iTunes updates and iPod Updater

Apple released today iTunes update 6.0.5 and iPod updater 2006-06-28, both have whopping 41.8MB and 18.9MB respectively. I've noticed that just this week, Apple has released a couple of updates both for OS X and for Quicktime. Man those downloads where big, I wonder if these were "updates" or re-download of the softwares themselves. 

Yahoo Messenger Exploits! I've been victimized!

A friend of mine sent me a link thru Yahoo messenger the other day. Stupid of me to try out the link, and it forwarded to a Yahoo log-in page, so with all the stupidity in the world, I entered my Yahoo log-in details, and lo and behold, after a couple of days, I can't log-in to my Yahoo account, good think I was able to recover it.

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I thought my iPod DIED!

Whew, I got myself a new 5G 30GB iPod. When I plugged it in my PC, I was notified that the software needs some upgrading, so I did through the iPod updater, but after the update, my iPod suddenly gave me that "folder with an exclamation point" icon, how ever I tried with my PC and the RESTORE option in the iPod software, it doesn't work. Then I decided to try it on my Mac, whew, thank GOD the software was restored, for a minute there I thought I have a spanking new paperweight.

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SkypeOut for FREE and IT WORKS!!!

Yesterday I got an email from SKYPE telling me that they're giving me one (1) hour of free calls to ordinary phones using SKYPE. At first I was hesitant, knowing that their FREE calls are only for US to US calls, but then I thought that this is only for one hour so maybe it's true. I decided to try it this morning, I dialed my friend's number in Australia, and lo and behold, it rang. Then I hang up, decided to call my own cellular number and again, it rang. I dialed my friend's number in Singapore and when he answered I jumped to jubilation! Imagine, an hour of international calls to ordinary phone,  I don't need to wait for my friends or relatives to get online, all I have to do is, open up SKYPE and dial, it's as simple as that.

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Driv-e-mocion

Oh how I wish they have this here in the Philippines. I surely wouldn't have any problems speaking a piece of my mind to all those arrogant, ill-mannered Public Utility Vehicles.

AU-MY Innovatively Designed Products for Modern Day Living.( innovative design, modern living, gadget, bargain, best value, best price)

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White Sony Ericsson W810i

The world is dominated by blacks and whites. After the success of the Sony Ericsson Walkman-phones, SE is now out to dominate the neutral-colored phone market.

The cellphone will have the same specs and come with a grey headset and memory card. Quick refresher on the w810i specs: EDGE, 2 megapixel camera, quad-band, USB 2.0, Memory Stick Pro Duo of up to 2GB, and 22MB internal memory

Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog

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Widsets -- Widgets for your phone

WidSets is a very simple and yet clever little service that brings information that you normally have access to over the Internet, directly to your mobile phone. It uses mini-applications called widgets that keep an eye out on updates to websites you normally visit several times a day. This is done through RSS feeds, which push information from these websites directly to your phone, whenever they are updated.

As long as your phone is JAVA enabled then you don't have to worry about it. I have tried this just today and it works, though there are only a few widgets available, but hey, in a few weeks perhaps your favorite widgets  might already be available for download. And most of all this is a FREE service.

WidSets has a useful feature called Traffic Monitor, which helps you monitor how much data WidSets is using in total and how much data is used by individual widgets. There is also a limit you can set for the data transferred by your widgets - we'll send a notification to your Widsets-widget on the mobile and let you know when the limit has been exceeded.

To get started, click the Sign Up - button on the left-hand side of the home page, fill out your personal information, email address and mobile phone number and activate the account by downloading and activating the WidSets client on your phone.

Note: WidSets does not currently work with Nextel, T-Mobile USA or BREW-enabled phones (e.g. Verizon, Alltel, U.S. Cellular), or Palm devices.

WidSets Beta

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Opera 9 is out

The much-awaited Opera version 9 is out. With much better features than the old ones. This time it offers the "IN" these days which are the WIDGETS. What I like about Opera is the text to speech function, works best for lazy people like me.

One Georgeous Stethoscope!!!!

Damn! I don't know if it's just me, of is this Steth a one georgeous bitch!!!! It has noise cancelling technology in it and it's made by one of the leading makers of audio products, Bang & Olufsen. Although it's battery operated, but still having one of these hanging on your neck will not just attract patients, if you know what I mean!

Swedish Filesharers Fight Back

In response to the closure of The Pirate Bay website, swedish hackers had defamed some Swedish government websites. Ironically, www.thepiratebay.org is up again, running on servers somewhere in Netherlands.

Email in the middle of the sea

As I make this email/blog I am in the middle of the sea. No I'm not on a Cruise Ship nor am I on an oil rig, it's just fortunate that as I cross the Burias Pass on a banca, I can still get a very decent signal from my mobile phone carrier Globe telecom. The wonders of technology.

Lenovo Computers are "Security Threat"

The US Department of State said earlier that the 10,000 Lenovo
computers that they have acquired will not be used for sensitive
materials as these computers can pose a security threat to the
country. It believes that Lenovo, which retained the Thinkpad brand
after it acquired it from computer maker IBM, can and might use the
computers to spy on the US government. Lenovo is partially owned by
the Chinese government. According to Microsoft officials, makers of
the Windows operating system which Lenovo uses in their computers,
Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) can tweak or modify their
Windows softwares to suit the manufacturers "needs". It was said the
manufacturers could hide softwares or programs within the windows
operating system.

The Pirate Bay.org Shut Down

Swedish authorities has shut down ThePirateBay.org site for reasons
related to piracy. According to the site, the raiding team cannot
tell them the reason why they have to shut down a site before any
legal debate could occur. ThePirateBay.org is a very famous site for
downloading bittorrent files.