My sisters in law bought a beautiful 2006 Toyota Corolla Verso. They could not get the iPhone to pair with the car's Bluetooth system. The dealer told them that this was an iPhone problem, but after some fiddling, it turns out there is a simple workaround. If you want to pair an iPhone to your car, and the car says …

An informative article for webshop owners this time, all about how to make people blog about your company. Everything you need to know about online customers, the power of the internet, and how good old moral values still work and can be leveraged to your advantage. Or not. 1. Create a website (or two) The first step …

Many Drobo FS owners out there who upgraded to Lion were unpleasantly surprised by the fact that their Drobo no longer behaved like they used to. After months, drobo released new firmware, but it didn't improve things all that much. With the new firmware, the Drobo FS: * is slow or entirely unresponsive, Time Machine …

You may have seen recent tweets from me ranting about my frying pans. I've ruined a few (very expensive) pans and replaced them with dirt-cheap pans which are actually much better. I would like to share my experiences and solutions with you, so that you can buy the right (cheap) pan without having to go through the …

A few weeks ago I saw this amazing pen design by Lamy, the Pico. I'm a heavy computer user so I don't do much handwriting, but I do like nice tools so I thought I'd get this. Particularly the small form factor when retracted and the sleek design attracted me. There are some things about the Pico that nobody is telling …

Here's a one minute how-to on growing catnip without having to water your plants every day. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jyqNzNeQeE]

We all know the stories about how vacationing smartphone users became the victim of high roaming charges, resulting in monthly bills sometimes exceeding €1000. To put an end to this, the EU has come up with a rule stating that carriers can no longer charge more than €50 per month for roaming, and are obliged to warn …

Maybe the title of this post should read "how to open a Krups XN2001 Nespresso machine". The Krups XN2001 is almost identical to the newer XN2002 and XN2003. While the XN2003 has normal Torx screws, Krups was a bit more "protective" when they built the XN2001. It has screws that can not be gripped …

Months ago, I got this broken Aeroccino milk frother for free. This week I fiddled with it for a few hours, and got it to work: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNEqWH3ILDc] ... and this is how you get it apart. First carefully pull out the button on the front: And then remove the rubber plugs to get to the …

I was happily playing around with the appstore, and came across this funny free game called "Hedgewars". Originally a free Linux game, it apparently got ported to the Mac and put in the App Store, just as a slew of Flash-based games (yes, Steve has some 'splainin' to do). I tried to install Hedgewars on my …