Transfer Apps from iPhone to a New PC

If you’ve ever tried to synch up your iPhone to iTune on a new PC, you could end up lose all apps that you installed in your iPhone.

Before you decide to synch your iPhone with a new PC, make sure to perform the following steps to ensure all apps can be safely transferred to and preserved on your new PC.

0. Connect iPhone to the new PC. DO NOT SYNCH at this moment.

1. In the iTune of the new PC, authorize this PC to take apps. Note that you only have up to 5 PCs for apps transferring.

2. Right click your iPhone under the DEVICES at the left explore list and then select “Transfer Purchase”.

3. Then iTuen starts transferring all the apps from your iPhone to the new PC.

Shrink Hard Drive Partition

How to shrink a large sized partition is a bit tricky.

Here is the use case. When you bought a new PC with just a single partition as Drive C: with the Vista OS installed, you may want to shrink it down and leave extra space to another partition (say D: for your personal files).

If you try to directly shrink the C partition, it is often found that you could not shrink it as much as you wanted. This is because that some files are located nearly at the end of the partition that needs to be shrunk.

You can use PerfectDisk 8.0 to defrag those files and move them to be more compact in chunks near the beginning location of the partition. Even so, the 30-day free trail version of PerfectDisk isn’t that perfect as some system files are so persistent to be moved around.

Here is the tricks:

1. run PerfectDisk to defrag and clean up more free space first. Chances are that not much available space can be freed up.

2. try moving system files with PerfectDisk. It requires rebooting the system and perform such moving operation at the very beginning of next bootup. The consequence may improve a little free space, but still not enough to be shrunk as you needed.

3. At this moment, go ahead to use Vista Storage Management to shrink this partition to gain whatever available space for new partition.

4. Then repeat steps 1-2, amazingly you can further defrag and clean up more free space right after shrinking operation at step 3.

5. Repeat step 3 to shrink this partition further to whatever the Storage Management would allow you to gain.

After a few tries, you will be able to get enough size for the new partition as you desire so. Then you can format the new partition (say Drive D:) and start using it.

Got my new Intel Core i7 PC

Newly ordered a Dell Studio XPS with Intel Core 7i inside. This baby has 4 cores, which are showing 8 threads in the Task Manager.

I’ll benchmark it later until I get an Mac Leopard running on it.

Here are the names I gave to my recently owned computers:

• Egghead (a generic one I built by myself)
• Poet (Dell XPS 9150 Dual Core)
• Pundit (Dell M1330 laptop Core 2 Due)
• Swami (Dell Studio XPS Core i7 quad)

I just wonder what the next PC’s name will be.

Gone Too Soon

What we are memorizing after Michael is his legacy which will never be gone.

[on my exit row seat right before the flight took off at SAN heading to DFW]

The Capitalist Manifesto

"Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. "      - Karl Marx

"What we are experiencing is not a crisis of capitalism. It is a crisis of finance, of democracy, of globalization and ultimately of
ethics."      - Fraeed Zakaria (2009)

At this crisis of economy, government is not the solution to the problem. Government is the problem!