Boteco São Bento (o pior bar do sistema solar) ~ Resenha em 6 - filmes, livros, CDs, bares descritos em 6 linhas ou menos

Boteco São Bento (o pior bar do sistema solar) ~ Resenha em 6 - filmes, livros, CDs, bares descritos em 6 linhas ou menos

Depois da Faixa de Gaza e do Acre, este é o pior lugar do mundo para você ir com os amigos. Caro, petiscos sem graça e, principalmente, garçons ultra-power-mega chatos: você toma dois dedos do seu chopp, quente e azedo que nem xoxota nos tempos dos vikings, eles já colocam outro na mesa. E se você recusa, eles ainda ficam putos. Só tulipadas diárias no rabo para justificar tamanha simpatia no atendimento.

• Fui no da Vila Madalena. Dizem que o do Itaim é ainda pior.
  
• Para dicas de botecos que valem a pena, leia outras resenhas aqui
  
• Siga o Resenha pelo Twitter antes que eu bote outro link na mesa.
  

Resenhado por Raphael Quatrocci às 23:22 .

Por favor conheçam o gerente do bar:

iPhone's GPS went berserk

Last month my iPhone's GPS stopped locking on to satellites completely, it would only triangulate positions through my carrier's towers and stop looking. I tried boots, soft resets, restoring to factory defaults and nothing worked.

This morning I finally found the receipt to claim the one year warranty. I was going to show it to my friend, comparing his iphone to mine side by side, when suddenly both iphones got a gps lock.

???

I was sure it was broken, I tried every solution people gave me online and none of them worked. After that I tried to launch an app and it crashed, another and crash... every app was crashing on launch. Boots and soft resets weren't helping, after a sync to itunes the launch crashes stopped. Now to my surprise the gps isn't working again. Does my gps only work when the memory is low? What gives?

Update (june 24th): I'm not alone.

Update (june 25th): I contacted a few licensed repair centers and they said they're not authorized to give tech support or repair iPhones. I called Apple in Brazil and a voice message told me each carrier is responsible for their own sold iPhones' warranties. I'm not in the mood to call my carrier today, most employees don't have a clue what they're doing there.

Update (july 2nd): I walked into my carrier's store (Claro) and they didn't have any 8gb iphones in stock. I found a huge thread about the issue on Apple's own forums. It's only getting bigger and Apple hasn't publicly admitted the problem.

Update (july 16th): Back to Claro's store. They had the 8gb model in stock and replaced my old one which also had a cracked screen on the bottom. I upgraded it to 3.0 and the gps is working fine now. I'm surprised they replaced my faulty iphone so easily, I liked that.

Reading Mobipocket books on Kindle or Stanza for the iPhone

1. Download Kindle for the iPhone, you'll need a US account.
2. Buy your Mobipocket book.
3. Download and install Mobipocket Reader.
4. Download your Mobipocket book through Mobipocket Reader.
   
5. Download and install Python.
6. Download Dark Reverser's script to remove the DRM.
   
7. Copy the book ".prc" file and the latest script to the same folder python is installed.
   
8. Find your PID on Mobipocket Reader's about page and strip the DRM using the script: python DeDRM.py yourmobipocketprotectedbook.prc* drmfreebook.prc* Your_PID*
   
9. SSH the DRM-free prc file to your iPhone's folder for Kindle eBooks or add it to your Stanza library.
   
10. Read your book wherever you are.

*Replace these with your own info.

integration mess!

all right... i had twitter updating facebook status, but i like how brightkite pinpoints me on a map so now i have brightkite updating twitter and facebook. people comment my posts on twitter, facebook and brightkite. friendfeed catches all action on all of this and people comment there too. wtf? unified online identity and commentosphere unification anyone?

Mapas da Garmin para o Brasil

Comprei um nuvi, mas veio sem mapas brasileiros.

• preço do SD direto com a Garmin: US$99
• preço do SD com o representante da Garmin no Brasil: R$395

Não fosse esse preço descarado no Brasil eu até compraria aqui, mas eu quero agora e quem perde é a garmin... não vou pagar $99 pra esperar vir pelo correio...

Digital delivery... conhece garmin? Pois bem, o pirata já é assim.

Using Google Contacts, Mail and Calendar on the iPhone

Android can work perfectly with all these Google Services out of the box, but the iPhone... you've gotta work around Apple's barriers.

For the contacts and calendar you have to use Nuevasync. They simulate an exchange server that will keep your contacts and calendar synched in real time.

I don't know why, but Gmail won't push emails to the iPhone, but Yahoo will. Create a yahoo account and then set up gmail to forward all emails to that account.

That's the only way I found to make Google work the way it should with the iphone.

Update: The downside in this all is that people will eventually see replies coming from this new yahoo mail address, which isn't something I really wanted and Yahoo won't let you change it.

Local iPhone App Store

eBay, last.fm, yelp, loopt... they won't show up on my iTunes since I'm registered with a brazilian account. I'm still deciding on wheter I'll create a fake american iTunes account or jailbreak my iPhone to download these FREE apps.

I bought this iPhone legally through an official authorized local carrier! It's not because of some sort of ban, it's just how it is!

I'm still obligated to download free music from soulseek and tv shows / movies through bittorrent. Can't reach those too with a brazilian iTunes account. Good, saving money! Thanks Stevie ;)

Update 1: This fixed everything! Now I'm happy!

Update 2: Apple has shut down the hole allowing payment method to be set as 'none'.

Update 3: There is still a breach!

eBay can't read emails!

Yesterday I wanted to know why ebay wouldn't let their iphone app be downloaded in the brazilian iphone app store, so I sent them the following message:

I buy a lot on eBay and I own an iPhone. It says the ebay app isn't available at the brazilian app store. Aham... why?

After sending it, a survey popped up. I answered it saying mostly that I felt they'd never read my email. I was expecting some kind of answer saying they were sorry and they couldn't do anything about it, but check out what I found in my inbox the next morning:

Thank you for writing eBay in regard to the iPhone you bought on eBay.

I am sorry for any additional delay in getting this resolved for you,
but before we can diagnose this problem, I need the item number. I
appreciate your patience in sending the number to us. The more
information I can get from you, the easier it will be to solve this
issue to your satisfaction.

I hope they won't read the survey results with the same special attention my email got.