iOS 5 Woes

Quite probably one of the most anticipated and feature rich upgrades to Apples`s mobile platform operating systems, iOS 5 ended up being also one of the buggiest. Adding to the (hopefully resolved) battery and DST bugs, it is now surfacing what seems to be one of the most annoying bugs of late, especially if we take into account there is no fix announced. After updating to iOS 5 many idevices are now unable to connect to wireless access points, or get such a weak signal that it becomes impractical to use Wi-Fi at all.

What I find interesting is that everyone criticizes Windows for its bugs, but Apple has no heat for theirs, even repetitive ones, like the DST bug.

I am getting really annoyed at not being unable to connect to my home wireless network, especially when iOS 5 brings Over the Air updates to the iPhone and iPad... right!

Have you been plagued by this bug? What are your thoughts?

Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet

Lenovo has recently launched the Thinkpad Tablet, powered by Android Honeycomb. This seems to be one of the best equipped, designed and a solid tablet that includes digitising features, but no one seems to have noticed it.

I know Lenovo is targeting the enterprise market with this tablet, but even the "pros" are quiet.

Maybe one such tablet will find it's way to me, so I can post a proper review. In the meantime, check it out at Lenovo.


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Airport Security and Other Annoyances

I am writing this post from Switzerland, where I arrived yesterday for a brief business visit. When I picked my luggage at the airport I immediatly noticed something was missing. I had a bright blue handle wrap on my bag, which helps me identify it among all the other black bags and also makes it more comfortable to hold. Well, that was missing.

Social Media Courses

I am currently writing this post on a train to London, where I will participate in a series of courses on Social Media. While I was researching about what courses were available and which ones were the best I found myself completely lost. Some would say Social Media studies are so new that no courses were actually good at all, while others said that any course would be somewhat valuable.

Logitech ClearChat PC Wireless

Logitech ClearChat PC Wireless

My wife gets annoyed with a little habit I have. If I am on the phone, I can’t sit still. I will be walking around the room or the house, talking away. As I work mostly form home and the telephone is one of my main tools, you can imagine the rest.

When I was taking VOIP calls on the computer, though, I was stuck. I have used a bluetooth headset, but not only it made my ear ache, people also couldn’t hear me well. So I was down to a nice pair of Sennheiser PC350, typically used for gaming, but which I love to use both for VOIP calls and even with my iPhone. I had to buy a small adapter that allows both jacks (headphones and microphone) to be used with a combo audio socket, like the one on my Lenovo ThinkPad W510, but it worked fine.

Community Manager versus Advocate

One of the new professions that the new “always-on” world has given birth is the Community Manager. Some wonder if this is indeed a real job, but believe me, not only it is a real job, but is also one that is taking impetus and is becoming a key position in any corporation that values its future.

Jeremiah Owyang, an Industry Analyst form Altimeter Group and formerly from Forrester Research, has been an evangelist of this position and he defined what The Four Tenets of the Community Manager are. In brief, these

Corporate Support Online Models

As the corporate world moves online, the rest of the world struggles to understand the scope of this move. To be honest, many a good executives and managers, “old style”, are also struggling with the rapid and constant evolution of the online world, and those who think online corporate presence means having a website and maybe an online store are dinosaurs condemned to extinction.

Today, corporate presence online encompasses all aspects of the business, from customer engagement to brand development and hiring. The tools, available on the whole wide world, went from menace to key instruments, and Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn are no longer looked at as

Angry Birds on Chrome

For those of you addicted to Angry Birds (or just curious), you can now get it for free form the Google Chrome Store, install it as an extension on your Chrome browser and play it for free. If you want to give it a try, just follow these easy steps:

1. Start your Google Chrome browser
2. Go to the Google Chrome Store here (https://chrome.google.com/webstore)
3. If you don't already see a banner for the game, type "Angry Birds" on the search box and press Enter
4. On the search results, click on Angry Birds
5. Now click on the Install button

After Angry Birds is installed it will be available by opening a new tab on Chrome. Play away and have fun!

The Jawbone is connected to…

No, this is not a post about the human face anatomy, but it could be! I want to share a few thoughts what is purportedly the best bluetooth headset on the planet, the Jawbone® Era. For quite some time now, Aliph has made some of the best bluetooth headsets for mobile phones, and their new iteration, the Era, is a worthy descendant of a great line. You may find the name a bit strange, but it is inspired in the fact that this headset has a small sensor that

Sat Nav War!!! Well, kinda…

More and more, a lot of services for which we used to pay premium are becoming free. One such service is satellite navigation, commonly known as Sat Nav or GPS. You can buy a standalone device or have it integrated on your mobile phone or even laptop. There are many brands from where you can chose, like TomTom, Garmin, Nuvii, CoPilot and so many others, and each will sell you maps for a specific region plus the ability to receive turn by turn navigation instructions, speed camera positioning warnings, speed limits and even where you can find the next ATM machine.

iOS 5 Wi-Fi Sync... Oops

If you read my post from yesterday about the iOS 5 new features and similarities with other existing apps, this one won't come as a surprise to you. It seems like this new feature is very, and I mean very similar to an app submitted a year ago to the Apple Store, which Apple refused, but instead called the developer and asked for his CV. Greg Hughes, though, preferred to take his app to the Cydia Store (that's for jailbroken iPhones, in case you are wondering) where he made about half a million dollars selling it.

Hacker Activity on the Rise

The last months have been fertile in hacking news. Just as we used to hear about wars and skirmishes between neighbouring countries, we now hear about hackers stealing account data from banks, gaming networks, credit card providers, and who knows what else is not on the news.

Amid these news we hear about accusations of "cyberwarfare", either pointing the finger at China, Russia or even North Korea. While this is not completely outside the probabilities, I personally see these cyber attacks as good old theft, where one steals money from another.

iOS 5 New Tricks

I was really excited when I first read about the new features iOS 5 will bring to the iPhone and other iDevices. I had been waiting for the announcement and partly followed the live coverage of Steve Jobs keynote address. When he finished, I was looking forward to this Fall, when iOS 5 is supposed to become available to the masses, but then I started thinking...

Watch Flash Movies on your iPhone / iPad

As you well know, Steve Jobs is not a fan of Flash, and he's committed not to have Flash ever in his iDevices, but some rogue iOS developers think otherwise and decided to open the Pandora's Box of Apple! Yes, you guessed it, there are ways to watch those elusive Flash movies on your iPhone or iPad.

I will only mention two apps that allow you to work around the no-Flash policy of Apple and explore the goodies of Flash based websites, some with more

iOS 4.3 New and Improved Features

Ready for the iOS 4.3 upgrade? Connect your iDevice to the computer you synch it with iTunes and get ready for a 400+ MB download. If you haven't done so yet, you will also need to update your iTunes to its latest version, iTunes 10.2.1.1.

For those of you interested in What's New on the latest iOS iteration, here's a list

iOS 4.3 is out!

Apple has launched iOS 4.3 today to all supported iDevices. This includes the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPad. From the several hours I have been using it on an iPhone 3GS I must say I am positively surprised with this upgrade that, though not offering much in terms of new features, has certainly sped up

Sync Your Office Docs with the Cloud

Google has done it again! On what some perceive as an attack on Microsoft Office productivity suite, Google has launched a plug-in for Office 2003, 2007 and 2010 which allows you to synchronize your MS Office documents with Google Docs, Google Cloud Connect! Others are saying Microsoft should actually be pleased, as Google is offering free cloud storage and synchronization for their product, which means

Windows 7 Service Pack 1

For all those with an MSDN or Technet account, the Windows 7 Service Pack 1 RTM has been posted for download on MSDN/Technet. The download of the 32/64 bit pack is a whopping 1.9 GB, so make sure your connection is working smoothly!

The different versions of Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 included are also available.

This Service Pack should be made available to the general public sometime in March.

Lenovo "Splice" Battery

Just got a Lenovo " Splice Battery, the 27++, for the Lenovo ThinkPad W510, and it's increased my laptop's autonomy to over 6 hours. If you have a netbook you will be thinking that's not much, but let me tell you that, in a machine with a Quad-Core i7 processor and a 15.6" Full HD screen, it is