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I’m Living On The Edge

So, it has been 10 something days living with the iPhone 3G. It is not without flaws, but overall it has been a positive experience. I am usually roaming around the area where 3G coverage is available. Once in a while, I noticed where the 3G signals disappeared and forced me to be living on the Edge. To be honest, it is not a horrible experience on the Edge network. After all, I had the original iPhone for a little more than a year on the Edge network.

In addition to all of that, I had answered two emails prior writing this post. Here I go sending a tiny picture and this posting through the Edge network.

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Currently Playing:
Aerosmith – “Living On The Edge”
from “Get A Grip“

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Metallica: Death Magnetic Track Listing is Revealed

Metallica has revealed “Death Magnetic” track listing in running order:

  1. That Was Just Your Life
  2. The End Of The Line
  3. Broken, Beat & Scarred
  4. The Day That Never Comes
  5. All Nightmare Long
  6. Cyanide
  7. The Unforgiven III
  8. The Judas Kiss
  9. Suicide & Redemption
  10. My Apocalypse

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Editorial:

“The Unforgiven III” is in the record. What happened? No “Fade To Black II” or sequel to any other songs? “The Unforgiven II” was a nice follow up to the original. We’ll have to wait to hear Act 3 of the saga.

I thought I was reading “This Was My Life” as the first track of the record. It is actually “This Was Just Your Life.”

Anyway, I am looking forward to listening the record.

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Aperture Update is Imminent

Aperture Icon

According to a completely imaginary source from Apple (no, it’s not Phil Schiller), Apple is set to release update for Aperture in the near future. Based on the fake informations, the update will address some stability and compatibility issues.

Take that, Scott Bourne! (Last time I heard, he likes using Aperture.)

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Apple Releases Updates for iLife ’08

Apple updates for iLife ’08 suite to include MobileMe support.

07/22/2008

iLife Support 8.3 | 10MB
iLife Support provides system software components shared by all iLife ’08 applications.

iPhoto 7.1.4 | 74MB
This update contains new holiday greeting card and postcard themes for use with Apple print products.

iMovie 7.1.4 | 38MB
This update addresses general compatibility issues, improves overall stability, and addresses a number of other minor issues.

iWeb 2.0.4 | 35MB
This update addresses general compatibility issues, improves overall stability, and addresses a number of other minor issues.

Apple was expected to release some updates to the iLife ’08 suite to bring compabilities with the newly launched MobileMe.

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MobileMe Echo Chamber

Apple started the .Mac to MobileMe transitions on July 9th, 2008. The transitions was anything but a smooth process. First, it was delayed by 2 hours. The .Mac web-interface was down for the next several days while Me.com was having problems. Despite of the troubles, most .Mac/MobileMe sevices were online. After a few days, the MobileMe launch finally was going somewhere. The web services went online although the performance was considerably slower than expected. Later on Apple re-explains and re-defines what MobileMe service is. The “Push” services only available between the “cloud” and the iPhone/iPod touch. Apple is still working on the “Push” service for Mac OS X/Windows. Apple also apologizes to their customers and adds 30 days extensions to MobileMe subscriptions. As of July 21st, 2008 Apple acknowledges some problems with Webmail access affecting 1% of MobileMe Members.

MobileMe launch is riddled with problems, but it is far from being a disaster as echoed by many tech-news site and blog postings. Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott called MobileMe launch as a “Crash and Burn” disaster.

Now, let’s take a look at a few things here:

  • Apple is struggling with MobileMe launch.
  • Describing MobileMe launch as “Crash and Burn” is not correct. If it crashed and burned, then MobileMe service would not work at all right now. Then again, this comes from Paul Thurrott the original Microsoft Defender. Thurrott thrives on bashing anything non-Microsoft.
  • The same things are repeated over and over. “MobileMe launch is a failure.” The fact is those who are affected by the outtage tend to be luder than anyone else. The rest are just parotting each other. Those who have MobileMe working are pretty much saying nothing.
  • MobileMe members are paying for the service and they are entitled for some compensations from Apple. In this case Apple is giving a 30 days extension to all MobileMe members. That counts for something.

Despite all of the troubles its having, MobileMe is working. Most of the blog-postings regarding MobileMe are merely copied and pasted from another site. Welcome to the echo chamber.

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