For Eric, owner of a Jawbone and Shark lover, this video is perfect for you.

Found a link to this video on how to create an image stabilizer for your camera with $1. Pretty good technique that I just might try during our upcoming trip to China in February.

My iPhone’s touchscreen has been acting up for the past month and a half. Intermittently throughout the day, the touchscreen would be unresponsive whenever I turned on the device. If this happened when a phone call came in, I would not be able to swipe the screen to answer. Finally on Tuesday, I set up an appointment to meet with a Genius at the Valley Fair Apple Store.

The Apple Store opens at 10:00 am, but there were several people talking with Geniuses when I arrived today at 9:40. I waited patiently as the minutes ticked by, watching the big-screen monitors go through various Tiger features — iChat, iPod, Spotlight, and repeat. Apparently, these video clips haven’t been updated for Leopard. At 10:00, my name was called, and I explained the problem to the Genius. I was able to duplicate the problem to him, after which he submitted a service request and handed me a new iPhone (new or refurbished — how can you tell? in a white box, meaning it was probably refurbished). Within fifteen minutes, I was out of the Apple Store and back at home. That’s pretty good service!

The “new” iPhone still had the 1.1.2 OS on it, so, I needed to upgrade the device to 1.1.3 before I could perform a Restore operation on it. Now, my iPhone is back to normal! Six months to go on the warranty; let’s hope no more problems creep up with the device!

David Clausen has upgraded an old Macintosh 512K with a Mac mini, grayscale screen, and an LS-120 floppy disk, to create the 24th Anniversary Mac! Check out the video of the Mac booting into OS X below!

Up until now, I had only heard about what the Patriots did at San Diego in last year’s Divisional Playoff Game. Now, I’ve seen what they’ve done, and I understand why some of the Chargers felt disrespected by the Patriots. If you’re a Chargers fan, this video will get your blood boiling for Sunday’s AFC Championship Game.

Around the time, LT held his players-only meeting , he had a chat with former Chargers head coach Marty Schottenheimer. Marty wouldn’t divulge what the two spoke about, but I bet it involved Marty saying things like, “Let go of the past,” and “Don’t worry about me, I’ll be fine. Support Coach Turner and move on.” Marty knew that as long as LT and the Chargers kept thinking about the past and about Marty, they would never be able to put their 100% behind Norv Turner and his coaching staff.

After his speech, LT and the Chargers have pulled off 8 straight victories. Will number 9 come on Sunday against the 17-0 Patriots? I remember the 1990 NFC Championship Game between the Giants and 49ers. I was heartbroken that my 49ers — I’m both a 49er and Charger fan — were bested by the hated Giants 15-13 that day, breaking up their chance to be the first three-peat Super Bowl Champion. The Giants defense was run by current Patriots head coach Bill Belichick. He devised a plan to slow down the high-powered Niner offense to a single touchdown and a pair of field goals. Some choice quotes from the game:

”Everyone said we couldn’t stop the 49ers,” Giants defensive end Leonard Marshall said. ”They deserved all the respect in the world, but no one is invincible. We played physical, aggressive football and we did it for 60 minutes. We were relentless.”

”That was our goal, coming in, to take away the big play,” linebacker Pepper Johnson said. ”Joe got us one time, but mostly he dumped the ball off. It was short stuff all day.”

”We weren’t worried about the run; we knew we had to stop Montana,” Johnson said. ”We got after him. I don’t care who you are - even the greatest quarterback - you won’t be successful with pressure in your face. That was the key to this game - we got to Joe Montana.”

There’s a way to beat the Patriots, and their head coach wrote the book 17 years ago. The underdog Chargers have to be as relentless as the Giants were to the 49ers in 1990. Take no prisoners, leave nothing on the field, and make it one play at a time for 60 minutes!

Back in Week 2 of the 2007-2008 NFL Season, the Patriots embarassed the Chargers at Foxborough. With our win over the Colts today in the AFC Divisional Round, the rematch is set. I was very skeptical of the changes made this year to the Chargers, but they have made me a believer with their resilience and heart. Dan G, Daniel, and Dardy came to my house to watch the game, which featured five lead changes, several horrible officiating calls (the holding call on Weddle was pure BS), and tons of pulse-pounding, heart-breaking moments.

Back in 1994, when the Chargers went to the Super Bowl, no one gave them a chance against the Steelers in the AFC Championship Game. Pittsburgh was not the 17-0 behemoth that the Patriots are today, but they were tapped to be the AFC representative in the Super Bowl. The Chargers, on two long 43-yard touchdown throws by Stan “the Man” Humphries and a goal-line stand, shocked the Steelers 17-13. I’m hopeful that my Chargers will be more than a speedbump to the New England Patriots. I’m hopeful that they’ll shock the world two more times on their way to their first NFL championship.

Four teams that faced each other in Week 2 now facing one another with Super Bowl berths on the line. Next Sunday can’t come fast enough!