Fortunately you can get a replacement of the exact same iPhone model at your local Apple Store for some bucks (which are a lot below the price you would have to pay for a completely new iPhone model).

Thanks to my friends @dikk and @appleadvisor for their kind support!

Some side notes and hints about Paris:

• Everybody speaks English. Period. Don’t even bother about speaking your crampy French from school.
• Don’t go for French food – except you are willing to pay a bit above average in a better restaurant. Try Asian food instead.
• Try the bread from a local bakery! It’s simply fantastic.
• Use something like Foursquare or the TripAdvisor City Guide for Paris to find the best places to eat.
• The Louvre Museum is closed EVERY Tuesday! So are all other Museums as well one day per week.
• Except massive waiting times to go up to the Eiffel Tower. We arrived at 10am and had to wait for about 2 hours to finally get into the elevator. I assume it’s different if you take the entrance where you can walk up the stairs.
• Against what many say, the subway isn’t such a “dark” and dirty place. We even rode the subway late at night and never ran into any issues or even any eerie people. Except some rats – but that was fun to watch
• Every girl wants to go to the Galerie Lafayette for shopping. But it’s for men too! A whole, dedicated building for men, to be more precisely
• If you travel with the TGV, try to travel with one of the “newer models”. The old TGVs suck.

Turned out to be not so easy – something I generally think about Android so far, but that is another story and shall be told another time – but I got it working anyway in the end. Credits and thanks goes to Jeremy and his blog post “Sync iCloud Contacts/Calendar with Android“.

Here’s what you need to to, in order to sync iCloud Contacts and Calendars to Android OS:

iCloud Contacts to Android

1. First go to the Google Play Store on your Android device and download the app “CardDAV-Sync free beta”
   
2. Start the app and add a new account. Use the following settings to sync the contacts from your iCloud account:
   • Server name: contacts.icloud.com
   • Username: your iCloud e-mail address
   • Password: your iCloud account password
   (make sure to enable SSL)
   
3. Well that’s basically it!
   If all your settings are OK, you will notice your iCloud contacts slowly showing up inside the Contacts application, as they are being synched down from iCloud to your Android device.
   

iCloud Calendars to Android
Honestly, I didn’t do this, as my calendars are all on Google Calendar. But again, that’s another story Anyway, the process is more or less the same as for the contact sync:

1. Go to the Google Play Store and download the app “Caldav Sync Free Beta”
   
2. Start the app and add a new account. Use the following settings to sync the calendars from your iCloud account:
   • Server name: caldav.icloud.com
   • Username: your iCloud e-mail address
   • Password: your iCloud account password
3. That should be it.

Searching the web for this issues, I stumbled on this post at brilliantdays.com: http://brilliantdays.com/mac-not-accepting-correct-password/

Some people there experienced the exact same behavior as me. For most of them, the solution seemed to lie in the Keyboard Input Source settings – where they had configured additional Input Languages.

So I had a look at my settings and saw, that I had also enabled the “Keyboard & Character Viewer” Input Source! First I wanted to check, if this is really the issue, by enabling the on-screen Keyboard Viewer and see, if I am really putting in wrong characters in the authentication window. But it looked all good (don’t get confused by the orange colored keyboard buttons, they just indicate “help keys” to create special characters, like ô ä etc.).

What I did then was just uncheck all active sources via the “On” checkbox (except my preferred, main language) – and voilà, suddenly OS X accepted my Password input again!

It really seems like there is a bug in Mac OS X, that randomly switches to another active Input Source for the Password input field. Let’s hope, Apple is aware of this issue and will fix this for the future – as this is definitely a really confusing problem to identify and correct.

Update:

Alternatively, if you don’t want to disable all – in fact helpful – Input Sources, you may just activate the Keyboard Input Source selector in the login window. This option can be found inside System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Options

To do this with Mac OS X there’s a simple tutorial here: http://osxdaily.com/2012/03/01/change-mac-address-os-x/

As soon as you have set a new MAC-address, reenable WiFi, connect to the Debitel network – and enjoy another 1 hour of free Intenet access!

By the way: you can use fake credentials for the signup on the WLAN access page!

To achieve this non-standard behavior, I wrote a little helper: execute the following VBA Macro on your Office Word Mail Merge template to have Word generate & save every record into a single file.

Attention
There is one thing to do manually, because I couldn’t solve it programmatically: you have to manually set the “Mail Merge Output” setting to “Current Record”! (default is “All”)

Here’s the VBA code for the Macro:

Option Explicit

Sub MailMergeSaveEachRecordToFile()

'

' Save each single Mail Merge Record into a seperate Document

'

Dim rec, lastRecord As Integer

Dim docNameField, strDocName, savePath As String



' Choose Folder dialog (Mac and Windows)

If System.OperatingSystem Like "*Mac*" Then

    savePath = MacScript("(choose folder with prompt ""Select the folder"") as string")

Else 'Windows

    savePath = ActiveDocument.Path & "\"

End If



' If a destination folder has been selected

If savePath <> "" Then

    ' Turn off some visuals to speed things up a bit

    Application.ScreenUpdating = False

    Application.DisplayAlerts = False

    

    ' Find the last record of the Mail Merge data

    ActiveDocument.MailMerge.DataSource.ActiveRecord = wdLastRecord

    lastRecord = ActiveDocument.MailMerge.DataSource.ActiveRecord

    

    ' Ask for user confirmation to start creating the documents

    If MsgBox(lastRecord & " documents will be created based on your Mail Merge template.", vbOKCancel) = vbOK Then

        ' Ask for the name of the Merge Field name to use for the document names

        docNameField = InputBox("Which Mergefield [name] should be used for document name?")

        

        ' Create document for each Mail Merge record (loop)

        For rec = ActiveDocument.MailMerge.DataSource.FirstRecord To lastRecord

            ActiveDocument.MailMerge.DataSource.ActiveRecord = rec

            

            ' Set document name for current record

            If Trim(docNameField) = "" Then

                strDocName = "document" & rec & ".docx"

            Else

                strDocName = ActiveDocument.MailMerge.DataSource.DataFields(docNameField).Value & ".docx"

            End If

            

            ' Execute Mail Merge action

            With ActiveDocument.MailMerge

                .Destination = wdSendToNewDocument

                .Execute

            End With

           

            ' Save generated document and close it after saving

            ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:=savePath & strDocName

            ActiveDocument.Close False

            

            ActiveDocument.MailMerge.DataSource.ActiveRecord = wdNextRecord

        Next rec

        

        ' Re-enable screen visuals

        Application.ScreenUpdating = True

        Application.DisplayAlerts = True

        

    Else 'if no destination folder was selected

        'Re-enable screen visuals

        Application.ScreenUpdating = True

        Application.DisplayAlerts = True

        Exit Sub

    End If

End If



End Sub

An alternative approach is to split the generated mail merge document based on the section breaks that word inserts when executing mail merging. For me this was not working because of special formatting and tables inside the tempalte document.

Mit folgendem Befehl im Terminal.app lässt sich die kurze Verzögerung entfernen, bevor das ausgeblendete Dock angezeigt wird (sofern man es natürlich standardmässig ausgeblendet hat):

Vor allem in den Fullscreen Apps in OS X Lion erscheint danach das Dock auch umgehend… ich persönlich hatte da schon Probleme, dass es wilde Mausgesten benötigte, bis es endlich eingeblendet wurde.

Verhalten rückgängig machen über den Terminal Befehl:

Quelle: macworld.com

“The IOUSBFamily is having trouble enumerating a USB device that has been plugged in.

The IOUSBFamily was not able to enumerate a device.”

There must be snow!

1. Walking in the snow (best at night when it is snowing)
2. Eating Swiss Fondue/Raclette in a cosy hut (walking there through the snow )
3. Drinking “Glühwein” (mulled wine) outside in the cold, snowy streets
4. Visiting Swiss mountain towns where there is lots of snow (Davos, Klosters, Saas Fee, Bergün, Brigels/Laax/Flims, Appenzell, etc.)
5. Going skiing or sledging in the Swiss mountains

Enjoying Winter menus (beside the classical Fondue & Raclette of course)

1. “Gerstensuppe” (barley soup)
2. “Älpler Magronen” (maccaroni with cheese, potatoes, bacon & onions)
3. Tiramisu with tangerines & cinnamon

Watching one of below movies when it is snowing outside

1. “Home Alone” (“Kevin allein Zuhaus”)
2. “Groundhog Day” (“Und täglich grüsst das Murmeltier”)
3. “Dumb & Dumber” (“Dumm & Dümmer”)
4. “Die Hard 2″
5. “Gremlins 1″

Listening to this music while cooking or eating christmas food

1. “Last Christmas” by Hilary Duff
2. “Simply having a wonderful Christmas time” by Paul McCartney
3. “The Little Drummer Boy” by Johnny Cash with Neil Young
4. “Carol of the Bells” by the Boston Pops Ochestra (btw. heard in Home Alone )
5. “Have yourself a merry little Christmas” by many, many different singers

So how do you prepare yourself for Christmas?