Posted September 16, 2007
Started the day by building a bed, no- not from Ikea… from wood, ‘built’. Painted my room, well the ‘alcove’ which now has a custom-built bed in it. Terracotta / Easy-Jet Orange if you must know. Assembled shelving unit, varnished and its looking not too shabby at all. Watched Palin’s ‘New Europe’ (still the only reason for paying you t.v. license) recorded on the wonderful eyeTV (currently encoding for iPhone. Cooked lasagne, tesco did most of it to be honest.
Considering mounting a new shelve, its half 10- but I’m sure the neighbours would understand i’ve gone diym (pronounced ‘dim’ - do-it-yourself-mad - means i’ve on my way to becoming a joiner).
Posted September 10, 2007
I’ve been reading Engadget for a good few years now, they (in particular the opinions and interests of writer phil torrone) have opened my eyes to flickr to web 2.0, they introduced me to podcasting, to RSS - I learned everything I know about PSP cracking from their blog.
They have a great staff, a cutting-edge knowledge base that no main-stream zine, blog or rolling news service can get close to. They know people, and they make em talk.
Earlier last week the creators of iPhoneSIMFree got in touch with the Engadget crowd, gave them a demo of the first application to unlock the iPhone from software. Although the app didn’t complete the process (due to the servers iPhoneSIMFree will contact to verify licenses or something being out of operation– or … something) Engadget have put a lot of faith in these guys, have even said that this is 100% legit- will work, will unlock the iPhone.
I’m just saying- this is a big gamble, no? I really hope tomorrow (when the app is ‘launched’) it’ll all work out, and when I get my mitts on the iPhone (Friday, hopefully) I’ll be unlocking it to work no-problem in the UK. Something that at the moment is nearly impossible. I love this being at the forefront of technology, not much of it really matters- i mean this isn’t real life but its a great community activity in a weird way. i’m stoked, watch it happen here.
Update: So, the day is here- and the verdict is: Yes, the iPhone has been unlocked- with a bloated price tag to go with it (end-user sales of up to $100 per license!) iPhoneSIMFree is the simple app you need to unlock your iPhone for worldwide use. See: Engadget, Gizmondo, TUAW. I’ll give my report from Edinburgh next weekend (when the phone arrives) :D
like poo. i’m not really that angry… this has happened before. I’ve lost everything, at least the data on my mac is current and alive, just a bitch about people’s photos being destroyed. I can re-download all that tormented Seinfeld and Sopranos. May this be a lesson; a backup only works if its backed-up twice.
i.e. a backup isn’t a backup without a backup.
get me? what I should do is keep my aperture library - of raw originals or ‘masters’ on both my mac, my backup disk and periodically (by client or month) on DVD. this is the only way it works. that kind of backup is even built into the app.
start from scratch then. can someone send me all my favourite Godard films again. thank you.
My second Maxtor external hard drive blew today. 200gb gone. All my Aperture RAW master files (all my big work-related photos). All gone. I’m out of a whole system back-up too, so lets hope my Toshiba drive, I think that’s who Apple still use, will hold out. Oh, I suppose it will… because, you see- Toshiba aren’t some two-bit joke of a technology company. I mean Maxtor what is your problem!!!– they’ve been ‘taken over’ by Seagate (my first PC hard disk, a 4gb Seagate drive- now one decade old is still running to this day btw) lets hope they learn something from their new boss. Perhaps its a transitional period; but the email I just sent on a ‘live’ maxtor / seagate support site was returned.
*sigh*, I can’t believe I even bothered to write. I just read Apple CEO - Steve Jobs’ - ‘open letter‘ to early iPhone users, offering them $100 off their next purchase from the company, because Apple just dropped the price of the phone… Apparently a lot of people emailed the main man in Cupertino (steve@apple.com) bitching they just lost out because Apple wanted a tasty price tag for the holiday market (almost convinced to ship one over last night… argh, I’ll wait for rev. II). Anyway Jobs tells us he read every one of those emails. I believe the man.
Back to Maxtor. You bunch of jokers, I will never, ever, ever buy a maxtor / seagate drive in my life. I know this is just bad luck but your logo makes me sick Maxtor. Your warranty means nothing. You won’t recover my data, you don’t have the decency to have a current support contact number.
I’ll continue trying to contact them. I’ve just bought my dream external hard drive (ya got to be a geek when you confess to having such dreams). A Porsche designed LaCie 500gb Hard Disk, unfortunately the firewire version is at an unfair premium, so I opted for the USB 2 version, we’ll see. I’ll need something for Time Machine anyway.
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