Since a couple of months the iPhone had an issue, the earpiece speaker was too low, no matter that I had all the volume up it was pretty hard to listen to the one talking on the other side. I started to use the phone with the speaker in order to have conversations but I don’t like that way, mostly because sometimes I can’t properly listen and there is no noise cancelation meaning that if there is plenty of noise is quite probably the other person won’t listen to me right.
Kind of a big surgery to the laptop, I had to remove the whole display to acces to the hinge which was stuck and was grinding, pretty annoying.
After removing the display I put a bit of lubricant there and reassemble the laptop, pretty easy.
No display attached
The hinge
A bit of humor about the new MacBook Pro. Obviously this guy is not an Apple engineer but make it funny. Or you might want to see him talk about the MacBook (that one that have only one port)
https://youtu.be/gWoqwCGQIM0
Quien no recuerda cuando Steve Jobs hizo la presentación del primer iPhone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGRPYbyrQnY&hl=es&cc_lang_pref=es&cc_load_policy=1& iv_load_policy=3
Actualizadito ?
So… I’m watching videos of how to repair an iPad (mini) that does not boot, it’s not even recognised by the computer when connected via USB ?.
At least in the benchmarks, it performs better than the MacBook Pro 2012 according to GeekBench.
The Benchmark that Erica Griffin posted
vs the MacBook Pro 2012 (Intel Core i5)
Close numbers, but remember that one is fanless (MacBook) and is a low power consumption CPU.
Now, would I get one MacBook ? Definitively NO!, the reason: The port. One single port for everything is just.. no, no way.
How your computer performs? post in the comments 
Btw, Erica’s video is here: http://bit.ly/28fZfGc
Definitively something like a grid of icons would be better, a quick way to get that app that you want to use in overlay.
I know I said 3D touch is not the thing, but is handy. Of course, I’m used to the usual way to do things (entering to the app and then hit the action button) and I expect the apps really make use of this technology, I hope.
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And talking about the device, It’s great, as you can see in my flickr photostream I’ve been using it for a couple of weeks now, pictures are great although with the bandwidth I have here (near to Guatemala) is hard to upload several pictures, not to mention videos. But pictures are fine, about 2MB in size and look definitively great (I still want my DSLR camera). In terms of performance, you can watch several videos about the 6S performance in youtube. Its also great, reloading apps happens not to often, sometimes it’s barely noticeable, sometimes it is but almost all time you won’t notice.
Thats the subject that Apple send to me to basically say “we are about to charge more for your basic iCloud storage”. Indeed the price is lower, before I payed around $12MXN for 20GB of storage barely $0.6 MXN per GB, now I’ll pay $0.34 MXN, but I’ll pay a more at the end.
I have no problem so far because $17MXN is barely $1USD… a month. But is a curious subject 
Since I start using OS X I’ve never been a “spotlight” user. Althought it is there and never really used it as my daily driver, for some time I used QuickSilver because when I was using Linux I used GNOME do, but then I switched to Alfred. The main reason is that is super fast and let me execute custom commands from a couple of key strokes.
imgix is an image processing and delivery service that provides a supremely flexible, high performance, ultra–reliable solution to the problem of serving images on the modern internet. We operate our own hardware, run our own datacenters, and manage our own network infrastructure. At imgix‘s scale, maximizing efficiency and performance in image processing is critical for success. For this reason, we decided to incorporate Mac Pros in planning the build of our next generation image renderers. Because no existing Mac Pro server rack suited our needs, we designed and built our own.
Source: Racking Mac Pros by imgix
Just go to minute 14. In 1997 I was struggling making Need For Speed to run in my 133MHz computer.
Time machine is one of those great thing that OS X have, it have saved me from reinstalling everything by hand when I experiment with my computer, making a full backup (including system, applications, configurations, etc..) helps me to erase the SSD whenever I want without worrying me about missing files. Even if you don’t want to erase your hard drive, maybe it just died, having a backup will have your system in the same way it was, just like if nothing ever happened.
But, also, Time Machine is a space consuming thing, because we create a lot of files, most of them gets backed up (for instance, I don’t backup the Download folder or the virtual machines) and when you upgrade your system a big backup is made. So, it’s easy to fill a disk
I have a 1.5 TB HDD for backups, and my backups are from april 2013, I don’t really think I need something from that far,I don’t even remember what was in my computer that time. Deleting those backups can give to me some free space. At the end Time Machine will delete those old backps when the space is out.
So, to start, I want to delete all my backups from 2013. I can use “tmutil delete” to delete them, so, lets find which ones are about to be deleted.
Now that we now which ones are going to be removed, just call “tmutil delete” to delete them.
I just hope everything go fine 
So, I have a broken PS3 (the slim version, similar to the one above this lines). And I didn’t have the money to get a new PS4 but instead got a new PS3 for half the price of the PS4.
I also have a Nintendo Wii wich we use basically as a Netflix player; I actually bought the first PS3 and the Wii at the same time, nintendo knows how to make thigs that lasts. The other PS3 is also a netflix player but is were I usually play my games (I don’t do PC gaming, sorry).
The problem with Wii is that it supports 480p video output only and the Netflix App is old and lacks of features that are present in the PS3, like the auto play in series; also the cache is pretty small so repeating an scene requires it to reload that chunk. So, I’ve been thinking in replacing the Wii as the default Netflix player.
I’m thinking in getting an Apple TV for that, is cheap, small, it’s designed for video and supports Netflix. I also can do AirPlay from the iPads and play Music with iTunes. The Apple TV is pretty simple and I asume that my kids will learn how to use it pretty fast. But..
For the same price I can get a new PS3 (slim) motherboard and get the old PS3 working again, is basically the same price. The pro: Games, I would like to say an extra BlueRay Player but to be honest we don’t play BlueRay either.
Now I need to choose, repair the PS3 and get one exclusively for me (and share the other in the living room) or the Apple TV. I don’t know.. 
I think it’s better to wait until September
ugly , impractical alarm selector. iOS for iPad.
Alarm selector in iOS 8.4 for iPhone
I’ve been an iOS user for not that long time, I come from using OS X in the desktop and Android in the mobile, but now I have an iPhone and an iPad which completes the triplet and it’s true, they are better together, although iOS can’t compare with OS X there are some things that can make it easier for many people to handle, this are again the things I don’t like and my wishes on iOS:
With iOS 8 it was really a delight to be able to choose my default email client. I no longer use the Mail app, which is fine, works great but there are better options, more if you take in count that the others offer push notifications on Gmail accounts (on which I heavily depend). I won’t deny it, I like Safari, but probably if I could I would use Chrome as my default browser, and I remark “probably” because I have to admit that I like Safari, it works great but having the choice is better.
I don’t have an Apple Watch, why should I have to carry with the Apple watch software, Also, I don’t use reminders, notes, Mail, iBooks, I use Wunderlist, Evernote, CloudMagic, and Kindle; I don’t use Tips or Podcasts at all.
This is bloatware like with any other product, Samsung does the same, HTC does the same, almost every company does the same, maybe motorola is the one that have the most lean Android experience. And I know that this is something that will never happen, if Apple let the users uninstall those apps the usage of those apps would drop dramatically (the same with safari), but they use space in the device and that’s not cool, at least the less popular apps should be able to be removed, like stocks, who the hell use stocks?
On the other side, there are apps that are completely missing in the iPad, like the calculator.
Sometimes I share my iPad with my daughter, having profiles would let me get out of the scope those apps that I don’t want her to open, like my email client, my pictures, my browser history, facebook/twitter and I also may don’t have to see her apps (mostly games) in the springboard.
Having a guest profile will allow me to share my iPad to somebody that come to visit me without worry, nobody should be able to see my personal stuff.
Several things went from iOS to OS X, like the notifications area which is in some way similar to iOS, but there is something different, the widgets, like the social, you can’t just tweet by pulling the notification area in iOS but you can in OS X.
Apple is pushing iCloud storage, they give to you 5Gb for free, but you will surely need more, and they are willing to sell, maybe that’s why you can’t just put a file in a common place in your iDevice even if it is empty. You just can’t. It would be nice to store music that is available to all music players and not having to repeat those songs across them (like when you have both iTunesMusic and Google Music); or like when you download a PDF from a site and then you want it to be available when you are offline, or your movies, that’s a must.
The “Open in App” feature in iOS 8 solves the issue I described here, in some way, but it does, although the offline option is better.
So, I hope some of them become reality I like iDevices because of the way they are build, the materials and the design, but I still feel that iOS needs to improve to catch Android.
Apple legal department are probably looking for a way to make this illegal in the EULA, I mean, something like, “you cannot modify the Apple Watch in any way” or something like that…
Of course this is all a parody, the guy is not an Apple Engineer and it definitively not talking about the new MacBook. But the video is funny.
We recently saw the demonstration that evolution is more powerful than anything, natural selection doing its work.
Apple released the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, two phones with bigger screens than the previous iPhones. The iPhone 5 was a mark because for long time Apple said that the 3.5″ was just perfect and nobody needed a bigger phone, when they increased the iPhone 5 screen they did only in the height so you can still get to the edge of the screen with the thumb. So, what happens with the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus?.
Well, turns out that the public has spoken, the same thing happened with the iPad, people wanted a small screen and the iPad was suffering in sells because a lot of 7″ tablets were selling like hell (kindle, Nexus, Galaxy… name it) and even when the iPad was selling it was clear that they (Apple) needed a similar device to compete. The same happens with the iPhone, to many people, having a bigger screen in the Phone is a deal, but more importantly, having multiple phone sizes to please more people is the deal to the company. That’s why Samsung have a bunch of devices, from 2.5″ to more than 5″.
Also, Apple had to develop the iWatch. I do believe that this is something just to be in the wave, the Apple watch doesn’t offer anything better than the smartphone could do, neither the other wearables do, and was the opportunity to stay firm in creating products that do provide value to the user experience, not just something to get part of the pie.
I wonder where the computers department would go, in the operating system area there are already some changes, to me OS X Yosemite’s features didn’t required all that facelift, Mavericks looks a lot more pro than Windows or any Linux desktop, no need to move the icons, it’s perfect they wanted to add features like file tags, continuity (with iOS8), the new notification area, getting more integrated with iCloud etc.. but why changing the user interface?. To me transparencies should be in the past. I just hope that the hardware don’t get to big, like Alienware, or plastic.
