Following up with parts 3, 2, and 1 - I finally received my replacement TruePower battery from FastMac. I can honestly say I probably wouldn’t have this battery by now if it hadn’t been for me E-mailing the utter crap out FastMac. Let me recap just in case you missed something, or if you’d rather not read all 3 parts. Back in June of 2009 I had an issue with a MacBook Pro battery from FastMac. The battery lost all of it’s cycles, dropped it’s charge, and then came back to life. When the battery came back to life, several cells died, they became swollen and dead. This resulted in an unbelievable amount of power loss. I contacted FastMac to get a replacement since I was under warranty. This was in the last two weeks of June. They told me there would be a back-order until the beginning of July 2009, roughly three weeks, FastMac informed me. This was fine with me. I was out of town, so two weeks went by. I shipped the package out, they received the package one week after I had shipped it. This was the cap of the three week waiting period. So I expected a quick turn around and to have my battery replaced shortly.
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Apple released iTunes 9 today. Here is a first look at some of the changes.
More images after the jump.
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Apple just posted iTunes 9 for download. The download size weighs in at 82.8 megabytes.
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
iTunes 9 download just spotted in iTunes 8 right before the big Apple iPod keynote. Here are some screenshots.
Commodore Emulator
Here is manomio’s explanation:
Unfortunately Apple this night pulled the C64 App from the App Store. We had agreed with Apple to remove basic from the application, but as we believed it would be possible to convince Apple to let it in later on, we left it in the app to be activated remotely by us when we had “go” from Apple.
Due to the extreme publicity the app has received over the weekend and the fact that several users found a way to enable the basic back, Apple decided to remove the app from App Store until we have solved the issue.
This is very frustrating as we had no intention of tricking basic into the app and the fix was done in a few minutes the moment we found out – a new version has been submitted to Apple, and we can only hope Apple will appreciate our efforts to apply the changes they need in order to put it back on.
Until now – thank you so much for your overwhelming support, it´s a pleasure to read all your kind mails and suggestions. If we´re unable to answer all mails please understand, we do our best!!
- ^ here’s an ugly image for a ugly situation.
Following up with part 2 of the battery fiasco. I have not had any luck contacting FastMac by e-mail. There have not been any updates about the whereabouts of the replacement battery since my last post. FastMac hasn’t contacted me since writing part 2. I called FastMac today to see what’s going on. They actually answered! FastMac told me they are expecting a shipment in the first week(s) of September. The fellow that I spoke with said it could be as early as this week. I, for one, highly doubt it. We’ll give them the benifit of the doubt though. I know this post really is not anything more than a status update. I thought I would let you all know the status of the battery as of today.
