Life’s a journey

Upgrading, Jailbreaking and Unlocking my iPhone 2G to 2.1 firmware on Mac

October 30, 2008 · 1 Comment

Seems easy if you follow these intstructions from iClarified. The problem is, it doesn’t unlock the iphone. it just jailbreaks it so you won’t get a signal if you’re not on AT&T.

The next problem would come in because of iTunes 8. You would get the following error while restoring from a custom firmware:

  • The iPhone “iPhone” could not be restored. An unknown error occured (1600).
  • The iPhone “iPhone” could not be restored. An unknown error occured (2001).

I was able to fix this by doing the following steps:

  1. restore using default firmware of iTunes
  2. jailbreak using quickpwn
  3. use pwnagetool to create the custom firmware
  4. restore firmware using itunes again, this time using the alt-click button to use the custom firmware
  5. start using your unlocked iphone 2g on 2.1 firmware, yey!

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WendyAng.com is back!

September 2, 2008 · Leave a Comment

After 4 years, i finally regained ownership of my .com name. Yehey!

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Pet-friendly places in the Philippines

August 21, 2008 · 1 Comment

IMG_6518.JPG, originally uploaded by The Greater One.

Last Monday, we bought this cute 3-month old shih tzu for my gf’s birthday. We called her Mica. Since then, we’ve been so obsessed with buying accessories like dog bed, shirt, shoes, dog treats, etc. We’ve also been bringing her everywhere we go.

Yesterday, we bought a dog-carrier and attempted to bring her to Shangri-la Plaza mall. Unfortunately, Shangri-la mall is not pet-friendly.

I am trying to look for pet-friendly places here in the Philippines. Some places that allows you to bring and walk with your dog are:

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Digital marketing revolution is happening now

August 14, 2008 · Leave a Comment

In 2004, we re-branded our company to look young and dynamic and used the tag line Experience Digital Marketing. During that time, I wanted to promote the company as a developer of digital consumer experience for companies. This “experience” concept was based from the book The Experience Economy. In those days, the digital experience revolves around great web design and flash animation on the web or interactive CDs that provide video and animated product demonstrations.

These past 2 days, I was at IMMAP’s 2nd Internet and Mobile Marketing Summit. I was happy to see some old acquaintances back in iAyala/Philwap days. One of them is Nix Nolledo, the owner of Xurpas, PinoyExchange, and many other companies related to internet and mobile marketing. During his presentation, he gave an inspiring background about his company and how they expanded worldwide. He presented interesting mobile campaigns in the African region as well as an interesting application called SMS 2.0 from India.

Applications and campaigns presented in the summit just show that we shouldn’t stop innovating. Innovation is the heart of every business. Stop innovating and your business will surely fall.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship… the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. – Peter Drucker

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Portable beach house

August 12, 2008 · Leave a Comment

I deal with a lot of clients from the shipping industry so I know a bit of how the industry works. One of my clients specializes in office containers. An office container is made of a (or a block of) shipment container converted into an office. I think they should look at this.

Port-a-bach is a beach house made from a repurposed shipping container that can be closed up and moved by truck, helicopter, or ship to any destination. Bach is a New Zealand term for a modest beach house. [From: GQ]

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iPhone 3G now in the Philippines!

August 8, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Globe will start selling he iPhone 3G on August 22, 2008. I just reserved one for myself, yey!

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How to market a product or service for less

August 8, 2008 · Leave a Comment

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Sunday is Sonya’s day

August 8, 2008 · 1 Comment

Before the ridiculous gas prices, I go to Sonya’s Garden every other Sunday. Last Sunday, Jade and I decided to celebrate our 6th monthsarry there. I love love love their salad dressing!

Alternatively, since gas prices are still high, you may try out the Caesar’s salad from Chateau Verde in UP Diliman.

more photos from our Sonya’s lunch here.

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Happy 08/08/08!

August 8, 2008 · 3 Comments

This happens once in a lifetime. Some companies use the date as a point of promotion. I wonder how other people celebrate their 08/08/08 day. For us, we’ll just treat tonight as any other Friday night. Pizza night tonight at none other than Bellini’s! Yey!

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Media Temple’s stuipidity

June 3, 2008 · Leave a Comment

This is a shout out to Media Temple to hire more qualified techical support. Please see my exchange of messages with their tech support a while back:

Request details ID#: 391554
Subject: change of domain name
Status: In Progress
Opened By: Wendy Ang
Date opened: 2008/06/03 02:19

Response history
Your response: 2008/06/03 02:19
Currently, we have splendidotaaltowers.com under our account. can you have this changed to tagaytaytaaltowers.com instead? its supposed to use the same website, we just need to change the domain.

thanks.

Support response: 2008/06/03 02:21
The request to change your primary domain has been completed. Please make note of the following points:

- The new primary domain must be registered correctly, and its nameservers must be listed in order as ns1.mediatemple.net and ns2.mediatemple.net. If you’ve asked (mt) Media Temple to register your new primary domain as a previously unregistered domain then this is already taken care of. If the step of modifying your nameservers is unclear to you please consult the following Knowledge Base article: ……. blah blah blah..

THIS IS NOT A REQUEST TO CHANGE OUR PRIMARY DOMAIN. PLEASE CHANGE OUR PRIMARY DOMAIN BACK TO OPTIMINDSOLUTIONS.COM ASAP!!!!!!

The instruction was simple. Under our main account, we are hosting a website with a domain: splendidotaaltowers.com We just want this domain changed to tagaytaytaaltowers.com!!!!

Your Support Request was unclear. You cannot “change” a domain name. You can only delete, or add.

I have changed your primary domain back to splendidotaaltowers.com. I have added a DNS zone file for tagaytaytaaltowers.com, no other changes have been made. I simply added a DNS zone file, which you could do in the Account Center for future reference.

IN MY PREVIOUS MESSAGE, I STATED TO CHANGE OUR PRIMARY DOMAIN BACK TO OPTIMINDSOLUTIONS.COM not SPLENDIDOTAALTOWERS.COM.

PLEASE CHANGE IT BACK TO OPTIMINDSOLUTIONS.COM

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