Yahoo is offer­ing a beta of its new web appli­ca­tion called Pipes. Pipes is an inter­ac­tive feed aggre­ga­tor and manip­u­la­tor. Using Pipes, you can create feeds that are more pow­er­ful, useful and rel­e­vant. Above all Pipes is fun and handy.

As of taday I’m intro­duc­ing hardware/software reviews of dig­i­tal lifestyle prod­ucts. We will eval­u­ate form, func­tion, design, usabil­ity, sup­port etc. We will be very Black & White: either it’s Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down! No throw­ing in stars or mices
Today a “new kid on the block”, an appli­ca­tion from one of my favorite soft­ware devel­op­ers: Panic. Panic is the devel­oper of the best FTP appli­ca­tion there is, called: Trans­mit.
Coda is a Single Window User inter­face (SWUI) web devel­op­ment tool. Which let’s you manage, design, edit and pre­view all in one appli­ca­tion. Forgot that pesky stylesheet name? Coda to the rescue! Coda includes free eBooks within the appli­ca­tion. Coda keeps it simple and basic and that’s it’s strenght! It’s not a full fea­tured texte­d­i­tor like BBEdit or Text­Mate but who cares if you don’t use all the bells and whis­tles? I’ll give Coda the Thumbs Up!

We’ve bought a new coffee machine a Nespresso Siemens TK70. We can now make all kinds of deli­cious cof­fees: Cap­puc­cino, Caf­fe­latte, Mac­chi­ato, Espresso and many, many more. We are enjoy­ing a nice cup of coffee nearly every day

Here are some tech­ni­cal details:

• ABS (Acrylic Butyl Styrene) and pol­ished alu­minim finish
• High pres­sure pump (19 bar)
• Ther­moblock heat­ing element
• Pro­gram­ma­ble volume control
• Auto­matic inser­tion and ejec­tion of the capsule
• Dig­i­tal mul­ti­lin­gual func­tion display
• Back-​lit con­trol buttons
• Pro­gram­ma­ble on/off function
• Remov­able steam nozzle for hot water and steam functions
• Sup­plied with Auto­Cap­puc­cino nozzle for easy prepa­ra­tion of milk froth and hot milk
• Auto­matic cool­ing after steam function
• Col­lec­tion con­tainer for used capsules
• Inbuilt elec­tronic warn­ing sound, which indi­cates when the col­lec­tion con­tainer for used cap­sules is full
• Elec­tronic con­trol of the water level in the tank
• Visual con­trol of water level in the drip tray
• Adjust­ment for water hard­ness and descal­ing warn­ing signal (based on water hardness)
• Inte­grated descal­ing programme
• Alu­minium cup-​warming plate - can be switched on or off as desired
• Remov­able water tank (1.2 l capacity)

After play­ing God Of War we had to buy the sequel! It was released a little bit later then pre­vi­ous antic­i­pated but this will keeps us busy for a couple of days.

EMI announced today that their entire dig­i­tal music cat­a­logue will be offered in Stan­dard and Pre­mium ver­sions next month, Apple will be the first part­ner to sup­port it.
This means DRM free inter­op­er­a­ble files, in higher audio qual­ity 256kbps and at a price of €1,29 that’s €30 cents more then pre­vi­ous ver­sions. The same offer will be made to other music labels.

The sequel to the best game ever God Of War. Kratos will be fight­ing again against myth­i­cal crea­tures like the three-​headed dog Cere­bus, a one-​eyed giant cyclops and a flying Gryphon.
Kratos will also be seen riding on the eagle Grif­fon. Check out these amaz­ing video’s of the actual game­play on Gamespot.
The God Of War II is set in ancient Greece and has better looks and appeal than it’s pre­de­ces­sor. So Kratos lives to die another day.
Accord­ing to sources it will be released in the market on March 13, 2007.

Mobile devices are get­ting more and more pow­er­ful by the year. In this demo NVidia shows off their vision on next-​generation mobile phones (at 3GSM). The power behind these graph­i­cal capa­bil­i­ties is their new Mobile GoForce line-​up. Engad­get has a nice arti­cle on the sub­ject. Khronos OpenKODE is used for accel­er­at­ing these vector 2D and 3D graph­ics. I wouldn’t be sur­prised if they would become the de facto stan­dard on a lot of mobile devices.