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Yeah, that’s what my MacBook Pro 15″ LCD screen looks like with the laptop running. It looks pretty much the same stunning quality on an external monitor. Seems my laptop is another victim of the NVIDIA chipset bug. All of a sudden my laptop would not output video to either the built-in LCD or external via the video port.

Seems NVIDIA made a boo-boo with some chips.

See here: http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/09/nvidia-g84-g86-bad

and

here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=2108

And this comes 10 days before I go on vacation. Nice going NVIDIA. And before you Windows fanboys/fangirls poo-poo Apple, read the top link, this affects HP, Dell and ASUS users too. ATi anyone?

Just updated my iPhone to the latest firmware and got this message on iTunes. I think what might be going on is that I put my iPhone in Airplane Mode so it wouldn’t interrupt any backing-up or updating with a phone call. And now that it can’t communicate with AT&T it doesn’t want to reactivate since it’s impossible to turn the radio in it back on without it being activated, a Catch-22 situation.

It’s almost enough to make me break-out my Motorola v120c and activate it on Verizon Wireless.

*Update #1* Doing a Force-Restore on the iPhone forcing it to connect to iTunes. We shall see if this works and if it wipes-out all my data. It had better not after that long back-up. To force a restore: Disconnect from USB, Press Home+Power to turn-off the phone, Hold down the Home button when reconnecting to USB, choose restore from iTunes.

*Update #2* Force reset the phone, restored all the data but upon subsequent reconnection iTunes wants to restore again from a back-up. Letting it restore, I’ll check it in the morning.

Looks like Clinton may have celebrated too soon. She may have won the primary in Texas but because ganar dinero pagina webcasino internacional,casino internacional internet,casinos internacionalescasino online testslot maschinenkasino spielcasino club netechtes casinohoyle casino gamescasino online no deposit bonuscasino club roulette,online casino roulette,casino roulettecasino online wiesbadencasino online einzahlungslots spielenbaccarat systemlasseters online casinocasino roulette gamesslot maschinen spielenspiel erlebniscasino online hamburginternet kasinoroulette strategiekostenloses online kasinovirtual kasinowww casino onlinecasino games pro 2007slotmachines spielenslots comcasino websiteplay baccaratroulette programmvideo poker spielenkostenloses spiel onlinekeno downloadkostenloses casino onlineonline casino macjack black spielonline spielerealistische online spielbankbesten casino onlinepc spiele casinoroulette online kostenloskostenlose online casinointernet kasinosautomatic video pokerwww roulette deonline casino no deposit,online casino,online casino no deposit bonusplay baccarat onlinecasino baccaratbeste online kasinokasino games the state also held a caucus Obama may get the most delegates out of Texas. 98-95.

NPR is now reporting Obama may end up with 3 more delegates over Clinton in Texas voting.

I say we should just go to the popular vote and rid us of the caucuses, super delegates, electoral votes and all that crap. If it’s such a great idea did we force this crazy system on Iraq when we finally got them to hold elections?

Someone Californicated this up.

I’m not sure what’s up with Apple’s browser Safari. I visited the iPhone Dev Center to learn a few tricks so I could create a couple of little iPhone apps but the dumb page won’t display in Safari. I’m using the latest version on Leopard and it won’t work. But Mozilla’s Firefox works just fine as you can see that it renders the page perfectly. What’s the problem Apple?

The front window above is Apple’s site on Firefox. The back window is a blank white page on Apple’s Safari web browser.

Just how long is it going to take Verizon Wireless to release the Palm Treo 755p smartphone? Both Blackberry and Apple’s iPhone are kicking-ass yet it’s been over two years since the release of the Treo 650p on Verizon Wireless. Yeah there’s the 700p which has been a dog of a phone until Palm finally released a proper firmware that past week but that model should be phased-out by now.

My Treo 650p has served me well, has taken a beating and kept on ticking but with almost 3x the memory, 4x the internet speed and ability to use memory cards bigger than 2GB I’m ready to move up to the 755p. But Verizon Wireless won’t release it, Sprint has but not VZW. They even have the fake 755p display phones in the stores but none of the real goods to sell.

Come on Verizon Wireless, my 2 year contract is up and switching to AT&T or Sprint is looking better everday you delay this phone.

Palm needs to get into gear too if they want to continue to compete in the smartphone business. They probably killed their Foleo line of laptop-like computers because rumor has it that Apple is going to come out with a ultra-lightweight laptop. There’s no way the Foleo would be able to compete with that if it’s about the same size and weight.