iPhone partially hacked today

Hacked an iPhone partially today.

It can now play mp3, videos, take pictures and everything else. The only problem is with the phone. It's locked to AT&T.

A little about the features:

• It's quiet fast.
• very smooth and crisp display of graphics.
  
• it did ask about synchronizing with outlook and task manager although i didn't try that.
  

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Disc Repair (eliminate scratches)

Available at
Mass Enterprises for Wholesale and Retail. +960 332 0887

The problem:
Music CD’s, CD-ROM’s, DVD's and games CD’s scratch very easily often making the data difficult to read properly. This means read-errors, faults and lost data, as result the data carrier is often worthless.

The solution:
DISC-REPAIR offers an amazingly simple solution to this widespread problem. With this new type of special polishing paste, for the first time end-users have the possibility of eliminating scratches from CD’s and DVD's quickly and cost-effectively in a do-it-yourself-process. After treatment the damaged CD/DVD is restored to working order.

The application:
Apply some paste to the CD/DVD. Polish the scratched areas of the CD/DVD (from the centre to the outside) with heavy pressure for 2-3 minutes with a soft, clean, cotton cloth. Repeat application for deep scratches. Remove residue. Tube contents of 5g are sufficient for 10-12 applications. WARNING: Use only on CD's/DVD's. Do not polish printed side.

For (very) deep scratches: Apply a few drops of water to the scratch and sand in straight lines from the centre of the CD/DVD to the sides with abrasive paper no. 1, 2, and 3. Polish again.

The method of operation:
The material is lightly dissolved and polished with fine abrasive particles. The edges of the scratch traces are rounded off and the fissure bottom is filled in. After treatment with DISC-REPAIR the CD/DVD will work faultlessly even if deep scratches are still slightly visible.

Price tagging a website (in the Maldives)

For those who suffered nervous breakdowns while being cornered by a client due to neglection in tagging the right kind of price, this post is going to be very useful.

I hope you also read my previous post on the same topic. For those who didn't it's here

I'm going to keep this very brief. Please read along.

Good Rules

- Quote designing of the website with it's core functions with 70% of the total.
(core functions are those that your client is not going to have without)
- 30% for everything else.

This way the price is only going to get higher, if not won't go below 15% i bet.

Most of the quotations carry a one figure total without breaking it down. Well that's OK, as long as you can explain the above when needed.

It's fair rules because most of the energy is spent designing the whole thing. All else stands on top of it. If a particular function of the website is unusually tough you can always quote an unusually tough figure for it.

There's much more factors that come into when pricing a website but i hope this gives you an idea how to start off.

Good luck for your next project!

Displex Display Polish - Scratch Remover

Displex Display Polish - Scratch Remover

From Mobile phones/iPod/Mp3 players/PSP LCD displays

Product Available at Mass Enterprises pvt. ltd, Male', Maldives. +960 3324221

Mobile telephone displays scratch very easily and thus appear shabby and unsightly. Only a few manufacturers offer replacement displays and even then the exchange is usually very costly.

DISPLEX offers a simple solution for this widespread customer problem. With this new type of special polishing paste, end users have for the first time the possibility of eliminating the scratches in their mobile phone displays quickly and cost-effectively in a do-it-yourself process.

Apply some DISPLEX to the mobile phone display. Polish the scratched areas with heavy pressure for 2-3 minutes with a soft, clean cotton cloth. Repeat application as necessary for deep scratches. Remove residue Attention: do not polish coated surfaces; treat the transpar-ent part of the display lens exclusively. Contents of tube of 5 g is sufficient for approx. 8-10 applications.

The plastic lens is lightly dissolved and polished with fine abrasive particles. The corners of the scratch traces are rounded off and the fissure bottom filled out with the material of the lens itself.

This item can be used to clean all Mobile phones/iPod/Mp3 players/PSP LCD displays.

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The double-edged sword

Technology is a double-edged sword. It certainly can bring us closer, keep us informed, but it can also set us apart, makes us isolate.

For instance I would’ve better liked this conversation over a coffee, but in spite am choosing to blog this so I can go to bed early. Indeed, a double-edged sword. The interaction simply takes place in another manner.

Internet is good for economy. It’s a proven boom over every sector of the industry and the world with the growth of it has become a smaller place.

It has, but what about the increase in solitary deaths after its introduction?

These days, some experts are even suggesting that our social bonds may be breaking down not in spite of these new technologies, but because of it.

You and me, we are experiencing the fundamental change of the very nature of communication, eroding traditional human bonds. What we may call ‘a shifting of the means of socializing’.

Web developer Survival Guide in the Maldives

First of all I would like to introduce myself as developing websites since a long time.

My hope for this post is to give new web developers in the Maldives some advice to get through difficult times dealing with clients and in building a good image to last.

I’d like to make some brief points which I personally followed through the years of development and in dealing with clients.

1. Have at least one website developed by you to show your clients.
2. Make a web developer contract, if you scare away clients by submitting it chances are that they don’t really intend to pay you or aren’t being serious to develop the website.
3. On the first meeting never quote a price. Chances are that you’d probably quote higher or lower than the client expects.
4. There are two types of clients.
1. a. Clients who know what they want.
2. b. Clients who want a solution.
1. For a. category clients you least need to provide solutions. Design as they tell you to. If the client wants a pink colored background with proposed low quality gif animation, go for it.
2. For b. category you have to give out the best solutions according to the budget.
5. Don’t put your name on category a. clients website.
6. Never say NO to a feature requested to develop. But do point out the disadvantages or advantages and how much of a price change you’d require for a new feature, along with the duration of development. (For client b. mostly)
7. Set deadlines and stick to it. Delays in development should always be on the clients side, and not on yours. (eg. Material handing delays)
8. Don’t reject small projects. Quote less.
9. If your clients wants you to finish it sooner quote high or give out a lesser price for a longer development duration.
10. Let your client purchase web space and the domain name. You can just recommend one.
11. Invoice the same day you complete the project.
    
12. Answer you client even at difficult times. If you’re a freelancer you’d probably have to expect calls even on holidays and at odd times of the day.
13. Always backup your data.

Happy newyear 2007!