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Entries from July 2008

New version of Last.fm

July 28th, 2008 No Comments

After hearing that last.fm updated their website, I just had a look. Amazing! So much richer in content and much easier to navigate. I mean, I don’t see a difference in my client (iScrobbler), but holy-moly, the website is very sharp now. Design is nicer and everything is easier to find. In addtion to this, [...]

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Web site of the Open is a disgrace

July 18th, 2008 No Comments

The web site of The Open is a disgrace. The scoring board in both Firefox and in Safari on the Mac doesn’t render correctly. You would expect better from the people behind the Open - greatest golf tournament in the world.
The europeantour.com knows how to do it. As does the US PGA tour.

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MobileMe is up it seems

July 13th, 2008 No Comments

Apple seems to have put to many things out at the same time on Friday: new iPhones, MobileMe is replace .Mac and new software for the 1G iPhone.
As Luxembourg doesn’t or at least not officially has the iPhone, I can’t say anything about activation woes or 1G phones in limbo after trying to update [...]

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What am I doing browsing the App Store ?!?

July 10th, 2008 2 Comments

Browsing through the App Store, finding many interesting applications. Downloads a few… But why? The iPhone still isn’t here, so why bother? Talk about getting ahead of yourself! And who wants an iPod Touch anyway?

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MobileMe is not working here in Luxembourg

July 10th, 2008 No Comments

All day has been a mess regarding my .mac e-mail account. As most of the population will know, we are approaching the launch of the iPhone 3G rapidly. The App Store via iTunes is online (and is looking very nice, very nice indeed) and iTunes has been updated and the update was available here as [...]

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iPhone fever in the UK

July 8th, 2008 No Comments

Via Macworld UK:

Apple’s new iPhone sold out online in Britain ahead of its Friday launch, defying general consumer gloom as the country’s economy threatened to tip over into its first recession in more than a decade.
Carrier O2 said on Tuesday its website had been unable to cope with demand, which peaked at 13,000 per second. [...]

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Plazes beta

July 5th, 2008 No Comments

The Plazes beta is looking good. The interface has been cleaned up and it interacts (among other applications) with Twitter.

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