If you're curious what I'm doing... Read a preview of my book!

Well, here I am again.
It's been a while now, but I've got some great news: I installed the newest Macintosh operating system, and I'm enjoying out the Siri dictation feature - guess how I made this post. ^^

Before we get to the juicy part of this post, I am saying that I've made a shortcut - just a few lines - you'll get goosebumps!

In my romance language, there hasn't been much progress, I have been- again - tinkering about an authentically Vulgar Latin declension...

On the Mac side, Mountain Lion is fantastic. The dictation feature is working in Spanish (in my special pronunciation of ll), English, and German. And the Facebook integration has to be tested yet...

Now we come to the interesting part. Note that I am not naming any persons *here* from my book.

The action takes place on a class trip - the introducing sentence plays in a hostel, then the action moves outside of the building. Note: ω is a lower-case omega (the last letter of the Greek alphabet)! 


„How can you allow him to leave the room? I don‘t feel the best today. I am tired too, but I don‘t want to make a hoopla out of it!“ She yells at me. The same moment I feel the prickling of my arm, like yesterday.

I run out the hostel, run up a hill and go up another. I feel so bad that I choke and throw up, with blood. 
A stroke of pain rushes through my body, much stronger than yesterday. I grip my chest - my heart seems to explode.

I shriek. The same moment I feel my face lifting off my skull, especially the area around my nose is burning awfully.

This yields another shriek: „Oh my God, I‘m gonna die!“ The same time my throat is thickening, feels as if it's swelling.
Where I previously stood I crouch and stumble on the ground - almost suffocating. I see the full moon: A silver shining disk surrounded by foggy clouds.

Now it becomes clear to me: I sat near a window while preparing the poster, so the ω-radiation could initiate the transformation... - another rush of pain interrupts my thoughts...

Just a few lines so you get the idea - I hope you like it. I'll get you to see more on Halloween... You will be scared as hell... :-D

In the holidays I will be publishing a new Youtube video. I'll review OS X Mountain Lion, Parallels Desktop 8 and some more things.

Stay hungry, foolish, and tuned!

iPhone 5 Introduction - And Much More

Phew... I have been away from this blog for some time, but I'm still vertical.
And there's quite a bit to tell you.

Keynote Time

Phil Schiller is presenting us the iPhone 5!
LTE, bigger screen, Apple A6 CPU... well...
Only an 8 MP camera... couldn't there be an improvement? At least better low-light shots. ^^
Aaaaand we've got a panorama-mode: 28 MegaPixels. Plus three microphones.
The connector is a "Lightning" - 8 pins, small and you can stuck it into the iPhone 5 in any direction.
Also, Apple introduced a new Maps app - turn-by-turn navigation is free with iOS 6.
iOS - Siri: Facebook integration. And the iPhone 5 is available in black and white.
The iPhone 5 is available in $199 (16 GB), $299 (32GB) and $399 (64 GB), iPhone 4S $99 (16 GB) and the iPhone 4 for free (8 GB) with a contract. And we'll get a new iTunes app - Available in October.

iPods: New iPod nano - tiny, tiny phone. You can watch videos again - tiny...
iPod touch: Apple A5 CPU and 16:9 display ratio, no micro-SD slot, but a 5 MP camera.
Apple Loop: A loop for your iPod touch so you won't drop it. And Siri for the iPod touch with Bluetooth 4.0. The iPod touch is available in 5 colors.

New earbuds:  called Earpods, included with all new iPods.
iPod shuffle is $49 for 2 GB, nano is 16 GB for $149, old iPod touch is 16 GB ($199), 32 GB ($249), new iPod touch ($299 - 32 GB), ($399 - 64 GB). Nano and new touch are available in October.
Yup. That's it.

But I've got more:

I have made some more sound changes for my Romance language - most important is <ng, nj ->ñ/gn/nh> and <-cl-, lj -> ll/gli/lh> written nj and lj respectiveley (because I wanted to make it geographically/nationally independent). The declension system is itching. AGAIN.
Verbs look French in the 2nd plural (-ti-/-di- > z, -te- > zi). Not much more news.

On the iWizard side I've been writing a bit more - a sad part is coming soon.

I'm also on DeviantArt.com (http://imarkus.deviantart.com) - a new Youtube video is coming soon after I've got OS X 10.8. And I've got Parallels Desktop 8, which will be reviewed in the video as well.

That's it - Stay hungry, foolish and tuned!