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2007-11-01

In today's PicBlog (I bet that term isn't even new 0.o) ... *traraa* ... Munich, covered in fog!

I'm afraid, the amount of original motives that can be photographed without leaving my desk are limited. Expect repetitions soon!

2007-10-29

Still doing the photoblog, regardless of what Maddox says. Screw him, he isn't reading my page anyway. I am :) ... :/ ... :(


IKEA in a nutshell. Add some rage.	A watch in an antistatic RAM-foilbag. Is that deep or what!

Uuuh, even two pictures in a photoblog. If you don't want to read/see photoblogs, Maddox, don't go there. It's a free web, "dipshit".

2007-10-28

Thanks to the article banish from maddox on maddox' page I now start a photoblog with this "hello world" photo (isn't it delightfully nonsense but interesting at the same time?):

Because, he can't tell me what to do.
... and I would put here even more links , if I wasn't too lazy. If you can't remember what you were reading seconds before, find a neat nursing home (you're to old for the net anyway - hell, I am!) or a good neurologist. Or maybe, just maybe, don't follow every bloody link. They don't run away. Honestly.
And if the texts are too narrow for you, use the zoom-function. As you force some of us to do to read your page (see previous post).

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2007-10-27

#### I FOUND THE THRUTH ####

It was hidden here for all this time: http://maddox.xmission.com/ (by the way, thnx to my sister for sending me the link!). Hey, don't yawn at me, if you already knew! I didn't! And now, enlightened as I am, I will go a little bitching about stuff. Bitching is good.

And, since I decided to start already, let's throw dirt at the prophet of the truth: Maddox, your stylesheet is shit. Bullshit. From a surprisingly ugly bull. Bright text in front of black is so kewl, you can't read anything afterwards when you have to read something else - which is black on white, because the whole universe agreed millenia ago that this is the way it's supposed to be. And they had a cause: Black on white makes your eyes water and tire them. You do it differently? You suck!
Oh yeah, and your point is of course much clearer, when you print it in a extra large letters. So noone has to zoom, because they are to blind to read everything else on the net, right? Screw all those Wii, PocketPC and Nokia E70 (!) operators. One letter a screen is perfectly readable after all.
... but love your texts, maddox ...

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2007-10-23

hehe, I´m currently sitting on my pr0n couch next to my beautiful girlfriend to write this post. With the wii-mote. Pity, you can´t see how slow this happens - would be a good laugh ;)

In other news: I started to play basketball again. Crappy. But I don´t care, it´s decidedly more fun than just pumping iron and I´m more exhausted than I´ve been for years :D Also, my kitchen is done. Completely done. Everything works fine and looks good (see for your self - even if the picture is not that good - on the left). Woo, I'm a craftsman now ;)

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2007-10-18

Weeee, Boondocks is back in the net. For all of you, who aren't already waiting fidgety for the next episode or just know the comic strip, read here, what boondocks is all about:
Boondocks is the plotical-incorrect-antiracist-niggacool-martial-arts-smarty-pants series :) Just watch it, already!

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2007-10-15

Have been playing around with PHP and JavaScript again to mess up this website some more ;) There is now a "change layout"-link on the left above the navigation bar. When clicking it ... nothing happens, I know. Try hitting this link and pressing "refresh" in your browser to see the effect - I'm still trying to figure out, how to make the browser reload the page. It's either that, or there will be a workaround, like a phony and unnecessary "select yout layout"-page.

Actually, I created the new layout, because my Opera-browser (a nice piece of software, by the way) runs slooooo<insert x o's here>oow when displaying my page. Scrolling took ages. Hmpf. So, there I have it, a nearly image-free page that runs blazingly fast! Oh, if it doesn't work at all with your browser, even after frantically hitting the "refresh"-button, try switching on cookies and JavaScript!

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2007-10-12

I just started filling the "studies"-page. It's awfully difficult to remember all these courses and order them correctly. Also, I wasn't aware of how many they are - and there are still lots missing!

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2007-10-11

The system is now up and running for two weeks and starts to be fun again. That's particularly thanks to the freshly bought additional Gig of RAM. Vista eats RAM. Most of the slow-downs I experienced earlier could be traced back to a lack of memory. And my Ubuntu, which gets currently booted about as often as Windows, doesn't mind the extra-RAM, either ;)

Do you feel like an update of my kitchen-misery? Here you go: Currently it develops pretty fine :) The table board is perfectly horizontal and the sink is already installed and working - though currently only with cold water, because the hot-water pipes are leaking >_< Next Tuesday, when the electrician and the plumber did their work, it's time to cook our very first meal on our very own stove!

... man, I became square!

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2013-12-14

projects

Below, you'll find a list of projects I did - or am still at. Of course, no project is ever finished, but some are, well, sleeping peacefully.
Not all of this stuff was done on my own, people who helped are honored on the respective subpages.

Flipz

Get your brain juices flowing with this fun pattern-juggling puzzle game.

Or, humiliate your friends in a two-player hot seat match!

hAiR

This project was created in an Augmented Reality course at my university. You put a kind of helmet on your head and the computer tracks your head and blends hairstyles on your head. If the result is not exactly what you wanted, you can use different "brushes" to modify, how extrem the style looks, change the color or even add new new strands.

photopolis

Another university project. The program takes your complete photo library and builds houses according to the date when the picture was taken and assembles them to create a city. Then, you can explore this city with typical fps-controls. So, if you have enough pictures, you can stroll through your memories: Take the christmas road and turn right to the 2004-avenue.

FourWins3D

This program started as a hhh (half-hour hack) during a short trip in the holidays: I love playing a game of four in a row once in a while and forgot to take my set. Well, I never forget my loyal notebook, so I hacked something at least playable together. Then hacking was fun again - so, the current version is fully 3D and playable over the web.

AudioPhield

My major university project. Goal of this program is to make your computer listen to music similar to the way humans do to automatically estimate musical attributes like speed, used instruments, rhythmic components, and so on. Then, AudioPhield depicts a new kind of interface for new ways to interact with your music.collection

VsGolf

One of the most interesting projects I was involved in. You play a kind of virtual team-golf-game: Virtual balls lie around anywhere in the city and especially in home-areas. Balls in your home-area are bad, they cause your time to lose points - so kick them out of your area, when you find them. The real kicker about this game is that it is played via your cellphone! You find a ball by (perhaps randomly) walking over its position and kick it by stepping back and running over the place, where the ball lies. Real fun, if you have a mobile phone with GPS!

PoRoBa

This project is the main cause for the existance of this site - and also names the domain. A huge part of this site is dedicated to that game.

2013-10-29

lnx

Ok, I know what you think: "WTF?? A 'links'-section? This is sooo nineties and embarassing private homepage" ... Well - it is ;) But this links section is there for ME mostly. I just want to have my links handy wherever I am. Yesyes, I know, there's del.icio.us and stuff like that, but I like this style better ;)

Legal note: I do not check all sites below frequently! At the time, I placed the link, these sites did not offend against any German or international law I'm aware of. However, sites change - if one of the sites offends now, I'm sorry and take my recommendation back. Please let me know, so I can delete the link!

2013-07-17

studies

Below, you'll find a list of courses I did during my studies at the LMU in munich. This is as much for me to remember what I actually did as for anyone, who is interested in what I should know and what the LMU offers.
On the bottom of the page, there is a table of stuff I'm experienced in, technical stuff that is.

2012-12-12

vita

1982-07-26	Born in Tirschenreuth. Slippery, I guess.
1988 - 1992	Elementary school "Marienschule" in Tirschenreuth
1992 - 2001	High school "Stiftland Gymnasium Tirschenreuth". Got the diploma with an average of 1.3. Graduated in Latin, Maths, Physics and Religion.
1997 - 2000	Part of the "Mystique Factory", a group of six students who intended to write a new kind of computer game named "northern blades" (something like a "battlezone" - though battlezone wasn't out yet - in a fantasy-setting). We got pretty far, but too much ambition paired with no time left, because of the final exams, ended it.
2001 - 2002	Military service as a medic.
2002	Started studying media informatics at the LMU in Munich.
2004	Intermediate diploma. Average exam-score: 1.2. Overall diploma-grade: 1.4
2005 - 2006	Worked as assistant scientist at the chair of media-informatics at the LMU.
2006	Started developing PoRoBa
2007	Completed my project thesis (the first part of "AudioPhield"). Grade: 1.0
2007-06-15	Started developing and filling this site.
2008-09-16	Handed in my diploma thesis.
2008-12-01	Started working at the Aloqa GmbH.
2010-09-01	Aloqa bought by Motorola Mobility Inc.
2011-08-15	Lead designer and lead engineer at Motorola Mobility Inc, Sunnyvale
2012-10-06	Co-Founder and CXO at Pockets United GmbH, Munich

2010-08-23

creations

This page contains all kind of stuff I did. Computer stuff. No big projects, nothing fancy, nothing I'm particularily proud of. But, well, I put it here anyway. You can't stop me. Take anything you like below and use it for whatever you like, but please refer to me or this site, when you do so!

Well, soon ... ish

2009-10-22

uhm ... what? where am I?

So, you stumbled on this page and have no idea, what you're doing here. I, the almighty king of this realm, have no idea, either.

But here's what this page is all about: This is the private homepage of a single person, KoMaXX, and what you will find here may be typical for private homepages. So, there is a blog (stupid ranting about ... uhm ... we'll see), self-glorification, some projects, finished or for ever under development, and stuff like that. Most of this half of the site, the komaxx-part, is effectively my playground and virtual business card.

Feel free to roam around and look smug. And if you own a PocketPC, take a look at PoRoBa, perhaps you'll like it.

2009-10-02

faq

Frequently asked questions. Mail me what's missing!

What does "PoRoBa" mean?: "Pocket Round Based". You are allowed to snicker. When I started the project, I didn't realize that German "rundenbasierte" games are called "turn based" in English. And now I stick to it. After all, "poroba" does also mean "slavery" in Czech. That's appropriate, I sometime feel like a slave to this project.
Does PoRoBa work on VGA-PDAs?: My guess is: "no". I don't have VGA-gear, so I can't test it. If I'll finally have one, it will work.
Is there a version for my PalmOS/MacOS/Android/Symbian?: Sorry, Windows Mobile only. PoRoBy is written in C# footing on the .net compact framework. As long as this framework and something similar to the gapi.dll are not available for other platforms, there will be no support. I don't want to rewrite everything.