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Darn, I hate when Small Dog gets great deals on products that I want but certainly don’t need. For example, I have an…
Apple’s new products are always highly anticipated. Websites such as Macrumors.com (with about 4.4 million visitors per month) feature speculation about potential new…
While Apple’s products have significantly lower rates of failure than a lot of their competition, things do go wrong from time to time. When I got my iPhone 4S at launch, it would occasionally restart itself. At first, I thought nothing of it, considering I was coming from an Android device that rebooted itself so often that it might as well have been saying, “Hey, just in case you forgot you customized your splash screen, here it is again!”
A couple of weeks ago, my phone didn’t just restart itself, but became a useless brick until I gave it a hard reset while plugged in. A quick Google search revealed this issue to be a symptom of hardware failure known in the diagnosis log as “panic.plist.” I checked my diagnosis log and there it was, three “panic.plist” occurrences in the past week. After a brief phone call with AppleCare, I was given the choice of sending the phone back to them and waiting close to a week for a replacement or to have a $730 hold placed on my credit card while they sent me a new phone overnight. As I didn’t have another phone to use, I opted for the latter.
Normally, to have a phone sent overnight would cost $30 but because I had AppleCare, the fee was waived. Cut to today; the hold has been lifted and I have a shiny new iPhone that has yet to give me an issue. Granted, I was within the original one year warranty, but had this happened after that first year, I would be scavenging Craigslist for a cheap replacement. Thanks, AppleCare–I owe you one.
I am not sure how many of you remember the game Bugdom which came installed with your new iMac G3 (the colored iMacs!)….
My favorite free Mac application is currently Stellarium. Stellarium is “a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky…
Apple has added the XViD component to it’s list of QuickTime components. While that sounds cool, it’s not really ground-breaking. Well before Apple…