Archive for the ‘Apple’ Category
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
I am not sure if I should be happy or start crying. On good side I am probably eligible to upgrade but on the other hand the worst carrier in San Francisco Bay area will get more traffic when many people who were waiting for this get iPhone or switch from other carriers. I cannot make or receive phone calls at my workplace in Palo Alto using this “most reliable” network. It does not work at home in Mountain View without extender either. Friends on any other networks here do not have this problems. Now I am stack for one more year and I am sorry that I switched.
IPhone 4 on Verizon
Tags: att, carrier, cdma, cell, celluar, coverage, iphone, phone, reception, service, tower, verizon, zero
Posted in Apple, iPhone, Verizon | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
I was tempted to buy new iPhone 4 but I decided to wait till end of July for resolution of all problems reported by early adopters. In meanwhile I moved to Gemello neighborhood in Mountain View just to find out that AT&T got no reception there. We got two phones there and we cannot call each other cause we have zero bars and phones do not even ring. According to AT&T map it should be good reception there but I do not think zero is good.
Gemello AT&T Coverage
The only real alternative seems to be Verizon. Their map shows that they have this area covered all in red which should be best reception for voice and digital services. In reality after switch we can talk but 3G is almost not possible to get. It’s just pathetic. In the middle of Silicon Valley both major carries got mediocre services.
Gemello Verizon Coverage
If rumors are true Verizon will have iPhone next year but now I am on two years contract and two Palm phones. So until iPhone 6 will be released I will be testing webOS on my Palm Pre phone 
Palm Pre Plus
Tags: 3g, Apple, att, carrier, celluar, coverage, digital, iphone, palm, phone, pre, reception, service, smartphone, verizon, webos, zero
Posted in Apple, Hardware, Internet, iPhone, News, Palm, webOS | 1 Comment »
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
It looks like early adopters are facing all sort of problems which may be sorted out when there is no longer pressure to ship it ASAP. Apple was trying ship iPhone so quickly so they did not have enough time to let bonding agent used to bond layers of glass to dry. When it happens after few days of usage discolorations should disappear. Great, at least one problem has logical explanation. Other problem related to external antenna seems like software bug cause rather than design problem because I read than some users of earlier models who upgraded to iOS4 reported similar behavior and they do not have metal band around their devices. And finally something went wrong and manufacturer of devices cannot make white glass so this variant will not be available till end of July. Here you can read official statement on Apple site.
Tags: 4g, adopter, antenna, Apple, blotch, bug, delay, display, early, error, ios4, iphone, pre-order, problem, reception, retina
Posted in Apple, Hardware, News | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
It looks like somebody figured out that all this recent email responses from Steve Jobs are generated by a bot
Steve Jobs Email Generator
Tags: email, funny, geek, geekculture, jobs, joke, joyoftech, renerator, reply, reponse, steve
Posted in Apple, Jokes | No Comments »
Friday, January 25th, 2008
Flyback, the project has been working on developing an rsync-based GUI solution for Linux with Time Machine as the model. FlyBack is a snapshot-based backup tool based on rsync It creates successive backup directories mirroring the files you wish to backup. FlyBack creates incremental backups of files which can be restored at a later date. It also supports limited restoration of files within applications that are specifically programmed to use Time Machine’s functionality.
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Friday, January 19th, 2007
Xiph QuickTime Components (XiphQT) is a set of QuickTime and Macintosh OS X plug-ins. Their role is to provide support for Xiph media compression and container formats.
If you are an end user: installing XiphQT components is all you need to start using Xiph-formatted media files in a variety of applications – for example, listening to Ogg/Vorbis files in QuickTime Player or iTunes.
Posted in Apple, Music, News, Software, Windows | No Comments »
Friday, January 13th, 2006
Chandler, a next-generation Personal Information Manager (PIM) integrating calendar, e-mail, contact management, task management, notes, and instant messaging
Chandler is an interpersonal information manager that adapts to your changing needs.
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Wednesday, January 11th, 2006
iPod Updater 2006-01-10 includes iPod Software 1.1 for the new iPod, new iPod Software 1.1 for iPod nano, new iPod Software 1.2.1 for iPod with color display, new iPod Software 1.4.1 for iPod mini, and new iPod Software 3.1.1 for iPod with Click Wheel. iPod Updater 2006-01-10 contains the same software versions as iPod Updater 2005-11-17 for all other iPod models.
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2006
It comes equipped with either a white or black to belt to match, or compliment, your iPod nano’s shade. We’re not even going to call these guys out on their
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