I just installed the Flash based tag cloud WordPress plugin WP-Cumulus of Roy Tanck and integrated it into the tag-cosmos-page. That 3D-tag-cloud is really great! It functions properly and is easy to configure.
The only downer is Flash … but Roy can’t help it … the iPhone still does not know what to do with Flash and also search engines stop and do not follow links within swf files. But nevertheless – the 3D-tagcloud is really fun to use … just look here, so you know what I’m talking about!

Sources: WP-Cumuls at WordPress.org

Deutsche Bahn and T-Mobile extend their traveling WiFi HotSpot service at the ICE train routes. Now, also the route Frankfurt am Main – Hanover – Hamburg is covered with WiFi internet access (“railnet”). Overall, we have WiFi internet connection within the train on most of the ICE routes in Germany:

• Dortmund – Düsseldorf – Cologne (also via Hagen and Wuppertal)
• Cologne – Frankfurt am Main Airport
• Frankfurt am Main – Stuttgart – Munich
• Frankfurt am Main – Hanover – Hamburg

The service offers laptop and especially iPhone users an internet connection even if the train travels at a maximum speed of 300 km/h – more than 180 miles per hour! Im always impressed about the quite stable and fast internet connection even when traveling that fast. And the best thing of all: as a (German T-Mobile) iPhone user you don’t even have to pay for the WiFi connection in the train!

Source/picture: Deutsche Bahn

Tim Pritlove talked about the iPhone and the native application development for that mobile phone with Martin Pittenauer and Dominik Wagner. Mac users may be aware of Martin and Dominik as the Coding Monkeys with their first Mac OS X masterpiece: SubEthaEdit, a collaborative text editor for the Mac. In 2008 the Monkeys also developed some iPhone applications, like Circulator or Big Clock. Tim, Martin and Dominik all together realized Blinkenlights Stereoscope a simulation of the Blinkenlights Installation Toronto 2008. That’s why they all can tell a lot of stories of the similarities and differences of programming for Mac OS X and the iPhone OS. Overall a great mixture for those interested in iPhone developement as well as experts.

The only downside for all international blog readers: The podcast is in German only. Here’s the link to the podcast!

Florian published a long list of plugins and tutorials for the en vogue JavaScript framework jQuery on drweb.de (Sorry the lists are only available in German ). It’s quite interesting – not only for Ruby-on-Rails developers – for just every web developer who wants to take a close look and work with the elegant JS-framework. I had the chance to watch the presentation of Yehuda Katz, member of the Plugins-Team of jQuery at the RailsConfEurope 2008 … it was really great! Take a look at his presentation file online. It’s really worth it!

Thanks again to Florian for sharing these great links!

Apple just published the Quicktime video-on-demand stream of the MacWorld Keynote Address 2009. So, if you want to tune in and watch Phil Schiller, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing at Apple Inc. …

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/keynote/

iLife’09, iWorks’09, DRM-free music on the iTunes Music Store and the 17″ unibody MacBook Pro … great news