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Nokia 6280 Restriction Code

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Had a crap day yesterday and to top it off my phone gave up the ghost and would let me use it asking, forcing me to enter a ‘restriction code’. Called Orange, about as unhelpful as ever telling me it would be ?Ǭ£300 for a replacement and a ?Ǭ£100 admin fee… yeah right!

Did a quick google this morning and found a few posts on the net, seems that this is a really common problem with the 6280 and can be easily fixed:

  1. Start phone without simcard in
  2. Remove battery when phone is on
  3. Put simcard back in phone and turn on

This worked perfectly! Hope this helps anyone who is unlucky enough to have this phone problem… now how simple is that Orange you money grabbing scamming gits!?

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Olympics Logo… have your say!

Friday, June 8th, 2007

Crappy Olympics Logo

The olympics logo for london is crap! If you think you can do better then submit an idea to this website:

2012 Logos

Be sure to vote for your favourites!

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Laptop is back

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Ok just picked up my laptop, lets hope that iSupport have managed to fix the problem. Bit annoyed that there are a few scratches on the supposed ‘brand new’ top panel that I had to have fitted, its obviously where they have put a screwdriver in to remove the old part but would have been nice if they could have been a bit more careful!!!

Gonna leave it running for a good few hours to make sure the problem doesn’t still exist, dont have that much faith in the guys who repaired the machine and to be honest dont think I would use them again. 3-5 days has turned into 2 weeks and I had to constantly call them to find out what was going on, including today… “is my laptop ready?”…. “oh yeah its just here, was just about to call you”… convienient and considering that was at 4 oclock I kinda doubt it.

Oh well I have the laptop back and it ‘appears’ to be working which is good!

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Bad Apple?

Friday, October 6th, 2006

As much as you love the products, Apple Customer/Technical support is the worst I’ve ever experienced. I’ve been a Mac user about a year now and have never had (or heard of) a positive convasation with their operators… Is this a run of bad luck or is this more of a ‘feature’?

To date…

1) Monkeying around with payment of Powerbook, canceling order for not getting payment after payment was made

2) Charging me twice for Logic 7 Pro, refusing to give money back… had to get bank to intervene on my behalf.

3) Same as point one for Miche trying to order a Photobook from iPhoto

4) 3 Hour convo (well 2hours 45mins on hold and 15min convo) after Hitch’s G5 tower didn’t come with the PCI slots it was sold as having

5) Si’s iPod delayed arrival due to the company purchasing it having problems like point 1

6) Chris having problems gettin Apple to aggree that his iPod is faulty (inspiration for this post!)

Anyone ever had a positive interaction with Apple staff??

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