Jan 2008

iPod Firmware

For users who need to downgrade/upgrade their iPod touch or iPhone, you can find the older firmware at http://www.mhour.com/iPod/

iPod Diagnostic and disk mode

I could never remember all the correct sequence of keystrokes to put an iPod classic/mini/nano into diagnostic or disk mode. The page at http://www.command-tab.com/2006/03/30/hidden-ipod-commands/ comes in handy as a graphic cheat-sheet.

Getting Things done with Rainlendar

Recently I read the Life Hackers article on Rainledar and have a chance to try out the combination of tools to help organize my working/personal life. The solution allows updating on the web as well as on my desktop computer and pretty well sychronized to my PDA.
The key components were:
You could of course choose to implement only part of this, depending on your hardware setup. But I found that the operation is quite smooth once you set it up.

Typing speed

Test your typing speed via this 6 minutes test at http://www.jonmiles.co.uk/fingerjig.php