The Moon tonight
Posted on January 1st, 2010
It’s a beautiful start of the year 2010, clear skies and a very nice -10 degrees celcius. I took this picture and just wanted to share it with you….
Homebrew on Nintendo DSi
Posted on October 23rd, 2009
In one of my last posts I told you how to run homebrew on your Nintendo DS. Since that time I found my old Nintendo DS dead and needed a replacement.
I bought the new Nintendo DSi since there wasn’t any DS available anymore in my local store…..
What about homebrew software? Will it run on the new DSi? Yes it does. For about $12 you will be able to run all those great homebrew stuff again on the new DSi.
All you need to do is order the Acekard 2i which I found here and voila, it works 
Nice solution for a good price. Maybe there are better alternatives? I have nu clue, but this one worked for me like a charm…
Want a new wallpaper?
Posted on August 4th, 2009
Since I’ve started using a mac I have used this application. All it does is download great photo’s and put them on your desktop. This really works perfect and I have never has so many nice backgrounds. It’s possible to just keep one but it’s much nicer to use the autochange function. This provides you with a new desktop every few minutes or hours (depends on what you want). The apllication is free but if you use it you might want to donate some money to the developer.
You can find the application by following the link below.
Before I forget, it’s mac only……
How to jailbreak Iphone 3GS
Posted on July 8th, 2009
So you have bought a new Iphone and want to use it with another provider?
Sinds today(thanks Dev_TEAM) it’s not a problem anymore.
Just follow a few steps and you’ll be on your way and enjoying the great Iphone on your network by choice 
To download the redsn0w torrent please follow this link http://thepiratebay.org/user/iphonedev/
You can find more information about the new release of Dev-TEAM here : http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/137214493/whats-old-is-new-again
Have fun and don’t forget to let me know if you have any questions or issues.
Last chance to get some great software
Posted on April 6th, 2009
I posted some stuff before about Macheist before. Today is the last day the offer lasts.
So If you want to support charity and get great apps and help unlock the final apps , get your bundle now!!!
You can use this link to go to macheist or find someone’s refferal link and grant him or her some free additional apps.
25% of the turnover will go to charity and the bundle is only $39 or about €30 . So there is NO excuse to not buy it .
P.S. This is for Mac users only, if you know any initiatives that are similar for other OS’s let me know.
Macheist 3 get great software for a low prize
Posted on March 25th, 2009
They have done it again at Macheist. The’ve come up with some great new softwarebundle for our mac.
Want to buy it be sure to use this link : http://www.macheist.com/bundle/u/113155/
It gives me some extra’s and you to.
The following apps are included:
iSale $39.95
Picturesque $34.95
SousChef $30.00
World of Goo $20.00
PhoneView $19.95
LittleSnapper $39.00
Acorn $49.95
Kinemac $299.00
WireTap Studio $69.00 (unlock)
BoinxTV $199.00 (unlock)
The Hit List $69.95 (unlock)
Espresso $80.00 (unlock)
Big Bang Board Games $24.95
Total Value $557.75
Bundle Price $39
Go get it now http://www.macheist.com/bundle/u/113155/
Change your wallpaper
Posted on March 17th, 2009
You got bored with your current wallpaper? I think i have found a great tool for that.
You want to instantly change it? Or maybe every 5 minutes? Download Desklickr
It’s a small app but it does what it promisses and that’s more then we normally get
how to hack your Nintendo DS Lite
Posted on February 25th, 2009
This is what you’ll need to play games (homebrew offcourse) you can download from the internet. The card enables you to do a lot of things you cannot without. Depending of the country you live in it might even be legal to download roms and play them via this nice addon.
Besides the R4 card you will need a microSD card which you already have if you bought the full R4 package. The full package also includes an USB stick that enables you to put your downloaded software directly onto the microSD card.
The following features are currently available with the R4 card:
2nd generation storage device (no booting tool required)
-Flush fitting slot 1 card
-Uses MicroSD card, FAT16 or 32
-Supports any MicroSD card speed with no lag in game
-Supports Clean ROM, drag and drop. Works on any OS
-Built in NoPass
-Automatically detect save type
-Save directly to MicroSD card, not to onboard chip
-Supports Moonshell and other homebrew. Open I/O interface
-User friendly skinnable interface. Touchscreen or button operation
-Supports rumble pak and memory pak
-Supports the WiFi game, DS Rumble Pak, DS Browser
-Supports changes of the background of Operation Interface
- Support Skin DIY by setting background and font colors on Main Menu and Game Menu manually and automatically
-Supports 4-scale-lightness adjustment ( DS Lite only )
-Supports the Soft Reset.
-Supports Action Replay cheat
-moonshell 1.6 support Software Reset function( Press START key back to the R4 menu)
You can find much more information on this page
Apple Safari 4 Beta release download available
Posted on February 25th, 2009
Apple made Safari 4 Beta available today. The list of features looks promissing and I’m on my way to download this new browser as soon as I finish this post. What seems to be a really nice feature is the new top sites feature. This enables you to browse thrue sites like you scroll thrue you media in Itunes coverflow. For all you people still attached to your Windows machine, it seems to integrate much more with your OS then before. Let me know if it works for you!
Well enough said, lets download it and see if it does what it promisses.
ps3 blu ray player broken?
Posted on February 22nd, 2009
Where are you waiting for?
I Have published several posts how to fix you blu ray drive. The PS3 or Playstation 3 drive will probably fail on u somewhere just after the warranty. Hopefully sony will change their attitude in the near future to resolve all these issues with the blu ray drive.
Check out my PS3 fix posts and let me know if it worked.
Configure PS3 Media Server for Mac
Posted on February 19th, 2009
Ok so, have you downloaded the new PS3 Media server software? Have you got it to work? Or did you get this:
Don’t worry about it , this is how I solved it.
First click the ” general configuration” tab. You can select you native language here if you like.
Probably you are running vm-ware or have multiple network port defined and PS3 Media Server selected the wrong port.
Select the port network port that you use. If you are not sure check your mac’s network settings in your system preferences.
In my case I have selected interface ” lo0″ which is the standard interface on my Imac.
After that enter you macs ip-adres in the ” force IP of the server” field. Don’t mess with the port option , you should be fine….
Once that is done save your work.
Restart the http server or just quit and restart to see if the application detects your ps3 now. If not search on you PS3 for media servers. It can take a little while.
If you get this following screen your done:
If you don’t get the screen above something is still wrong.
Let me know what you log says and maybe I can help you.
PS3 media server
Posted on February 18th, 2009
I’ve been a fan of medialink since the beginning as you know, but there was always one thing missing…..
Subtitiles, medialink can’t encode data to stream. I’ve asked them if it would be available some time ago, this is the answer I got:
Subtitles are not supported by the console, the only way to add subtitles would be to re-encode the movie with subtitles burned into the video in the actual image. And realtime encoding isn’t currently possible on the Mac
You can use certain software to re-encode the video by hand and burn the subtitles in, far from ideal.
If you installed medialink on your mac just leave it there, it’s fine for most of the stuff you want to play. However now there is a new kid on the block…..and it’s GREAT!
PS3 Media Server!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, it can do a lot of things and it’s being updated pretty often and best of all it’s for FREE
Currently it supports the following features:
Ready to launch and play. No codec packs to install. No folder configuration and pre-parsing or this kind of annoying thing. All your folders are directly browsed by the PS3, there’s an automatic refresh also. Real-time video transcoding via MEncoder, tsMuxer or Avisynth DVD ISOs images / VIDEO_TS Folder transcoder OGG/FLAC/MPC/APE audio transcoding Thumbnail generation for Videos You can choose with a virtual folder system your audio/subtitle language on the PS3! All formats PS3 natively supports: MP3/WMA, JPG/PNG/GIF/TIFF, and all kind of videos (AVI, MP4, TS, M2TS, MPEG) the ps3 is willing to play Display camera RAWs thumbnails (Canon / Nikon, etc.) ZIP/RAR files as browsable folders for pictures/audio files Support for pictures based feeds, such as Flickr and Picasaweb Internet TV / Web Radio support with VLC, MEncoder or MPlayer Podcasts audio/ Video feeds support
If you own a linux or windows machine (some people still do ) it also supports :
- Lossless 5.1 PCM transcoding with DTS movies
- Remux video and remux/reencode all audio tracks to AC3/PCM in real time with tsMuxer
- FLAC 96kHz/24bits/5.1 support
I’ve installed it on my Mac and it works great, I ran into a few configuration setting that I had to set. I will come back on how to install in a next post.
Whoops almost forgot to place the links to this great software:
To the google code pages please
Fix your PS3 blu ray drive
Posted on October 22nd, 2008
Well, after complaining about the support of the Playstation 3 (see my previous posts) I did not rest
As you know my PS3 was unable to read disks no matter what I tried… So with the warranty already gone and Sony not willing to help I decided to try and fix my playstation 3.
The movielink below shows the issue I had.
Since my warranty was gone and the PS3 being pretty useless without it I tried to fix it. I opened the case and took out the BD drive. Please click the link below to see how to do that (pretty simple).
Ones you have the disk you can clean the small lens very carefully with some alcohol and soft cloth. Be carefull not to scratch the lens. After this procedure mine was working fine again.
If you for whatever reason don’t want to try this please see the video below. This might be a more suitable fix for your PS3 then!
Another solution for PS3 diskdrive problem
Hopefully this little post helps you if you have similar problems…. Let me know if it did!
Sony Playstation Warranty Sucks
Posted on October 18th, 2008
As I have told you in my previous posts my Playstation 3 is not working correctly. It won’t read any discs anymore. The Playstation helpdesk advised me to do all kinds of restore actions and finally mentioned that the update of this week might help……
After installing the update yesterday the drive still doesn’t work.. So I’ve called the Playstation helpdesk ones more. The conclusion is that the drive is faulty (duh)……
Since my playstation is 1,6 years old it is not covered by warranty Sony sais.. This means that my expense release playstation 60 GB is basicly lost in just a small period of time. Sony mentioned when they released this platform that the Playstation 3 would at least last 10 years.. Well, maybe it will be on the shelves this long, but you’ll need to buy at least 6 Playstation 3’s to get to this period????
I’ve been reading online regarding this issue and it seems Sony is aware of this issue and is removing posts from their own forum. This tells me they know they have an issue with the first released Playstations…
Thanks Sony for picking my pockets and not replacing a faulty system which clearly has some design issues……
I’ve spent for more than 1500 euro’s on Playstation stuff (games, camera, extra controllers and the damn thing itself) and this is the support you can expect………….
Several consumer actions are starting up at the moment, hopefully Sony will come to it’s sense and replace these systems…..
Untill then be carefull buying this machine or try and get longer warranty……
Playstation 3 problem
Posted on October 13th, 2008
Today I’ve called Sony as I mentioned in my previous post I would do.
The problem is that the diskdrive of my Playstation 3 does not function well. If I’m lucky if it sees the disk in the drive and plays. If the disk plays it will play without any issue, however most of the time (after switching it off and back on) it does not work.
My playstation 3 is 1,5 years old and thus not eligible for warranty clames…. This is the message I got. However I talked to the technician and mentioned that several post on the internet show that this might be some sort of design flaw…. In my opinion it can not be the case that a 500,- euro costing device brakes down due to the fact that the diskdrive is broken.
Tomorrow there will be a new firmware he mentioned, I should try if the playstation still has issues after installing the new firmware…. Don’t think it will help but I can try….
The Sony technician also mentioned that the repair cost would be approx. 200 euros…. 
I think they really make a mistake here….
I will keep you updated tomorrow and see if my ps is working normally again , hehe