• The GizmoWebs Guide (I didn’t use it and can’t confirm it works)
• If you have synced your books, installing iBooksFix2 from Cydia will work too. This is a step by step how to do that:

1. Go to Cydia
2. Go to Manage
3. –> Sources
4. –> Edit
5. –> Add
6. –> type repo.insanelyi.com
7. –> accept, don’t care about an error, wait till it completes
8. –> in Cydia, go to Search
9. –> find “iBooksFix2″
10. –> install
11. –> after install restart phone
12. –> open iBooks
13. –> in the dialog, tell iBooks to sync
14. –> it syncs back your books, everything is fine, iBooks works

Thanks to @asadwuddin for pointing this out :-)

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Then you’ll need to add a new iCloud account in your Mail, Calendar and Contacts preferences in both Mac and iOS preferences. On the Mac this means adding an account, activating the iCloud accounts calendars and deactivating the local ones.

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• Popularity of a brand defines it’s stock market value.
• If you’re not going to invest A LOT OF money, the costs will eat up your revenue.
• Exception: Apple. Apple is more golden than gold. Steve Jobs dropout lowered Apples stock for just one month. Buy Apple stock in late december and early May, when their next iPad and iPhone is approximately two month away.

Oh, that were three things.

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Microsoft has the people and the brains to maintain a really good mobile OS. In fact, most people whining about WinPhone7 have never seen it or are just anti-Microsoft anyways. WinPhone7 but it has a nice concept and a real nice language and framework for developers. And they don’t feature-overload it like Google does with Android – instead they’re aiming for constistency and a polished OS.

Nokia has the resources to cheaply produce high quality phones and the infrastructure to sell them anywhere in the world. And let’s face it: Microsoft doesn’t produce phones, so it’s nothing new that they’d love to have Nokias with WinOS anyways. The only new thing in this news is that Nokia learned from it’s failure to create a good mobile OS and gives up on that.

Final point: who of you doesn’t love a third competitor besides Android and iOS?

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So, if you’re using these plugins and know how to contact the authors, please drop them a line. I fixed the Photo Dropper and the shadows-plugins here, but don’t really have the energy to go after the flattr-plugin, as the fixes get overridden with new plugin versions, and flattr keeps them coming each month…

It’s bugging me that plugins are the reason my site doesn’t validate.

photo credit: Jesper Rønn-Jensen

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My job was hard the last few month, when I had some hard problems to sit and learn over, and that made me feel I wasn’t making any progress anymore. And my job motivated me most of the last year, so this was a big hit. Then I also made some mistakes, costing my company some money – made me feel even worse. Then I didn’t see my friends in a loooong time. I used up all the nice content in form of videogames and movies. Then my girlfriend tends to work a lot – also on weekends. And some few time ago, one of my cats died.

That was when I felt a big depression overcoming me. I seemed to have some kind of mid-life-crisis. Since then I made some corrections in my life, that all should help my motivation.

1.) ToDo lists: I need those to feel that I make progress and to not loose track of what I was doing. It also makes me feel good when I can check something off.

2.) Music. The iPhone 3G originally made me listen to music again after me having lost interest in it before. Sadly, synching with iTunes isn’t perfect and took a long time and when I more often heard songs I didn’t like while riding my bike to work, I switched to podcasts instead. Those podcasts are fine, but they’re all information and no emotion. After getting the iPhone4, I realized that through the clicker headphones you could easily get rid of songs you didn’t want and through the bigger capacity, I could have overall more songs on the device, giving more food to the genius lists. This also made me rediscover all the good old stuff and keeps my emotions slightly more packed with power.

3.) Friends. I visited an old friend of mine living 5 hours away from here – and it really pushed me. Then through the iPhone4 and Meebo, I’m back online on ICQ, which I dropped when beginning to work one year ago. Through this, I got back to being contacted for sit-ins and usual silly conversation, which made me feel better.

4.) Project: I try write more on the blog – it somehow frees my mind. I also try to work a bit on the ToDo Tool I wanted to do a while back – one should have some cool project instead of sad SOA stuff. You should have a project that you like – even if ou don’t have too much time to put in that.

5.) Job: The job always threatens my peace of mind. If there’s a big problem piling up or something that’s really hard to grasp, I’m feeling bad. But there problems are solved now, god bless it.

Somehow this post is incomplete, butI guess the crisis is over. Thanks to everyone including you dear reader who leaves a comment from time to time ;-)

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When the Visual Studio 2008 / 2010 designer shows you the forms and controls, it executes certain code to show them to you. When it crashes, you should look on which form it crashed and then inspect this form very closely, including all their fields.

The error can be in the constructor of the form, in the constructor of the custom controls you’re using and in the OnPaint() events of either forms and controls. Make sure you’re either encapsulating all these with try-catch-blocks so you can at least track down the problem and not have Visual Studio crash on you each time you try.

(If you know other sources of VS designer crashes, please post a comment)
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