August 2005
The Archives
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08.30.05The Champagne Blog up and runningBernt and Bjarne has started a very important blog. The Champagne Blog. It will be interesting to see what they will bring. You can already learn how to sabre a bottle of sparkling beverage, and it will be interesting to follow their experiment on how to turn cheap white wine into a sparkling beauty. :-) If you want to try to sabre a bottle of champagne, it might be smart to start out with something that's not too expensive. However, we don't want to drink bad champagne, so it has to be a good one. I can recommend Tarlant Brut Zero. ...
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08.29.05Placeshifting for Mac?I have talked about placeshifting here before. Unfortunately, the excellent ORB application is not available for Mac, but maybe this can solve some of the needs for the mac users out there that want to access their media through the web? No TV or video streaming, but music and pictures.
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08.25.05Why your camera phone will outperform your compact camera – bigtime!The companies making mobile phones know it. They have a huge advantage over all other gadget vendors. The mobile phone has become the device that you really can't do without. If you forget your iPod while heading off for work it's not that serious. If you forget your digital camera, you'll not return unless you really, really need it that day. It is the phone that makes you turn around and travel all the way back home to get it. So, they have a very valuable place in your pocket. The only reasons for not having all your gadgets in the ...
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08.22.05Did you know......that the flowers on the cucumber plant smells wonderful? Now you know. There will definitely never be any cucumbers on our balcony, but at least we have had the pleasure of some flowers with a very nice fragrance. And you have also learnt that it is impossible to know what to expect on eirikso.com Is that a good thing? Will I loose my regular readers if I start to write about stuff that is not about home media technologies? I guess you'll speak up if you hate posts like this?
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08.19.05Call and “call” – what’s the differenceAt some point my MSN Messenger keeps telling me that I can now "Call" for free all over the world. I just started wondering, what's the difference. If I make a "call" or a plain... call?