Pieter van Gils

Unlocking iPhones at work

// November 30th, 2007 // No Comments » // photolog

Sjel 50 years old, dinner with family

// November 19th, 2007 // No Comments » // photolog

Sent from my iPhone

Dinner tonight at Cradam

// November 15th, 2007 // 1 Comment » // fun

I have a dinner tonight at cafe/restaurant Cradam together with some internet/media geeks. Here’s a list of everybody who’s joining:

• Merlijn van Vliet (Strategist OER, Internet entrepeneur 0031 Marketing)
• Joris Verhaak (Strategist OER, Internet entrepeneur 0031 Marketing)
• Marcel van der Heijden (Digital DNA, (ex)-manager Generation Next)
• Rutger Polling (Digital DNA)
• Frank Schuil (Internet entrepeneur IRL Connect)
• Polle de Maagt (polle.net)
• Pieter van Gils (C’est moi)
• Wouter Broekhof (Wakoopa)
• Robert Gaal (Wakoopa, Blueace)
• Menno (Wakoopa)
• Gijs Veerhoek (extrafris)
• Arjan in ‘t veld (inthefield)
• Kasper van der Laan (Eurosport)
• Martijn Reintjes (Pepergroen)
• Martijn Tiemersma (online marketeer Telegraaf)
• Marc Metekohij (Client manager Satama)
• Jeroen Rossier (student commercial economy)
• Joris Tensen (Project manager Evident interactive)
• Jasper van Gils ( jaspervangils.nl)

My only question is: Where are all the girls???

Need some backlinks? Linkbuilding tip

// November 12th, 2007 // 1 Comment » // work

Links to your website are always important if you want to get high positions in the search result. You’re not allowed to buy links but there are other ways to get (legal) backlinks. Wiep just showed me a nice customized google search engine; CommentHunt. Use CommentHunt to find (high) pagerank blogs without nofollow tags.

P.S. Please don’t go spamming the blogs, only leave relevant comments!

New Google promo girl

// November 10th, 2007 // No Comments » // fun

After finding a nice pic of Alexandra promoting FireFox we now have somebody supporting google:

Found on seoblackhat.

How to convert avi to mp4 for iPhone with VLC

// November 10th, 2007 // 82 Comments » // iphone

I had some problems converting my avi (divx) torrents to a mp4 format for my iPhone. Googling for some answers I only came to crapy sites offering me paid software. Because I know it’s not that hard to convert a file I tried some things my self with the free VLC player. Here’s a guide how you convert your downloaded torrents to mp4 (suitable for iPod or iPhone):

1. Download VLC player.

2. Go to the streaming/exporting wizard.

3. Choose transcode/Save to file.

4. Choose your input stream.

5. Put the video codec on “MPEG-4 Video” and choose your bitrate (I recommend 512)

6. Put the audio codec on “MPEG-4 Audio” and choose your bitrate (I recommend 128)

7. Put the encapsulation format on MPEG 4 / MP4

8. Choose the name and location you want to save the file.

9. Click on finish, that’s all!

Now you can put your movies or series in iTunes and sync it with your iPhone. If you want to convert a DVD to your iPhone or any other device I suggest you use Handbrake.

my new iPhone

// November 7th, 2007 // 1 Comment » // photolog

On my way home to unlock it…

strange ad from telfort

// November 2nd, 2007 // No Comments » // photolog

They compare their product to an internet deal with @home. @home includes free telephone calls, anti virus and webspace; telfort doesn’t include that (but gives a better price). Strange that they show the benefits of an other company in the ad!