Author Archives: Roman

Disable default folders on Nokia E-61

The folders “Sheets”, “Others”, “Preesentations”, which Symbian S60 3rd on the Nokia E-61 and other such “Smart”phones creates and irritatingly prevents their deletion can be removed by going into “Connections”, “Data cable”, selecting “Data transfer”. Connect to PC or whatever … Continue reading

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Adobe Acrobat Hand tool text selection preference grayed out

Finally at Adobe forums a guy with an alias WRFan posted a solution to this long pending bug in Adobe Acrobat 7. Description of the problem: Running Adobe Acrobat 7.0.0 and the Edit/Preferences/General/Enable text selection for the Hand Tool is … Continue reading

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iPod Shuffle 2G Tips & Tricks

There are many tricks for the iPod Shuffle on the net so I’ll just add my ‘five cents’. Usage I use the Shuffle for books, podcasts, and music. Since it doesn’t have a display, podcasts come first, then the books, … Continue reading

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The Laws of Simplicity

My favorite one: Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful. from The Laws of Simplicity » Blog Archive » Law 10: The One

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Global Warming Witness – Mitsuaki Iwago

There is a nice gallery over at Olympus Pursuit Magazine called Global Warming Witness presenting Mitsuaki Iwago’s photographs from ‘almost’ the Arctic Circle.

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Eliminating Throbber Button in Mozilla SeaMonkey

As firefox keeps crashing more often and demands more resources, it’s time to move back and simplify by reverting to SeaMonkey, the old-new Netscape-Mozilla Suite branch. Less extensions cause less clutter and installer properly presents an option to install just … Continue reading

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DPP 2 keyboard shortcuts

Canon’s Digital Photo Professional has a few unpublished shortcuts, I’ve recently found out, which are very handy. I’ll list a few below. In the quick check tool hit the SPACE key to switch between the fit to screen and the … Continue reading

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Nokia E61 dust problem

Multi-billion dollar company creates their ‘blackberry killer’, Nokia E61 business phone/PDA hybrid. It builds upon decades of EPOC/Symbian OS development and probably many millions of R&D on this particular model. Yet the phone started collecting dust particles under the screen … Continue reading

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Mac Pro

Mmmm… Anyone willing to sponsor a new “powermac”?

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Kona Cinder Cone

Kona always had a special place in my heart. Cr-Mo is no longer used, but what the heck. Joe Murray is with Voodoo I hear. Below are some specs of the Cinder Cone, my favorite ever! Frame tubing Kona 7005 … Continue reading

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