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you wouldn’t buy our shitty cars

frederik — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:39:27 +0000

“so we’ll be taking your money anyway”

“you probably thought it was smart to buy a foreign import of superior quality, with better mileage and resale value. maybe you even thought that years of market share loss might prod us into rethinking our process and redesigning our products with better quality in mind. but you forgot one thing: we spend a shitload of money on lobbyists. so now you’re out $25 billion, plus the cost of your subaru. maybe next time you’ll buy american like a real man. either way, we’re cool. we’re the big three. we don’t need to compete.”

(via adfreak and you might want to check out lawrence lessig’s rant on bailouts)

twidroid – twitter for android mobiles / t-mobile g1

frederik — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:12:00 +0000

good friend and jajah iphone interface designer thomas marban just launched the first twitter client for the t-mobile g1 google android mobile phone called twidroid.

it’s the first twitter app for android mobiles. some of the highlights of twidroid‘s feature set are: fully featured twitter client (postings, replies and direct messages), user detail information, follow/unfollow a user, auto-completion of your contact names, secured operation via ssl, directly integrated photo-posting from cam or disk via phodroid.com, directly integrated search through all public tweets, background notifications for replies and direct messages, auto layout for landscape and portrait mode.

i just installed it on my t-mobile g1 and it works like a charm. i always admired thomas’ taste for great ui design, creative skills and eye for details and this is a great piece of work. so if you twitter and have a g1, go to ‘android market – applications – communication – twidroid’ and get the app, you’ll love it.

(via thomas marban at tombot)

ziphone – unlock and activate your apple iphone

frederik — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:04:42 +0000

i actually bought the apple iphone the day it came out and signed up regularly for the two year contract during the activation through itunes. but now i had a couple of friends from europe visiting who bought an iphone over here (in the us) and of course wanted to use it with their sim cards from germany, austria or uk. i still thought it’s quite a hassle to unlock, jailbreak and activate your apple iphone, but no! that’s the reason why i quickly wanted to share ziphone with you. a super slick and simple tool you download and install on your mac or windows computer, you press one button and three minutes later you can enjoy your fully functional, activated and free apple iphone – no contract, you can use any sim card anywhere in the world and everything including updates and syncing via itunes works perfectly.

“ziphone – iphone unlock tool by zibri. no computer knowledge required. enables you to activate your iphone on any network. you don’t need to provide any information to att. there is no need to soldering/opening your iphone. you can use it on as many iphones you want, it works with any iphone, any provider and any sim card in the whole world! actually you only need an iphone and a computer (windows/mac).”

you’ll find the tool and more information at download.ziphone.org / www.ziphone.org