I decided to try and upload an HD video file shot with my Lumix a while back, see how uploading the original video file would look like on YouTube. Decent quality for a compact digital photo camera I suppose. Can only record 8 or so minutes per clip in full HD though.

I bought my iPod and the Universal dock a while back and I’m pretty happy with it. Nice to have all my music in my pocket. Also nice to be able to play music without having a software music player running on my computer with all my music in the library, that just takes up resources.

But seriously, why is the output volume from the audio output jack in the back of the dock so damn low? Comparing it to when I plug the cable straight in to the iPod, the difference is not moderate. It’s huge! If I want to “rock out” even slightly, I crank my speakers to max and still don’t feel it… I can still hear my imaginary friend Rufio the auto mechanic talk about this damn Volvo he’s been working on, even though I’m franticly drumming on the table.

It’s ghetto, that’s what it is. Slap Apple. And yeah yeah, this speaker system isn’t off the hizzay either… Blame Rufio, he’s the one who picked’em out. “Oh, they make mother-killer car sound jefe!” he said… I don’t know what to do with that guy man… I swear to god.

I like the remote though. Even though I right now have the dock on my desk, I still have the remote control next to my mouse, so instead of having to reach for the iPod, I just use the remote. :)

Do I really have to say anything about this… this… mmmmm. God, I’m such a geek…

Google is set to release its own mobile platform, supposedly called Google Switch. Maybe not too surprising, but oh so joyful! Open Source. I wonder how this is going to play out, with Microsoft and Symbian as such heavy opponents. But the development platform will be freely available to anyone, so hopefully it will inspire to new and better mobile applications.

I mean, from what I’ve heard and read about Apple’s iPhone, the Google platform would kill it in a heart beat. Apple contributed to the design of a new platform, how to keep things organized and neat, but the functionality is so limited, it’s – not – even – funny. I’m not sure about this, but you can’t really install or easily develop applications for the iPhone, can you?

Go Google, good ol’ Google! Their applications are so great, I can’t wait to see what this will do to my geek nerve. Engadget is not, nor am I, claiming that this is a real photo. It could very well be fake. The device is about as big as the iPod Classic. Rumor also has it that it will feature GPS for Google Maps. Oh the happiness! Too bad this thing probably isn’t going to feature 3G network. I wonder id it’ll have WiFi. Would be stupid to launch something without it these days, huh?

Photo courtesy engadget.com.

I’ve been cursing my E-ten Glofiish M700 running Windows Mobile 5 (WM5) for a while now, for its extremely old fashioned and utterly stupid way of saving and showing contacts last name first, followed by its first name. I mean, why the hell would I remember a contacts last name easier than his or her first name? You see how that can be a bitch, right?

So, I ran across this extremely easy (not a perfect-world-solution) hack, but usable. If you save your contact like this “John Doe,” (see the comma?), it’ll get saved properly, and at least for me, the comma disappeared! It’s not in my mobile device, nor in my Outlook 2007 after a sync.