Pieter van Gils

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity

Archive for November, 2007

Unlocking iPhones at work


Sjel 50 years old, dinner with family


Sent from my iPhone

Dinner tonight at Cradam

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

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

Need some backlinks? Linkbuilding tip

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

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

Pamela promoting google

Found on seoblackhat.

How to convert avi to mp4 for iPhone with VLC

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


On my way home to unlock it…

strange ad from telfort


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!