As you’ve probably heard already, the new iPhone 3GS has been suffering from very bad overheating that’s nice enough to make shiny white iPhones pink. I mean, do you call this acceptable?:

White iPhone made pink thanks to the heat

Nah, I wouldn’t like to take my iPhone out to realize it had turned pink. But ok, Apple has made a document commenting on the issue and stating that the iPhone actually does overheat, which is ok. They have also provided a few recommendations to avoid overheating:

- Leaving the device in a car on a hot day.
- Leaving it in direct sunlight for extended amounts of time.
- Using certain applications in hot conditions or direct sunlight for long periods of time, such as GPS tracking in a car on a sunny day or listening to music while in direct sunlight.

Well, thanks a lot, but wasn’t technology supposed to help us instead of causing us trouble? I agree nothing is perfect, but my 4-year-old junk phone has never had overheating issues, while my iPod touch gets extremely hot just for being synced.

No, this is not a rant. I do like the iPhone and think it’s well worth the hiccups. I’m just pointing out one of the many things technology fails to get around, and then can even come back to bite us.

Feel free to share your thoughts, opinions and more. I’d really like to hear them.

As you’re probably aware, Psystar filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May, and many thought it’d be the end of it, but apparently now they came back with a new website and more importantly, a new computer: the Open(7), which, you guessed it, includes a Core i7 processor. This puts Apple in a pretty bad position, because currently they don’t have any i7 macs. All that for $1499, which is the price of a pretty mid-range mac.

They also seem to be ready to fight Apple, and I kinda hope they win the battle, evenn though I know that’s highly unlikely. What do you think? Will they succeed or just go away like TPB most likely will?

Source: Neowin

As you’ve probably heard already, The Pirate Bay is being acquired by a network of internet cafes for $7.8 million. Many, including myself, got extremely shocked about their inexplicable decision to sell the site after their very strong attitude to fight the copyright lawyers that had been doing on for months. Maybe they realized they had no hope against the legal system, so they decided to quit all of sudden, and you know what, I can’t blame them. Long-supporting members asked TPB to delete their accounts and a lot of anger was expressed on blog comments, and seriously, I understand them as well.

But now to the new owners: Global Gaming Factory X AB. Apparently they came to TPB a few weeks ago proposing an acquisition. They proposed “revolutionary models” to keep the content free, while paying the content providers. I’m assuming they’d do it through advertising, which actually sounds pretty acceptable. The current TPB owners are telling users not to worry, because “if the site isn’t good, people will leave”.

OK, stop right there! Before I start commenting on their actual plans, let me just say it’s very weird for a gaming company to be interested in file sharing site that’s used to share other things other than games. And their plans: yeah, raising money through advertising does sound pretty reasonable, but look at most of those ad-supported sites: they’re restricted to the countries where ad deals are successfully made – most countries will be left in the dark. That thing alone is against everything our beloved Pirate Bay stands, well, stood for. To make things even more interesting, Global Gaming Factory X AB itself admitted to TorrentFreak their publicly announced plans were nothing more than “corporate blah-blah”, meaning what we’ve officially heard so far is nothing more than BS.

So we’ve got owners who inexplicably walked away from the site, buyers who admit to lie about their plans and members leaving. Those are the exact ingredients for an acquisition that won’t benefit anyone. You know what? I think Global Gaming Factory X AB is only interested in TPB’s huge member base and traffic and the site will soon be very different, if even recognizable to the regular member. Maybe, just maybe, they’ll turn the TPB into a gaming portal (remember when I said they were a gaming company?), and yeah, that’d make total sense. Or worse, their plan could be to simply shut the site down and in the process get a lot of publicity. Or something in between.

Either way, my point is the Pirate Bay we all know and love won’t be the same anymore, so you better enjoy the site while you still can, because in 1 year things could be very different. But on the bright side, maybe there’ll be something else to replace TPB in our lives.

What do you think?

Based on info from TorrentFreak, but with my opinions.

As part of Microsoft’s effort to avoid Windows 7 from flopping like its predecessor did, the company is doing everything it can do to convince its users 7 has nothing to do with Vista (even though it’s mostly the same – but better). They’re actually making some Windows 7 tours to demo features on Windows 7 (and on Vista *cough*). Anyways, check it out:

Yeah… It’s certainly a good move, though I’m pretty disappointed about the pricing: $119 for Home Premium is just not competitive enough for a consumer-oriented software product. Let’s also hope there isn’t all that bad publicity there was when Vista came out.

Let’s hope and pray? If Microsoft doesn’t get this one right, it could be “game over” for Microsoft.

Source: Neowin

Tours: LINK

The Pirate Bay, will they ever learn? They have just launched a very early version of their new video streaming website entitled The Video Bay which they hope will combat other video upload giants such as YouTube and Yahoo Videos.

Now; I don’t see how the can argue that they aren’t breaking all sorts of copyright laws. For a start, I’m pretty sure the content is hosted on their servers.

Although it’s a very early version of the site, the sites founders say: “It will be done when it’s done.” This comes just after the news that their request for a retrial was denied and that the original charges for the founders of The Pirate Bay to pay back almost £3 million and spend a year in jail, although they are currently still free men.

The website uses the latest HTML 5 features such as video and audio tags, more specifically, founder Pete Sunde said:

“More specifically the audio and video tags with the ogg/theora video and audio formats. This site will be an experimental playground and as such subjected to both live and drunk encoding, so please don’t bug us too much if the site isn’t working properly.”

Although in it’s very early stages, a preview showed various numbers of copyrighted music videos being available for streaming and viewing in the navigation bar. Some will see this as a provocative move against the copyright holders.

The head of Sweden’s Pirate Party – Rickard Falkvinge – said:

“[This is another step towards the] prolonged legal battle with the record industry. It’s obvious that, given enough time, The Pirate Bay will win this war which will go on as long as the record industry has yet another penny to file a lawsuit. I think they [The Pirate Bay] are taking an important part in that battle, fighting for freedom of expression and culture against monopolistic companies,” he added.

So, what do you think will come of this? Share your thoughts and visit The Video Bay.

I was browsing Digg for interesting stuff to post, and a story on PCWorld caught my eye: is jailbreaking still relevant? I mean, you have an app store with a vast collection of apps, some of them free, why would you ever need to hack your phone in order to get more apps? 90% of the people in this world would right away think “screw jailbreaking”, but I’m a little bit harder to convince.

Yeah, sure an app store is great and will benefit most people, but don’t forget only what Apple decides to approve will ever show up there, which leaves out a ton of features that “duplicate the phone’s functionality” or just do things Apple doesn’t want. Take the Commodore 64 emulator for the iPhone: It’d certainly be awesome for its users, yet Apple blocked it for no good reason. And once it does, nothing in this world will make you use it, unless you choose to go through a 5-minute-long process called jailbreaking.

Or let’s say you want to customize your phone? There’s an amazing app available called Winterboard, along with hundreds of themes created by a huge community of enthusiasts. That’s another thing you will never dream of doing using an iPhone on its default state.

So do you still think jailbreaking should go away? I don’t think so: even though there’s a commercial way to get apps, there’s a whole jailbreaking community that’ll give users what they actually want, without any restrictions. If you want to stick with your little app store, fine, but trust me, you’re missing out a lot of stuff you could otherwise get from the phone you purchased.

So is jailbreaking still relevant. That’s a big yes. Maybe now it’s even more relevant than ever.

Windows 7, probably the best Windows OS since Win2k, is almost ready for release, and of course many have been wondering how well it’d be priced, and I have to tell you, it’s pretty much as good as I thought it’d be, even though that doesn’t mean in any way it’s as good as it should be.

$119 for an upgrade version of Home Premium, $199 for Professional (ouch) and $259.99 for Ultimate (OUCH!). This means if you wasted your money on Vista Ultimate, you’ll have to waste even more on this, and no, you can’t go from Ultimate to Home Premium for example. You can read a full list of prices here.

Something else that’s worth mentioning is there won’t be an upgrade edition of 7 in the EU due to all the mess around Windows 7 E Edition (the version of 7 without IE). This is mainly because an upgrade can’t remove functionality from a previous version, meaning an “upgrade” could not remove IE from Vista. Look at the mess you’ve done, EU!

So yeah, pricing! Anything you didn’t predict? Probably not. Now I only hope they sell something for $99 in the future, hopefully before Windows 8. I can keep dreaming I guess…

Source: Neowin (1, 2)

Well, I know this leaked ages ago, but whatever, Microsoft has finally announced the official packaging for Windows 7:

Yeah, I think you’ve seen that somewhere, haven’t you? But now you don’t need an instructions manual to open the box, as it’s been hugely simplified, plus they’ve reduced the amount of useless paper stuff in the box, in order to reduce overall waste (because you know, no one really reads that!).

Source: Neowin

The Pirate Bay case has generated a lot of controversy on both sides: many argued tey were just linking to the files, while other believed the site should take more action to remove links to copyrighted stuff. TPB ended up getting in quite a bit of trouble and the site’s faith is unclear at this point.

But we’re not done (thankfully for us bloggers): another company got fined this time, none other than RapidShare. Unlike The Pirate Bay, they’re actually storing the files, but on the other hand, they can’t control every single file that’s uploaded to their servers, but they often do remove pirated material, meaning they at least do care, unlike Pirate Bay who sends insulting messages to companies who request content to be taken down.

Personally I think it just makes no sense. I understand the need to get rid of piracy, but don’t blame sites that are actually useful, as they can’t just review every single upload they get. That’s like closing a restaurant because one customer felt sick one day after eating there.

Source: Torrent Freak

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