TomTom decided to remove the earphone plug from their newer version One. This blog entry will describe how you can add your own. Why would TomTom remove the earphone plug? There are a few simple reasons, one being that the new version has a slimmer formfactor with less room for plugs, and the other being that they …

Seth Godin did a talk at Google campus in Februari last year. I recently stumbled upon this video of his talk, in which he explains to the Google people why Google sells. He is very clear in explaining to technology people that technology does not sell. It's technology that gives you a shot at marketing, nothing more. …

Lately Greenpeace has started a campaign against the usage of hazardous materials by Apple. The campain setup is friendly, nicely designed and urges Apple to choose materials which are less hazadous to the environment.As a spinoff of the Greenpeace campain all kinds of so called "journalists" have begun to …

I am very close to migrating the data on my bulky PC to my new Mac Mini fileserver and mounting the IDE drives in the USB drive brackets. Once I've done this, I will have the screenshots and data to write a nice "how to" on using the Mac Mini as a file server. There is however one slight problem which could …

Do you still want "that last lens and that's it"? According to the statistics on this page, you probably already have the right lens in your camera bag. Chances are that you are using your cheapest lens most often. The best quote from this page must be "The cost of the lens is inversely proportional to …

When you are using a (digital) camera and need to place it on an uneven surface to keep it still long enough for your long shutter speeds, or you want to make a shot on the release timer (or both), you'll need a tripod, or a beanbag. A beanbag is an ideal option, you can tuck it into your backpack, take it everywhere …

Once in a while I like to take black and white pictures because the EOS has a nice built in set of color filters. The easiest example of a nice black and white photo where a color filter produces great results is the classic "blue sky with Yellow filter". You should really check out the great tutorials on …

As you've probably read, my brand new Mac Mini has a memory problem. I have brought it in for repair, but I am "slightly irritated" by the speed at which the guys from the www.macsupport.nl stores pick things up. Friday, May 6th: I've found out that the mini has a consistent, reproducable memory problem. I …

In my last post, the Maxtor OneTouch drive was the prime suspect of the spontanious crashing of the Mac. Tonight the Mac mini crashed again, but this time without the Maxtor connected to it. So I set out to do a thourough memory test in single user mode, running memtest. And after a few iterations it was there: The …

Today I spent some more time using Google to find information on why my Mac suddenly crashed. I am now 99% that the cause of this all is my Maxtor OneTouch 250GB drive, which was formatted as one big Fat32 partition (screenshot). Although I connected it to a friend's iMac for a short period without problems, and it has …