One of my biggest gripes about my Nokia N93 and Nokia in general was the lack of support for the Macintosh platform. For the longest time, there was no real alternative to the Nokia PC Suite. Updating the OS on my Nseries phones is also difficult as OTA updates seem to be unavailable in the U.S. and other updates typically required the use of a Windows PC.
That has changed now. Nokia just released a beta version of the Nokia Media Transfer program for the Mac. Yay! While it doesn’t address OS updates, it is a cool way of auto-filling your Nseries phone with content as well as getting content off the Nseries.
Rather than describing the entire process of installation and functionality, I thought I’d give you a little picture book intro here:
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So Apple says that the development of the iPhone will delay Leopard.
images courtesy of Apple
Apple Statement
iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can’t wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is. However, iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price — we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned. While Leopard’s features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us. We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October. We think it will be well worth the wait. Life often presents tradeoffs, and in this case we’re sure we’ve made the right ones. [Apr 12, 2007]
My trusted Powerbook died while I was down in Mississippi . . . but you know this already. The display died in the sense that the LCD display started to flicker. These flicker episodes got worse when displaying certain content and whenever OpenGL or CoreImage services were accessed. The ColorSync Utility produces a complete display failure. While in diagnostic mode (in the shell) the display was fine. I initially assumed that it might have been cause by a corrupt installation of OS X, but even a new install over a zeroed HD didn’t change the situation. I assumed that it was a corrupt installation because these issues were not reproduceable under the diagnostic mode, outside of OS X. Before reinstalling, however, I decided to reset the PRAM and Open Firmware. Even that produced no change.
I then went to the Apple Store in Twelve Oaks, MI on Sunday. The Genius at the store looked at the Mac and suggested the following order for a fix:
- reset the PRAM
- reset Open Firmware
- try a fresh install of OS X
I confirmed that I had already followed those steps. The Genius booted the PowerBook from an external HD, yet the issues persisted. He then had another idea. Assuming that the issues might be caused by faulty RAM (I had an extra 512 MB installed in the machine), he removed the RAM. Yet still, the display was still acting up. The Genius suggested that the LCD might be broken or the logic board with the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Go on it might be faulty.
He then told me that Apple has a new repair program. For $330, Apple will replace any faulty parts in the machine and return it to me. That’s pretty sweet, considering that previously a repair of this nature might have been more than the price of a new machine. This price is composed of a $110 labor fee and a $220 parts fee. The Apple Store in Twelve Oaks shipped the laptop off on Monday, it arrived at the repair center on Tuesday, was fixed on the very same day (supposedly, I’ll see when I have it), and is currently on its way back to Toledo. If there is no fixeable error, they will just send it back, without me having to pay anything.
Sweet.
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