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2007-08-09

me as simpson I'm sure all of you guys have already seen the The Simpsons-Movie - and probably loved it as I did. And, as common with nowadays films, there is a sophisticated website dedicated to the movie, too - and you just have to see it. Among other wicked-cool stuff, there's a "make yourself a simpson"-prog similar to the famous Mii-constructor from Nintendo that transformed (without the "help" of Michael Bay) virtually anyone I know to a chubby cone-person. Well, that's me in the Simpsons-verse ^^ ==>

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2007-08-09

Little time for updates at the moment.
I'm currently working on a page for my mother for her birthday - which was already a week ago ... actually, I'm just fulfilling a coupon she got from my sister and me years ago. My mother is an artist, so this site is supposed to be somewhat colorful and stuff, but to me it just looks dull like randomly chosen colors - I just don't seem to get the stylesheet right :( Also, my mother is not supposed to learn html to maintain her page, of course, so there is a lot of php still to be written. Check out the current state of the page at it's temorary place.

And now something, all you guys already knew: Moving to a new place is expensive! Especially in my case, since my current flat was stuffed with furniture when I moved in; the new flat is absolutely empty. Turns out, one relly needs kitchens, bedrooms, tables, and stuff! Honestly, I'm shocked!

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2007-07-27

Whooot, after lots and lots of hustle we have our new flat. And with the experiences I made the last few days - I could fill books: Real estate agents not calling although we would get the visited apartment, real estate agents not calling although promised to call, unsuspensible decisions rescheduled, reapparing ads for flats promised to us, misunderstandings, balaahbalub. Well, it was worth it! My new home is huge and right in the city :) I can't wait to move there.

Because of that, I'm really swarmed right now, so don't expect big updates soon!

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2007-07-26

Weird stuff is happening: I thought, finding an apartment would be a problem - and suddenly all the estate agents are calling, telling me I would get the flat. WTF? During the inspections of the flats they are all like ".. dozens of candidates ... very popular building ... " and so on. And now, they are telling me, I would have given them the best application. hmmm. In short: I'm suspicious. They are just creating virtual competition to bill us more money than the apartments are actually worth - and the good part: They make us grateful for it!

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2007-07-25

Still looking for a new flat for my girlfriend and me. Doesn't look too good at the moment: There are always lots of candidates for the good apartments... But on the other side: We have just been looking for two days now; the first time I was looking for a home in Munich, I was there three times for several days and would have been happy with anything!

However, I realized one thing by now: I'm living crappy at the moment ;)

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2007-07-18

The lnx page is done! That is to say, the php scripts are running and most of my most valuable links are stored there. However, this site is intended to change heavily, when I find new valuable sites. But well, unless you habe exactly the same interests as me, Google will most likely work better for you!

I went to visit a flat in Munich today for the first time for years. And it sucked. Not the flat as such, although it wasn't that nice, but all the stumbling through streets, not finding the right building, and hesitating to build up the courage to walk into foreign realms. Nah, will be more fun when my girlfriend and I do it together next week.

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2007-07-15

The PhotoPolis page is finished! It contains now complete information about getting PhotoPolis up and running! Also, I was amazed to realize that there are still webpages just discovering PhotoPolis and writing about them: Check the "press" section on the photopolis-page.

And to something complete different: I saw the movie "Zeitgeist" today. I thought, I would be immune against all these conspiration theories by now, but this movie really got me... Ok, they just showed the suspicious side of their themes - but hey, their argumentation was damn convincing. Now, I would like to see something like on youtube: a video-response! Time, anyone? I tried to check some facts of the movie myself, but didn't get far. Was "Horus" really a virgin-birth, too? Is there no law enforcing federal income tax in the united states? Could really use some answers right now, but - surprise!! - the web doesn't seem to contain any :/

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2007-07-13

My exams are done and went very well - much better than I expected, actually ... like always ;) This means I have now some time to recover and relax. Naturally, you would expect, I also have time to improve and complete this homepage. But since I do have time for everything, now, I will most likely not work on this page - it's just not the "forbidden fruit" anymore as it has been during the learning weeks :( I really wish, I had more motivation...
Well, at least you got a news entry about that, right?

Oh, and by the way, the PhotoPolis-page is nearly completed. You better like it!

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2007-07-06

Wohooo, now there is a 'change'-button under each news - I can now change news after they were added directly in the page via php :):) This is to cancel out typos and html-mistakes, not to change the semantics of what I've written - I know the netiquette for blogs!
If I continue like this, this page will someday be managed by a fullfledged content-management-system written by me ... that would really be fun ... hmmm ... I could do a little modelling ... NO gottalearn gottalearn gottalearn gottalearn

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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.