CeBIT report
After waking up exceptionally early we were driving in to our friendly and only country with the lovely green and pink houses, Germany. We were overwhelmed by the large number of huge plasma and TFT screens but after a few hours we got used to them. The Germans were exceptionally friendly and all the Heidi’s and Gertrud’s smiled at us, maybe it was because of the Press passes we acquired after days of negotiations.
So what did we see?
Intel: Intel had a very nice boot as you can see on the pictures. The company introduced a range of dual-core systems. They presented a dual-core chip set-up that enables a TV to play an HDTV video, and a monitor to play a 3D video game.
The Intel manager also presented a notebook with the mobile dual-core CPU, Yonah. Manufactured using the 65 Nanometer technique, and ready for launch at the beginning of 2006, it will be the driving force behind the next Centrino generation as part of the Napa platform.
The Pentium M-based Car PC, which is built into a Mini at the Intel booth, also made a cool guest appearance. The computer fits into the car stereo slot and is controlled via touchscreen or voice recognition. Communication runs via GSM, GPRS and UMTS. Bluetooth can also be used to connect PDAs and notebooks to the system. And there is more, the Car PC can synchronize data with your home computer via WLAN, for example for music and movies.
FlashForward is the largest and longest running Flash user conference in the world. From April the 6st untill April the 8th San Francisco will be the capital of Flash. There will be lots of information these days, and there are many speakers at the conference, and of course it's an ideal way to get in touch with other flash lovers. 
For everyone who is interested in flash information, there will be 2 online seminars. So you don't have to go somewhere by car, just follow this way on the world wide web. The online seminars will each be held on 15 March, the subjects of the seminars are Getting started with Flash MX Professional 2004 and Adding Interactivity to Flash with ActionScript 
The book, about the 'new' way of programming with css, where we all have been waiting for is out now. CSS is a hot item, and more and more developers change to this way of programming instead of using tables. It requires a different type of programming, but when you get familiar with it and you know the benefits, you will love it.
The name says it all, a Google has released a beta tool to search on your computer. The Google Desktop Search Tool allows you to search in several applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel, FireFox, Netscape and much more. 
No, it's not a vulnerability for FireFox, it has to do with the lack of active FireFox developers. There is a group of six working on the project, but 4 of them are AWOL (absence without leave). So only 2 remain, and only one of them makes code reviews. You can say that the FireFox program is heavily undermanned. Mike Conner, one of the developers of FireFox have focused on this problem.
We have a great contest for all U.S. residents. We where informed by Sybex (the largest independent computer book publisher) about their Digital Photography Contest.