Mr. Gary Lee’s Giving Away an iPhone
July 9th, 2007 at 1:07 PM by Matt Freedman
Mr. Gary Lee, who does something like internet marketing, is giving away a free 8GB iPhone!
He also has a golf equipment site and a free online coupon site.
You get 1 entry if you have a PageRank of 1-3, and 2 entries if you have a PageRank of 4 or more. Better yet (possibly worse yet, for some people), he’s going to take your PageRank after the update that should be coming sometime this month. I sure hope my PageRank won’t go down, I’m right at 2 entries right now. 😉
Of course, I live in Canada, so the iPhone isn’t going to do me much good, right? Wrong! Since the iPhone is coming to Canada through Rogers, I think I’d be able to use it at Rogers. Since Rogers and AT&T run the same technology and are almost the same company. In fact, if you go on a Blackberry here, and go to Options > Advanced > Host Routing Table it’ll say “Rogers/AT&T”. So, there’s a good chance that it would work on Rogers (that is the Network you would roam on, if you’re from the US and you’re using your AT&T phone here). And if not, the bragging rights of owning an iPhone are still valid. 😛
Anyways, this is my entry, and, well, ya…
iTunes 7.3, Can’t Save Library (Unknown Error -50)
July 7th, 2007 at 1:14 PM by Matt FreedmanAfter upgrading to iTunes 7.3 a few days after it came out, everytime I would open it up, I would get an error similar to this:
Can’t Save Library (Unknown Error -50)
Which means, that iTunes wasn’t able to save my Music Library to the database files. Which wouldn’t really matter to me, since I only use iTunes to sync my iPod. But, since I download podcasts (NAPPTV 😀 ) whenever the podcast would be updated and I would download it, it wouldn’t be saved to the Library. Meaning, that everytime I start up iTunes, it wouldn’t be there anymore. What a waste of bandwidth…
So, I submitted a bug report to Apple, hoping that many other people would have also reported this, and a quick iTunes 7.3.1 would be issued. Still waiting… 😛
So, I decided to make a quick search, to see how many other people were having this problem, and I came up with this Thread at the Apple Forums. So, it seems like everyone using iTunes 7.3 is having the same problem.
But, among those hundreds of replies, I found a little link. A link that would solve the problem. Apple’s article on How to Re-Create Your iTunes Library.
Really, it’s more of a “hack solution” than anything. But, it works! I no longer get that error, and everything seems to be working fine. You might want to note, that you may lose some stuff while re-creating your iTunes Library. Stuff like Ratings, Play Counts, when it was Last Played, and when it was added. But, that stuff really isn’t important.
So, that’s the simple, but effective, fix.
Do the Right Thing, Post a Comment and Donate $3 to the BC Children’s Hospital
July 6th, 2007 at 11:05 PM by Matt FreedmanStephen Fung had decided to give 3 games to the BC Children’s Hospital; so that the kids staying there have something fun to do. He’s giving them Fifa 07, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 and NBA Live 07 (non-violent games 😛 ).
But, wait, there’s more! He has decided to also give away a copy of NBA Live 07 to a random person who comments. You get 1 entry for a comment on the post, and you can get an extra entry for Blogging about the post. Also, for every unique comment, he is going to donate 1 dollar (Canadian, obviously 😛 ) to a charity of a random commenter’s choice, up to $100. But, wait, it gets even better. BlueFur and Newport Business Media are going to match that donation, dollar for dollar! That’s a possible donation of $300!
So, for simply taking 30 seconds (or less) of your time to comment, you are getting a chance to win a computer games and you’ll be giving $3 to a good cause.
So, do the right thing, and post a comment to give $3 to a good cause. Hey, you might even win a game!
New Theme Coming
July 6th, 2007 at 10:02 PM by Matt FreedmanI’m currently creating a new Theme for Matt’s Blog… It’ll hopefully be much better than the current one, and much more browser compatible.
It has a much cleaner look to it, and the content will be much easier to read. It should also load much faster than the current one.
At the time of posting this, it looks the same in IE7 (for Vista), Firefox 2.0.0.4, Opera 9.20 (I need to upgrade to 9.21, though…) and Safari 3.02 Beta for Windows.
Once I shake a few bugs out of it, I’ll start making it into a WordPress Theme (right now it’s just an HTML file…) and then I’ll start adding some page-loading-time-saving AJAX and polishing it up. Expect to see it up in the coming weeks.
Windows Vista, Your Activation Period Has Expired
July 3rd, 2007 at 5:01 PM by Matt FreedmanSo, yesterday, I installed and activated Photoshop, and then restarted my PC. Only to find a little surprise waiting for me on Windows booting.
I got a “Windows Activation” window saying that my Activation Period has expired! WTF? I activated Vista from day one, why is this happening!?!? So, it gave me some choices: Activate Online, Activate By Phone, Re-enter Product Key and Run Windows in Reduced Functionality Mode (basically you can only go online with IE7 to buy a new product key 😛 ). You could also close the Window and go to the “logged out screen” and either login (which brought up the Windows Activation Window) or Shut down/restart/sleep/etc your computer. In the bottom, right-hand corner it said “This copy of Windows is not Genuine”. What do you mean it’s not genuine? I bought it legally, and the day it was released, to boot.
I decided to press Activate Online. But, that failed, so I clicked close. It went to the login screen. So, I clicked my username and it brought me back to the Activation Screen. So, I clicked activate by Phone. Which gave me a number to call, and the numbers I’m supposed to punch in. But, wait, there were no numbers! Just blank spaces where the numbers should have been.
Okay, so I decided to close out that Window, and restart my PC. So, when it came back up, the Windows Activation windows was still there. Except, this time, it said “Windows has been activated successfully”! So, I close out of that Window, and log in. Everything seems fine. Except that it still says “This copy of Windows is not Genuine” in the bottom, right-hand corner!
So, I right-click on “Computer” and go “Properties”. I then scrolled to the bottom of the Window that came up and it said “Windows is activated”. Weird. So, I decided to Restart my computer, yet again.
So, I restarted, and when Windows came back up, everything was fine! So, maybe what happened was, when I installed Photoshop, some Windows system files got messed up, so when I restarted it said Windows wasn’t activated. But, after 2 more restarts, the files recovered and Windows was fine, and as it should be…
Hopefully, Windows won’t say my copy of Windows isn’t genuine, again…
