I love my Zune and think it’s a great device. I’ve had a few different models over the years and never had any problems with them–each model just got better. Recently though that changed and my Zune could no longer get through a full sync. Here are the details and what proved to be my solution to the problem in case it helps anyone else.

The Zune I had this problem with was the 80GB model and it had been working for a long time without any problems whatsoever. I updated the software (the latest one–4.2.202.0–from just a couple of weeks ago) when it prompted me to do so. Next time I docked the Zune though I was prompted to update it as well. I went ahead and did that and then somewhere along the way I found I no longer had any of my music sync’d on it anymore. I figured it was a firmware update or something that required formatting it so I just proceeded to sync everything again. Continue reading →

If you find yourself recording videos in portrait mode with your phone/camera you might recall feeling less-than-smart when you find yourself cranking your neck to the side to watch a video on your computer. Luckily, there’s an easy way to relieve your neck and watch the video like a normal human.

I’m posting this as I was just about to send this to someone via email to help them through it and figured this could help others too (*and* I can just link to this when I get asked next time). So if you’re on a Windows PC, here’s what I recommend you do to create a properly rotated version of your videos. Continue reading →

I was checking out posterous.com after seeing some sites on it that caught my attention and realized it’s ridiculously easy to use it to hack up a quick photography blog in. The way to post photos to it is to just attach them to an email and send them to ‘post@posterous.com’. Crazy simple means I might actually keep it up. You can read more about how it works here.

Anyway, I called it Fotografi as I couldn’t come up with anything better at the time (nor can I now–actually, I kind of dig it now). We’ll see how it goes.

I recently upgraded from a Garmin Forerunner 305 to a Garmin Edge 500 as my number-producing gadget for cycling stats. While the Forerunner is still what I’ll use whenever I go on runs, I’ve used the Edge on several rides now and have found it to be a huge improvement over the Forerunner.

Since it’s still relatively new (i.e., it was announced ages ago but it recently started actually shipping finally) and I couldn’t find a ton of data on it yet from other folks who have gotten their hands on it, I’m going to write up what I’ve noticed so far hoping it helps someone out who’s deciding on whether to pick this one up or not. Continue reading →

I’ve got an HTC Imagio that came pre-loaded with Opera 9.5. I decided to try out the two newer versions of Opera (9.7 and 10) though to see if I preferred either of them but in the end decided to just stick with 9.5. I uninstalled the two newer versions and all was fine except for the fact that Internet Explorer was now the default browser on my device.

Opera 9.5 doesn’t seem to have an option in the app itself to set itself as the default browser. I searched the web plenty and found some threads on ppcgeeks.com that pointed to the following registry key as the one that you need to set to change the default browser:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell\Rai\DEFBROWSER\0
Value = Opera Browser
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell\Rai\DEFBROWSER\1
Value = “\Windows\OperaL.exe”

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I recently got an HTC Imagio from Verizon running Windows Mobile 6.5 and have been very happy with it so far. Like all things gadgety though there are a lot of things to learn and tweak to further improve how much one gets out of them. I’ve noticed I’ve been making little tweaks here and there and learning about many that I wanted to keep track of as I was sure I’d eventually have to go back to some of them over time which led me to consolidating them in this post.

Below are a collection of tips, links, and other stuff that may be of interest to anyone who also uses an Imagio (and similar models). I’ll most probably update this post over time with newer information I find useful so feel free to check back over time. Continue reading →