Jun 27
Hello Fall
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Summer is good, but fall is better. The best time for a vacation during the year is the Fall. The bahamas and Jamaica are some of the best places you could spend your holiday with your family, or if you are newly married couple, then Runaway Bay Jamaica should be a great choice for you. WIth quiet coves, endless beaches and shady hammocks around every corner, you’ll instantly feel like you’ve run away from all the pressures of the real world. Conveniently located just about an hour away from the city of Montego Bay, Breezes Runaway Bay Resort & Golf Club is one of the world’s truly great escapes.

Or you could even find heaven just off the coast of Florida. Just follow the link to know about all inclusive resorts to spend your holiday in the in the islands of the Bahamas. There’s also glamorous nightlife, world-class casino gaming, gourmet dining, golf, scuba, and, of course shopping, in everything from Nassau’s famous straw market to the most luxurious designer boutiques. This would be a trip that you will never forget in your life.

With beautiful Bahamas resorts, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, Curacao, Panama and Brazil, Breezes has just the right Super Inclusive vacation for everyone.

Jun 27

Wedding is a special occasion for everyone, if you don’t want your wedding to be like any other normal wedding ceremony happening in any of the churches in the city, you need to take a look at caribbean weddings. This is one of the best ways to start your life with your loved one. Imagine your wedding in a caribbean island.

You can get all inclusive travel deals for really affordable package. So make your wedding special and make your wedding memorable for lots of years. If you are really concerned about the budget then discount vacation packages will be of a great help for you. Recently one of my friend got married in the carribean and he told that, it was really awesome. Actually speaking they provide a simple, classic wedding, absolutely free, as their gift to the bride and groom. But if you have a vision for your dream wedding, their staff of professional wedding planners can make it come true.

Jun 24
HipHopBling
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Are you a hip hop fan and do you constantly look out for whats new and whats the trend in the hip hop fashion. Then you should definitely take a look at Bling Bling. Hip Hop Bling is a jewelry wholesaler and retailer with great experience and knowledge of the hip hop jewelry segment. Their company has been around for nearly a Decade and that speaks for it. So if you want to get the latest in hip hop jewelry, with low prices and outstanding customer service. They are the right people. Now with the popularity of Hip hop music, most of my friends and some of my relatives are much in to wearing hip hop jewels, and i have a friend of mine who is a great 50 cent, who just loved this site for the awesome collection of jewels they have.

hihop jewels

hihop jewels

May 28

Amazon needs to work on its Kindle DRM policy, because the following story is ridiculous.

Basically, the way Kindle and the Kindle iPhone app are set up today, users have no idea how many times they can download a book, nor can they easily know how many devices can be used to read said book.

Making the situation even more confusing is the fact that the DRM information actually varies by publisher, and to find out how many times they will allow you to download a book you have to visit the legalese. Sometimes the info isn’t there, either. The worst part is this was all confirmed by an Amazon tech support person:

“How I find out (sic) how many times I can download any given book?” I asked. He replied, “I don’t think you can. That’s entirely up to the publisher and I don’t think we always know.”

I pressed - “You mean when you go to buy the book it doesn’t say ‘this book can be downloaded this number of times’ even though that limitation is there?” To which he replied, “No, I’m very sorry it doesn’t.”

As the author notes, this isn’t so bad if you’re buying a beach book or something you’ll read once and be done with it. Where it does get shitty is with reference books, which the author would like to read today, on his iPhone 3GS, and perhaps in a year, on the theoretical iPhone 4G, powered by unicorn tears. With certain books, you could be limited in such a way that your reading material does not follow your gadget’s natural upgrade cycle.

At the very least Amazon should update its policy so this info is out in the open and easily accessible. The best case scenario would be to allow consumers to actually, you know, literally own the books they’ve just bought

May 24

An enterprising hacker named Matthias has created a fun, legitimate way to get SNES ROMs onto your computer. As he explains in the video, trips to those shady Russian porn sites are a thing of the past.

The crazy thing is Matthias claimed this was his first attempt at such a hack, and that he was really surprised at how easy the project turned out to be. The commenters at Hack A Day were unsurprisingly excited about the ramifications of such an invention.

Six-slot multidrive reader featuring support for NES, SNES, Mega Drive, Game Boy, Genesis, and N64 ROMs, anyone?

May 18

Commodore 64 Emulator Rejected By Apple

Commodore 64 Emulator Rejected By Apple


Quick update on the Apple App Store approval process: Shaken babies are OK, but inevitable moneymakers like a licensed, legal Commodore 64 emulator are rejected.

Why the rejection, you ask? Here’s Apple’s take, form letter style:

Thank you for submitting C64 1.0 to the App Store. We’ve reviewed C64 1.0 and determined that we cannot post this version of your iPhone application to the App Store because it violates the iPhone SDK Agreement; “3.3.2 An Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means, including without limitation through the use of a plug-in architecture, calling other frameworks, other APIs or otherwise. No interpreted code may be downloaded and used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple’s Published APIs and built-in interpreter(s).”

Right. All well and good, except that there are plenty of accepted apps floating around out there that do the exact same thing (including the Zork-tastic Frotz).

Worse still, the publisher, Manomio, had secured all the licenses to run such an app from Killoo Apps, the current owner of the Commodore 64 license. But that’s not all. How about another kick in the nuts, just for good measure? You see, not only did Manomio have the license, it also had the blessing of Apple Europe, which was “really excited” about the app, said Manomio CEO Brian Lyscarz.

That blessing got misplaced, apparently, as Manomio learned this week. Lyscarz and others, myself included, still hold out hope that the app will be accepted in one form or another.

May 15

Following iPhone 3GS/AT&T activation delays that were in some cases 48 hours long, Apple has allegedly responded with a $30 “We’re sorry” gift that will be good at the iTunes Store on Monday.

Notification came by way of an email, which we’ve seen from Giz readers as well as around the Net this weekend:

Dear Apple Customer,

Thank you for your recent Apple Store order. We appreciate your patience and apologize for the inconvenience caused by the delay in your iPhone activation.

We are still resolving the issue that was encountered while activating your iPhone with AT&T. Unfortunately, due to system issues and continued high activation volumes, this could take us up to an additional 48 hours to complete.

On Monday, you’ll receive an email from Apple with an iTunes Store credit in the amount of $30. We hope you will enjoy this gift and accept our sincere apologies for the inconvenience this delay has caused.

Thank you for choosing Apple.

Sincerely,
Apple Online Store Team

So, on the one hand you’re going to get $30 in free stuff from Apple on Monday. On the other hand you could be one of the unlucky saps on the far end of this issue who’s about to experience 96 hours without a phone

May 12

There may not be a ton of Pre apps available just yet, but it looks like there’s enough to accumulate an impressive 666,511 downloads as of June 17th, which likely means that we’re close to or past the 700,000 mark by now. As you can see above in graph form courtesy of Medialets, things have been rising steadily as more and more apps became available, and there’s no noticeable sign of a drop-off even as apps remained around the 30 mark after the end of the first week. Of course, it’s obviously still a little early to draw any firm conclusions, and there’s no telling how things could shake out once the long-awaited PreFart and PreBeer apps make their debut.

palm-apps

palm-apps

May 8

That iPhone OS 3.0 jailbreak we saw the iPhone Dev-Team pull off earlier this week? It’s out now, or at least, part of it is. Pwnage Tool is now flooding torrents, but there’s lots of caveats here. Most importantly, this isn’t Ultrasn0w, which means if you’re wanting to use your toy on T-Mobile or another unofficial carrier, be patient — it’s also worth noting that the jailbreak doesn’t jibe with yellowsn0w, so those who rely on it should stay away for the time being. No compatibility with the 3G S, or at least, it probably hasn’t been tested… we wouldn’t recommend anyone setting the precedent here. You’ll need Mac OS X to run it, with QuickPwn for Mac and Windows coming further down the line. Ultrasn0w is also due out at some indeterminate future, so that all said, if you’re just needing right now a jailbroken device with spotlight functionality, hit up the read link for all the pertinent details. It should goes without saying, but they’re might a few negative side effects to it, and one of the big ones we heard is that YouTube might be fubar’d at the moment.

Pwnage Tool for iPhone OS 3.0

Pwnage Tool for iPhone OS 3.0

May 4

There’s been talk the last couple days about the fact that there really isn’t anywhere in the States to take advantage of the blazing 7.2Mbps downlink connection supported by the iPhone 3G S — except for one great hope, one diamond in the rough that could become a shining destination for 3G S owners the world over. That destination would be Chicago, where AT&T fired up 7.2Mbps trials late last year, and the hope was that they might be letting lay folk (like us) in on the action in time for the 3G S release. Well, we’ve been running side-by-side tests today, and the short answer is that we’re clearly not accessing 7.2 — granted, the 3G S is getting marginally faster speeds both up and down, but we figure this can easily be attributed to the new model’s faster processor because a doubling of the downlink pipe simply doesn’t account for a 100kbps bump in speed (latency was all over the map on both phones, for the record). If you’re holding out on upgrading from a 3G to a 3G S, go ahead and crack a smile — because for now, anyway, this is one spec bump that means precisely zilch in the real world.

iphone-3g-vs-3g-s-speed newyork

iphone-3g-vs-3g-s-speed newyork

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