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 …

In Windows, there is a great tool called "PureText" which sits in your tray, and can remove formatting from copy/paste actions if you want to. In stead of pasting into notepad, and then copying it again, you now can use the Windows-V combination to paste without formatting. It works in any program, and I'm a …

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 …

As Seth Godin pointed out, "Organizations will work tirelessly to de-personalize every communication medium they encounter." Just to let you know, all my mail is hand typed, including the _"Kind Regards" _and my name at the end. You may find it silly, but I think it shows that you care. I always …

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 …

...can and will be used against you. I got an email with a great link to a blog post containing 2 links to great presentations on why you should never talk to the police, even if you're honest, or want to help, or have an alibi, or whatever. Never, ever answer any questions, no matter how trivial. Although this is an …

For those of you who think that media and information are free and uncontroled, guess again. Lately I have been seeing more and more incidents of large corporations hiding information, and even telling other people to hide it for them. I think this is plain wrong, and the guys involved should have been fired or …

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 …

My Nokia 6300 behaves like a flash or thumb drive when I connect it to a computer using an USB cable. I think this should be standard functionality nowadays. Cellphones are replacing the Filofax and MP3 players. I can read mail on my cellphone, take pictures and movies. It contains an 4GB memory stick, sometimes even …

I just came across this great post about creating captivating content. The punchline: It's not about getting the scoop, it's about finding the cowbell and amplifying it. More funny cowbell references: * Alex Johnson's version the popular [playstation …