I was pretty sure I was not the first one who tried to do this, so I did some Google searching. As you can see, I’ve found a lot of manuals, but they were mostly all for older Nano models and none of them worked for my wife’s third generation Nano. Then I found this topic on ModMyIfone forum where user iBlade described how to make an iPhone charger. He also posted some pictures and circuit schematics. Considering the fact that iPhone came at at the same time as third generation Nano’s and knowing that Apple does thing by the KISS principle, I thought to give it a try.

So once again I did some soldering. This time using iBlade circuit schematic. Here is it, along side some of my soldering photos.

As you probably already concluded from the last photo, this time I was successful. The home-made iPod Nano charger works. The trick was in using two 470ohm resistors (I’ve actually used 500ohm resistors), which you must connect between +5V DC and USB 2 and 3 data pins (check out this USB pinout link), according to upper schematic.

— Regards, Milan

I hope this Mac vs. PC illustrated, back and forth thingie, doesn’t get me in some kind of weird publish loop. :/

— Regards, Milan

Via digg:

Why is Apple extending subscription periods?
The transition from .Mac to MobileMe was a lot rockier than we had hoped. We will be extending subscriptions by 30 days to customers free of charge to express our appreciation for their patience during the transition period.
Am I eligible for the 30-day extension?

You are eligible if one of these applies to you:
* you were a .Mac member whose account was active as of July 9, 2008
* you are a new MobileMe member who created your account on or before July 15, 2008 at 7:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time

Well, I was hopping for one year free membership, but nevertheless — thank you guys. ;)

Well, let’s not get to excited. At the moment it seems that store is opened only for iPhone apps — there is no music or movies section available. But nevertheless, let’s us hope & pray that this is just the first step and that soon we —Slovenian users— will be able to download music and movies from iTunes Store.

I’ve used my problematic MobileMe account to log in — straight away, no problems. It took only two clicks procedure to review my account data.

— Regards, Milan

However, you are advised (by me, that is) to wait a day or two before registering for your 60-day free trial. I’ve actually registered yesterday just to discover that I cannot login into my account because apparently the username I’ve used for registration was already taken before by a .Mac member. Registration procedure ignored that and it even allowed me to input and send my credit card information for that particular username, so they will have some explaining to do — and it gets even better, I’ve received an confirmation email that my account is activated.

I’ve already sent two e-mails to Apple support service and I hope they will resolve my issues soon — I’m really eager to test it. But hey, I guess I’m not the only one with ProblemMe issues, so it will probably take some time before they start working on me.

— Regards, Milan

Excellent!

• Send MacOS X display to sleep — immediately: Control-Shift-Eject

and maybe this one

• Open Restart, Sleep, Shutdown menu: Control-Eject

Discover more useful MacOS X keyboard shortcuts here.

— Regards, Milan

Looks like guys @ AppleInsider got their hands on some inside informations. Read more here: iPhone 3G buyers may be able to complete activation at home. (via Gizmodo)

## added few hours later ##
Gizmodo iPhone 3G FAQ (updated): http://gizmodo.com/5016917/iphone-3g-faq-update

— Regards, Milan

Nick Stakenburg’s Ligtview is licensed under Creative Commons, however you are required to pay a small fee of 3$ for non-commercial usage per domain. Read more on Lightview Project page.

And I almost forgot.. Small Lightview demo using pictures from my sisters recent wedding:

Fantastic!

- Regards, Milan