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Apple iPhone 4 Press Conference Live Coverage Links.

Apple has scheduled Press Conference at Apple Campus 10:00 AM Cupertino Time on Friday July 16th, 2010.

In case you want to know what Apple is saying up to the minute, some sites are providing live coverage.

Tune in, 10:00 AM Cupertino Time.

p.s. There might be other sites providing live coverage, the links will be added as soon as they are made available. Don’t bother going to Gizmodo site because they do not get the invitation; they are winging it anyway by taking contents from other actual live coverages into their own.

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Apollo 11 Mission to the Moon was launched 41 years ago.

July 16th, 1969 NASA embarked on a historic mission to put Man on the Moon. It took four days to reach the Moon and Neil Armstrong became the first human in the known history to step on the Moon.

We should go back to the Moon.

Apollo 11 Mission

Crew :

  • Neil Armstrong – Commander
  • Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. – Lunar Module Pilot
  • Michael Collins – Command Module Pilot

Launch:

  • July 16, 1969; 9:32 a.m. EDT
  • Launch Pad 39A
  • Saturn-V AS-506

Great moment in human history.

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Apple Seeds iOS 4.1 beta, no updates for iPad yet.

UPDATE 2:
2:50 PM Cupertino Time, iOS Developer site seems to have problem. It might be hammered by developers trying to download the SDK and it iOS 4.1.

UPDATE 1:
Game Center now requires iOS 4.1, it was previously included in iOS 4 beta.

Apple has just seeded iOS 4.1 beta to Developers for iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, iPod touch 2nd and 3rd generation. No update for the iPad yet.

Due to this little thing called NDA, information is still scarce. Not sure what changes are added into iOS 4.1 yet.

Developers can grab te iOS SDK 4.1 and iOS 4.1 for their iPhone and iPod touch at Apple Developer Center. As usual, each device running iOS 4.1 beta must be provisioned.

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Another Text Spam: 1-949-439-5924

I received another Text Spam message on June 21st, 2010. Don’t bother calling (949) 439-5924 back, because it doesn’t take any phone calls.. All you need to do is to file complaints to FCC because such unsolicited text messages violate CAN-SPAM Act. I inquired AT&T who is my service provider, but they are no help at all.

You should file form 1088G to report this violation. File a complaint on FCC site http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm

You can also call 1-888-CALL-FCC (1-888-2255-322) voice; 1-888-TELL-FCC (1-888-8355-322) TTY.

The text reads:

Wipe out 55% of credit card, and any unsecured debt. Must be 10K or more. 100% guarantee. To have representative call you, reply – YES

Text-Spam does violate the Communication Act of 1934.

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Yet another NVIDIA GeForce card bites the dust.

This is the second EVGA NVIDIA GeForce 7600 graphics card I’ve seen having blown capacitors. Well, the mystery was solved a while back. Both cards had failing cooling fan; thus it overheated and goes kaput. This particular one actually is a little bit burned. Well, see it for yourself.

This card might be a 7600 GS model with FZ74 capacitors.

Anyway, it is apparent that the heatsink fan is not that good and prone to failure.

I’ll post more pictures later.

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Apple Store, Los Cerritos Grand Opening: The lines starts at 10:00 PM Wednesday night.

UPDATE:
a few hundred people already in line by 11:30 PM.

Apple Store, Los Cerritos is scheduled for Grand Opening on June 24th, 2010 7:00 AM. Los Cerritos Mall Management informed that the line will start at 10:00 PM on Wednesday night shortly after the Mall closes. Lines are set outside the East entrance of the mall near the California Pizza Kitchen. More lines are set right outside the soon to be open Apple Store. The Grand Opening of Apple Store, Los Cerritos coinciding with the launch of iPhone 4 is scheduled from 7:00 AM to 9:00 PM.

The first 1000 customers get a free commemorative T-Shirt.

http://www.apple.com/retail/loscerritos/

http://www.shoploscerritos.com/

Apple logo is property of Apple Inc.
Thanks to Los Cerritos Mall Management for giving the permission to take the pictures.