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Sector Mountain Master review

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.

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How to unlock Iphone 3G legally and for free

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).

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Amazon S3 and Wordpress

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.

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Data recovery software review

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

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Publish IP camera WVC54GCA on the web

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.

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Garmin Forerunner 405Cx Review

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.

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ContourHD review

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.

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Sleeptracker Elite review

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 [...]

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UPS (United Parcel Services) mysteries explained

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.

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Leaving Ebay

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..

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