What apple really means:
“If you lose or misplace the phone, you can login to MobileMe on any browser and it will show you where the phone is”
MEANS….
“We have a backdoor allowing remote invokation and transmission of the GPS co-ordinates of your iPhone. Sleep well”
OS X Leopard 10.6 Snow Leopard – $29 , $49 family pack – Major Win.
Lets hope MS follows suit on 7.
Nightmare.
Wireless N adapters never seem to work with Windows 7 x64. I have now, however gotten my F5D8051 to work so I thought I’d post a quick guide.
1. Download the drivers from here for the Ralink chipset
2. Install the package
3. Update the driver for your Belkin N1 adapter to the driver
4. Click ‘Let me pick from a list of device drivers…’
5. Untick ‘Show compatible hardware’
6. Select ‘Ralink Technology, Corp.’ (if there are two, pick the second)
7. Select ‘802.11n USB Wireless Card’.
8. Install the driver and watch your network stop dropping out!!!
Good luck! When in doubt; get the chipset manufacturers driver!
Chris
I didn’t want to post until I had received mine… but I stumbled upon the site http://www.3dongleforfree.co.uk . 3dongle4free is run by Micro-P (a very large distribution company!) and sponsored by 3 Mobile.
You get a USB Modem with a Micro SD Card slot and the drivers and installation files all in the dongle. It’s very neat actually… plug in, and everything’s a go :)!
So… http://www.3dongleforfree.co.uk, Sign up, order your dongle for the £4.99 postage, and enjoy.
Just make sure that you join a bundle afterwards or else you’ll be charged at £1 / MB – but £10 a month on a free dongle with no commitment is pretty good!
This is just one part of a number of surprisingly pleasant IT experiences that I’ve had recently – smooth and intuitive! One of the key others being ‘The Sims 3′. More about that later!
Chris
There were a lot of things that I was hoping that Wordpress 3.0 would bring to blogging; for the moment at least I’m relatively indifferent; P2 from Automattic creates a new type of blog… one that the owner can blog to as easily as typing a twit, a Facebook status update, a text, an email.
I am writing this 30 seconds before another engagement; something I would never have done before with the old model.
I like it, I’m going to modify the theme to alter a few things (include comments in the ‘replies’ threading being top of the list!). But… I like it. A lot.
Blogging, how blogging should be. Try it out; http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/p2
The Wolfram Alpha has gone public, and you can get a view of the inside of their ‘control centre’ over at http://www.justin.tv/clip/2dd6b9f07e7f8a4e. It’s a little gimmicky.. but the charts on the screen are pretty cool! Now… what does everyone think of the product??
I have now finished my dissertation! (Some sort of) Freedom is mine! Exams to go yet, but it certainly frees up a lot of time… I have used a little bit of this to start designing the look-and-feel and content management system for one of the sites I want to make; this one is sort of a throw-away, I’ve had about 500 email responses about it so I want to get it up and let the community run it. http://www.theme7.net
It’s going to host Windows 7 integrated theme packs; a feature in Windows 7 that I really like!
It’s very early stages now, but over the coming days and weeks it should approach completion so… bookmark it!
Thanks a lot; I’ve got a lot of iPhone dev stuff going on as well, I would be interested in hearing from anyone who has experience in developping iPhone applications.
Speak soon,
Chris
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Chris Maddern 12:18 am on June 2, 2009 Permalink
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