According to some internet sites the iPhone car kit from TomTom seems to be released in Europe. I’ve immediately ordered two pieces. Pretty cool to have a stable place for the iPhone in the car.
I don’t want to use it for GPS and TomTom on the iPhone. The reason why I’ve purchased it is the capability of easy charching the iPhone in the car and connecting the auxiliary output to my car without searching the needed cables every time.
Waiting for the delivery now…
Edit (6h Nov 2009): Shipping confirmation e-mail from TomTom arrived.
Oh no! This application seems only to work the iPhone 3GS, I definitely need to upgrade my 3G But in some situations it’s recommended not to use this application I guess… haha.
It may happen that the workspace of Adobe bridge gets damaged. In such a case thumbnails on the right corner of the Bridge window will be cut and the preview/metadata etc. windows will no longer be displayed. I’m not sure if this was caused by Bridge, Windows 7 or by myself. Also restarting bridge doesn’t help.
What helps is to reset the workspace. This function is hidden behind a small black triangle on the upper right side of the Bridge window. After clicking “Reset workspace” everything gets fine (see picture).
Don’t ask how long it took until I found this small triangle…
The bigger CF cards and mega pixels of digital photo cameras get, the more you want to have the pictures copied to your notebook/desktop, for sure. After I got my Canon 5D MKII with 21 mega-pixels I really want to have the speed increased it takes to copy pictures to my notebook. With my very old card reader it takes about half an our to copy. Ok, firewire sounds really fast and my notebook has a firewire port, so I decided to get a firewire CF card reader…
So I went to a local photo store and purchased a Hama firewire CF card reader. Back at home I recognized that the firewire cable doesn’t fit into the firewire port of my Dell Latitude notebook. Went to a PC cable store and got a cable from firewire 400 to firewire 800. Fine, everything fits now put Windows 7 did not detect anything on the firewire port.
After searching the Internet I found out that firewire CF card readers need at least 6-pin firewire ports because they need the power supply from the firewire port. If you have a 4 pin port – like me – you can not use firewire CF card readers. Unfortunately I did not get this information from my friendly photo store…
Furthermore firewire doesn’t make sense until you have firewire 800. Theoretically there is no speed between firewire 400 and USB2.0.
As a result I’ll by a new USB2.0 CF card reader for my notebook.
I decided to upgrade my Dell Latitude D820 notebook from 2GB to 4GB memory so I went into a store, purchased 4 GB RAM and put them into my notebook. By the way, Windows 7 Ultimate is running on this notebook since a few weeks very well. What happened?
First boot
Screen stays blank and the three LED’s on the keyboard were blinking.
Second boot
Removed 2GB and booted again, everything correct.
Third boot
Put 2GB back again and notebook booted with the message:
The amount of system memory has changed.
If you did not change your memory…
To resolve this issue, try to reseat the memory.
Huuuu what? Never seen such a message before in my “IT-life”. Tried several things, rebooted several times. Result was the same. While goggling on the desktop I did not watch the notebook. When I come back to the notebook an additional message appeared:
Strike the F1 key to continue, F2 to run the setup utility
Press F5 to run onboard diagnostics.
So I pressed F5 for the diagnostics just to see what will happen. After running the diagnostics the notebook booted fine and recognized the new memory.
If you see this strange message also after you upgrade your memory just wait a little bit until the next message appears. Very strange behavior, indeed. But now it works, memory for the masses
One issue is that you will only be able to use about 3.3GB of your 4.0GB, for details check this blog entry:
My Windows 7 32-bit installation reports 4.00GB installed, but only 3.25GB are usable. The reason why Windows is not able to access all the 4GB is kind of hardware restriction. For details refer to the Microsoft Help and Support article:
But in some situations it’s recommended not to use this application I guess… haha.
