My Kindle 3 was completely frozen and wouldn’t even hard reset by holding the power slider for 20 seconds. Before it becoming frozen I had noticed it had a rattling sound that had now disappeared. After googling around I found that this could point to a loose screw somehow shorting out the Kindle.
As it was already out of warranty, I opened it myself. Indeed I found a loose screw and after fastening it I’m again a happy Kindle reader!
Opening the Kindle is really simple: turn it on its front, pop open the clips holding the back to the front by going clockwards from the left and afterwards move the back downwards. For a video see http://www.eevblog.com/2010/09/03/eevblog-109-amazon-kindle-3-3ggsmwifi-6-teardown/ especially look around 2:00 where the presenter has a near orgasm after opening it.
Search and follow links in Safari using keyboard shortcuts
Until know I never knew how to follow a link in Safari without using the mouse. This bookmarklet that is almost five years old finally showed me how.
Simply drag this bookmarklet, follow, to the first place in Safari’s bookmarks bar. Following a link comes down to:
- Finding the link in the document using ⌘F
- Opening the link using ⌘1, which opens the first bookmark in the bookmarks bar
The irony…
November 2, 2010 at 11:00am
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Just created a really simple Google Chrome extension: Readerability that makes the items in Google Reader a bit more readable in my opinion.
The source can be found at bitbucket
www.loonheffingennummer.com
Next to sofinummer.com and banknummer.com I’ve now created loonheffingennummer.com.
Although a loonheffingennummer has the same validations as a sofinummer (but for the extension of e.g. L01), this has allowed me to move all three sites to Google AppEngine, cancel my Dreamhost account and host them for free.
First impression of the quality of Tele2’s internet service? I don’t want anyone to come and install my ADSL and surely not one of their engineers.
Temporarily storing a rubber foot of my xbox on its hard disk connector is not a terribly brilliant idea. The little bugger has kept my hard disk from connecting for over a year. Well at least I still have it
Walter White drives a Pontiac Aztek in the brilliant series Breaking Bad. Beautiful car I would say, but for some reason also named one of the worst cars of all times on several occasions
Fail gracefully
List of DevDays10 presentations
Mostly for my recollection I’ve made a list of the DevDays presenations I attended this year. I’ve tried to add some links to e.g. homepages, blogs and twitter accounts to each speaker
Trends and future directions in programming languages
Inside Modern Javascript
Reverse Engineering, van code naar kunst
Windows Phone 7 Development
VS2010 Tips and Tricks: Part 1
Geek Night Keynote 2010 - Making the Social Connection
Giving Robots Life with the .NET Micro Framework
Microcontrollers voor .Net ontwikkelaars
Lap around .NET 4
Reactive Extensions for .NET (RX)
How we do Language Design and Microsoft: VB and C
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