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I thought this was awesome and wanted to share it. Its amazing what people is capable to create:

Did you ever wish your door opened when you knocked the secret signal? This one is awesome – someone made it possible!

I had a small aquarium when I was a kid and I dreamed of a larger one, or an aquarium I could mount into my wall. When I saw this I suddenly got the urge to keep fishes again. Its from Opulent Items, I’ve never seen that site before and its worth a visit. Check this out, these fishes can swim freely between the modules:

The photo is without cables and air supply so I guess it won’t be _this_ tidy but I think it was neat anyway.

I’ve been curious for a while to see how the Lenovo T400 accelerometer would work with different APIs and Windows 7 so I downloaded the nightly Firefox 3.7 today. I was surprised to see it worked! Here is a small video I made while testing it.

Its important to download the latest drivers for the protection system from Lenovo’s update manager. Use the Vista drivers even if you have Windows 7.

Ok.. I’m a nerd.. but I think this was fun.

You can read more about it here : Mozilla Hacks

Why haven’t I seen this before? Its great! Especially now that more and more people cycle, and in autumn hours its sometimes difficult to spot them.

I just installed Windows 7 on my (Thinkpad) Lenovo T400, it works like a charm. I struggled a bit with the switchable graphics though, because I dock my laptop and use the xdvi cable. All I got was black screen when I downloaded the drivers from Lenovo.

What I did then was disable the switchable graphics in the BIOS, booted and updated the drivers, I did this via the Lenovo updater. I updated everything and installed the Lenovo software, except the Vista patches. When I tried to install the Vista patches the machine went into blue screen.

After updating all drivers I enabled the switchable graphics again but it didn’t help, no matter what I tried.

But then I right clicked the power symbol, chose “Switchable graphics” and high performance, answered yes and there it was. Now everything works fine.

There is still a problem when I close my laptop while Windows 7 is running, if I do that and open it the screen is black. I found out that I had to press the power button and put it to sleep again, and then wake it up by pressing the power button again, then the screen is ok.

Remember that the System updater still think you run Vista, ignore that and install the updates that arrives for it on your new Windows 7 – but don’t install the ones that say “Windows Vista Update Module”.

Update: You can now download version 4 of Lenovo’s update software, it will now recognize your Windows 7 system and be able to update drivers. It worked like a charm.

Update : September 9th a new version of the ATI drivers were released. Check out version 03.00.0741 special designed for Windows 7. It makes Switchable graphics a little easier to use. I had to fiddle a bit with the settings though but your setup will feel more “windows 7 native”.

Update: Now I got the accelerometer to work too, I had to download the latest drivers via Lenovo update software.