Mike Cohen

Old MacBook Pro sold/not sold

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I tried to sell my old MacBook Pro on eBay. I got one bid, for my original asking price, but when I sent the invoice, the buyer sent me the following email:

i am sorry,i dont wanna buy your laptop because it is old macbookpro.i supposed to new one.

I think I made it very clear here that it’s an old MacBook Pro, not a new one.

MacBook Pro 15
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This is why I hate eBay. I use it about once a year or less when I have some old equipment to sell. Most of my old Macs I traded in at PowerMax, but since they don’t do BTO, I had to buy my new one directly from Apple.

Twitter Virus

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It was bound to happen sooner or later. There’s a virus affecting Twitter now. It shows up as a link in someone’s tweet containing Chinese characters. If you click that link, it will post a tweet containing that same link. At least 4 people I’m following have spread it.

Parallels Build 5120 doesn't suck

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Competition is definitely a good thing for Mac virtualization software. I had switched to VMware because I found it to be faster than Parallels (at least on my old MacBook Pro). When Parallels released their new beta yesterday I decided to give it another chance and I was pleasantly surprised.

It now feels faster than VMware and the improved Coherence looks great. Unlike VMware, it boots directly into Coherence; with VMware I have to switch manually into Unity after it finishes starting up. It also doesn’t seem to slow down other applications as much as it did on my old MacBook Pro. It does seem to run down the battery faster than VMware if I use it unplugged, though.

Improved Coherence
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Cruel and unusual punishment

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Via UNEASYsilence:

Scott McCausland was accused of and plead guilty to downloading Star Wars Episode III (Revenge of the Phantom Sith Enterprise Scotty?) and after serving five months in prison (Mind you Cocaine carrying Lohan got only hours) the court ordered that he must have monitoring software installed on his PC and that software is not compatible with Linux. (Read More)

In other words, they’re forcing him to run Windows.

Big news today: iPhone unlocked

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My headline from yesterday was probably misleading. I only “unlocked” my iPhone so I can install third party software and my own ring tones, but here’s the real deal. George Hotz figured out how to really unlock the iPhone so it can use SIM cards other than AT&T’s, such as T-Mobile, using a hardware hack. Now, the people at iphoneSIMfree.com have found a software-only hack for unlocking an iPhone.

Since I already have a two year contract with AT&T, which I had even before I got my iPhone, there’s no reason for me to do it.