The Sector Mountain Master offers an analog and digital clocks, digital compass, altimeter and chronograph.
Since a few months, I’m playing with it and comparing to the Suunto Core.

Features
The Mountain Master is multi-functions watch with a stainless-steel case and quartz movement.
It promises an altimeter, a compass and temperature measurement.

On the field
I’m using the watch mainly [...]

If you’re an happy owner of an Iphone 3G and are locked to a particular carrier, it might be a good idea to unlock your Iphone (SIM free). For example, to resell it or to enjoy it as an Ipod (without SIM).

Of course, this method is permanent; it means that no matter what you do [...]

Your website suddendly receives a lot of traffic? That might crash your server or your account might be temporaly suspended, depending on your hosting plan and conditions.
Here is a rather cheap solution to avoid bandwidth consumption and server load with a Wordpress installation.

I am running a photoblog diachronie that from time to time enjoys [...]

How to recover data from your hard drive, when it died, or is corrupted, or the MBR is missing, or is unreadable?

That’s kind of question I hope you would never have to ask yourself. For, when it happens, you’re usually in trouble.
Backups are here to prevent such drastic recovery, yes, but sometimes, things don’t happen [...]

Since we bought this camera, I wanted to publish the beautiful view of the neighbour’s garbage part of their garden. All of this in live, for the world to see. That cannot be more important matters.
Seriously, except from the total uselessness of publishing our garden’s view, I tought that publishing a live cam on [...]

The Garmin 405Cx is a computer wrist that allows you to monitor your heartbeat and track your excercice with the integrated GPS.
After a couple of months of use, here is my observations regarding this watch and the traning program. Also, I compare the Garmin with my Polar 800SD, that I’ve been using since 2005.

The Forerunner [...]

The ContourHD from vHold is the first HD helmet camera that was made available on the market, back in July.
The model being reviewed is the 720p (1280×720p), not the latest at full HD.

Specifications
The ContourHD offers 135 degrees of view, SD card (no external support is required), two lasers for alignement, rechargeable battery, [...]

Did you ever dreamed to throw your alarm clock out of the window on the morning? Carrying with you all day this unpleasant feeling that you never truely woke up?
What if it existed a way to both wake you up on time and feel refreshed?
That’s what the Sleeptracker promises. We played the guena pigs with [...]

Did you ever wondered where your packages traveled when using a transporter, in this case UPS?
Did you ever wonder what all these descriptions mean?
Have a look at this example.

Read from bottom to top.

Location
Date
Local Time
Description

MEYRIN, CH
09/11/2009
2:43 P.M.
DELIVERY

09/11/2009
7:58 A.M
IMPORT SCAN

09/11/2009
7:16 A.M.
OUT FOR DELIVERY

09/11/2009
6:39 A.M.
DESTINATION SCAN

09/11/2009
6:15 A.M.
ARRIVAL SCAN

09/11/2009
6:15 A.M.
ARRIVAL SCAN

KOELN (COLOGNE), DE
09/11/2009
4:30 A.M.
DEPARTURE SCAN

KOELN (COLOGNE), DE
09/11/2009
4:23 A.M.
DEPARTURE SCAN

MEYRIN, [...]

Here are all the reasons I’m stopping doing business on Ebay.
Ebay got full of itself and the new policies say it all: “We want big resellers”.
Well, they forgot that they need buyers, too. Buyers that are casual resellers..

Since 2006, I’m a casual user of Ebay. I sum up mere 50 sales/pruchases, all of them reaching [...]