Steve Wozniak on iPhone antenna issues, Google taking over, and Steve Jobs. (via Jeremy or @echoz on Twitter)
Always like Steve Wozniak. Seems like one of the nicest people in the tech industry. When placed next to Steve Jobs, he seemed extremely humble.
This always annoys me. Mac OS X’s Terminal’s prompt not loading promptly.
Sometimes it is something to do with Apple system logs. You can clear them through this:
It works for me and I’m a happy user again, now the prompt in Terminal starts quickly when I start a new Terminal tab. Hope it helps.
Just realized the white iPhone 4 which I have long claimed virtual ownership of has been delayed to late this year. Darn.
And it’s due to manufacturing problem Apple claims. We all know white plastics are an extremely rare substance that only grow to abundance during Christmas.
Apple iPad to come in Singapore this week, July 23 (Friday). And that’s the Apple iPad release date.
iPad Available in Nine More Countries This Friday
CUPERTINO, Calif., July 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple® today announced that iPad™ will be available in Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand and Singapore this Friday, July 23. iPad allows users to connect with their apps and content in a more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before. Users can browse the web, read and send email, enjoy and share photos, watch HD videos, listen to music, play games, read ebooks and much more, all using iPad’s revolutionary Multi-Touch™ user interface. iPad is 0.5 inches thin and weighs just 1.5 pounds—thinner and lighter than any laptop or netbook—and delivers up to 10 hours of battery life. (Source: PRNewsWire)
Keen to get one?
My iTunes has been pretty much screwed these days with the notification message:
One Moment Please.
Connecting to the iTunes Store.
LoadingIf iTunes doesn’t open, click the iTunes application icon in your Dock or Windows Task Bar.
So iTunes does not itself know it is in iTunes. Very philosophical.
I tried logging out of my iTunes account and cannot log in back. I can log in using iTunes for Windows on my Windows machine but not iTunes for Mac. I have also reset everything in Safari.
Signing in to iTunes give me the following:
[iTunes We could not complete your iTunes Store request. An unknown error occured (-50).]
I can’t use iTunes Store any more and Apple Support doesn’t seem to have a similar problem listed.
[UPDATE: I resolved the issue.]
Okay actually, I sort of solved it accidentally a few minutes after I write this. I just randomly delete some files that says iTunes such as the cache and I chanced upon the right file to delete.
There appears to have been some problems with iTunes preferences. I don’t exactly know which particular setting is incorrect; I don’t recall editing my preferences in the past couple of months.
Anyway, I deleted the preferences file. Mine is found in:
This causes iTunes to launch the set up wizard for iTunes where you have to click through all over again, as if it is a new installation. But that’s fine for me, I hardly customized my iTunes anyway.
And the iTunes Store is working again. Damn.
I don’t think he can laugh about it today.
Opps. If you’re on Snow Leopard, never log into your guest account. Logging into the guest account then back to your account can cause your account’s home directory to be deleted as though it is brand new. It is speculated that Apple’s Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard deletes the user’s home directory instead of the guest’s directory.
Snow Leopard bug can delete account data
A bug has been reported in Apple’s new Snow Leopard version of OS X that can result in the loss of an entire user account’s data. The glitch seems to be triggered by using a Guest account and then trying to log back into a regular account.
According to multiple topics on the Apple Support discussion boards, the problem can occur when a user logs into their Mac’s Guest account — whether by accident or on purpose — and then tries to log back into their regular account.
In some cases, users have reported finding their regular account empty of data, as though it were a brand new account.
Speculation is that something makes Snow Leopard treat the regular account like a Guest account, from which by default all data is deleted upon logout. Further speculation is that the problem occurs when the Guest account was already enabled in Leopard before being upgraded to Snow Leopard. (Source: IT Wire)
This is really bad if it’s true. Apple has yet to confirm this.