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    Open helix structures in space contain liquids better than closed containers.

    Friday, January 25th, 2008

    Instead of using coffee cups in space, dear spaceman, try drinking your coffee from corkscrew (helix) cups.
    I have a hard time to see how somebody on Earth managed to find this solution to a problem in space, but it is very cool ! Potentially, it could also have big implications in nano workings, where things [...]

    Macbook Air costs 1699 euros in Europe, 1799 dollars in the States

    Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

    Buying a Macbook Air in Europe costs 1699 euros. Converted to dollars you pay 2499 dollars instead of 1799 dollars if you bought it in the States. A price difference of 600 dollars !!
    Conclusion : Europe is richer than America.

    How the iPhone blew up the Phone Industry

    Sunday, January 13th, 2008

    There’s a great article on the Wired website on the strubbles and tribulations that went with developing the iPhone and selling it to the wireless divisions of the phone companies.
    Highly recommended to get a glimpse of how much effort went into developing and marketing the iPhone.

    No more external sound from your iPhone ?

    Monday, December 17th, 2007

    In case you have the following problem scenario on your iPhone, here’s a quick tip :

    sound via headphones, no sound via the speakers
    your phone rings ok, but
    everything else you can’t hear except via the headphones

    Then you need to plug in-and-out your headphones. Go on, have some iPhone intercourse !
    Do that about 3 to 6 [...]

    iPhone mysterious 1604 boot error

    Friday, December 14th, 2007

    Some people get error 1604 when they are booting their phone.
    Here’s the apparent fix for this error, though I’m not sure if you need exactly iTunes 7.4 and firmware 1.1. or if you can do this with all versions of firmware and iTunes.
    This is a fix if you get a Unknown Error (1604) screen.
    * [...]

    iPhone Photo Sync Problem.

    Friday, December 14th, 2007

    I just found out that I can no longer sync my photos from the iphone camera to my mac. Grrr. I’ll need to look into this.
    More on this when I’ve found a solution.
    Update : it worked once when I removed the sync lock file from the iPhone. I noticed that a lock file was present [...]

    Moving Python on your iphone.

    Thursday, December 6th, 2007

    Moving your Applications directory to your /private/var/root partition (aka your MEDIA partition) is all well and good, but when you install python on your iphone, it’s installed in both /usr/bin where the main executable resides and the library modules are installed in /usr/lib/Python2.5 .
    So they still consume a lot of space on your root partition. [...]

    Moving the Applications folder on your iphone to /var/root (sequel)

    Saturday, December 1st, 2007

    I previously wrote about moving your /Applications folder to your media partition, and suggested that you could probably move individual application to your /var/root instead of the whole kaboodle.
    But I’ve just experimented some, and it’s a fairly big hassle to do this for each application you want to do this for. Plus what happens when [...]

    Connect your xbox 360 to your iMac using Elgato Eye Hybrid

    Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

    I’ve recently acquired an xbox 360 when MediaMarkt did a clearance sale on a particular package deal. 299 € is a very nice price for an xbox with a 20 gig hard disk, only the arcade version is selling cheaper.
    I thought it was time to buy one, since almost all the games come out on [...]

    Iphone upgrade to 1.1.2 and keypad/sms problems ?

    Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

    This is a fix for iphones in unsupported countries (at the moment only the UK, France and the USA are supported).
    If you upgraded your iphone to firmware 1.1.2 and are suddenly realising that :

    your phone does not ring when somebody calls it
    the sms application does not want to start up, but does show the [...]

    Iphone out of disk space ? Move your application directory to /var !

    Monday, November 19th, 2007

    Any user who has logged into his iPhone via ssh (and has installed the bsd subsystem) or has used the installer.app terminal application can do the “df -h” command to get a human-readable output of his iphone partition setup.
    It’s basically set up in two partitions : one root (/) partition and one /private/var partition which [...]

    Iphone upgrading to firmware 1.1.2

    Sunday, November 18th, 2007

    While the jailbreaking and unlocking of your sim is easy as pie when you have an iphone using firmware 1.1.1, upgrading to firmware 1.1.2 can be a whole other can of fishy noodles. The process involves prepping your unlocked and jailbroken 1.1.1. iPhone and then upgrading to the latest 1.1.2 version, and then running [...]

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