Since 2008, I try to live with a nearly paperless office. Sure, I get letters and invoices on paper, but I scan them all in and keep the digital copies as archive, while the paper copies are kept by my accountant.
Category Archives: How-To
Programming a Kenwood TK-3101 on a too quick machine
I have managed to get the typical Kenwood software KPG54D and KPG48D for their TK-3101 transceiver on one of the fastest Apple MacBook Pro‘s currently on the market, running OSX Lion, using VMWare Fusion, Windows XP and DOSBox. This might also work on any other virtualization environment, such as Parallels or VirtualBox, and even natively on other Windows versions.
Perspective view on a MK4 BMW navigation
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If you have a BMW MK4 satellite navigation system, you can upgrade to one of the later versions of the operating system to access the 3D perspective viewpoint on top of the 2D viewpoint.
The steps to do this are:
- Get to the secret settings menu. You do this by going into the Settings menu and holding the MENU button down for about 10 seconds. When you see this menu, scroll down until you see Perspective where you can select whether you want this option activated or not
- Go out of this menu and go into the NAVIGATION menu. In the Viewpoints, you now have three choices: north, driving direction or perspective mode. Select the last one and see the map turn into 3D.
IOGear Mobile Digital Scribe GPEN200N on Mac OSX
In 2008, I was still using laptops running Windows, and had a project which included having many meetings with alot of people. I found the process of retyping my on paper written notes onto my OneNote application tedious and felt I could spent my time more productive.
Visiting Canada, I found a digital pen called the Mobile Digital Scribe from IOGear (GPEN200N) for 99$ which did not need special paper, but worked with a special pen and a sensor you could place on any surface, to register all notes I would write on paper. With the simple included software, I could easily integrate my handwritten notes into OneNote.
Not long later, however, I switched to a MacBook Pro running OSX and was unable to use the digital pen any longer, since there was no such support on Mac. I could use the device connected to my MacBook as a mouse, but not really for taking notes.
Up until I did some research…
Intravee Ipod-adapter in a BMW Z4 RoadsterIntravee Ipod-adapter in een BMW Z4 Roadster
The Intravee is an innovative piece of hardware that enables BMW’s of the previous generation to accept Ipods as sound source, and use the radio and steering controls to navigate through the Ipod’s structure. This Intravee enables E39 5-series, E46 3-series, the first model of X3′s and the first model of Z4 roadster and coupe owners to enjoy their Ipod in their car.
De Intravee is een innovatief stukje hardware dat het mogelijk maakt om in BMW’s van de vorige generatie toch een Ipod te gebruiken als muziekbron. Zo past deze Intravee eenvoudig in alle E39 5-reeksen, de E46 3-reeks, de eerste reeks X3′s en de eerste modellen Z4 roadster en coupe.