My camera is back at the service again! returned back last week.
Hot pixels are still present.
Here you see a photo taken with ISO speed 400, exposure time 8 seconds, lens aperture F/3,5, in the dark with the lid closed. After applying low fade correction filter using Corel PSP.
Complete dissatisfaction! I will send it back to service again and again and again!
Misfortune on my technological devices continues with my Canon 500D Camera.
Canon Rulez! didn’t workout this time. One night, my shooting test ended up noticing the hot pixels on the final photo. There were 4-5 colored pixels (blue or red) on the photo. They appeared on my London visit. Anyways, so I returned the camera back to the reseller Saturn on 30/11/09 (thank god they gave me another camera as replacement).
Last week I received an email, telling me that it is repaired and ready waiting for me. I was happy to get it back finally, until realizing the hotpixels went triple. Now I have about 15-16 pixels on the photos.
I returned it and we will see within 1 month if hot pixels will increase 30 more or will they be able to repair it.
After Toshiba, Apple betrayed me too!
Is the “Breakthrough Battery” slogan, a lie?
Apple is announcing here that “A built-in battery powers MacBook Pro for up to 7 to 8 hours on a single charge”. However mine even can’t afford the 4th hour (even with no keyboard illumination, at the lowest level of screen brightness and 2 min after turn-off screen mode, no USB devices or cards attached, no resource occupying process – simple pdf files reading) as well as losing it’s Battery Charge Level capacity!
My 1 month old MacBook Pro lost it’s Battery Charge Level by %9! plus the measurements are annoyingly inaccurate.
Last log date 11.01.2010 Monday
Current Batt Charge: 5074 mAh
Maximum Batt Charge: 5450 mAh
In average with Coconut Battery App measurements, usual capacity of 5450 mAh is now 5074 mAh and this is not good. After recognizing the fault, I contacted Apple Germany and they gave me some ideas about calibrating the battery (that’s why I wrote the article below) and calibration didn’t work at all. After each calibration, I’ve faced with more lower measurements.
So I am waiting for the MacBook’s Battery Charge Level to go below %80 as soon as possible (before 300 recharge cycles) and then I will ask for a battery replacement.
Catastrophe: Apple Customer Service in Germany, I had 3 calls, hold on the line for 15 to 20 mins in each, listening the “we are sorry for keeping you wait” jingle! at the end jingle listening + problem description = no solution took about 35 mins x3 = 105 mins in total! If you consider that they are charging around 1/4€ a min!
It was just money and time loss!
I have been utterly disappointed with two Toshiba laptops I bought in the past so as with the Toshiba Customer Service.
Toshiba Qosmio F10 and Tecra M7
Case 1 – Toshiba Qosmio F10
10 days after it’s warranty ended (it had 2 years of international warranty), the mainboard of the laptop crashed totally. I’ve learned that it was a common fault for all Qosmio F10 series and ones in America called back and replaced for free.. Unfortunately in my case nor Toshiba Turkey neither Toshiba Europe disagreed for the replacement. Result: I paid 1150$ more and %0 of customer satisfaction.
Case 2 – Toshiba Tecra M7
5 months before it’s warranty deadline (luckily! it had 3 year of international warranty), the mainboard of the laptop crashed again! my f..king luck! I took it to the customer service. After 40 work days which equals approximately 2 months, I got it repaired. After 100x calls a day! Normally they had to refund the price!
If you care about your mental healty, I advice you one thing: No Toshiba anymore!
Yesterday while I was waiting for the boarding at the Dresden Airport.
I started to play the game Labyrinth on the iPhone (which one was a gift by 12 Days of Christmas app).
After playing 2-3 levels, I heard the announcement for the boarding. I pressed the home button as usual walked to the gate.
The day before my flight, I checked in using the mobile portal and got a mobile boarding pass, similar to Austrian’s above.
Unfortunately I couldn’t able to reach my home screen when the attendant asked for the boarding pass. iPhone stuck, no matter I did, I got no response. I tried to reset using the home and sleep button, somehow it didn’t restart.
At the end, I couldn’t show it and they checked my identity card and check my status on their screens and let me get the plane. iPhone betrayed me because Labyrinth corrupted it system files or whatever.
I send the reports over iTunes, hope it will help. Who would compansate it, if I would miss the plane? Illusion Labs or Apple?
Today, while I was listening Last.fm from my brand new MacBook Pro, I’ve noticed that there is a unbalanced treble sound.
The speaker on the right side was predominant compared to the one at the left. I check the balance of the sound system from the System Settings and realized one more that there is a easily recognizable difference.
I checked the forums in the web and found out that it’s a common problem, so no worries 
just keep on loving your Mac. If you want to read more about it, click here.