My Dilemma: Software vs. Hardware

Ok so this whole iPhone sim unlock thingy is really getting serious now that Apple is actively preventing people from unlocking their iPhones. The current iPhones ship with Firmware 1.1.2 and also come with a new bootloader which makes software unlocking almost impossible right now. The best solution so far is using hardware such as Stealth Sim but I would have to modify my sim card (as in cut out a portion of it). The downside is, that it is costly. Something like $100+ USD!! Ok, so the situation is like this...

Software Unlock

Pros:

• Free
  
• Relatively easy to do

Cons:

• Can't unlock FW1.1.2 Out of the box
• Not upgrade friendly (as in I have to wait for a new unlock everytime a new firmware is released)
• There are paid solutions which cost about the same as the hardware ones but you have to give your IMEI number to a third party

Hardware Unlock

Pros:

• Quite easy to do also
• Most of it is plug and play
• Upgrade friendly

Cons:

• Expensive!
• Have to modify sim which might get me in trouble with my telco

Anyway, to get an idea of how easy it is to actually use something like Stealth Sim here's a short clip on it...

My Post Christmas Depression

So yeah, Christmas is over. You might be wondering why I bothered to make two posts instead of just one but well see the previous one described my Christmas. While this one will describe another event.

So anyway, one day Lam had to go to register for his course at UCSI and pay his course fees and do his course registration and so on. So he asked me whether I would like to tag along. I said sure why not and this post is about the resulting things that happened. Oh by the way, I met a new friend this Christmas. Her name is Michelle and she's from America and she's currently volunteering to teach in the Philippines. She is one cool person.

Lets begin then shall we.

Uhm, I don't know about you but doesn't that mission statement look a bit like the uhm... "Evil muahahaha" type?

While driving to The Curve Michelle decided to tie Lam's hair

Then she decided to pose with her creation

This is Michelle. Hats off to you. You are one cool American chick!

Oh you better not mess with her. Coz she bites too. This is The Kash in "pain"

Oh and there was this band from the Philippines I think who was playing. A four piece band. And Prakash decided to dance (incidentally, he loves to dance)

This is part 2 of the "dance"

My 12 Days of Christmas

Well, I didn't really keep tabs on what was happening this Christmas season plus I'm lazy to blog about every single thing that happened so I'll just lump it into one post. Anyway, Christmas was good. I really had a lot of fun. Got to go to Malacca on an eating spree (honestly, we just ate and ate and ate and suffered the consequences the day after but that's another story) and then there was carolling which was really gruesomely tiring and then there was all the hanging out and the Christmas shopping and the preparations before Christmas (I know this is not exactly in chronological order but who cares, its MY blog so there!). Anyway, I'm still waiting on our two official paparazzi for the photos (meaning The Kash and The Chay) so till then I can't really post any pictures up for you, my dear readers, to see. But then again most of you were already on the trip so...

My Newest Crush

She has got a really nice voice and she looks really cute! Plus she's half Japanese so that is definitely a BIG plus. Who is she? Well, she is none other than Marie Digby (Pronounced Ma~Ri~Eh).

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Sometimes as a Mac user I miss having this... 

Just so I can put into perspective all the Mac "problems" that I'm having now.

LOL.

My Tech Support 2

To all you Mac lovers out there who hate Power Point and have sworn to stick to Keynote and are having problems trying to put video's into your presentation today's post is for you. Seems all you have to do is to go to keynote preferences under the "slideshow" tab and select "Allow expose, dashboard and others to use the screen" and voila your video will play.

My Reason For The Season

Well, of course Christmas time is a time filled with joy and laughter. Where we remember the birth of our dear saviour Jesus Christ. Where even the shopping malls are decked to the brim with Christmas deco, and are blaring Christmas carol's. Christmas is the one time where Christians can actually act all "Christian-y" and no one would care. Its the only time where even public places proclaim the Good News. But behind it all, I think the reason why people have become so deaf to it is because of all the commercialisation that's been going on. Seriously, the devil is one smart person. If you stop to think about it, Christmas is the one time where we can talk and sing openly about Jesus Christ and no one seems to mind. But what does "he" do? Well "he" just goes along and takes that from us. "He" says, I will commercialise and rob Christmas of its true meaning. I will put the focus on presents and gifts and the spirit of getting instead of the spirit of giving which is what God the Father did for us that fateful day. Now, I had not intended this post to be a rant about Christmas, but it ended up that way. Oh well, so now I ask you. What's your reason for the season?

[Not] My Addiction

Well, to all you Facebook addicts out there. He's a song for you : )