Seems that the official unlocked iPhones you can buy in France are actually only unlocked for the other French carriers.
Beware, oh Ebay buyers !!!!!
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Sad, sad, saaaad News.
It’s very sad news that I read today : Terry Pratchett, 59, is suffering from a rare form of early Alzheimer’s disease. My favourite author who writes comedy zen books, or maybe zen comedy books is suffering from a Alzheimer’s disease, a neuro-degenerative disorder that progressively leads to dementia and eventueal death. The average life-span of an Alzheimer patient is between 7 and 10 years.
I always thought that Pratchet would still be writing books way up into his early nineties, probably until the day he died, forever keeping me looking out for his next new book.
Dying old and healthy will probably be denied to him, and it feels just soooooooo unjust that one of the world’s greatest writers (in my eyes, and it the eyes of a lot of other people as well) will gradually lose his humour, his wit(s), and in the end, himself. I hope it’ll all work out for the best, that something can be done to stop the disease, but you live with the cards you are dealt with.
I sincerely wish him well, that his rare form of Alzheimer’s can be treated, and I hope that he can continue writing.
Update : you can read his original letter of 11 december 2007 and follow-up at Paul Kidby’s site, who is the artist for all the discworld drawings.
Seems that it is possible.
Seems that there is some confusing over this, so for the newb iphone users :
- Jailbreaking is the term used when cracking the protection on the iphone computer part so that you can install third-party apps.
- Activating it is the term used for cracking the mobile phone part of the iphone so that you can use any sim card you want.
At last, I just knew that somebody had to have done something about this lack of scummvm on the new platform. Even one of the original creators of Monkey Island was waiting for it…
In case you are younger than 25 or so, scummvm is a game engine emulator for the very first point-n-click adventures like ‘The Secret of Monkey Island‘ and other such ones which were hugely popular in my youth. Their 16 bit colour version would seem quaint to you now, but squashed on a small mobile phone screen this and other games are a thing of beauty you can while your time away with while travelling !
Check out the instructions on the scummvm wiki here to get some Scummy goodness on your iphone. Don’t forget to place the games on your Media space !
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Traffic Stats doubled this week.
So I just took a look at my traffic stats – since the beginning of this week, they’ve more than doubled ! From 62 unique visits to 128 !!
The search string most used to come here is apparantly “iphone” and “iphone out of diskspace” closely followed by “iphone sms crash”.
Well, I hope the information here helps you, drop me a comment here on one of the iphone entries if there is anything you want to talk about.
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The death of email ?
A thoughtful article in Slate, about the digital generation gap that exists now between those of us who started using computers and learning to use email, and the new youngsters who live in a facebook, texting, instant-messaging world, where email is what snailmail is to us : it takes too long.
Good news though : Facebook is catching on !
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