- Android doesn’t, and is notoriously known for bad and short software support.
- Microsoft does it for its software (example Windows XP will get software updates for 12 years 7 months 15 days)
- There is a 5 year mandatory warranty for fabrication defects (I don’t think it excludes software defects) on mobile phones in Norway (Reklamasjon, Fem års reklamasjonsrett på mobil).
- Prevent malware and bugs to flourish on phones that are still being used.
iPhone Original had the most resent iOS version for 2 years 11 months 22 days ending only 1 year 11 months 10 days after end of sales.
iPhone 3G had the most resent iOS version for 2 years 6 months 26 days ending only 7 months 30 days after end of sales.
iPhone 3GS has the most resent iOS version for 2 years 6 months 13 days and counting.
I am not saying that Apple should add new features to old phones not able to handle more advanced task. Just make them work as they should for 5 years!
Take a look at my iPhone timetable for future updates on newer iPhones.
Goldclone’s infrastruktur er i bevegelse:
- http://goldclone.no <-> http://www.goldclone.com (hovedfokus på de potensielt komersielle prosjektene)
- http://www.goldclone.org -> http://vegard.goldclone.no
- http://goldclone.org/artbyo/ -> http://artbyo.goldclone.no
- http://goldclone.org/vardorussen/ -> http://vardorussen.goldclone.no (For framtidssikker arkivering)
- http://www.goldclone.com -> http://www.goldclone.org (overgang til OpenSource og frivillige prosjekter)
- http://mat.goldclone.com ->http://mat.goldclone.org
- http://foroya.goldclone.com -> http://foroya.goldclone.no (For viderearbeid)
Hvorfor så mye flytting av nettsider?
Foretaket Goldclone V/Vegard Langås vil fra nå ha et permanent hjemsted på http://www.goldclone.no
http://www.goldclone.com vil fortsatt bli brukt til infrastruktur, men det er ønskelig å flytte det bort fra uninett/valhall som har brukskrav til å være ikkekomersielt og er forbeholdt studentaktiviteter.
http://www.goldclone.org vil bli flyttet til valhall og vil være stedet for studentaktiviteter og OpenSource prosjekter. Prosjekter som tidligere har vært under http://goldclone.com paraplyen som http://nsr.samfunnet.no vil mest sansynligvis ikke bli påvirket. Prosjekter som er under utvikling vil bli kastet rundt og mest sansynligvis havne under http://goldclone.no eller http://goldclone.org.
Den personlige bloggen blir flyttet fra http://www.goldclone.org til http://vegard.goldclone.no men er fortsatt i limbo i påvente av en bedre domenemuligheter da langås.org ikke nådde helt opp til forventningene (bokstaven å er problematisk). Den personlige bloggen er også i fare for å bli amputert da den har alt for mye forskjellig. Twitter og Nettby loggene bli kanskje få egne sider, slik at de ikke skaper forvirring blant bloggpostene som jeg ønsker å sette fokuset på. Loggene bærer definitivt tegn til å eldres da nettby er nedlagt og ikke kommer til å se oppdateringer, i tillegg til at twitter ikke lengre blir akrivert etter twitters overgang til oauth. Hær vil det komme nye løsninger, og jeg ser for meg at dette vil komme til å være Gina Trapanis http://thinkupapp.com
Noen av sidene har midlertidige 301 redirects som gjør slikt at alt fortsatt funker, men du anbefales å oppdatere rss feeds og bokmerker asap da domenene vil få nye meninger etterhvert som systemene klarer å komme seg opp av startgropen.
Backing up and syncing your Addons and addon-settings accross several computers in World of Warcraft is really simple with dropbox.
- If you dont have one, get a dropbox account and install the dropbox application (mac/windows/linux).
- Create a fitting folder structure inside your dropbox folder. I made Dropbox/World of Warcraft/WTF/Account/ and Dropbox/World of Warcraft/Interface/.
- Now copy the Addon-folder and the Account folder from your WoW installation directory into the dropbox folders you just made.
- Delete the Addon and account folder in your WoW install directory (rename them is you are afraid of loosing anything).
- Now you need to create somthing cool called symlinks.
Creating symlinks on Windows 7:
- Open cmd as administrator. (Press the Windows button and search for cmd. Left click on “cmd.exe” and press “Run as administrator”.
- WARNING! Be carefull, this is not a toy!
- Make sure you have changed everything that needs changing in the 2 following commands. Make sure the directories are correct, or best of all; open the folders in “Computer” and copy paste them in.
mklink /D "C:\Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft\WTF\Account\<your wow account name>" "C:\Users\<your windows user name>\My Dropbox\World of Warcraft\WTF\Account\<your wow account name>"
mklink /D "C:\Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns" "C:\Users\<your windows user name>\My Dropbox\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns"
- Run the 2 commands.
Creating symlinks in Mac OS X:
- In spotlight search for Terminal and launch it.
- Make sure you have changed everything that needs changing in the 2 following commands. Make sure the directories are correct, or best of all; navigate to them in Terminal, use the command pwd and copy paste them in.
ln -s "/Users/<your os x account name>/Dropbox/World of Warcraft/WTF/Account/<your wow account name>" "/Applications/World of Warcraft/WTF/Account/<your wow account name>"
ln -s "/Users/<your os x account name>/Dropbox/World of Warcraft/Interface/AddOns" "/Applications/World of Warcraft/Interface/AddOns"
- Run the 2 commands.
Install dropbox and create symlinks on all the computers you want to sync with. Word of warning; there might be some issues if you are playing on both/several computers at the same time, dropbox usually handles this with 2 versions of the file addon settings. This might consume some extra space and making it hard to navigate, however it will not affect the game in other ways than 1 of the 2 changes will be lost.
Apple iPad
Yes, it is that bad! Now first let me tell you why the press seems to think the opposite:
Today, January 27th announced Apple it lates addition to their line of mobile devices; the iPad. It is a tablet device using what is basically the iPhone OS. It has a 10″ LED screen featuring multi-touch as we have become use to with the iPod touch and iPhones. It is wireless connected with both AT&T 3G (the same 3G network as in all of Europe), and N high speed wireless wifi. It has a special designed Apple A4 processing unit, running at 1 ghz. The Apple A4 is a system on a chip, with low power consumption and built in graphics processing, giving the iPad abilities to be a serious hand held device in the gaming market. During the keynote were I given the impression that this could have the potential to compete with regular gaming consoles, or pc style gaming. Another advantage to the powerful processing unit is ability to play high quality videos (720p h.264) and even youtube in HD, a feat only few of todays netbooks are able to. It has manny hardware similarities to the iPhone 3Gs, featuring a digital compass and GPS. It will come in 2 different models, one with only wifi, and one with wifi, 3G and GPS. There will be 3 storage alternatives for both of the models; 16GB, 32GB and 64GB. It will sync everything via iTunes, or over the air iPhone style (e-mail, address, contacts). The design of the device is stunning. It has a MacBook Pro style aluminium backplate and glass front, with the same stylish black border as on all Apple screens.
The iPhone OS have been heavily modified for this device, maybe giving us a sneak peak into what might be coming up on iPhone OS 4.0 for iPod touch and iPhones. It utilizes the larger screen size to improve calendar, e-mail and photo viewing. The large screen also gives you a keyboard that by the looks of it might be wieldable with 2 hands, touch typing. This ability to write text is apple utelizing with putting Pages, Numbers and Keynote in the application store, allowing you to create and edit your spreadsheets, documents and presentations on the device. To improve this even more are Apple creating a keyboard docking-station allowing you to use a real keyboard when writing in the general OS. Other accessories available to the iPad at launch is camera connectors, allowing you to transfer pictures from your usb camera or SD card.
One of the big news with the iPad was the launch of a bookstore called iBooks. This is one of the killer features of this device, allowing it to compete with devices like the amazon kindle. The iPad have a huge advantage over the amazon kindle because it is a multi function device with a color display. This allows all books, from colorful visual magazines to heavy black and white sci-fi novels. It will allow school children and students to carry all types of literature with them in a small light weight format.
What? But thats to good to be true! Indeed it is. Like online movie and tv purchase or rentals are the Americans keeping it to themselves. This makes it a flop by default. It have absolutely zero to add to the World market, infact, it is worse than the iPhone being that you are unable to call with it. It is the same story with the apple tv. It is nothing more than a fancy brick, with cool buttons. And the media functions are less appealing as you are unable to put in in your pocket and carry it with you everywhere. This would require you to have a purse or a murse with you, explaining the name iPad.
However, this is a step in the right directions. Preparing the iPhone OS and the app developers for a high resolution screen, and a powerful processor is a change that will need to happen to the iPod touch and iPhone sooner rather than later to be able to compete with android with its snapdragon and oled screen. And how Apple could forget to put a front facing camera in it, is to me a mystery.
I would like to thank the regualar suspect for allowing me meta-covering this event: TWiT Live, Gizmodo and Engadget. Congratualtions to TWiT Live that hit over 140 000 live viewers during their broadcasting of the event.
UPDATED: 3 May 2010 with 3 new shows
UPDATED: 6 April 2010 with 2 new shows
UPDATED: 21 February 2010 with what seems to be the permanent structure
For live coverage of the twit network see http://live.twit.tv
To view in vlc or other flash streaming capable mediaplayers use:
- http://bglive-a.bitgravity.com/twit/live/low from BG low resolution
- http://bglive-a.bitgravity.com/twit/live/high from BG high resolution
- http://iphone-streaming.ustream.tv/ustreamVideo/1463655/streams/live/playlist.m3u8 from ustream.tv iPhone resolution
To get the video-shows after they are recorded, add these rss feeds to your podcatcher (iTunes):
- http://feeds.twit.tv/mbw_video_large/_small for MacBreak Weekly
- http://feeds.twit.tv/ww_video_large/_small for Windows Weekly
- http://feeds.twit.tv/twit_video_large/_small for This Week in Tech
- http://feeds.twit.tv/twig_video_large/_small for This Week in Google
- http://feeds.twit.tv/twif_video_large/_small for This Week in Fun with Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
- http://feeds.twit.tv/nsfw_video_large/_small for NSFW with Brian Brushwood
- http://feeds.twit.tv/sn_video_large/_small for Security Now with Steve Gibson
- http://feeds.twit.tv/natn_video_large/_small for Net@Night with Amber Macarthur
- http://feeds.twit.tv/dksh_video_large/_small for Dr. Kiki’s Science Hour
- http://feeds.twit.tv/ttg_video_large/_small for The Tech Guy radio show
- http://feeds.twit.tv/floss_video_large/_small for Floss Weekly with Randal Schwartz and Jono Bacon
All video podcast are 654×368 with 563 kbps for large and 319 kbps for small.
The audiance shall see the content they are paying you to make!
Nytt Studio
Podcast med Vegard Langås og Viktor Basso.
Dagens emner er:
Nye lokaler på Høgskolen i Narvik
Vi har fått oss Macbook Proer
Politisk oppspinn rundt fildeling
Isohunt sin nye Hexagon
Dere kan som alltid kontakte oss i kommentarfeltet, på epost adressen podcast@goldclone.org, bli tilhenger og besøke gruppen vår på facebook eller sende oss en tweet på twitter til Vegard eller Viktor.
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Podcast med Vegard Langås og Viktor Basso.
Dagens emner er:
- Nye MacBooks
- Safari 4
- Quicktime X
- Open CL
- Mac OS X Snow Leopard
- iPhone OS 3.0
- iPhone 3G s
Dere kan som alltid kontakte oss i kommentarfeltet, på epost adressen podcast@goldclone.org, bli tilhenger og besøke gruppen vår på facebook eller sende oss en tweet på twitter til Vegard eller Viktor.
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Another WWDC Keynote is in the can. No Jobs on stage, but still an avesome keynote with good product upgrades delivered by Phil Schiller.
The first cat out of the bag was changes in the MacBook Pro lineup. The 13 inch unibody have joined the MacBook linup as a Pro, leaving the polycarbonate as the only MacBook left (maybe a future netbook will be a part of the MacBooks?). All MacBook Pros have gotten an SD card slot, and the 13 inch got a firewire 800 port. All MacBook Pros lost the ExpressCard slot, except the 17 inch. All the Pros and the Air jumped down in price.
Mac OS X Snow Leopard is getting released in September, as an inexpensive upgrade for all Leopard users. Highlights are mainly speed improvements and native exchange support in Mail, iCal and Address book. OpenCL will give you access to the amazing calculation power of the gpu. The whole OS has also gone 64 bit, with all native apps.
Safari 4 gets a 50% speed boost for java rendering and 100/100 on acid 3, and shipping today for tiger, leopard and windows. Quicktime gets complealy reworked, on backend and frontend, and (most important) a new brushed metal icon. Quicktime will also feature better basic editing for trimming clips.
iPhone 3.0 wil be released as a free software upgrade for all iPhones (small fee for all iPod Touches) on June 17th. It will future autofill in safari, and teathering for Telia Sonera (Netcom) and Telenor customers at lunch (sticking it to all US AT&T customers who are left in the darkness) in addition to all features announced in January. For all Mobile Me customers there will also be a service called Find my phone, helping you locate and remote erase a lost phone. Serveral iPhone 3.0 apps were demonstrated, but most interesting was the announsment of a TomTom turn by turn gps, with connectable accessories.
In Norway will there be a new iPhone model named iPhone 3G S on July 9th with a 3.2 mp still-camera capable of recording vga video. It will have a digital compass (not dependent on tracking movements on the gps), improved battery life and voice dialing/commands with voice synthesizer to respond to questions. The 16 gb will take the price point of the current 8 gb, and a 32 gb to take the price point of the current 16 gb. They will continue to sell the 8 gb iPhone 3G at about half price.
The Apple Store have all new and upgraded products, with new information. A big thanks to Gizmodo, gdgt, Engadget (who should get an auto refresh system), Cali Lewis, TWiT Live with Leo Laporte, iJustine, Alex Lindsay and Geoff Smith, and everyone else publishing about the keynote, making it a plessure for us to follow it live.
Alexander Rybak
Communety prosjektet geekgeneration, Eurovision song contest (Melodi Grand Prix) og digital distribusjon av lydbøker i motsetning til fysisk distrubusjon, med Vegard Langås og Viktor Basso.
Dere kan som alltid kontakte oss i kommentarfeltet, på epost adressen podcast@goldclone.org, bli tilhenger og besøke gruppen vår på facebook eller sende oss en tweet på twitter til Vegard eller Viktor.
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Vista x64 error message
I was doing converting a theme for an old page I had made, to wordpress. The theme had been made by a designer friend of mine. When he was done did he send me both jpg versions and psd version. I just used the jpg files since they where made for my page layout, and everything was fine. However now that I am converting the page to wordpress, did I need to do a bit of resizing. So I go to the adobe site to download the trial version of Adobe Photoshop CS4, install it, and start changing on the psd file. After a few seconds did it hang up, and i get the error message. I try angain several times, but I end up trying to save each layer as png files (to preserve transparentsy) as quick as I can, before it crashes.
But still the issue is that I have some png files that I need to resize and tweak. So I download gimp, and started trying to do some editing in it. And what a train wrack gimp is. There are nonsensical icons and, large boxes filled with them. They really have to do something about ui! But luckily was I able to get done with all editing that required transparentsy, and then I did the final cutting in trusty paint. But seriously gimp programmers! Go grab a few ideas about ui design in CS3,CS4 and Microsoft Paint. A quick tip from me is also to look at; how the tools work in paint, and how layers become inactive when they not are in use in photoshop.
Note: the issue with photoshop is most likely caused by my computer, but it seems weird anyways. I have had a trial of CS3 running fine under Vista x64 previously.
