Home away from home…

Well, took me a long while, but finally today, the transfer is over.

Quitting 3 was quite easy (and lucky): I still have a few months left on my contract, but because they made a mistake on my account, I was able to terminate the contract early (hurray!). Was kind of expecting them to make me some offer so I wouldn’t change networks, but no. Way to treat a three and a half year old customer.

Going to Vodafone was easy. Having a friend working there even made the contract sweeter (£560 for a one year contract with 1200 minutes, unlimited texting, 750MB mobile internet, 2GB internet using openWiFi and 25MB / day when on roaming and 10 free sms when on roaming).

But of course, a contract like this had to come with a phone. Now that was a story. Had a two week wait for the phone (fine, I could live with that), but on the day they were supposed to deliver (the crappy DPD service) I was home waiting for it, and they don’t deliver! DPD comes with an excuse that it had been refused (the twats). So call Vodafone, ask for redelivery next day at work address, all good and next day… no delivery! Was already on its way back to Vodafone (again, DPD twats).

So another call, another arrangement (after finding where the hell my phone was) and it was delivered today at a Vodafone store.

At last, after walking a thousand miles (not really, I took the bus), I’ve put my iPhone 4 to rest (until Christmas) and got a nice white upgrade to the… drum-roll…. iPhone 4S 16GB!

PS: The photo above makes me think is time to upgrade my bridge to a slr…

As a big Forza aficionado, I couldn’t help but leave this here for all of you out there.

Worst thing that can happen is when you format your computer and you need to sync your iPhone, iPod or iPad with your computer. And what happens? Everything gets messed up and you need to set up everything from scratch.

I found this by chance, and for it to work you need to have iOS5 and an iCloud account.

This was tested using the iPhone 4, the iPad 2, Windows 7 and Snow Leopard, all up to date, using iTunes 10.5 Beta 7.

So, what are the steps?

1 – Make a backup into the cloud of your device;

2 – Restore your device settings. Upon restart you will get the welcome screen to input all your details.

3 – When you get a choice to restore from a backup, choose the iCloud backup. This will make the device start to download all the apps you had previously.

4 – Once the device starts downloading the apps, connect it to the computer with iTunes open.

5 – On iTunes, choose the device, go to the apps tab and choose to sync the apps. You will see that the device kept the layout configuration you had already setup.

6 – Just wait for it to finish synchronizing and you are all done.

Well, it’s not very often that I talk about games, but this had to be an exception.

Got the game today, although the official release date is tomorrow, and after playing just a bit I can tell the game is amazing.

Where do I start? The sound has improved a lot, graphics are nicer and crisp, with more detail than last year’s game.

The handling has definitely improved as well. It’s now much easier to handle the car, and took me just a couple of laps to be able to use my wheel properly.

The KERS and DRS are nice additions, but it gets a bit of getting used to. Definitely do not use DRS on high speed corners or you’ll be looking at the amazing detail of the grass.

Of course adding to the official 2011 teams we also have all the tracks, 16 players online and my favourite, co-op career mode.

This last one is one of the features I was looking forward and can’t wait to start a co-op career with my friends

And now is time to head back to the racing seat!

Nice picture of my classic guitar. Been a while since I had played. Now is dust free and ready to be played again.