Ok so I've been blogging about the iPhone andit's "apps" for a while now. After a lot of consideration and switching between Nokia and iPod touch, doing nothing and buying a 16GB 3G iPhone, I finally went for the latter. What a bittersweet experience. We have no real Apple stores. They're called "Apple …

I just bought a Maxtor Basics 1TB drive, and found that I could not seem to format it using the Leopard Diskutility. Then, I found this page which contained the golden tip. I'll save you some reading: 1. Open Apple's Disk Utility 2. Click on the drive (not the partition in it, if there is any), and select …

This weekend was a lot of fun. Saturday night I got to fly Leo's Walkera 60B electric helicopter. That's one piece of impressive (and scary) machinery. Although it feels easier to fly than my 4#3B, I still "managed" to crash it. Luckaly the blades can be easily replaced, and after tightening a bunch of screws …

My wife has this great Macbook Pro 15", and I "don't mind" using it every now and then. I noticed that when running on batteries, screen updates are a bit strange: * When scrolling down a webpage, the page get garbled. Scrolling the garbled piece out of the window and in again sometimes fixes it. * When …

A friend of mine and me ordered 2 Walkera 4#3B electric model helicopters 3 weeks ago. Last frinday, they finally arrived, and this weekend we had some good fun flying them. If you think flying a PicooZ is hard, don't even start thinking about one of these. It looks easier on the youtube video's than it seems. I have …

In this strange world, people can't seem to leave your stuff alone. All the electronic gadgets of today are too attractive to the lowlife of this world. So what do you do if somebody swipes your laptop? You take a few pictures of him, and trace his IP address! This kind of software has been around for a while, and a …

I was watching the WWDC2008 text feeds yesterday (like the one from Engadget), and today the WWDC2008 video is online. It's always better to watch this than to read an interpreted twitter feed. Today it was a bit of a challenge to view it because a lot of people are probably with me. I always set Quicktime to use the …

The new marketing "trick" seems to be to give a product a nice name, which sounds "expensive" and "design" like. So the marketing boys come up with a nice name. Compaq for instance has been using "pressario" for a while now. But when I say that I have a "pressario", do …

Last week, my trusty Sony Ericsson T610 became a bit awkward to use. The "down" function of the joystick finally gave up on me, after intermitting failures the past month. The only way to select the next menu item was to go "up" through all menu items. It became a pain to use, so I needed a new one. …

In a previous post on this blog, I indicated that the 10.5.1. update of Apple's OSX did not fix my network and SMB problems with my Iomega drive. In the comments underneath, some readers kindly pointed out that Iomega's K104w11 Firmware update is available for the Iomega drive I have. Now that 10.5.2 is out, I …