iTunes doesn’t seem to play very well with Vista yet…

And that was a fresh start of iTunes, after it refused to play anything… Everything would work, it would even tell me it was playing… but no sound came out, and it didn’t move the progress bar.

It works well *most* of the time, but it crashes a lot more than it used to do when I had XP

I refuse to use anything else though; I’ll just wait until a patch is released

Edit: Seems to be working fine now – I think it was partially caused by a dodgy plugin.

Apple have opened a new store in the Bentall Centre in Kingston, very close to where I live and where I go to University

I went to the opening today at 9AM (Getting up at 8AM on a Saturday is a very early start for me!), as they were giving out free T-shirts

The store will apparently operate just like their other stores, running various help sessions and such – click here to view a list of all the UK stores; you can select one to view the current timetable of events.

Since it’s so close to Uni, I know where my friends and I will be spending most of our spare time for the next week

Well it’s just been released, and so far I love it

Apart from the lack of add-ons (extensions appear to have been renamed) compatible yet, it’s really good. The new skin is nice too, but is gonna need replacing with something that blends in better with my SoftCrystal Linux WindowBlinds theme. There’s a built-in spell checker in text boxes, and much better tab/window handling – it can now remember (or so it says) what tabs and/or windows you had open in your last session, and restore them!

So far, I haven’t noticed any memory leaks – I hope it stays that way! The feeds system is also a lot better – I never really used to use it as it was quite hard to add a new feed so it would show as a pop-up menu – it seems a lot better now

I’ll update this post with any extra stuff I find, as I find it.

Update: There is a new extensions, or rather add-ons manager. It’s a lot nicer than the old one, and it seems to check for updates when you start the browser, and offers to update them then and there, and it doesn’t need a restart (as it’s not yet fully loaded) afterwards

Get Firefox!

I found a guide on a website while I was looking for Apple-related stuff of how to hack your iPod… So I did it!

It requires some patient (but easy) hacking of the firmware updater, but after that you just “Restore” the iPod and it’s done

It works for all iPods, even the new colour ones.

Here are two photos of it:

As you can see I have hacked the Hold icon, changed from a small padlock sign to an “L”. I also hacked the “Do Not Disconnect” image and the “OK To Disconnect” image. The last one I changed is the Apple logo (not shown) which is located in Settings -> Legal

Click here to read the guide

- Fr3d