As we reported yesterday, a method has been found for un-bricking iPhones that bricked after being unlocked and installing the firmware update, but some functionality was still lost. Now, there has been a method of unlocking found that restores all of the functionality to the device exactly the way it was before the update.
As we reported yesterday, a method has been found for un-bricking iPhones that bricked after being unlocked and installing the firmware update, but some functionality was still lost. Now, there has been a method of unlocking found that restores all of the functionality to the device exactly the way it was before the update.
As we reported yesterday, a method has been found for un-bricking iPhones that bricked after being unlocked and installing the firmware update, but some functionality was still lost. Now, there has been a method of unlocking found that restores all of the functionality to the device exactly the way it was before the update.
As I’m sure you all know, the new firmware update has been receiving mixed opinions from users, to put things lightly. With the new firmware, installing 3rd party applications, custom ringtones, and unlocking the device from the AT&T SIM is a lot more difficult. Some suspect they might have even gone as far as to brick devices running the unlock, leaving a bitter taste in the mouths of owners.
As I’m sure you all know, the new firmware update has been receiving mixed opinions from users, to put things lightly. With the new firmware, installing 3rd party applications, custom ringtones, and unlocking the device from the AT&T SIM is a lot more difficult. Some suspect they might have even gone as far as to brick devices running the unlock, leaving a bitter taste in the mouths of owners.
As I’m sure you all know, the new firmware update has been receiving mixed opinions from users, to put things lightly. With the new firmware, installing 3rd party applications, custom ringtones, and unlocking the device from the AT&T SIM is a lot more difficult. Some suspect they might have even gone as far as to brick devices running the unlock, leaving a bitter taste in the mouths of owners.
Today I was reading Presentation Zen, and found a link to an old post comparing Bill Gates and Steve Jobs keynote style. It's worth a read if you are involved in public speaking. The whole blog is worth it actually, including the new Learning from Bill Gates and Steve Jobs post.
Now back to my subject, there I found this picture:
Windows Live
Internet-based personal services to bring together your digital world
Going to live.com I found this definition:
Windows Live brings your online world together and helps you manage your social network.
Sounds good. But why the only services listed there are Search, Mail, Spaces, OneCare, Favorites (sic), MSN? Where are all the other Live services? Why aren't all these new exciting services listed?
Where are the links to Live Local, Maps, Skydrive, Messenger and dozens of other services? Since you're "bringing together", can't your guys just create an updated page with all the services linked from there? Or is it too hard even for Microsoft to keep track of what's being developed?
On another note, why Microsoft insists that browsers using English (New Zealand) shouldn't see the services that English (Australia) or English (US) see? Even when I try to post a feedback on a service I am using I get an error message saying that English (New Zealand) is not a supported language. How is the English (New Zealand) different from English (Australia) or English (United Kingdom) (sheep jokes aside)?
Microsoft, you should make sure Windows Live is bringing together digital content, not splicing it. You should stop doing this artficial "locale"-based language market separation thing that is not real.
Don't take me wrong, I use Live services - check geekzonemail.com for example (free e-mail accounts for anyone!) - but it is hard to find things and is even harder to explain to your parents what Live does.
My previous post about the New Zealand DST changes got thousands of reads, because it explains an issue that affects corporate and consumers in general. I congratulated Microsoft and Telecom New Zealand for being proactive.
After the post I found out in the comments that Vodafone New Zealand sent out a letter (yes, snail mail!) to RIM BlackBerry users explaining that DST was coming and things should be changed on their servers. Vodafone sent a letter one week before the DST change came into effect! This is not time enough for Sysadmins to prepare patches, apply, work things out. How poor is that?
Vodafone put up a page with some information, and at least they are clear that changing the clock on the BackBerry itself will not change the appointments - this needs a change on the BES.
Again, if you think just changing the time on the device is fine, read my previous blog post. The DST problem affects not only appointments created in the new DST but it affects appointments you create during the new DST that fall outside the standard DST.
Then we have Apple who has not released a patch at all. A discussion in the Geekzone Forums asked "Where is the Apple update?"… It's nowhere. Apple just recommended users to manually set the clock. This is not good enough because it only fixes the system clock. What about appointments and application running on the basis of the system timezone? Are we sure it works ok? The only thing you find is a lousy page with instructions on how to change the time on Mac OS X.
Now I read this on Slashdot::
"Although a tzdata release that includes New Zealand's recent DST changes (2007f) has been out for some time, Debian are refusing to push the update from testing into the current stable distribution, codenamed Etch, on the basis that 'it's not a security bug.' This means that unless New Zealand sysadmins install the package manually, pull the package from testing, or alter the timezone to 'GMT-13' manually, all systems running Debian Etch in New Zealand currently have the incorrect time, as DST went into effect this morning. As one of the last comments in the bug report says, 'even Microsoft are not this silly.' The final comment (at this writing), from madcoder, says 'The package sits in volatile for months. Please take your troll elsewhere.'"
Clearly, if I were a corporate IT admin, CTO, CIO I would just stay away from those vendors who refuse to make their systems work or help sysadmins.
Nokia is one company that marches to its own beat. When the thin Motorola Razr was released, Nokia waited and then released the Nokia N76. Now Nokia is revisiting the slim handset with the new Nokia 6555 for AT&T. Though it’s thicker than most of the slim phones out there, its tall shape gives it […]
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Verizon Wireless introduced the new USB727 wireless broadband modem by Novatel Wireless. The device provides on-the-go access to Verizon Wireless' national high-speed wireless broadband network, and is compatible with Windows (Vista, XP, 2000), Mac and Linux operating systems. Just plug the modem into a Type A USB port and you're ready to go. In addition, there is a microSD slot for data s…
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Filed under: CellphonesWell would you look at that, instructions are now available for downgrading your iPhone from 1.1.1 to 1.0.2. It won't downgrade your baseband, meaning so far you can't re-unlock an iPhone that's been 1.1.1-ified, but it's still 1.0.2 in all its third-party application glory.
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