A friend suggested the
Opera Mini browser (
v4 beta2) as a browser on my Nokia E61i. So I downloaded it and installed it. Great looking browser which renders some sites much better than the normal included browser (and it's still absolutely free!!).
My online banking site seems to work a bit better anyway.
One thing I haven't figured out is how to set the Opera Mini browser as the default browser. If I open a link in an e-mail it opens the original browser....
By default, the Google search page is displayed in the language from the country you're in. You can change this in the '
preferences' on the Google page. The actual text near the language preference is:
Display Google tips and messages in: [<LANGUAGE>]
According to me that's only interface related and (at most) tips/local event related (like Queen's Day etc.). But it also influences the search results. Just try it by switching to several different languages.
Shouldn't search results be the same?
OK... I just finished my bottle of
Millstone, Dutch Single Malt Whisky. A damn shame if I may say so (to finish it that soon, that is).
My bottle characteristics
are were;
Bottle number: 415
Cask number: 193.402.404
Date of distilation: 14-1-2002
Bottling date: 22-2-2007
Finishing date: today :(
Time to find me another bottle somewhere.
This week is gonna have lot's of these sunsets (if you're willing to belief the weather reports).
More on
my Flickr page
[brainwave]
Photo lenses come is different formats, shapes, specs, and prices. Higher prices means (on average) better lenses. And with better I mean better for special purposes. A US$6000.00 lens must have some special specs to make up for that huge price. These lenses are mostly primes b.t.w..
On average lenses start at 10mm and the mainstream ones go 500mm. Aperture goes somewhere between f/1.4 and f/6 (lower means more light). What if there was a 10-800mm f/1.8 VR/OS USM/HSM lens with the optical specs of a 800mm prime. I wonder; what would that cost, weight, and be the size of that monster.... I guess that it might be technically possible. I do doubt if it's financially feasible..... :)
[/brainwave]
Anyone who keeps (a bit) up with the world of computer gaming knows about the release about the new XBox360 game
Halo3. Yet another game which appears on my list to buy if, and when, I get a
XBox360 Elite.
Other titles on the list are BioShock, and Gears of War. But after seeing this video, I wonder..... should I buy the game and help in creating the
apocalypse halocast....
At least we end up with the greatest game of all time :)
It was a (relative) cold and wet summer here in the Netherlands. Chances are that autumn and winter will be equally depressing. Thankfully, my favorite TV series have started in the US, so not everything is bad.
Both
House M.D., and
Stargate Atlantis started this week. House was great (as usual), and Stargate.... well they ended last season with a
'to be continued', and they started with a
'to be continued' episode :-( .
Still, it's not official if the latest update is bricking the iPhone. Reports are mixed on the several Apple related sites. This might mean that even less people than you might think had converted their iPhone. One would think that if thousands of people had removed the simlock, that the reports are pooring in. But they don't (so far). Another possibility is that everyone is waiting to see what really happens.
Apple could have avoided this be making sure that everyone who buys an iPhone also gets a carrier subscription before they leave the store. But somehow this wasn't the case. It was possible to buy the iPhone, take it home, and choose the subscription when you activate it. This leaves lot's of room to find way around the AT&T carrier service. And this is what's happening.
Apple (and AT&T) wouldn't mind as much if every unlocked phone had an AT&T carrier subscription with it. Hell, they will get their (monthly) money anyway. No matter what SIM is inserted.
So, I can't blame the users for unlocking their phones. And I can understand the measures Apple is taking, cause they might be loosing money on those unlocked phones. But they somehow let it happen by releasing unactivated phones into the wild.
Knowing the nature of the average resident of the United
"I will see you in court" States this hasn't ended yet :-)
B.t.w., here in the Netherlands, it's quite normal to sign a contract before you get the 'sponsored' phone. After that they don't care what you do with the phone. The carrier gets his money for the next (couple of) years no matter what.
The iPhone has a SIM-lock to make sure that you can only use the AT&T network in the US. After some weeks the reports about
SIM-lock removers (both hardware and software) got loose on the Internet. This meant that users abroad could also use an iPhone on different networks, and the Americans could choose different providers.
This week Apple reported that an update was imminent, and that
might cripple your iPhone.
The latest update was release hours ago, and the first reports of
expensive bricks are coming in.. Apple is striking back. Just to make sure that they receive their cut from AT&T.
My initial reaction on the iPhone was; 'Gimme, Gimme, Gimme', but this is no longer true. I'm still very happy with my Nokia E61i, and I don't think that the iPhone will be SIM-lock free when it becomes available in Holland. Or that KPN will be the operator to sell the phone.
A while ago I cataloged my photo's in
iView Media Pro (now property of
Microsoft). It took me hours to do this, and it still needed some finetuning.
Somewhere along the line, I decided to switch to
Adobe Lightroom for some weird reason. The actual importing of the photo's was quite easy, but somehow I wasn't able to import the metadata I had attached to the photo's. So this meant that I had to do this all over again. This time it took me hours without a couple of minutes. I did it a bit faster because of the more intuitive interface. Man, tagging sucks. I must remind myself to do this everytime I add new images.
Next time when I have an epiphany about changing image catalog/management tools I might want to read this as a discouragement.
B.t.w. the reason for changing from iView to Adobe was the better collaboration between the OSX and Windows versions. Somehow iView lacked this, even though it was available on both platforms. iView used absolute path to the images in the catalogs. As far as I can see, Adobe uses relative paths if you exchange catalogs. Anyway I exported, and imported several catalogs between the platforms and so far everything worked.
