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Disable HTML Email in OS X’s Mail.app

By SogniX, September 5, 2006

Note: Originally posted on Sogni X’s Cyberlife Blog on August 5, 2005 11:30 AM

I HATE HTML Email.
If you hate it too, and use Mail.app on OS X,
Open Terminal and type :

defaults write com.apple.mail PreferPlainText -bool TRUE


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Korean Air bans Apple and Dell notebooks

By SogniX, September 5, 2006

AppleInsider is reporting that Korean Air, in fear from batteries blowing up has banned certain notebooks (Dell, Powerbooks and iBooks) from their flights.

“Due to the risk of onboard fire, we are not allowing passengers to use certain brands of laptops on the plane.
Altho it seems they’re ok to transport if the batteries are separated them into checked baggage.

It may seem a bit extreme, but then again there is this unsolved issue:


NTSB investigating laptop batteries as the cause of UPS cargo plane fire


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Verizon FiOS - The next generation of broadband.

By UnnDunn, September 4, 2006

With this kind of bandwidth, it's trivial to download HD movie clips in real time or faster, or host multiplayer action games with 30 players or more, or download the latest beta of Windows Vista in 10 minutes or so.

Remember when you first got broadband internet access at home? After years of poking along at 56k, suddenly you had a 1.5M or even a 3M connection. Remember how you went around the Net, searching for the biggest things you could download, just for the hell of it? That 100MB video? No problem. That 350MB demo? Done by the time you finish dinner.

Well, I just got Verizon FiOS installed, and it feels like that all over again, only this time I’m downloading 1GB game demos and 4GB DVD .iso files.

FiOS is the moniker given to Verizon’s new Fiber-to-the-Premises network. It is spending $20bn over ten years to replace its copper phone network with all-Fiber network, which it will use to deliver voice, video and high-speed data to its customers. Most high-speed networks use Fiber as the backbone, but the so-called “last mile” to the customer’s residence uses copper or coaxial. FiOS does away with all that, using an all-Fiber connection which terminates in a box on the customer’s outside wall.

The main draw of this is the promise of practically unlimited bandwidth, through which Verizon can deliver all sorts of bandwidth-intensive services; video on demand, IPTV, tele-conferencing and voice over IP, just to name a few.  But the biggest draw, of course, is internet access. Internet access which is a significant notch faster than current coaxial and copper-based internet access services.

And when I say “significantly faster,” I do mean just that. Here’s the result of a speed test…
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Vista to ship January 30--or so Amazon claims

By Nick, August 29, 2006

Windows Vista

From the “right on time, sort of” desk…

It looks like Windows Vista might just ship in January as Microsoft promised--barely. According to Amazon.com, Windows Vista is set to ship on January 30, 2007. Amazon is also now expecting preorders for Vista. As of this writing, Windows Vista Ultimate is already the 65th most popular software title on Amazon. For what it’s worth, Norton Utilities, Norton Antivirus, and Norton Internet Security are Amazon’s top three bestselling software products as of this writing.

Amusingly enough, Amazon also lists Vista as being “discontinued by the manufacturer.” Great. Contradictions.

Other events that have taken place on January 30 include the beginning of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War (1968), the beheading of King Charles I of England (1649), and the renaming of the town of Yerba Buena, California to San Francisco (1847). Exciting!


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Google CEO Joins Apple’s Board of Directors

By Pilky, August 29, 2006

The CEO of Google, Dr Eric Schmidt has joined Apple’s Board of Directors. He joins the likes of former Apple CFO, Fred Anderson and former Vice President of the United States, Al Gore and Oracle CEO. He has previously been the CEO of Novell and the CTO of Sun Microsystems.

Deep Thought’s Take: Could we soon see some tighter partnerships between Apple and Google? Who knows.... well, besides Steve Jobs


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