Upgraded to Mountain Lion

Finally my free code arrived! So yes Im using the new OS for Mac. Mountain Lion. Steps that I took to upgrade below.

5 emails arrived on my mailbox. 1 of them has the password and 4 of them has a pdf attachment. So the password worked only on 1 pdf.

 Open the Mac App Store and click on Redeem.

 

Download the Mountain Lion. File is more than 4GB. So if you have slow internet connection, it might take awhile. I don't know if Apple provide a USB or a CD copy of it. But for sure if you have a slow connection, you can always bring your Mac to the Apple store to download and install the new OS.

 

Installation took more than 45 minutes for me. I don't see much change on speed or battery life on my Mac after upgrading. (probably because my Mac is always connected to a power supply and I rarely turn it off) 

I love Messages app. I can now use my mac to send messages to my friends who have iOS devices. And it is sync with my iphone and ipad! Dictation is kinda cool too! And the other new features... I didn't bother to check and use it as of now. Even the notification is not yet set. Kinda busy watching Olympics! :D

Parallels Desktop for Mac

Just so you know I got a HP laptop and this Macbook Pro. I do my work and game stuff on my HP which runs Windows 7 and for Mac I just surf the net and watch movies/tv series. Yeah I know a machine worth more than $2K just for Facebook. lol

So I decided to install Windows 7 on this Mac. I was choosing which one to use before...bootcamp or parallel? I went to later.

 

Now that I successfully install Windows 7, every haters can now STFU. Now I can use my Mac with my work stuff. And I know what's on your mind about the HP. FYI its not my laptop. Its a school property! 

PS. I still don't have my code for the free Mountain Lion. I already called Apple support and they said that they confirmed that my application has already been approved and just wait for the email. Might take about 72 Hrs. Seriously Apple?!

Mountain Lion OS

Have you upgraded yours? More than 5 hours passed and I still not have any code for my free upgrade. As they said patience is a virtue.

Castle

If you are not watching this TV show... you should start now...I super love this show!

Lets talk about piracy...

And like what I said on my header..lets talk about piracy. What is piracy and how does it differs from thief? As kumareng Mirriam said:

Piracy:
the unauthorized use of another's production, invention, or conception especially in infringement of a copyright

Thief:
one that steals especially stealthily or secretly; also : one who commits theft or larceny  

So there, I don't know if you catch the difference or not. On my point of view piracy is copying of materials, the original materials will still be there. Thief is stealing things and original material will be long gone. The picture below will explain much better.

And why am I talking about it? Last week I got a very demanding request from someone to jailbreak his iOS device and where to download stuff. His approach is too strong that time and I snapped! Told him that I no longer jailbreak things ever since I moved to CA and told him that if he really wanna jailbreak all he need is kumpareng Google.

I think everything is in the internet nowadays. All you need to do is search. Knowledge is free if you know where to look. Did I support piracy? Sadly yes. I did support it a lot back in PH. Hidalgo Street in Quiapo is my haven. It offers a lot of stuff. From Game CDs to DVDs. Piracy back then is like sampling things for me. If I like the stuff, I will buy the original thing. PH has the worst market thing because we have this no return no exchange thing. So why would I buy an original CD without listening to it first.  Oh yeah it still doesn't justify things. I read on an article about piracy, the author said that piracy in a 3rd world country is somehow legal. Why? People on a 3rd world country doesn't have the means to buy stuffs so they went to the next best thing...piracy. The internet speed in PH and probably on other "poor" countries is so slow and will take a month in order to download a bluray copy of a movie.

Moving in CA, I changed a lot. I noticed that a lot of people buy and rent movies and books online. Sometime I think they are dumb paying a lot of $$$ for they can just download it online. But then again they have the means to buy. They have the spending power to buy those things. And thankfully me too. Most DVDs and BluRays are affordable. Sometimes they play at around $5 to $20. But those are old titles. But still a goodies! And Netflix offers 1 month free trial and just $8 bucks a month. Now I sound like promoting things. And my train of thoughts is now wayward since Im typing this entry while watching Castle. Yes I bought all the Castle series on iTunes courtesy of Apple. Got the free $100 gift card when I bought my Mac last last week. :)