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Easy and fully functional

Official review of Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter, submitted to Apple Store 2010-04-29.

MacBook late 2007

My MacBook was acquired as a Christmas present for me. I have been almost inseparable from it ever since. Here are its data.

Internet Explorer version 8 hits the bell

Microsoft made a giant leap with Internet Explorer version 8. Most of the CSS parsing issues have been addressed. Please update if you haven't already!

Faster iPhone after upgrade to OS 3.0

Among the many improvements that Apple offered its iPhone users in iPhone OS 3.0 was a speed boost in many applications. Fellow iPhone users are recommended to upgrade immediately.

Attach images from WWW to contacts in iPhone

The Contacts list is the key to the 3rd Generation (3G) production line of iPhone. Here's a few tricks on how to add a portrait photo to a contact, using the built-in Safari web browser.

Network confusion causes iPhone crash

A train ride with its frequent switching networks brought my iPhone to its knees. This posting is written from the 3G, so I did get it up and going. The problem was interesting, though.

How to copy song lyrics from Metrolyrics.com

An iPhone/iPod Touch can show you the lyrics of the tunes being played, and users of these devices might want to sing along with their favourite artists. Most often, you'll have to get the lyrics from some web sites showing them. One of the best is Metrolyrics.com. They prevent immediate copy-and-paste procedures, but there is a hack to that.

XSL Transformation stylesheet for EndNote XML

Here's the missing link for philologists using the library software Endnote Plus and wanting to publish using the Scando-Slavica annotation style, but having the bibliography in EndNote XML format

Subtitling web images using CSS

Here's a little trick I came up with to reproduce the contents of the alt="" property of the img element to as a subtitle. So far, it only works with Opera.

Switch from SonyEricsson to iPhone 3G

I put me a 16GB iPhone G3 under the Christmas tree in 2008. As anticipated in previous blog posts, this is a dream coming true. This posting is about the things I'll miss from the SonyEricsson mobile phones that I had to leave behind, but also about the things I really welcome.