list of resources and C tutorials (will be updated in future):

• C programming Tutorial from cprogramming.com
• C Language Tutorial from physics.drexel.edu
• C Video How to’s from apex

In a future post we will write about the requirements for developing in C and we will provide further tutorials and howto’s.