Archive for July, 2008

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iTalk while iDrive.

While i was buying my Universal Dock, i also bought the bluetooth headset

The price is a little steep, however the ease of use is pretty impeccable. The headset can be paired with your phone just by plugging it in using the cable. The single button is used for everything, as usual for bluetooth headsets.

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iPhone while iDrive.

I have the equivalent of an iTrip in my car, this then plugs into my phone’s headphone jack and broadcasts over FM. However, it has one major flaw: changing tracks while driving.

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Talking Business - Apple’s Culture of Secrecy - NYTimes.com

On Thursday afternoon, several hours after I’d gotten my final “Steve’s health is a private matter” — and much to my amazement — Mr. Jobs called me. “This is Steve Jobs,” he began. “You think I’m an arrogant [expletive] who thinks he’s above the law, and I think you’re a slime bucket who gets most of his facts wrong.” After that rather arresting opening, he went on to say that he would give me some details about his recent health problems, but only if I would agree to keep them off the record. I tried to argue him out of it, but he said he wouldn’t talk if I insisted on an on-the-record conversation. So I agreed.

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VMware Fusion performance tests

Unlike x5315, I have an Intel Mac which means I can run VMware Fusion, which is VMware’s Mac virtualisation software catered in particular to be user friendly for people who want to run Windows apps on their Mac without using Bootcamp. I decided to run some benchmarks - not between VMware Fusion and my MacBook, but between two Linux virtual machines inside Fusion - using different architectures, and came to some surprising results.

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