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iPad does not want to exit recovery mode? Try disabling Panda Antivirus!

17 April 2014

Last night, my iPad2 went to sleep. I plugged it in and it kept restarting when it got enough power. And restarting. And restarting. I pressed Home and Power to enter Recovery Mode and try to restore it via iTunes. But during the recovery, it presented the error below. And restarted and showed the Recovery […]

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Facebook mobile targeting

6 May 2013

Never played any game on Facebook or Yahoo. Never liked a game page. And still, 90% of the ads Facebook shows me on my iPhone and iPad are of games. Because, if I never played anything I sure do want to. Flawless Logic.

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Tablet war

29 December 2012

There is one aspect of the tablet war everyone keeps forgetting. Not the price, the specs, the ecosystem, the app store and all that. For me, a big deal is the font. And iPad has the very best fonts out there. It’s just a pleasure reading something on Safari’s Reader, on Flipboard or Pocket. And […]

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Looking for a better video player for iPad

30 January 2012

I have some video files that MediaPlayer, my player of choice, does not like. It does not play AC3, he does not like some mov or some xvid files. I’ve tried CineXPlayer and ACEPlayer and they are even dumber. CineXPLayer shuts down when i click on a movie instead of playing it. ACEPlayer freezes when […]

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Opportunities with the Romanian internet

27 January 2012

Some time ago i found myself talking with heads of a investment fund looking for opportunities to invest in the Romanian internet. Aside my legendary gloom and discomfort with the way things are going in this industry, we tried to find unconquered niches to exploit (please remember this was a 2010 discussion, some things may […]

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Congrats to Jason Calacanis

31 January 2010

He single-handed exposed the weak tech journalism. Using his twitter account, Mr.. Calacanis started posting fake and easy guess-able Apple iPad specs, ours ago before the official announcement. Some journalists believe him and posted “the news” on their sites. Of course, now they feel dumb, and I agree with Loren they should be, if they […]

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