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Sarkozy in South Park

It’s the first time South Park depicts Sarkozy so it’s always a pleasure. Though the story of the episode revolved over Canada and how the world perceives it, some foreign presidents were given much speech time (Switzerland, Japan, Britain, and mostly France with Sarkozy). Below are some pics:


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iPhone Firware update 1.1.4

It’s the end of February and Steve had promised us the iPhone SDK but didn’t deliver. In fact, rumors say that the March 6th event he has lined up will only be a breif announcement of a limited beta. Bummer. In any case, this Tuesday was very eventful at Apple. The MacBook and MacBook Pro were both updated, iTunes was updated, and a new iPhone firmware, 1.1.4 was released. This update was a pain to install! Downloading via iTunes was fine but the update failed 3 times before finally being applied. And once it was applied and I had shut off my machine, the phone locked itself and was deactivated. I had to turn everything back on to connect it to iTunes again after which it started working. Firmware updates have never gone very smoothly for me which I find strange. After all, I have never jail-breaked my phone or messed it up so I would expect it to be a smooth process. It never is. it’s gotten to the point where I wouldn’t recommend any update unless the person is a bit computer-savy.

The latest firmware didn’t seem to bring anything new. Apple reports that they fixed bugs (which is good). And it seems like Safari keeps pages in cache longer than before. One of my general habits is to load a bunch of news websites via WiFi in the morning before I walk out so that I can have quick access to several news pages while I’m on the bus or in the metro. But usually, by the time I switch pages, the browser has cleared up the window and reloads it via Edge which is too slow to be acceptable for certain sites. Hopefully this fix will keep all pages in cache for a longer time.

Other than this small thing, I haven’t noticed anything mind-boggling. If I do, or if I read about anything, I’ll share it here. I’m guessing this update was just in preparation for next week’s release. Perhaps we’ll be able to install an app after the keynote! (crossing fingers) cheese 

 
     
   
 
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Happy New Year! and iPhone bugs…

First of all, I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. Some great things are coming in 2008. Let’s get ready smile

As is custom, I made and received quite a few calls around midnight. Having relatives in various places around the world, I was constantly using the iPhone Clock program to see what time it was in these different places. This is when I noticed a strange bug.

To understand this bug, it is important to note that I am in Paris, thus with a GMT+1.

As the image below shows, at 10:16pm, Paris-time, the label was “Today”. However, for Doha, which is 2 hours ahead of Paris, it was 12:16am of the 1st of January and yet the date was “07/12/31” which is off.

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The bug repeated itself AFTER midnight, Paris-time. This time, the Toronto time is a day off. Toronto, which is 6 hours behind Paris was displaying a date of “08/01/01”.

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Typically, the iPhone displays “Today” or “Yesterday” tags. But this time, it displayed incorrect dates even though it was aware of time zone. Although this is small glitch, I hope Apple fixes it in the next firmware update.

Can anyone confirm this bug? Please do so in the comments or send pictures to .

Update: The iPhone depicted above was bought and is running in France on the Orange network with firmware 1.1.2 (3B48b).

 
     
   
 
Unlocked iPhones to be sold in France

According to Kevin J. O’Brien of the International Herald Tribune, Orange is expected to sell unlocked iPhones in November along-side exclusive Orange deals.

The move, which ended a month of speculation, is a concession to a French law that forbids bundling the sale of a mobile phone and a mobile operator. Orange plans to sell both a version of the iPhone locked to its network in France for €399, or $560, and an unlocked version, which will cost more, an Orange spokeswoman, Béatrice Mandrine, said.

I must admit that this move suprises me since there is a battle going on on one side of the planet to prevent unlocking of iPhones and at the same time, there will be a legally available unlocked iPhone. Sure, the price will probably be very high but still…

Source: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/16/business/apple.php

 
     

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