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I just got my Lumix LX3 a few days ago and I’m lovin’ it! Having just purchased a Sony W120 a few weeks before, I’m sure you can think of a bunch of questions; Why upgrade? Why Panasonic? etc. etc. I’ll be discussing that as well as talk about my experience with the LX3 thus far. Read More
As iPhone users know, iTunes’ backup facility is sketchy at best; It can corrupt backups, it can be ridiculously slow, and on a personal note; I don’t like the idea of “trace files” creeping into a newly restored device.
So I’ve decided to outline a “workflow” I personally use whenever I’m up for a restore session. Everything here assumes a jailbroken device of course.
On a 2.x device, the way you could get your AppStore apps’ settings restored was by using iTunes’ backup images – buggy as it is. There’s also the issue of bugs during normal usage; there have been cases of legitimate apps randomly crashing – and the only “cure” was to erase the app and reinstall it. This would’ve been fine, only they forgot to mention that when you erase/uninstall an app, that’s exactly what you’ve done – along with all its data.
Here’s another one of the more useful posts I’ll be doing. Partly so that I can remind myself the steps needed to perform this somewhat convoluted approach to getting the best “setup” for iPhone and desktop mail use.
The best thing about GMail is the free IMAP support it has. For the uninitiated, make sure you read the advantages of IMAP over POP3 (referred to as POP from now on) in their respective wiki pages.
Of course GMail, just like any other competent email service, supports POP as well as the ability to retrieve mail from external accounts (via POP) as well. Not sure if it’s the same for other services, but this feature is free as well.
Couple that with IMAP accessibility, and lets not forget the gigabytes of space – and you basically have a powerful tool of accessing practically all your email in one place.
Given the tools at your disposal, let me describe how I’ve setup my “mail workflow” – hopefully you can also find it useful in your situation.
In case you missed it, it’s official.
What I find amusing, at least for the people who read my post about it two months back, is that they seem so surprised about the pricing scheme.
Like I said in the past post, the $200 price tag was baloney – and when you do the math with the new data, you’ll be paying about a thousand dollars for a plan-free unit. It’s interesting though that the two plans discussed in the past are almost right on the money – and the plan will eat you alive in 2 years.
But the question really is if a $1k plan-free unit is preposterous or not?
I know I have this sick sense of “justice” – regardless, this just made me smile.
A South Korean man won his appeal against a one-year jail term for assisting in a suicide by throwing a lighter to his gasoline-soaked rival in love.
The Seoul appeal court reversed a lower court ruling, saying that the 30-year-old man had not believed the ex-lover of his girlfriend would actually set light to himself.
Last September, the former boyfriend had stopped the couple in their car after dousing himself in petrol, threatening to kill himself if she did not get out.
The defendant then threw him a lighter, saying: “Go ahead and kill yourself,” the news agency said.
from Reuters
I say good on ya mate! Am I evil?
