Archive for the 'Gadgets' Category

Apple TV Take 2

Apple TV Take 2
Get your hacked Apple TV 1.0 (without YouTube) or 1.1 (with YouTube) and follow the simple instructions at Awkward TV Wiki :: Take 2 Safe Update.

Advantages compared to the official upgrade:
- SSH keeps working.

Disadvantages:
- Lack of airtunes working. I’ve managed to get it [...]


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Enough with the iPhone already

erm, yah right

Joy of Tech

:D


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Sony Walkman NW-A800

Can I call it Sony-Ericsson?

Just look at the menus. This is clearly the same software as the one in the Sony-Ericsson mobile devices. The same menus, same photo thumbnails, same scrollbars, same everything. It just doesn’t do voice calls. :)

So, Apple moves from the iPod into the [...]


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iPod Reset

For reference:

To reset iPod mini, iPod mini (Second Generation), iPod photo, and iPod (Click Wheel):

Toggle the Hold switch on and off. (Slide it to Hold, then turn it off again.)
Press and hold the Menu and Select buttons until the Apple logo appears, about 6 to 10 seconds. You may need to repeat this step.

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Honey, does size matter?

One of the most common sentences coming out of my mouth is “where the hell did I left my phone!!!”
I can only wonder if I had one of these hehe
and yes, this is a joke! The Zoolander Phone stared in the film Zoolander as a satire to the mobile’s industry [...]


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J2ME Development in Mac OS X

Here’s some simple notes on how to enable J2ME/MIDP development in Mac OS X:

1. Download the MPowerPlayer SDK from this link.

2. Unzip the “mpp-sdk-*.zip” into “/opt/mpp-sdk/“.

3. Download the latest available SUN’s J2ME toolkit for Linux (or for Mac, if any), from JavaME download page. Whilst the toolkit v2.5 is only available for Windows, grab the [...]


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Mac mini Memory Upgrade

Mac mini Memory Upgrade
Mac mini Memory Upgrade (2006.07.18)

Six month ago I did an memory upgrade to our own Mac mini, PowerPC based.

This week I’ve tried to do the same memory upgrade procedure in a new Intel based Mac mini and it wasn’t as easy as before.


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New Baby countdown

NO, Nuno, IT’S NOT YOUR NEPHEW!


:D


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iPod Market Share: 14%

Oh yes, it’s true. It went down from 80% to 14% in only eighteen months. And I might even have been partly responsible for a small part of it. :D

Demise of a Darling: iPod market share crashes to 14% amid management denials.

Music Player Market Share
Red is [...]


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Do get out more….please

Heeeeeeeeere’s Klong! Software in the real sense of the word SOFT.

whoevers comes up with this things gotta be really anti-social, “me thinks”….

I mean just look at the ad for F. sake! (click for original size)

Thanks to a set of arms that are longer than an over-enthusiastic Oscar acceptance [...]


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