Monthly Archives: August 2008

Canon 50D and the direct-to-print button

So Canon has just announced the 50D (wish they had announced a 6D instead). Pretty interesting upgrade, in my case it’s mainly the Auto-ISO mode being able to go from 100 to 1600 (rather than 400-800 as in the 40D) … Continue reading

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How to triple the battery life of your iphone 3G

Answer : Turn off 3G. After the first few days of using my iphone 3G, I was rather disappointed to see that the battery would hardly last through a couple of days (with usage limited to a phone call or … Continue reading

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iPhone vs. Openmoko

Two days ago, my office mate received his Openmoko-based mobile phone. First thing he told me about it was that is wasn’t quite ready for the general public : “yeah, you need to run the ‘date’ command from the console … Continue reading

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