O2 telling porkies over iPhone pre-order deliveries today


O2 has said, in an official statement, that ‘customers that were successful in the pre-order will receive their iPhone 3G on Friday. The only exception is customers who live in certain postcodes, north from Aberdeen who will receive on Monday’–but I’m not the only one who’s been told by the telecoms company that I won’t get mine until ’some time’ after today. It’s more than irritating when O2 stores have had stock delivered to them for today’s grand unveiling, albeit at the very most 24 units each.

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Friday, July 11th, 2008

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MacBook Pro and the wonder that is the Migration Assistant


My MacBook Pro came back from repair having suffered a ‘logic board failure’. I don’t know what that is, but it sounds serious and ghastly. Thanks to the wonderful Migration Assistant in OS X, it took me all of half an hour to get my applications, email, settings and documents back onto the machine via a FireWire link-up with the iMac. Windows was never easy in that regard.

Friday, July 4th, 2008

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