Martin Gyger is exhibiting:
at the Bau- und Verkehrsdepartement Basel
Münsterplatz 11
Basel,
from 16th April to 20th May 2010.
Opening hours: Mo – Fr from 8am to 6pm
60 Prozent Paradies
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A snapshot a day…
I am always taking photos… Not sure how to take this hobby to the next level. I am very involved and I hope I can convey the fun and enjoyment that I experience while I am on my discovery journey.
Have a good week 
Alles wird gut. Andra’ tutto bene.
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Buildings to see in Basel
I stumbled across this list of places to see in Basel and decided to venture out and have a look at some of the listed architecture.
Freidorf Residential Estate (1920) by Hannes Meyer in Muttenz near Basel
Antoniuskirche (1927), near Kannenfeldplatz, Basel by Karl Moser
I really like this church building. It feels very modern. The stained glass windows are exceptional. Highly recommended. More background info is available at Wikipedia.
Kraftwerk Birsfelden / Power Station (1955) by Hans Hoffmann in Birsfelden near Basel
St. Alban-Tal Housing (1984–88) by Diener & Diener at St. Alban-Rheinweg 94 in Basel
Schaulager (2003) by Herzog and de Meuron in Münchenstein near Basel
Breite Zentrum (2004), Zürcherstr. 149, 4052 Basel
The Breite Hotel was designed by Larghi and Stula. More details on the design can be found on the hotel’s website. The hotel manager was very friendly and would have shown me a room. Unfortunately all rooms were taken due to the watch and jewellery trade fair.
Residential Housing in a former factory (2005) by Buol and Zünd at Oetlingerstrasse 69 in Basel
This building proved difficult to find as the former factory is located behind an apartment building in Klein-Basel in an inner courtyard. But it is an instant fave. I would love to live in a building like this. Well worth the search time…
Apartment House in Riehen (2009) by Pedrocchi Meier Architekten at Hinterwenkenweg 3 in Riehen near Basel
I am not such a fan of all the corners but it does look very spacious and the location is great:
Further details:
The city of Basel publishes an architectural guide
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On digital natives
Using the term digital native to describe all netizens born after 1980 is way too general. I found this interesting article discussing various findings:
Only a minority of students actively created their own content or used emerging technologies such as blogs, social networking and podcasts. And a significant proportion of them had lower levels of technical competency than would be expected of ‘digital natives’
Firefox Add-ons
Besides iPod Touch apps, another apps marketplace that has really grown is the one for Firefox. There’s an add-on for everything, it seems.
Here’s a break-down of Firefox add-ons that I am using:
Delicious
This a Firefox add-on I can’t do without. Very stable. Useful. Mark a text on a webpage and hit the TAG button to add a Delicious bookmark.
DownThemAll!
A Firefox Downloads utility especially for low bandwidth. I’ve used it to download videos, many Word and pdf files. Useful.
Echofon
I installed this recently cos I don’t like Twitter’s and Brizzly’s AJAX-laden, slow, error-prone web interfaces. I like the iPhone version of Echofon. I really haven’t used the Firefox add-on enough to form an opinion. It looks promising. An intermediate step while I look for an AJAX-less, text-only web interface for Twitter.
FastestFox
I really like the page loading function that enables endless pages. Very cool. Works for Google, WordPress blogs, Friendfeed and many other apps with pagers. I don’t use the other functions as much.
Firebug
Essential for every web developer and internet project manager. It’s either this or Web Developer. If you don’t have hands on experience with either of these, I will sincerely doubt that you have adequate web development experience. Very useful and highly recommended.
FireFTP
I don’t use this add-on much. I prefer Filezilla any day. But for completion’s sake, I’ve left it in the list. I haven’t uninstalled it yet. But Filezilla in combination with Notepad++ are hard to beat.
FireShot
Take screenshots within Firefox. I am comparing this tool with Screengrab.
Google Analytics Watcher
Links to my Google Analytics and shows the current no. of visits in the Firefox status bar.
iGetter
A Firefox Downloads utility especially for low bandwidth. I’ve used it to download videos, many Word and pdf files. Useful.
Integrated Gmail
I am testing this. You can switch to Google Reader from Google Mail within the content area.
Adblock Plus / NoScript
This is supposed to help block advertising and malicious scripts, but I haven’t really figured out the best way to use this add-on. Tips?
Screengrab
Like FireShot, this add-on takes screenshots. Sometimes it doesn’t work and you need to re-start Firefox. Not good. But it takes screenshots of the full page not just the visible area.
TV-Fox
I like this add-on. It lists and links to free online TV streaming from around the world.
YSlow
This add-on provides a measure of website speed.
The Browser Highlighter
Skype when it still belonged to eBay, automatically installed The Browser Highlighter. There is no easy way to uninstall it either. I can only disable it. #Fail
Link captions in WordPress
There is a plugin for WordPress that simplifies adding hyperlinks to captions
Many thanks to {a.} of Handmade 2.0 for sharing this info.
Link captions simplify the attribution of Creative Commons photos shared in the public domain.
Before using any photo, check the licensing conditions first.
At Flickr, these are listed in the right sidebar under the sub-heading Additional Information.
Please don’t just take, but contact the photographer and ask for permission. If you are using Creative Commons photos and graphics, which are free for non-commercial use, please follow the attribution conditions listed in the license. Usually this is the name, nom de web, or website address of the photographer and a link to the photo used. Contact the photographer to ask how he or she would like to be listed.
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CMYK JPEGs
JPEG not displaying in MS Internet Explorer 7 or 8 ? I was puzzled. I checked the src link, re-uploaded the image…
Well, then I learned that JPEGs saved in the CMYK color model will not display in MS IE, while they do display in Firefox 3.x.
I guess saving JPEGs in CMYK is unusual, esp. for screen use. I assumed the file was in RGB, given that it was intended for the web.
More:
CMYK color model
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 does not display JPG images with CMYK color mode
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