Category Archives: Technology and Gadgets

Make Playstation3 play AAC files

2010-03-1 – 07:46

Powershell 2.0 script to convert an M4A file to 3gpp, preserving the tagging in the file.

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Installing the HTPC, checklist

2009-01-3 – 02:52

Here’s a checklist I came up with while reinstalling my HTPC: Install Vista (I use x64 and manually sliced the disk in a 40GB boot partition, and left the rest for a data/recordings partition). Allow automatic weekly updates (on Wednesday at 03:00). Install your network. Upgrade to latest BIOS (you might wanna skip this). Uncheck [...]

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Never use Pocket MSN again!

2007-03-28 – 08:59

I got the HTC P4350 pda smartphone. Its Windows Mobile 5 has a mobile version of MSN Messenger called Pocket MSN. I just had the most alarming experience chatting with a friend, where Pocket MSN displayed the wrong display name: While Pocket MSN said I was talking to ‘A’, I was actually talking to ‘B’!!! Needless to say it was a very [...]

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Striping

2006-12-16 – 02:58

I have had a 250GB Maxtor hard disk (6V250F0) in my setup for some time, and been very happy with it. It’s very quiet, has 16 MB cache, SATA2 and NCQ. Recently I added another one of these disks to my box. I have an Asus A8N-SLI Premium motherboard, that have a nForce4 and a Silicon Image 3114 based RAID controller [...]

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"Export" Outlook mail to Gmail

2006-11-9 – 08:55

I am really beginning to like Gmail, and find myself opening the browser to check mail instead of Outlook. I miss an import function in Gmail though. It would be nice if I could upload a .pst file to Gmail. Instead I made this little VB script that runs though my inbox and forwards every [...]

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