Apple Tademarks Leopard System Preferences Logo
Trademark Files for Leopard Systems Preferences Logo
Really Steve, do we have to trademark everything? Stop wasting time with all you copyrights and trademarks and hushing everyone at Apple from tell anyone what is coming next and work on fix the broke iPhone 2.x platform, iPhone battery life, and the pathetic MobileMe system. On MobileMe, how bad is it when Google provide a much better platform for free that we can bget from MobileMe for a $100/year. Stop filing patents and fix your services.
Hey Microsoft – Seinfield had a Mac
Looks like Microsoft has finally had enough of Apple poking fun at Vista with its rather humorous, I’m a Mac commercials. 
It would seem that they have paid Jerry Seinfield $10 million dollars to appear with Bill Gates in some so-called ‘edgy Microsoft commercials. Hmmm, I wonder if anyone at the Microsoft marketing department actually watched Seinfield…cause Jerry Seinfield had a Mac in the show.
I am curious to see what the commercial will be. It is suppose ot air on September 4th.
More details: Gates, Seinfield to appear in MS Vista ads?
MS Counter – Apple ads start, admit early flaws
Getting an iPhone 3G – Maybe Later…
iPhone Suffering from Flawed 3G Chips
After reading this article about possible problems with the iPhone 3G chip, I am rather glad that I did not get one.
My situation is a bit unique. I simply do not want to buy a $300 iPhone 3G, sign a 2 year contract with AT&T, and next year this time not be able to use it when I am in Ottawa, Canada. Would be sweet if Rogers would let me simply sign my iPhone 3G purchased in the US up to their service, but that is not going to happen. Rogers is having too much fun raping their fellow Canadian citizens with their 3 year contracts and $110 limited data plans for the iPhone 3G.
Lets hope that this is a firmware fixable issue. God knows the Iphone 2.0 software is slow and buggy. It literally takes me 2 seconds to get SMS Text Messaging to appear once clicking on the iPhone icon. Even longer for it to bring up my contacts list.
I was a huge fan of the iPhone 2G and the 1.0 software, but I have to say, with the 2.0.1 (that is even with a bug fix or two) the iPhone works like an alpha product. Battery life….hmmm, do not get me started. Oh, and why does it take an hour to sync my iPhone now – why?
Steve – Please use some those hordes of cash you are making off the new phones and the App Store and fix the damn software…please!
What ifs Again – Can We Just Move on Hillary
You know, this article may have just hit me the wrong way, bit I had to say something. Senator Hillary Clinton, you lost, get over it! I mean come on how many times do we have to hear ‘what of’ scenarios of how things might have been if this or that did or did not happen. The simple fact is, we live in the here and now, and lets move forward.
I do not want to hear for the next several weeks about how Clinton might have done this or that, or how Edwards took votes away from her, etc, etc. Just as I do not want to hear about how Nader cost Gore or Kerry the election. Gore and Kerry cost Gore and Kerry the election for not talking about issues. …but that is another topic…
Goodbye Bernie Mac
Unfortunately the world has lost a very funny guy. As many articles about his death state, people were shocked in Bernie Mac’s passing. (Star pay tribute to Bernie Mac)
I am a bit surprised that he died from pneumonia. I would have thought in this day and age, as long as you got hospitalization, this would have not been such of a problem.
Obviously I was mistaken.
Moving into the Cloud
After making the argument a while back with several of my friends to use Site5 to host their blog and other web services, I am moving my blog to wordpress.com. Nothing against Site5, it is just a change of life and priorities that is creating the move more than anything else. Hosting your own blog software requires geek time to review and update from time to time, and at the point in time, I need something that requires no maintenance. WordPress.com fits the bill. So as you will start to see, all my online services and life will be moving into the Web 2.0 cloud.
- Personal Blog: WordPress.com (http://justisengard.org) — still using my domain name though.
- Photos: MobileMe Gallery (http://gallery.me.com/justisengard) — Photo Albums and Movies
- PhotoBlog: Flickr (http://flickr.com/photos/justisengard) — Snapshots from iPhone with the cool new apps with geo-tagging
- Micro-Blogging: Pownce: (http://pownce.com/justisengard)
Also created a new blog for Anita and I to share stories, comments and opinions during our travels. For those wanting to now where we just came back from, what happened or where we are planning to go, or what unique food we had – this is the place we will capture all this.
- David & Anita’s Epic Adventures: (http://davidandanita.org)
I have to say I have been plessantly surprised how well WordPress.com works. The advanced fucntions on the GUI editor are nice, and I do not have to struggle with inserting pictures, etc. ScribeFire (blogging plugin for Firefox) works well with it too. You will see me changing themes for a bit until I find one that works for me. I may just have to break down and do some CSS editing…but I am not there just yet.
Cell Phones & Your Brain
Check out this article: Fears About Link Between Cell Phones and Cancer Re-Emerge.
Seems the cell phone antenna emits microwave radiation at least an inch from the phone. So when you are holding the cell phone to your ear, unless you have big thick ears, you are frying a bit of your brain.
Cell phones emit low doses of microwave radiation that destroy rat brain cells and memory and reach one inch into the human brain.
Wow, looks like I should start using my ear piece more. You know, maybe this would help those idiot drivers with one hand on the steering wheel and one holding their cell phone to their head.
Larry King recently featured three well-respected neurosurgeons on Larry King Live to talk about whether cell phones increase the risk of cancer. Each surgeon indicated that they do not hold their cell phones up to their ears when using them. Keith Black, a surgeon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles said “I think the safe practice is to use an earpiece so you keep the microwave antenna away from your brain.
So what is the take away from all this? Frying your brain with microwave energy is baaad. You have two choices: One, do not use a cell phone or two, get a ear piece.
The DNS Flaw
Evidently there is a flaw or bug in all DNS caching servers that is really simple and has not been patched.
The above Infoworld blog is where I initially found out about this. Then I move the the link in the article to Poor DNS blog post of someone who has been doing testing. Checkout what he found, but here is the latest list of vulnerable DNS servers.
VMware Fusion Users Beware
Just came across the following article about a possible bug with VMware Fusion.
VMware blames Apple for Fusion corruption
According to VMware, the underlying problem is in the way Mac OS X
handles unbuffered I/O. The issue is variously referred to as either a
bug or “a disagreement between Fusion and OS X about what sequences of
disk-write calls are legal to make.”Unbuffered I/O works by sending data directly to the file, as opposed
to buffered I/O which stages the data to be written into a block of
memory (a buffer) and then writes the contents of the buffer out to the
file.The good news is that with its default settings, Fusion does not use unbuffered I/O.
Well, evidently, I am not the power user of years past, as I did not know there was such a setting to change.
For now, VMware says “We have reported this issue to Apple, but until
this bug is resolved, we recommend that all VMware Fusion users ensure
they select the default option, in VMware Fusion Preferences, for
‘Optimize for virtual machine disk performance’ to guard against
potential data loss.”
Jesse Helms Dies
I know many people across the country are celebrating. Jesse Helms created some passionate enemies in his life. I cannot say that I am one of them though. I disagreed with him on most of his positions, but I did have a keen respect for the man. No matter what you thought of his ideology or his political positions, no one could say that Jesse Helms did not stand on his principles. In my opinion, that is something sorely missing from American politics. Too many American politicians cannot make a decision without taking a poll to determine which way the political winds are blowing. You never had to be worried about Helms doing that, he made decisions based on his principles and stuck with them. Even when they were not popular.
