1. Aug
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    Colombian iPhone Launch = EPIC FAIL

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    The iPhone was officially launched in Colombia today. I was very excited about this, and even more they were making a midnight launch, so you could go and get yourself an iPhone. Movistar and Comcel (Colombian cellphone carriers) are both selling the device today.

    There were some people in line, waiting for midnight (I’ve been in line for around an hour, I was the 10th person in line, out of about 20). And a couple of really ridiculous fangirls. <- PLEASE click on this link.

    Doors opened, I was the first at a counter, horrible, horrible attention BTW. Ok lets sign those papers and get myself a new iPhone, how much is it ma'am? Uhmm that'll be $1'230,000 (about US$660) for the 16GB model and it comes with a two year plan which costs about US$90. WTF!!! That is madness!!!

    Ma'am I'd like an 8GB model, how much is that? Of course, that'll be about mhhh $910,000 (about US$500)... Of course, my WTF face was unforgettable... So shall we sign the papers? ... (walking away) No thanks. Cya later.

    Oh and I forgot to mention, they don't carry the 8GB model until next week, that OR this is a really bad sales scam to make people buy de 16GB one.

    So, with no more to say, the Colombian iPhone launch by Movistar is an EPIC FAIL. Although I'm sure people will buy the phone (a lot of people actually), BUT I don't want to get ripped off and get stuck with a really expensive two year contract. I'm about to buy my first car, I don't need another hole in my pocket right now.

    Edit: For those who have been asking, I live in Barranquilla, Colombia

    Update: The price list in US currency (I was actually charged more)

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    Thanks to Applecol.com for the price list.

    But wait, there’s more! Go to minute 4:52 and look at Jobs himself setting the worldwide price for the iPhone

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  2. Jul
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    My Personal Cuil Review

    A close friend of mine was really excited about the Cuil.com launch. Honestly I don’t remember reading about Cuil, so the launch came as a surpise to me. Awesome, if he’s excited, this must be something really cool, lets go and check it out.

    So, it works — hey, it searches =P. But mhhh whats so special here? I don’t get it… apart from the index falling short… I must say (and I know I’m not only talking about myself) we are used to google. We know how google works and highlights the stuff you want. It’s not magic, but it works.

    Today I go back to Cuil.com after reading a CNet article linked on Techmeme curiously named “Cuil shows us how not to launch a search engine”. So I decided to go back and to my surprise I did find something cool in Cuil when I went back:

    … and those tabs are cool. Search results by category FTW. Maybe Cuil has a long way to go on indexing the web, but if they pull it off categorizing your results that way, I think the’re on to something.

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  3. Jul
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    Put your hotmail down and slowly walk away…

    I find myself using hotmail less and less, mainly two reasons. The first I switched over to macs early this year and am still having a passionate love affair with mail.app included in leopard. I’m using more than three of my gmail-based accounts (imap enabled) and it’s sweet to have all my accounts in sync.

    The second reason may sound pretty dumb but hey, it did it for me. Well, windows live ajax fun stopped working with firefox 3… nobody has fixed it, there are no plans to fix it as far as I know. So Windows live hotmail and firefox 3 don’t play nice… mhhh ditch firefox or ditch hotmail… mhhhh um wait not much to think there.

    Oh and btw I’ve been getting a ridiculous amount of spam to my hotmail from six months back. (Almost as much as my yahoo account). Oh god… I have too many email accounts… time to cut back.

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  4. Jun
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    WWDC ‘08 Conclusions

    Well, I was kinda disappointed by this year’s WWDC, maybe I expected to much? I find it every year the masses start expecting more and more from Apple. It’s not Macworld anyways, maybe thats the problem. Well, having expressed that I must say now I’m enthusiastic about the iPhone 3G (I know I know… I bitched about the iPhone once) not only the features of the actual device I find cool, but mostly the software SDK, very cool apps in the vicinity!

    Filed Under apple, tech