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IPhone 3GS vs iPad power adapter

Posted in Gizmo, tagged battery, en, iPad, iPhone, power adapter on February 17, 2012 | 4 Comments »

Went out for lunch and left my old iPhone 3GS charging with the iPad adapter. The result can be seen on the picture below. As you can see, the 10w iPad power adapter was not nice to the iPhone battery (which should be using a 2.5w power adapter). That’s why one should always read the [...]

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Telefone Novo

Posted in Gizmo, tagged 4S, iPhone, pt, telefone on October 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Sim… já tô com ele na mão. Trocando ou nâo trocando o preço da minha conta ia ficar na mesma. Já que vai pagar… que pague pelo mais novo.

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From amusement to deception

Posted in Gizmo, Work, tagged en, mac, os x, power pc, ppc on December 17, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Last week I got my hands on a lot of old macintosh computer. Really old ones. I started playing with the parts and came up with a really good power mac G4 800 Mhz with 1.2 Gb RAM and 80 Gb of HD. I was amazed… The feeling, the pleasure I was feeling to watch [...]

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End of Privacy

Posted in Amazing, Gizmo, tagged en, face regocnition, gizmodo, news, privacy, scanner on August 19, 2010 |

Ok… now I am starting to freak out!!! Source: Gizmodo

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Don’t run your life on Facebook and MySpace – get a real life and real friends instead.

Posted in Gizmo, tagged community, en, facebook, google, linkedin, myspace, online, orkut, privacy on August 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »

That’s what they say. Eric Schmidt (picture below), the chief executive of Google, gave an interview to The Wall Street Journal and said, among other things, that we are sharing too much of our personal lives. And guess what? He is totally right. Just “google” for your own name. You are there. At least, somethings [...]

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Back to jail

Posted in Gizmo, tagged en, firmware, iOS4, iPhone, jailbreak, Skype, voip over 3g on August 4, 2010 |

And here I am… back to jail. Yesterday my phone stucked and after a hard reset it was unable to restart. I tried to restore the old firmware (3.1.2) but iTunes kept saying that it could not be done. The main reason to jailbreak my iPhone was to use Skype over 3G to talk to [...]

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