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GPRS on MacOS X Leopard / MOTOSLVR L9

kaustubh — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:53:34 +0000

My brother was forced to use GPRS because his USB CDMA modem broke So he enabled GPRS on my phone (his phone is a crappy Nokia) and borrowed it for his use.

Then all he had to do was to pair up via Bluetooth on both the machines (Mac and GPRS enabled phone) and he was up and surfing in a few minutes (did I mention it took me around 15 hrs and 3 calls to Help center for getting GPRS enabled :X )

Now he treated himself to a new MOTORAZR V8 and enabled GPRS on his phone to return mine and I couldnt help but start (unfairly) comparing between MOTORAZR V8 and MOTOSLVR L9.

More on that after I turn the V8 inside out and compare!

GTalk Status Message and Winamp

kaustubh — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:49:03 +0000

I installed GTalk 1.0.0.104 today, upon enabling GPRS and had Winamp 5.54 installed earlier.So I was in for a shock (which I had suffered earlier, but was expecting it to be solved) when I set my status message to “Currently playing Music Track”.

GTalk just hangs up, and consumes almost all CPU!But fear not!

The mandarins of technology (or should I say Geekville) found a workaround : All you need to do is create an empty playlist in your Winamp install folder (usually in the “/Program Files/Winamp” folder) and voila!!

And all is well in Geekville!

This thread helped me out!