The cheapest laptop stand ever!

http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/the-diy-dumbguy-laptop-stand-so-easy-even-a-dumb-guy-can-make/

Title says it all really!
Sadly, doubt it would support a Macbook since Apple's laptop screens only ever bend to a 135deg angle from the front... but maybe if you add 3-4 of those wire hangers.... :P

Using iPhone in cold weather

iPhone's touchscreen only reacts to actual skin contact, so you can't use it while wearing gloves during winter. So whats the solution? Some have already opted for a pen-stylus Called Pogo which looks a little ackward attached beside the iPhone, but here's something new - a pair of gloves that actually have dots on the fingertips to help you interact with the iPhone.
Smart stuff. Doesn't seem that expensive either at US$15.
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/10/22/dots-gloves-let-you-use-your-iphone-even-when-its-cold/

Pogo Stylus: http://www.tenonedesign.com/stylus.php

Sync gCal with iCal

Perhaps abit of an alphabet soup, but being able to merge and sync Apple's iCal with Google's gCal will be useful for me for one simple reason:
SmartTime iPhone app will soon support syncing with gCal.
This app is brilliant and easily the best productivity app I've used so far (and I've tried practically every free ToDo app on App Store!). Its dead easy to add new tasks, and rearrange them one one of three viewpoints. There's alot more functionality they could include, and I'm sure given their responses on their website forum, that they will include in future releases.
One of the requests was to sync it with either gCal or MobileMe/iCal and since Apple hasn't released the APIs for MobileMe syncing, gCal is the next best thing.

Here's the instructions on syncing on Google's webpage:
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=99358#

Definition of irony

"Lenovo loads Vista on machines it sells to customers. For its own use, however, Lenovo still runs Windows XP as its corporate standard. Make of that what you will." Dan Lyons, Newsweek journalist, 2008.

Great article about how Microsoft's Vista is so bad, that even its business partners that are desperately trying to sell their hardware pre-loaded with Vista, are still using WinXP themselves to avoid issues. Classic. If you look carefully, you'll also notice the magazine ads that PC vendors have a logo stating "Lenovo recommends using Windows Vista". Shame they won't follow their own advice for their own computers!

http://www.newsweek.com/id/160064

QuickPwn

Some links on QuickPwn:

http://www.macgeekblog.com/blog/archive/2008/08/21/quickpwn-tutorial-easy-jailbreak-for-202-fw.html

http://www.touchpodium.com/2008/08/21/quick-pwn-your-phone-a-guide-to-quickpwn/

Entering DFU mode

This is reminder how to enter the DFU recovery mode, for when the iPhone crashes irrevocably.

What to do if your iPhone cannot surf on Wifi

I just had a bizarre issue with my iPhone - It was on Wifi at home, but could not access anything on the internet.
When opening the built-in apps from Apple like Safari, I got the following error:


I tried restarting it, and even Reset Network Settings in the Settings section. Still didn't fix it. Note that using the laptop and mac mini on the same wifi network was fine going online.
The one thing that I did find useful was to set the Wifi settings from DHCP to Static, and removing the DNS entry there and replacing it with the OpenDNS servers. Type in these IP addresses then try again:
208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220

EDIT: Seems that the laptop and mac mini already had the OpenDNS entries placed into their network settings... explains then why those worked fine!