Posted on June 6th, 2008 by geofas
Here’s my view on what I assume to hear about during Steve’s keynote speech on Monday:
of course the 3G iPhone with GPS, probably in 2 options, either 8GB & 16GB or even 16GB & 32GB; the iPhone will be available for the old price tags but the carriers will be able to offer subsidised end-user [...]
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Posted on June 6th, 2008 by geofas
People who know me better know that I often speak harshly about Microsoft and some might even see me as a Mac fanboy. However, most of the time I exaggerate in a humoristic notion. The reality is not as harsh.
To come clean, it is not that I actually hate Microsoft, I just dislike them because [...]
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Posted on May 20th, 2008 by geofas
UPDATE (nov08): When using Mac OSX 10.5.5 and Ubuntu 8.10 this process does NOT work! It does with 10.5-10.5.3 and Ubuntu 8.0x. I’m trying to figure out an update at the moment for the latest version of the OSs.
Completely forgot to post about this but I successfully finished a weekend project recently, believe it was [...]
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Posted on April 30th, 2008 by geofas
The folks over at engadget have a post with this tile that reads as follows:
“Cops doing computer forensic work already have a ton of tools to choose from, but Microsoft is doing its part to help out as well — the company just revealed that it’s been distributing a special thumb drive to cops in 15 countries [...]
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Posted on April 29th, 2008 by geofas
I found this article with an interview with Australian inventor Archer Quinn. Archer said he would unveil is Perpetual Motion Machine on 20 June 2008. A simple machine that can be built by any handyman. It will produce energy based on using gravity. He has not registered his inventions with a patent filing and has [...]
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Posted on April 18th, 2008 by geofas
The only reason I have WinXP (via Parallels) on my mac is so that I can use MS Internet Explorer to access my work email via web-mail. Unfortunately the webmail we use does not support any other browsers. Anyway, for this single purpose the standard Windows XP build is too fat so I appreciated this [...]
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Filed under: INTERNET, SOFTWARE
Posted on April 16th, 2008 by geofas
When you have to stay in touch with someone but can’t, don’t want to, or are not allowed to install an Instant Messaging client on the machine you’re using, you can go Web and go to http://www.meebo.com/
Meebo offers Web-based IMing for the following networks:
AIM
Yahoo
Google Chat
MSN
ICQ
Jabber
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Posted on March 7th, 2008 by geofas
Thought you might possibly be interested in some news on the just released iPhone SDK and some updates from Apple and iPhone affiliates.
The iPhone SDK is available for free for registered iPhone developers. In addition to the regular Apple developer registration an additional level of registration with additional terms and conditions is required. Said terms [...]
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Filed under: APPLE, GADGETS, SOFTWARE, iPhone
Posted on March 4th, 2008 by geofas
Last weekend I finally took some time to load up a great Linux build, namely Ubuntu (desktop edition), onto a partition on my MBP that I created using BootCamp.
Partitioning
Well, let us say I initiated the partitioning using Bootcamp. Since it prepares a FAT32 partition alongside the HFS partition I had to play around a little with [...]
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Posted on February 23rd, 2008 by geofas
Wow, no post since November? Time sure flies. OK, let’s recap then …
# MacBook Air: Wow, want one but I will wait until the first revision. I would want one that at least comes close to what my 1st Gen MBP can do. The amazing aspect is the battery life. My MBP dies after about [...]
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