Windows 8 Consumer preview is available right now. Tempted to have a go at it but the file size is about 3GB.
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My HTC Desire is still on Android Gingerbread 2.3.7 and Android Jelly Bean 5.0 is about to come? I am so far behind!
More than 5,000 comments waiting to be reviewed and as far as I see it, none of them is genuine useful comments. It’s real sad.
Have been trying out different WordPress themes and this one looks good! At least it allows me to post some status updates.
Jailbreak iOS 5.0.1 iPad2
Yep, it’s Chinese New Year eve yesterday and I jailbroke my iPad2, finally. My iPad2 is now happily on iOS5.01 and I am a happy man, maybe but we will see. Jailbreaking has its certain risks but I am still glad that I have done it. To be honest, I install cracked apps once a while but I still end up buying them later. I guess jailbreaking my iPad2 is just like giving freedom to it.
On this occasion, I used the GreenPoison’s Absinthe jailbreak software. It’s not extremely difficult as I just need to update my iPad2 to iOS 5.0.1 and then run the Absinthe on my Mac, and click the Jailbreak button. It only took like 5 minutes to finish jailbreaking and installing Cydia. My first mistake was to have the Passcode turned on. The first two rules are to turn off the Passcode and VPN. I didn’t know it until the Cydia installing process as the jailbreaking process was a success. As usual, I googled for the failure and it was then only I knew that I broke one of the two rules. Anyway, I just re-jailbroke it and it worked.
One frustrating thing that happened on my iPad2 while on jailbreak iOS 4.3.3 was the the iTunes sync failed to work after sometime. That meant that I had to copy out all my IPAs before jailbreaking to iOS 5.0.1. I should have tried to re-jailbreak it at iOS 4.3.3 and test the sync. However, what’s done was done and after jailbreaking to iOS 5.0.1, I downloaded a random app and tried the sync almost immediately. It worked and I guess I will be syncing quite often from now on just to be sure that the sync work and save me the trouble of backing up the IPAs next time.
So far, I have only tested the multi gesture and it is not what I have expected. I thought I could use multi gesture in Safari. However, I would be interested to see how the notifications work, which I haven’t tried yet.
iPod Nano bug
iPod Nano Clock Faces
I have been using a graphite iPod Nano on a Minimal Tik Tok watchband for almost a week now. As with all the reviews, Minimal Tik Tok is a high quality watchband and as expected, iPod Nano can be clipped to it without much hassle. Well, you might be thinking that of course it will fit as it’s designed for iPod Nano. I beg to differ as in the past, I have found that even some specifically made products have their flaws.
While using iPod Nano as a watch is fun, forgetting about having to press the sleep/wake button in order to see the time, I found out that the Time On Wake doesn’t actually work like how it should be. Let’s start from the beginning. I use iPod Nano first as a watch and then as a music player a few days later. So, for the first couple of days, Time On Wake worked every single time. I could go into each menu and press sleep/wake button twice and it would show me the clock. While looking at the time, I could also change the clock face and also swipe to use the timer functions.
I then copied some songs into iPod Nano via iTunes. That worked as well. However, I soon found out that when I woke up my iPod Nano, it showed clock but a single touch would bring it to Now Playing. I couldn’t change the clock face or use the timer functions. Instead, I had to scroll through the menu and enter through the clock menu. While accessing the clock through the clock menu, the Time On Wake didn’t work anymore and when iPod Nano woke up, it showed Now Playing instead. Hence, in order for iPod Nano to show the Time On Wake, I needed to go to the main menu before putting it to sleep.
It clearly is a bug. The easiest solution is to just connect it to iTunes and it becomes normal again. The problem will come back as soon as you start to play a song.