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The MacBook Touch (mockup)

alex — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:47:34 +0000

Yep. This is droolworthy.

Mac OS X 10.6.2 makes sluggishnes go away!

alex — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:18:07 +0000

When I upgraded from Mac OS X 10.6.0 to 10.6.1, suddenly my 2006 iMac became a sluggish beast, trashing the disk for every little thing that it needed to do. Changing to another virtual desktop became 10 seconds of pure torture instead of a slick swish… At first I thought this had nothing to do with the upgrade, and thought my disk might be going bad.

Onyx, the all-in-one swiss knife of maintenance tools that I ran found out that I had a disk error. I fixed this by rebooting with the Leopard install disk and using disk utility there to correct the error. But my iMac kept being sluggish. Launching programs became an interminable wait (ok, ok, 10 seconds are not interminable, but they do add up in the long run when you want to get things done !)

Now that I upgraded to Mac Os X 10.6.2 things are suddenly running smoothly once again. I don’t know what happened, but they did something !

Macbook Air costs 1699 euros in Europe, 1799 dollars in the States

alex — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:14:36 +0000

Buying a Macbook Air in Europe costs 1699 euros. Converted to dollars you pay 2499 dollars instead of 1799 dollars if you bought it in the States. A price difference of 600 dollars !!

Conclusion : Europe is richer than America.

Unlocking the iphone (firmware 1.1.1)

alex — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:13:10 +0000

Seems a whole lot of people have spent enormous time on jailbreaking and subsequently unlocking the iPhone. For those who want to know more about this, here are a few links to get you started (please note that these links are valid at the time of writing, and that I am not encouraging you to go and hack your iPhone) :

Hack the iPhone : step-by-step instructions on hacking the iphone without needing a computer (you do need a wireless network though)
Jailbreakme.com : the website you need to visit to crack your iPhone automatically !
Unlocking the iPhone : after getting the iPhone to accept new programs, you need to install a program to unlock your sim card
Installing Applications on your iPhone : you can use the handy Installer tool that jailbreak installs for you. Oooooooodles of applications…
iPhone Club (dutch) : this forum has a large number of flemish and dutch users who share their knowledge

Makes it very easy to get a real functional phone !

Something is winging it's way across the ocean to me.

alex — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:41:56 +0000

It should arrive real soon now.

Can you guess what it is ?

Update : it’s in Melsbroek, it’s at my (empty) house, it’s back in Melsbroek, and it has finally arrived !! Wheee !!

Ebay – laptop sold !

alex — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:39:43 +0000

The aftermath of my Ebay Trubles.

After 8 days, I could file a complaint, and after a further 8 days without hearing anything from the buyer, I could annul the deal and put it up for resale. This time I put it up only for 5 days, ending a Sunday afternoon at 5pm, and it actually got sold for 30 euros more than before. So there is a silver lining to this cloud after all…

Still, it rankled, not hearing anything from the buyer. A simple, “No I’m not interested”, or “I made a mistake” would have helped me a lot.

The current buyer is picking it up this week. We’ll see if things work out, but I have good hopes.

Update : everything went fine.