GERMAN: “Nie wieder New York” auf Amazon und im Apple iBook Store!

**** UPDATE ****

Das Buch verkauft sich richtig gut und hat schon jede Menge guter Reviews auf Amazon erhalten! Man könnte insofern die These aufstellen, dass es sich lohnt dieses Buch zu lesen. Als reine Unterhaltung oder auch als Ratgeber zum Auswandern!

Jetzt hab’ ich es doch noch in diesem Sommer geschafft “Nie wieder New York” für Apple iBook (iPad, Mac, iPhone, etc.) zu konvertieren. Einfach auf den nachfolgenden Button klicken:

(Wenn dieser Link nicht funktioniert, einfach nach “Nie wieder New York” in iTunes suchen.)

Nie wieder New York im Kindle Store – DEUTSCHLAND

Nie wieder New York im Kindle Store – USA

An meine Leser! Bitte schickt diese Info an alle, die auch nach New York auswandern wollen, außerdem an alle Omas und Opas, die zu viel Zeit zum Lesen haben, auch an alle Tanten und Onkel, die immer davon erzählen, dass sie beinahe mal ausgewandert wären und an eure Kinder und Kindeskinder, damit sie in der Zukunft die richtige Entscheidung treffen…

Schickt diese Info aber in keinem Fall an Nachbarn oder Verwandte, die ihr gerne los werden wollt. Denen würde ich einfach nur ein paar meiner hübschen New York Bilder zeigen und die Stadt in höchsten Tönen anpreisen. Die Info über dieses Buch schickt ihr ihnen erst, wenn sie schon nach New York gezogen sind… 😉

PS: Auf Amazon ist es jetzt auch online… siehe oben (Kindle)… den Link bitte dann ebenfalls an Oma, Opa, Tante, Onkel, Bruder, Schwester, Freunde und Bekannte und an den Kaninchenzuchtverein Neuenkirchen schicken. Ach Mist, ich bin ja Vegetarier… dann eben an die Salatblattgrünmaler der Europäischen Union… 😉

PSPS: Mein Buch freut sich natürlich auch über positive Bewertungen, damit noch mehr Menschen darauf aufmerksam werden, dass Auswandern nicht immer so einfach sein muss… außerdem können wir uns dann vielleicht auch die hohen Kosten für ein Studium in den USA leisten. Wenn das nicht klappt, kommen wir einfach wieder nach Deutschland zurück. Obwohl das Wetter in Miami, wo wir gerade leben, schon ganz nett ist… 😉

PSPSPS: **** FREIBIER für alle User von Facebook ***, wäre ganz schön teuer… 😛 … ABER wer gerne für “Nie wieder New York” auf Amazon oder dem iBook Store oder dem eigenen Buch-Blog eine Bewertung schreiben möchte, kann mir einfach eine Nachricht senden und bekommt dafür natürlich ein Exemplar zur Verfügung gestellt! Eine Hand wäscht schließlich die andere, wobei ich ich das normalerweise nur mit meinen eigenen Händen mache… 😉

Jetzt auch als gedrucktes Buch auf Amazon erhältlich!!

Jetzt auch als gedrucktes Buch! (Auf’s Bild klicken!)

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Posted on August 26, 2016January 24, 2017
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Be very careful when you think about developing a great app idea!

batteryscore will not come back.

The part of the story I really don’t like at all is the way Apple handled this.

After one year on the App Store with an increasing number of downloads and users – more than 40.000 – Apple just decided to reject a small app update.

We did not change much. We had some user complaints and we tried to improve the user interface and some app messages.
Nevertheless Apple rejected the app every time. I even had a phone call with them and they gave me “hints” what to do with the app.
In fact we tried to follow those hints but nevertheless they rejected the app again and again.

We didn’t change its main functionality but they just rejected it every time according to another paragraph of the developer guidelines which we supposedly did not follow.

At the end I’ve spent more than $20,000 (twenty thousand dollars) to develop this app and earned only a small percentage back – but I thought the large user base would help me to earn some money sooner or later.
Of course this will not happen when Apple is just pulling it out for no good reason. The very same app got accepted 12 months ago.

Don’t forget the fact if you are not able to develop an app on your own, which means that you are not a programmer, then you have to ask and for sure pay for every update.
Updates are not only needed when you want to add features. Updates are necessary for bugs or and also – that’s the worst part – every time when Apple is changing something in their OS.
For iOS updates you have to update your app, paying your developer but will not get any new features.
At the end you are paying and paying but you need to sell many apps to earn enough so that this could be profitable.
We had a very nice developer who did many things without charging us too much but that’s not normal.

My advice: Do not follow your app dream if you are not able to program it on your own. It will cost you money and a lot of time. Finally you will earn nothing.

And BatteryScore: Why Apple does not like apps which are for testing their batteries is another story – but the answer is most probably pretty obvious…

batteryscore is a well-designed Battery Benchmark App for iPhone. Really easy to use and reliable.

Just test your iPhone battery and compare it to others. Really quick and easy!

GERMAN: Nie wieder New York

Aktuell habe ich ein Online-Buch veröffentlich, das tatsächlich

Smashing Conference New York

One of the last conferences that vidFame captured was the very interesting and very successful Smashing Conference in New York City. (http://smashingconf.com/ny-2015/speakers)

Many great speakers and thrilling subjects:

SAMANTHA WARREN
SUSAN WEINSCHENK – https://vimeo.com/133632793
JON BURGERMAN
JOSH CLARK – https://vimeo.com/132548195
STEFAN SAGMEISTER
CHRISTIAN HEILMANN – https://vimeo.com/132548196
MARCIN WICHARY – https://vimeo.com/132954235
YESENIA PEREZ-CRUZ
TIM KADLEC – https://vimeo.com/132731560
KATIE KOVALCIN
DANIEL BURKA
DANIEL ESPESET – https://vimeo.com/132511381
PATRICK MEENAN – https://vimeo.com/132511383
ANDREW CLARKE – https://vimeo.com/132548198
LEA VEROU – https://vimeo.com/132511382

By admin
Posted on August 14, 2015August 14, 2015
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Tennis-Ferien-In-Florida.de

We’ve set up a new website: http://tennis-ferien-in-florida.de!

The site is totally in German. So the following text will be in German too… 😉

http://Tennis-Ferien-In-Florida.de richtet sich an Tennisspieler, die gerne einen Tennisurlaub mit tollem Wetter und tollen Tennistrainern verbringen möchten.

In Florida gibt es tatsächlich Tennistrainer und Tennisplätze wie Sand am Meer. Wer aber z.B. mal mit einem ehemaligen ATP-Top20-Spieler trainieren möchte, kommt einfach zu uns.

Alles ist möglich und das sogar zu vernünftigen Preisen.

Vom Tennis-Anfänger bis zum Profi, findet hier jeder genau das, was er oder sie sucht!

Auch hervorragendes Training für Kinder ab 6 Jahren ist jederzeit möglich.

Klicken Sie einfach auf http://Tennis-Ferien-In-Florida.de und wir erledigen den Rest.

OnlyRobots.com – Good or bad?

You may have heard about robots stealing our jobs in the near future or about female robots that will please us whenever we need it.
Others say that they will even start a devastating war against humanity in the near future.
Some even say that all this has already begun.

If you don’t know, please have a look on one of our latest projects: http://OnlyRobots.com – at least it is very interesting!

TennisCoach.us – Easily build a Website for a TennisCoach

Are you a Tennis Coach wanting to setup a great looking website?
Do you want to attract more customers?
Do you want to let your customers even book your lessons online?

Then you should have look on our latest project: TennisCoach.us

It’s very easy to setup a good looking website in no time!

Your Last Will on the front page of Yahoo Tech

We recently released our latest app: Your Last Will!

Alyssa Bereznak wrote a wonderful article about our app for Yahoo! Tech – and so we landed on the front page of Yahoo! Tech. Just click this link to read it! Isn’t that fantastic news! 🙂

By admin
Posted on March 19, 2015January 10, 2016
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Robert Redford, Sibylle Szaggars Redford and me…

Karsten Staiger asked me to help him shooting “The Way of the Rain” (Created by Sibylle Szaggars Redford) at Sundance Film Festival.

A truly amazing experience capturing such a piece of art especially when the subject is touching you deep inside.

“What do you see when you look up at the sky at night at the blazing stars against the midnight heavens?”

Links:
Karsten Staiger

The Way of the Rain

Sundance Film Festival

The Way of the Rain on YouTube

The Way of the Rain

This is were I will be from Sunday to Wednesday.
http://www.thewayoftherain.com — feeling excited.

Sundance Film Festival
January, 26 & 27 2015
Salt Lake City

THE WAY OF THE RAIN
by environmental artist Sibylle Szaggars Redford

The way of the rain is an homage to our planet Earth and its universal elements. We invite you to a mystical journey filled with music, dance, words, color and film. This performance piece is a creation of pure abstract content and as artists we join the many others who see the joy of moving beyond borders to the unknown and unexplored… the eternal world of music, color, dance, space, light and texture.

Sibylle Szaggars Redford
Robert Redford
Will Calhoun
Dave Eggar
Chuck Palmer
Desmond Richardson
Steve Cohen
Floyd Thomas McGee
Sussan Deyhim
Marc Roberge
Richard On
Karsten Staiger

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Posted on January 24, 2015January 29, 2015
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Isaac Peña for YOGA DOWNLOAD

Recently we have finished another interesting project in New York City for yogadownload.com.

We filmed Isaac Peña and his wife Anne Paolini performing two different Yoga classes for 20 minutes and another for 60 minutes.

A really interesting experience to watch what bodies are capable of.
I thought I should start Yoga afterwards but I’m not sure if it could help me with my favorite sport: Tennis.

The space in the exercise room was very limited and we also setup the lights. The place was not really perfect because the camera was a bit too close for some scenes.
Finally I captured in 1080p and edited in 720p. I zoomed in a bit in FCPX by changing the video size up to 120%. Then I zoomed out for some scenes to 100%.
It was not the best solution but the only one because there was a pole and a door disturbing the video frame.

Nevertheless the customer was pleased with the result.

Next time I will choose the location for the shoot…

Video: Handstand Drills – Isaac Peña

vidFame’s latest THEIA video on fashiontv

The latest video that we’ve made (filmed and edited) for THEIA Couture, New York City got broadcasted on fashiontv, Paris

That’s really nice!

Don O’Neill’s fabulous creations are really something special. Just watch the video and you will see…

vidFame’s latest THEIA video on fashiontv

Fitch Foundation Conference

Recently we finished a bunch of videos for the Fitch Foundation in New York City.

Seri Worden (Director Fitch Foundation) organized a brilliant event about “The Accidental Preservationist: Artists, Artisans, Outliers and the Future of Historic Preservation”.

When you film such a conference you have to deal with many larger and smaller challenges but this one was especially nice because it was very well organized.
Also the speeches and presentations were very interesting.

For people not involved in such matter the subject of the conference may sound kind of boring but it really wasn’t.
Please have a look at the keynote speech from Justin Davidson, Preservation as Agent of Radical Change.

We also really liked the location, the history-charged Roosevelt House in New York City.

Please find all videos here.

A list of all Speakers:

Seri Worden, Executive Director, Fitch Foundation
Frederick Bland, Fitch Foundation Chairman and Managing Partner, Beyer Blinder Belle Architects
Justin Davidson, Classical Music and Architecture Critic for New York Magazine and Author of the forthcoming book, Magnetic City: A Cultural, Historical, Architectural and Personal Guide to New York
Moderator: William Higgins, Fitch Foundation Vice-Chairman and Prinicpal, Higgins Quasebarth & Partners – NYC
Colin Spoelman, Co-Founder, Kings County Distillery – Brooklyn, NY
Jason Deem, Owner, South Side Spaces – St. Louis, MO
Andrew Hoyem and Diana Ketcham, Founders, The Arion Press – San Francisco, CA
Jeffrey Pfeil, Owner, J.W. Pfeil & Company, Inc. – Saratoga Springs, NY
Vic Christopher and Heather Lavine, Owners, Lucas Confectionery – Troy, NY
Moderator: William Tippens, Fitch Foundation Trustee and Vice President, Related Midwest – Chicago, IL
Jamie Kalven, Co-Founder, The Invisible Institute – Chicago, IL
Gina Reichert, Co-Founder, Power House Productions – Detroit, MI
Rosanne Haggerty, President, Community Solutions – NYC
Greg Handberg, Senior Vice President, Properties, Artspace – Minneapolis, MN
Anne Gadwa Nicodemus, Principal, Metris Arts Consulting – Easton, PA
Moderator: Mary B. Dierickx, Fitch Foundation Trustee and Mary B. Dierickx Historic Preservation Consulting, – NYC
Randall Mason, Associate Professor and Chair of Historic Preservation, University of Pennsylvania – Philadelphia, PA
Alison Isenberg, Professor of History, Princeton University – Princeton, NJ
Rebecca Chan, Program Director, Station North Arts & Entertainment – Baltimore, MD
Adele Chatfield-Taylor, President Emerita, American Academy in Rome – NYC

By admin
Posted on November 17, 2014November 17, 2014
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THEIA Bridal Show Fall 2015 Collection

We finished this video today:

The THEIA Fall 2015 collection is inspired by Mongolia’s frozen Tundra, the eternally snowcapped Altai mountains, with ice blue rivers flowing through its glaciers. The vast Bayangovi plains roamed by native nomads herding their flocks of sheep and prized cashmere goats, inspiring a collection of white chiffon snow drifts, tulle white outs, ice blue fil coupe jacquards, crystals glistening like ice in the sun, heavy Venice winter lace, hand woven ribbon tweeds, luxurious cozy cashmeres, and curly lamb wraps to keep out the bitter cold.
This season we collaborated with Naadam, the only socially responsible cashmere company, who work exclusively in Mongolia to source the world’s finest cashmere. Melding two cultures, we took the iconic stitches of an Irish Fisherman’s sweater to create a unique bridal gown, knit by nomads in Mongolia.

Video captured and edited by vidFame.com