I still have a 3G and upgraded to iOS4 – which slowed mine to a crawl. It turns out that the Spotlight search feature was the main culprit. If you turn that off (which most people don’t use anyway), your iPhone will speed up drastically. It won’t be the same as iOS3.x, but it will be much better. Here are …
HP Vista Code Purple
Turns out HP computers with Vista can have the same “code purple” issue when recovering to the out of the box state. This comes from the manufacturer’s tattoo on the motherboard. Fortunately the solution is about the same as when I ranted about HP computers with the code purple and XP issue. Here are the steps to fix it: Download Ubuntu …