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My itouch every now and then gets its date screwed up, it is so annoying but I found a way to fix it. Fix is quite simple, all you have to do is open itunes, go to preferences menu and remove your backup file. Next time you sync your itouch or iphone it should get corrected date.

Ah, when we are on a subject, why the hell apple does not let programs access internal clock and be able to modify it? There are some nice clocks, one of them is atomic clock, if it only could set system’s time. Apple is freaking control freaking company, I hate this about apple since forever, that’s why I never got apple/mac before. Years ago, Apple, the same like Commodore Amiga wanted to control their market share, Commodore Amiga did not survive such idiotic path, and to be honest apple also almost did not survive, all of a sudden they did turn around and today they are quite strong, but what made them able to do so was to open up their systems a little and not sell proprietary stuff. Its so funny people do argue that if Apple wanted they could make chip and inexpensive desktops and laptops but they do not want it… that’s why they do not have big market share… Apple is making money still, well because they have fanatics buying those systems, I am not saying that systems are not nice, they are actually very very nice, but for me they are way to expensive… Ehh, it is just a matter of taste and choice…

Apple, give people cut and paste already, freaking everyone is complaining about this. I have my itouch since what November? How many times since then I’ve heard complains about this? Ah, on the same tone, why the hell there is limit of 140 apps only? That is so damn stupid. I did fill up my limit of apps, I wish I could jailbreak my itouch, but its 2nd gen so hack is not possible at this moment, but I would hack it just for being able to install more applications. As I said Apple is so stupid, because if I had more space for apps I would purchase more of them, if I have no space I am limited to what I can buy, that’s like shutting yourself in a foot… Apple get your act together and do those simple things, make people happy, after all that’s why people are buying your stuff because it suppose to be amazing experience….

What the heck is going wrong? I am so afraid of the future. Stock market went down to the lowest levels in 12 years. AIG reported biggest quarter drop in the corporate history, 62 billion dollars, FED is now giving additional 30 billion dollars to AIG and people saying it’s not over, they already received over 160 billion and they might get as much as 250 billion or quarter of a trillion if you will. Concept of millions vs. billions and trillions just is the same for people now days, when did this concept change? I can’t even image a million dollars and they are talking about billion of them, or trillion.

So why are we bailing out AIG? Well AIG is an International Insurance Company; they are in very risky business of insuring different things against different kind of odds, one of which was home mortgage insurance. AIG has 74 million insurance policies in 130 countries worldwide and it covers everything, it insures major airlines against catastrophes, it insures big Hollywood movies against injuries to their stars, it even insures oil companies against hurricanes wrecking their offshore rigs. All pretty standard stuff but here is why company is tanking. AIG insured millions of mortgages that were repackaged and resold to investors and lost billions when home market collapsed and housing bubble bursted and now it has to pay out on those policies. So question is why? We all need insurance for everything in our lives, that how it became a standard in American we are just forced to take insurance for everything. What would happen if AIG would fail? Nobody knows, no one can predict or even is trying to predict it. In my opinion we should let it fail. What pisses me off is the fact that our government is so selective to whom we bailing out and whom we not bailing out. We did let ENRON, MCI/WorldCom fail, we did let small banks fail, we do not care about small businesses to fail, but we do care about big banks not to fail. That is so screwed up; it seems to me like friends help friends survive and who cares about others. Approach, that it seems to me as a motto of the game where FED is helping big banks to survive and let others under, you either with us or against us, play by our rules type mentality. If FED was lending our money to the big banks to give them liquidity to help people refinance their homes or turn around home sales not to drop so much further then why the heck banks don’t lower mortgage rates to make them affordable again? Why banks such as Citi or Chase are slamming us customers with any possible fees? Why those banks giving us such low interests and keeping all money to themselves and in particular rewarding themselves for failures with big bonuses? Banks are afraid to lend to each other? Why? What is wrong with them? What’s so shady that they do not trust each other? So big deal, today City announced that it will help out people to lover their mortgages by $500 for 3 months if they lost their jobs. City bank, I have few words to you, screw you, too little too late to make such gesture after so much pressure and after such big screw-up, your reputation in my mind is all broken. I am pissed about this whole situation because I am so afraid of the future of our country. $1400 is how much each American is bailing out AIG so far. How about other costs of other bailouts?

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It doesn’t take a magician to make your phone bills disappear. It just takes ooma™. Simply connect the device to your high-speed Internet and phone, and, presto, your phone bills are no more. Back in April 2008 there were reports of executives leaving company and that ooma is in trouble. So far it is still going into 2009. My co-worker did get it for himself, he was quite happy with it so I decided to buy it as well. Currently amazon has it for $199 + TAX. So I did decide to give it a try. I did order my unit and waiting its arrival. Here are some of the functionality and features:

- Free calling in the U.S. with no monthly fees or contracts
- Caller-ID, call-waiting, and voicemail
- The reliability and crisp acoustic performance of a landline
- Easy setup in just minutes
- A new phone number from any calling area in the U.S.
- The option to keep your existing number for a one-time charge ($39.99)
- The freedom to hear your voicemail and control preferences online in the ooma Lounge
- Voicemail notifications to your email and your mobile phone
- Extremely low-cost international rates starting at a penny per minute
- A 30-day money-back guarantee and an extendable one-year warranty
- A free 60-day trial of ooma Premier

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TED.COM stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design

 TED.COM stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Website is free of charge and they bring to the public best talks and performances from those conferences. More than 200 of those talks are available online. They are the most amazing talks you can ever hear from greatest thinkers of our generation, they have 18 minutes or less to wow the audience with their work. You can download their videos or like I do I subscribe via itunes podcast service where every day I can listen to a new and exciting presentation. Today there was a presentation given by Evan Williams who started up twitter. He explains how it all started and what it twitter, that it is a simple trivial concept, you say what you are doing in 140 characters or less, and people who are interested at you will get those updates, if they really interested they can get those updates on their cell phones as a  text message. Principal idea is that twitter will let people share moments of their lives whenever they like. When they can share those moments people feel more connected and in touch despite distance and real time. That was intent of the system that they did design, but they could not predict, how twitter could be used in different purposes, especially in emergency situations (massive fires etc). He is talking about this LA Korean BBQ Taco truck that drives around neighborhood and he is sending twitter messages whenever he will stop and there are lines forming before he actually arrives. It is just great talk amount others that they have…  Highly recommend this website and itune podcast J

Today I’ve just heard this pretty cool song which I did like it quite a lot So just wanted to share it…

You can download mp3 file from the following links:

rs570.rapidshare.com/files/157763734/David-Tavare_-_If_You_Don_t_Know_My_Name.mp3

rapidshare.com/files/189181723/DT-IYDKMN.rar

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adam fixing laptop

Few weeks ago my 3.5 year old son had a small accident and keyboard did stop working, it was OK, I did manage to fix it a bit so it was working to some extend, just few keys had to be pressed extra hard (D and S were two of them which were the worst performers). Then last week we had another small accident where my son unintentionally broke LCD display, he did hit it with his protective plastic glasses, well screen did break and it was just horrible. So I did find online a store where I did order LCD display for only $99 (requested matte finish but unfortunately got this stupid glossy display which I truly hate.), also did order keyboard as well as it was around $15. This morning both items arrived and we decided to fix our laptop.

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Almost a month ago I had a pleasure to drive INDY 500 racing car. Let me tell you, what an amazing experience, one in a lifetime, it was so worth it even thought it did cost $399 + TAX for just 8 LAPS. Amazingly this car had no instruments like speedometer or rpm or anything, it just had on/off switch, starter and gears which were set for the high gear only, imagine breaking such gear shift? It had 3 pedals, very small tiny steering wheel and almost no space to move. If you big or claustrophobic don’t even attempt to get into such small tiny space. It was around 5PM that we got on track and drove those toys, sun was quite low but it was quite warm and comfortable, no rain, just perfect driving conditions. Track is 1 mile long, triangular shape, and had just 8 lapses, first round was just to try to feel this car, but then I had gas pedal pressed almost to the floor, on curves it was handling so nicely at high speeds, it was just amazing, never ever did I experience such amazing driving. Instructor was driving ahead of us, more or less showing us the path, even with such great car handling abilities if you rook a curve at wrong approach you could end up someplace unpleasant. Amazingly they had no accidents so far, but they are there in Orlando since November of 2008, so they are quite new. Anyway as I said, it is quite worth to try it, after all how often can you afford to drive such expensive racing car. They also had NASCAR driving, but we took a ride along with the race driver, that was quite nice experience as well.

This is the car that I had a chance to drive at Orlando’s race track:

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That is a very sad news, Pioneer made best plasma TV’s ever with darkest black on the market. It was my dream to won one but it was quite expensive, still is but maybe no more, prices on all famous KURO plasmas are dropping, so maybe its time to own one? Well still expensive, when I was looking on pricegrabber.com for KURO tv’s they are still quite expensive… I am quite surprised by Pioneer decision to be honest. If they just made their technology just a bit more affordable they would be able to sell those plasmas like there is no tomorrow, but then again, all LCD’s prices dropping and display sizes growing, slowing down economy world wide is just putting them in trouble… Oh well, I’ll still keep looking for my own KURO and even that I might not be able to find parts for it anymore beyond past 2010 I think it might be still worth it to own one…

Anyway what am I looking in TV for? Well I want it all, I want a lot of inputs and possible outputs, I certainly want network, don’t care if it is wireless or wired, and I want it to be 1080p for sure, best if its truly 120Hz display.

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