Apple USB power adapter MB707ZM/A fried and burned my iPhone sync cable too.
Last night my Apple USB power adapter that I use to charge my iPhone 3GS got completely fried.
I noticed that the charger was getting really hot while in use but as other products that turn quite hot I didn't paid attention to it.
Well, I can recommend to NOT charge your iPhone with this new charger at night. Glad we have 10A fuses in our house for the sleeping room so that the fuse switched off quite fast, not to imagine what could happen if it would remain on.
This morning I thought to call T-Mobile and tell the story to get a new charger and a new charger/sync cable since both are burned.
In my opinion this could be handled quite fast, same like Apple did before with repairs, they ship me a new one. If the broken one seems not to be broken or is broken as result of my own stupidity they charge me the new one and ship me my old product back.
Too bad you have to wait 4 weeks for T-mobile's repairing process to return you a new charger. So I think I'll just buy a new charger and cable in the local store so I can use my iPhone normally without having to worry about the battery.
This is what the charger looks like normally:
Now this charger is really fried so I don't think they would even try to put it into a power socket (at least, I wouldn't).
The sync cable seems to be repairable but I don't trust products that are burned. We'll see what the'll make of that.
This is what it looks like after it got fried:

Bad service of T-mobile for a 1 month old charger to not directly replace it but let someone wait 4 weeks.
Situations like this really makes me think of jailbrake my iPhone and go to an other provider. I think as a provider you should do better if someone is a client for over 10 years already and even has multiple accounts.
Seems like that doesn't matter at all... Your just a number...
[14-08-2010, UPDATE: Got a new adapter]
After I shipped out it took some days, which is normal. Suddenly Solid Vision called me to ask my IMEI number of my phone, they couldn't find the warranty information without it since I have multiple iPhones registered on my name. Not even a half week later they shipped me a fresh and new adapter. Nice work guys!
How to fix USB sticks that may damage or destroy your computer
In this 'tutorial' I'll show you how to fix a unsafe USB stick that can really damage your computer.
The problem with these USB sticks is the iron plate on the back, when you put it into the USB port the other way around you create a short circuit on the motherboard. New computers detect this and give an alert or instant power off.
Old computers simply start to have a little barbecue fire inside... Which might not be what to expect from a USB stick.
First we have the normal USB stick, nothing special...

Lets bend the iron plate a bit for so we can grab it...

This will result in the following.

Then bend the plate over the whole width of the USB stick like this.

The USB flash chip is now lose from the slide tray.

Next, pull out the iron plate!

Tataah, no plate... Empty stick...

You should have these parts now, if not, something went wrong.

The next thing we do is... Glue it!

Put some glue on the slider tray.

Place the flash chip back on the slider tray.

Which should result like this, and your done.

Now you know how to take apart this.

And then put it back together until you get this.

This project was sponsored by PersC.
A fire on the other side of the street at my work in Rotterdam
We actually first didn't noticed this fire...
Until we heard some sirens going by...
The fire is gone now and nobody got really hurt. The crane machinist got light poisoned by the smoke, but he'll survive.
The building damage looks a bit worse, no clue how bad it is.
Some pictures:
We live in a sick world!!! Angry people burning someone alive!
I found this while googling for a application to access the BIOS of a Macbook...
Well not completely what I had in mind...
People in the world are really sick!
A man in Peru is set on fire by angry crowd with gasoline...
DON'T watch if you have a weak stomach!
http://theync.com/media.php?name=13883-barbaric-video
Sometimes I wonder... Why?... I think I will never get that answer...












