Well my unlocked iphone has finally arrived from the US, and I’ve been tweaking it for the last couple of hours so that everything is working properly.

When I tried to fire up Safari on the iPhone I got the error “Could not activate EDGE: you are not subscribed to EDGE”. The EDGE settings (GPRS) that are posted on some of the forums for Vodafone UK are incorrect. You need the following settings to use the web (when not in range of wi-fi) on the UK vodafone network. These settings are correct for my contract with vodafone, not sure about pay as you go.

These are the iPhone EDGE APN settings. In your iphone go to:

> Settings > General -> Network ->EDGE

Enter the following:

APN: internet
Username: web
Password: web

Now go back to safari and try and load a page. Should work!

Update: One user was having problems with these settings and it was because EDGE had been disabled. You need to check it is enabled before using these settings. Some Pay As You Go (PAYG) customers have said that these Vodafone EDGE APN settings work on the PAYG platform as well.

The UK’s Space Programme moved one step closer to reality this year thanks to …. Top Gear! The BBC’s team took a Reliant Robin , turned it into a space shuttle, and then launched it!! take a look at the two part drama unfold:

Part One

Part Two

Good old British engineering, best in the world!

I’ve been having trouble with my new Dell 2007WFP widescreen monitor, since I was given it back in December.

The monitor comes with a single link DVI-D cable, which I was attempting to use with my Geforce 6800-GT graphics card. However hard I tried I could not get the resolution above 1024×768. When I tried to step up from 1024 the screen would go blank and that was it. The 6800 had two DVI-I connections on the rear, and the only way I could get the thing to work was with an analogue cable and a DVI to analogue adapter. Not knowing much about DVI inputs etc, I put this down to some wacky driver problem, and resolved to wait until I built my new PC at the end of January (with the release of Vista).

January came. I built a brand new machine; Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (Overclocked to 3.2Ghz), 4 Gigs of Ram, Nvidia 8800 GTX, Lian-Li PC-1000Plus case, and lots of hard disk space. Very nice indeed, but errr………same problem. I could only get it to work with an analogue cable.

So I spent today googling the problem, and from what I could tell I shouldn’t need to use a DVI-D dual link cable unless I used resolutions above 1920 x 1080, and I couldn’t even get above 1024×768. So I thought I’d take a punt, I whipped down to Maplin’s bought a DVI-D dual link cable, and now it works perfectly!