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I’m writing this post on my iphone, in Thailand, on 1 2 Call, a local Thai cell provider.
This was made possible by a hardware sim card unlock I bought from a cell phone store. I was wandering around Central World, randomly looking at HTC phones and I found a factory unlocked iPhone for only $1000usd!
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Using DisplayLink with the MacBook Pro to support up to 16 additional monitors.
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Ever since I got my Macbook Pro I’ve experienced the slow wake up issue. It is by far the most annoying persistent problem with the MBP. Here’s the solution:
Install SmartSleep. This adds a new pane to your System preferences that allows you to tweak the underlying system settings.
Set the current sleep state to “smart sleep”, [...]
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I use FileVault to encrypt my Home directory. Upgrading from Tiger to Leopard went without a hitch. I was really enjoying the OS until the first update to Leopard was installed. Long story short, something changed, I tried to boot and I couldn’t log in.
Basically Apple’s QA totally screwed me. A major bug that got [...]
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My blood ran cold as Backup’s restore didn’t work. There it was, my 10gig full backup file and Backup wouldn’t restore any of the files out of it. Five years of photos in an iPhoto library that I couldn’t get out… when I tried to restore, nothing, no files came back.
My old iMac was already [...]
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