What a day. I’ve been using my iPod in the car almost every day for the past 1 year and just yesterday the cassette deck stopped working. Its autoreversing all the time, and I know its not the adapter becuase it worked on other cars! I’ve been using the cassette to the iPod headphone jack connection method all these time. Short of a line-in connection (which I dont have on my headunit) the only other way I can think of is to use an iTrip (or similar) from Griffin Technology, but I borrowed one and the quality is not that good. Sounds just like that FM station minus the adverts.
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Had my 2 year old car stalled on me this morning. Couldn’t start it early in the morning and realised quickly the battery is a goner. Got it changed 1 hour later and guess what? Now everytime I let go of the accelerator, the RPM goes all the way down to zero. Suddenly driving a car requires skills to keep the RPM above 1000… if it drops below that, chances are the car will stall again.
At that time I was already 1 hour late for work and had to try and drive the car to my mechanic and avoiding any traffic jams along the way (encountered 2, by the way). Later on the mechanic told me that while changing the battery in the car, the terminals was not connected to any power source for too long (like 1 minute).
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I’m feeling a little old already. Usually when I talk about anything to do with gadgets it used to be PDAs, new watches that can do anything, computers, digital this and digital that but my latest gadget is a dryer. Ok this one is a necessity since it rains almost every afternoon here in Kuala Lumpur in the last few weeks and we get all those nasty traffic jams all over the place (takes almost twice the time to get home in the evening), but most of all, the laundry doesn’t seem to dry at all.
So that’s the problem, and to solve it I went out to look for the most advanced dryer this side of the planet. Fisher & Paykel makes some of the most dummy proof white appliances you can find. That’s what I think anyway. The washing machine I have allows you to just dump in the load, and choose how dirty it is and then just start the washing. Everything else is sensor driven. How much water? How much agitation? How long to wash?
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Got my new Fisher & Paykel dryer installed today. Its the ED56 which does the sensing for you. According to the manual the dryer is supposed to sense that your laundry is as dry as the setting you selected before it stops.
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Been quite occupied in the office lately. Don’t have too much time to spend updating the website (what I feared initially).
What has been happening lately? Gave away the UMTS phone already to colleagues to play with. First 2 person used it only for 1 week before passing it to the next and the last 2 only used it for 2 days each. There’s just not enough new content on the network, and the screen and typing method makes it quite awkward for browsing the internet.
Still waiting to buy the Nikon D70. Don’t really need it today, willing to wait till the end of the year before buying it. Seen some sample shots using the Nikon D100 and if the CCD system is about the same I’m already impressed. Next thing to think about it the lens system. Nikon DX lens only come in a 17-85mm (roughly) for the time being, and while I dont think I want to get rid of all my Nikon lenses and upgrade to a DX lens, I might have to at least buy one to see if there’s any improvements.
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