Lately I've been recieving mails with the letter "J" in seemingly random places. At first I thought I had gotten old, the world around me changed and people were starting to replace the smileys with single letter J's. I thought it meant "Joke" and carried on. Recently I noticed other people being …

Just noticed a funny Google Maps parody video. Enjoy. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPgV6-gnQaE&rel=1]

Okay, I have to get this out of my system. It is something I've been complaining about for months, and it is really an example of the utter dumbness of some product designers. What am I talking about? Simply turning on my TV. I have this very nice big heavy 100Hz 4:3 Phillips Matchline TV, which I bought 8 or so years …

No, I'm not a guitar player, but I noticed this cool post on TUAW where the "Guitar Hero" game has been taken a notch up. TUAW reports that the guys at www.musicwizard.com have built "Guitar Wizzard", a game with which you can learn to play popular songs on a real guitar. From what I can see in the …

"Wat wil je later worden jongen?" vroeg papa plant aan kleine Kareltje. "Een hele grote kerstboom papa" zei Kareltje. Kareltjes vader durfde hem de harde realiteit niet te vertellen, en hielp Kareltje bij alles wat hij probeerde om in een grote, sterke kerstboom te veranderen. Kareltje probeerde met …

A couple of friends of mine bought me a great toy for my birthday: my very own personal Helicopter! It is an amazing piece of engineering, weighing only a couple of grams, and having a very simple remote with the usual "left/right/forward/reverse" type of remote. After a bit of practice, it is actually pretty …

I was browsing YouTube the other day, and noticed that there are some "Get a Mac" commercials which are not on the usual getamac website. These commercials are in the original setting with Justin Long as the Mac and John Hodgman as the PC, but ony published through YouTube or as Flash commercials. [![PC …

Philipp Lenssen from the Google Blogoscoped blog does some iterations on the Google Mail userinterface while he investigates the question "What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft?". He ends up with a userinterface which is very much like the hotmail I knew before I replaced it with my current gmail …

For me as a european consumer, the low Dollar (or: high Euro) is a good thing. Particularly when travelling to the U.S., or buying American consumer electronics. For Apple, as a big company with complete control over it's retail prices, the low Dollar (or: high Euro) is a good thing. Particularly when the conversion …

I know you've been playing with your ultra-cool iPhones, but did you realize that it only is 6 years ago that Apple showed is the first iPod? It's amazing how fast technology advances nowadays. Today I read that 128GB flashdrives are not far away, so how about an 128GB iPhone, or even a MacBook with a solid state disk? …