1. Open mouth and chew on food before swallowing.
2. Unzip pants and hold your wee wee before pissing. Nokia can have the “Piss in your pants” patent – i don’t give a rat’s ass about that one.
3. After taking a dump, wipe ass with toilet paper before putting pants back on. (@mrbrown is filing the “Taking off pants before shitting” patent).
4. Remove clothing before taking a shower.
5. And finally, sleep with eyes shut.

Safari 4 in Snow Leopard is even more resistant to crashes. It turns out that the number one cause of crashes in Mac OS X is browser plug-ins. So Apple engineers redesigned Safari to make plug-ins run separately from the browser. If a plug-in crashes on a web page, Safari keeps running. Just refresh the page and get going again.

Safari did not crash but it’s not responding, not even to a defibrillator.

My Safari session did not exactly crash but it was frozen like that piece of pork tenderloin i have in my freezer.

Quicktime Plugin for Safari – what a hog!

I then attempted to access the same video clip using Firefox on my MacBook Air. Same problem. Tried it unsuccessfully on my Mac Pro (upgraded to Snow Leopard just a few days ago). Same problem exists on Smelly’s MBP as well. Looking at Activity Monitor, it’s apparent that Quicktime Plugin for Safari is the culprit, consistently taking almost 100% of CPU while the frozen Safari is still running. The only way to get out of the frozen Safari is by performing a force quit, which is Apple talk for UNIX’s “kill -9″.

Ironically, i am able to see the video clip without any problem using Firefox on my Windows XP work notebook!

You cannot open the application
“MacBook Air SMC Firmware Update”
because it is not supported on this
architecture.

So i posted a message on Apple’s discussion forum and a day later, a fellow discussion forum user karmapolice found the solution.

Apparently, when Apple created the firmware update, it did not take the file system format into consideration. My Mac OS X startup disk was formatted as case-sensitive journaled file system. According to karmapolice, launchd was trying to run ‘MacBook Air SMC Firmware Update’ while actual file is named ‘MacBook AIR SMC Firmware Update’. To fix this, right click on MacBook Air SMC Firmware Update (in Applications/Utilities) and select “Show Package Contents”. Go to “Contents” and then “MacOS”. Rename the file in the folder from ‘MacBook AIR SMC Firmware Update’ to ‘MacBook Air SMC Firmware Update’. After renaming it, you should be able to launch the firmware update.

MacBook Air SMC Firmware Update info screen.

MacBook Air SMC Firmware Update success.

Update 6/18/2009 21:13:

Finally, after not having any update for more than 24 hours, the status finally flipped from Exception to In Transit.

Update 6/17/2009 19:43:

The delivery status changed again in the matter of a few hours. This time, not for the better.

Update 6/17/2009 15:20:

The iPhone 3G S delivery saga continues. Looks like the “custom hold”, as described by a UPS customer rep, is no longer there and my iPhone 3G S is again showing a delivery date of 6/18, instead of the delivery date of 6/19 by 1030 as told by the same UPS customer rep.

Update 6/16/2009 23:19:

WTF!!! I, as in THE RECEIVER, never requested a hold. I want my iPhone 3G S now! Looks like Apple is making sure that everyone, including those that pre-ordered for delivery, will not get their iPhones until 6/19. That means i have to go to work on Friday instead of working from home. This sucks!

Update 6/16/2009 10:17:
Looks like i am getting my iPhone 3G S one day before it goes on sale.

Update 6/15/2009 22:05:

There is now a new “Find My iPhone” icon on MobileMe’s Account settings page. Clicking on the icon takes me to the “Find My iPhone and Remote Wipe” page.

Find My iPhone page on MobileMe.

A map powered by Google displays the approximate location of my iPhone. Since my first generation iPhone does not have any GPS-capability, the accuracy is based on the nearby Wi-Fi signals and cellular signal.

If i have lost my iPhone, i can send a message to my iPhone.

Find My iPhone: Display a message.

The message shows up on my iPhone seconds later.

The same message persists on the home screen even after iPhone is unlocked. It will only go away by pressing OK. The Display a Message tool also has the ability to play a sound on the iPhone for 2 minutes, even if the iPhone is on silent mode. I suspect this feature will be very handy for those who can’t remember where they have placed their iPhones at home.

Another feature available on the Find My iPhone page is the ability to perform a remote wipe of an iPhone. According to MobileMe, doing a Remote Wipe “will permanently delete all media and data on your iPhone, restoring it to factory settings.” I may give this a try later.

I have been wanting to replace my 6-year old 17-inch Powerbook G4 1 GHz for quite some time. It had been extremely unstable since i installed Leopard on it. I frequently get Mac OSX’s equivalent of BSOD (Blue Screen of Death in the MS Windows world). I got tired of waiting for the updated MacBook Pro last year so instead of getting a portable replacement, i bought a Mac Pro to use as my web server. The Mac Pro has been working beautifully but it is no replacement for the portability of my Powerbook.

The past few months, i have been sifting through the local Craig’s list for a good deal on either a MacBook or a MacBook Air. Last Friday, i noticed a great deal on a barely-used second generation MacBook Air. I bought it from the seller on the same evening.

I was planning on giving my Powerbook to my younger sister so i thought if i re-install Tiger, i could help it gain back its stability. The Tiger re-install went well but as i was updating a Java package, it hung. No amount of reboot and resetting the PMU could revive it. Even when i was able to boot it up, it would hang almost immediately. My guess is one of the hardware components (probably memory) finally broke. I can’t figure out what is wrong since i can’t get it to run long enough to load the diagnostic tool.

Invitation button in iPhone 3.0 beta 1 and 2.

Missing Invitation button in iPhone 3.0 beta 3.

I did not check if a new Invitation event that has not been accepted look like in beta 2 but this is what it looks like in beta 3:

There does not appear to be a way to accept a meeting invitation. The meeting invitation was created on Google Calendar.

On the invitees menu, the inviter has a green check mark next to the name while the invitee who has not accepted the meeting has a question mark next to the name.

One thing that was not entirely clear in iPhone 3.0 beta 1′s implementation of CalDAV calendar and subscription-based calendar is the retrieval of data. It is more apparent in iPhone 3.0 beta 2 now.

The CalDAV calendar itself has an option menu for choosing either “Fetch” or “Manual”. According to this menu, “If Manual is selected, this account will only check for updates when the application is in use.” But there does not be a place to specify how often to fetch. Does it use the same Fetch frequency in the main Fetch menu? Not sure if this is set to “Fetch” and the main Fetch menu is set to “Manually”, which option does it default to.

One additional change to CalDAV is iPhone 3.0 beta 2 is the ability to edit CalDAV events on iPhone’s calendar. Previously in iPhone 3.0 beta 1, CalDAV events are read-only on iPhone’s calendar.