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  Apple's Blue Screen of Death

  Stii 9:31 am on November 5, 2009 | Comments: 3 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Apple (2), bsod, leopard, macbook, osx (7), snow leopard, tiger

  I’ve been an apple user since OS X Tiger. Never, ever, ever, EVER did any of my Macs crash. Stable and rock solid. In fact, Apple users often gloat about how things never crash. Me included, since it never used to happen!

  Into my life prowls Snow Leopard. Since I’ve upgraded I’ve had the Apple Blue Screen of Death twice. Apple seriously need to sort out their flakey 64bit OS. Really.

  

  While I’m at it, isn’t this 64bit OS supposed to be faster?! On my Unibody Macbook it certainly is not. In fact, it is slower and I see the dreaded pinwheel of death more and more.

  Dare I say I see a re-install coming? Or worse, downgrade to Leopard again? That is the Windows way which is not why we use Apple. Anybody else experiencing serious issues with Snow Leopard?

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  Incredible Connection's great Apple Mac deal

  Stii 1:57 pm on February 4, 2009 | Comments: 4 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: applemac (8), imac, incredible connection, macbook

  Since Jason Bagley launched Incredible Connection’s blog it was received with much mixed responses. Personally, I’ve bought a couple of things from them in the past and never had any issues with them. Then again, I never had any technical issues and never had to go back to them. I can understand negativity if you had a bad experience.

  Not to be bashing anything, I can however say that probably the biggest mistake you’ll make is to buy a PC with Windows on it. That is not their fault! If you do and complain about it, you’re blaming your mistakes on someone else. It’s that simple. Don’t even start with “but games/software/whatever don’t run on…” just don’t. It makes you look ignorant and silly. Really, there is simply no excuse.

  For a extremely positive experience, you can go and take Incredible Connection up on this brilliant offer: Bring in any old computer and get insane discounts on Macbook and iMac products.

  

  See, now I can already see blokes saying: “Nah, but the discounts was worked into the prices” Bollocks. Go and compare the original prices to ZA Store (official Apple ZA site).

  It is a pretty solid deal. Take it and stop whining. It is the cheapest brand new Apple Macs you’ll find ANYWHERE in South Africa!
  
   
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  Quality Vacation Club

  Stii 10:13 am on December 4, 2008 | Comments: 23 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: applemac (8), macbook, qvc (2)

  An Apple Mac is a wonderful piece of hardware. See, its got this little application called a Dictionary. When I first heard that Donn Edwards is being sued for R461, 500 because he believes he was scammed by QVC (a.k.a. Quality Vacation Club) I did what I’d normally do and consulted my trusty Apple Mac Dictionary.

  The Dictionary app not only gives you the Dictionary definition of the word, but it also has a Thesaurus section giving you related words. Here is what it returned for SCAM:

  the scam involved a series of bogus investment deals fraud, swindle, fraudulent scheme, racket, trick; informal con, hustle, flimflam, bunco, grift, gyp, shakedown.

  Aha! Trick! Lets see what the Dictionary app has to say about Trick:

  a cunning or skillful act or scheme intended to deceive or outwit someone : he’s a double-dealer capable of any mean trick.

  Hmmmmmmmmm…. Isn’t this exactly what happened? I mean, didn’t they “trick” Mr. Edwards in coming to their presentation by telling him he’s won a car, just to find out later that he’s been tricked and in fact didn’t win anything, but in fact lost precious time?

  Bloggers being sued is not new. Hell, bloggers have been jailed for the things they’ve said! Still, they just won’t shut up. Viva La Revolucion!

  Suing Donn Edwards might not have the most clever move. I mean, if one single blog post lost them about R300 000 of income, what is all this talk not going to do?! They should be losing millions by now. Here is some links to other sources:
  Quality Vacation Club on Afrigator
  Here is some posts and articles not on Afrigator:
  Timeshares, annoying phone calls & lawsuits by Roxilla
  Holiday Club is a SCAM by Make a good house a GREAT home
  Is calling people and telling them they have won a prize a scam? by Guy McLaren
  Timeshare ‘sales scam’ on IOL
  Why I think the Quality Vacation Club is a Dubious Organisation by Dominic White
  Quality Vacation Club Bullies Blogger also by Dominic White

  …and I didn’t even spend a lot of time digging!

  So here is my advice to Quality Vacation Club:

  Instead of spending a bunch of money suing bloggers, rather invest in buying some Macbooks for you and your staff. Then next time you get accused of something, consult with the wonderful Dictionary application and see if maybe, just maybe, there isn’t validity in the claims. Could save you millions…