Monday, May 26, 2008

iSkin Giveaway winners: Announcement

Now to the announcement of the winners of the iSkin duo giveaway.

First winner is Timo: blue iSkin duo

Second winner is BigTez: pink iSkin duo

To the winners please send me an email to macbookblog_at_gmail_dot_com with your shipping address and the shipping method desired and I will send you an email how to transfer the shipping costs (paypal or bank transfer). Once the shipping costs are recieved I will send out the skins via the desired shipping method.

Thank you for participating in this giveaway and I hope that you will like the iSkin duo skins as much as I do. Once you recieve them I'd truly appreciate a picture or two of them with your iPod but this is purely optional.

Hopefully, I will be able to host another giveaway on my blog soon so keep watching and reading...I do have some giveaways already planned :)

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Monday, May 19, 2008

iSkin duo Giveaway ends tomorrow: Last Chance!

Just a little reminder that the iSkin duo (for iPod nano 3rd gen.) ends tomorrow!
So if you are an iPod owner and in need of one of the best cases around check out the giveaway here and participate.

iSkin GIVEAWAY


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Saturday, May 10, 2008

Yahoo acquires Inquisitor!

I was a bit surprised about this blog entry on the Yahoo! Search Blog but very pleased to read that the plugin is still free and now finally free of those affiliate links that our beloved DW has put in which caused quite some stir up in the past.
In fact I downloaded the plugin and installed it once again after trashing it for those shady methods DW has used in the past.
Let's hope that it will stay that way.

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Thursday, May 8, 2008

Pimp your Quicksilver!

Are you a Quicksilver user?
If yes, are you tired of the standard interfaces that come with it?
Well, Julius Eckert has some awesome Quicksilver interfaces that will pimp up your Quicksilver and make the experience even better.

Here are the three very slick looking interfaces.
Click on image to get to the page.


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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

A Giveaway (it's been too long): Two iSkin duo for iPod nano




Deadline is the 20th May 2008

Well, it's been too long since we had a giveaway on Days of our Macbooks so today I have a great giveaway to announce. Thanks to the people at iSkin I am in the position to giveaway two iSkin duo cases for the iPod nano 3rd generation. The colors are pink and blue. You can check them out in my review if you haven't read them yet. Participating is easy. Just comment or send me an email that you want to win.
All I ask from the winners is maybe a pic of you and your iPod with the skin and the shipping rate in case you win. Good luck to everyone.

iSkin duo review

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Endlich wieder ein Gewinnspiel werden sich einige denken.
Heute bin ich in der glücklichen Lage zwei iSkin duos für den iPod 3. Gen. zu verlosen, dank der netten Leute bei iSkin. Farben der Skins sind pink und blau. Alles was ihr tun müsst um teilzunehmen ist einen Comment hier hinterlassen oder mir eine Email schicken.
Vom Gewinner würde ich gerne ein Foto des iPods mit dem Skin haben (aber nicht verpflichtend). Die Versandkosten trägt der Gewinner. Bilder der zu verlosenden Skins könnt ihr in meinem Testbericht sehen.

iSkin duo Testbericht

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今回の抽選の賞品はiSkin duo no ケースです。今回は、iPod nano 3rd genの持ち主の為の抽選です。
まだレビューを読んでいない方がいれば是非レビューを読んでみて下さい
いつものように、コメントを記入していただくだけで参加出来ます。メールでも結構です。iSkin duoの色はピンクとブルーがあります。勝者は送料金を払っていただければうれしいです。

iSkin duo レビュー

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Monday, May 5, 2008

mozy.com - online backups for mac users also


So I have read a few blog entries about the online backup service mozy and that it got updated for Mac users also. Since it seems to be a very good service and it gets hyped in various places on the net I decided to give it a spin. I have signed up for a free account that gives you a storage of 2GB and downloaded the software also. I am still a bit skeptical to upload private things to an online backup service so I just selected some folders with random files in it to test out the software and the speed of mozy's online backup service. First of all the software that you need will be running in the menubar and it is very easy to select the stuff that you want mozy to backup (there are quite a lot of predefined backup rules in mozy which makes backing up a lot easier). Then there is another section where you can select custom folders that you want to be backupped also.

I have already selected what I wanted to be backupped this weekend but had trouble connecting to the servers. But today I was able to connect to the mozy servers and am currently trying my first backup. Currently, I am backing up about 250 MB of random data and according to the software it will take a bit over an hour till the process will be finished.

I guess I will post about the backup once it is finished.
Up till now I am very impressed about the simplicity that mozy offers.
If you are interested you should check out their site and try out the free storage of 2GB first and if you are satisfied you can opt for different plans.

Mozy Online Backup Homepage


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