tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30000746009566225482011-12-13T20:41:33.879-05:00Misahlnoreply@blogger.comBlogger341100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000074600956622548.post-29264308458876625642010-07-07T09:35:00.006-04:002010-07-08T10:03:55.875-04:00

The iPhone 4 design is superb but has a tiny flaw. The cell signal is attenuated when holding it naturally with the left hand. Evidently the wrap-around antennas are affected when in contact with the skin. The fix? A plastic wrap-around "bumper" case. Here is the map of it's five day journey...View My iPhone 4 Bumper's Route in a larger map

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While traveling in southern Brazil I decided to give the 3G iPhone's new GPS a try.I opened up Maps and asked for my current location. It took a while to load - I even had to wake up the screen once or twice - but the maps finally loaded and the blue dot appeared. It had me located on a street in Los Angeles, over 4,000 miles north west of my actual location. Maybe it should be UPS (USA

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Ouch. This is the first real problem I've encountered with the iPhone. After accumulating about 800 pictures I finally decided to get organized and clean out the ones I didn't really need anymore. For the first time I clicked the 'Delete Imported' button in iPhoto after making sure I had a copy of them all. I was shocked to discover that after doing so I could no longer access any subsequent

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As a system administrator on call 7x24 since the early 80's the application I yearned for most on the iPhone was SSH. Maybe someday Apple will put it there for me, but until they do there is WebShell.Installing WebShell requires root access to a Unix server equipped with at least Python 2.3First you need to make sure python 2.3 or later and OpenSSL are installed on your system. You will also

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I've been playing my iPhone's music on the car stereo and the sound system in my house, both of which have an Auxillary input jack.You would think there would be a convenient cable for this purpose but because the iPhone's output jack is so deeply recessed I had to modify one. It's not at all difficult. I had to invest $3.00 for an iPod Earphone Splitter and a Stereo Extension Cable.Just trim

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I've been storing videos from YouTube on my iPhone.Why bother? We can play YouTube videos directly from the network. Ah, but what about those times when a network connection is not available?It has happened to me while travelling by air and there are certain areas where I get little or no signal at all. Try connecting to YouTube from deep inside one of those 30 story office buildings where there

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No, the phone didn't ring but there it was - a voice message waiting for me. I must have missed a call. I made sure it wasn't in the vibrate mode, checked the ring volume, sighed and contemplated the latest fashions in hearing aids.Now it turns out the problem could simply have been I was on the 'net. Like the dial-up modems of old, if I happen to be transferring data via the EDGE network, no

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Rampant reports of bricked iPhones may be just typical start-up product issues instead of intentional deactivations by Apple.In fact, it may be less painful for Apple to let people believe the bricking is purposeful rather than admit the software under that capacitive touch screen is not quite perfect yet.According to an article at wired ...beautiful as it is, the iPhone isn't finished -- its OS

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No doubt Sharper Image will come up with some eventually but as of post time I've not found any that suit.There are some places that offer them for less than $20 bucks but *gosh* they are not Apple Store white and don't have the extra long plug needed for the neatly contoured but recessed jack at the top left edge of the iPhone.At least now there is a use for that sculptured leather coin purse I

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When you happen upon a webpage you wish to visit later, there is a way to get a copy of the URL from the iPhone to other places.We've noted before that the iPhone lacks a copy/paste buffer for sharing information between applications. In those places where this is most painfuly obvious, such as the Notepad, the designers make an email option available. The Safari browser has this option also but

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The Blogger Photostream is now an iPhone application. Just bookmark this link in your iPhone's Safari browser and enjoy:http://chronita.com/m/blogger.php

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There are new iPhone applications popping up all over.chronita.com has fielded three so far with the webmaster there indicating there may be almost a dozen more coming up within the next few weeks.At the time of this post there is Today in History, an animated view of the Solar System and travel advisories from the Overseas Security Advisory Council. (pictured)http://chronita.com/m/todh.phphttp:

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SoonR is a web 2.0 application that gives you access to your computer from your iPhone.Let's hope SoonR doesn't follow Festoon into oblivion because right now they are providing a very useful and somewhat amazing service.To take advantage of this service you need to download a SoonR desktop agent and register using your email and phone number. There is nothing difficult about the registration

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Actor Stephen Fry wrote about the iPhone on his blog.It's a lengthy but entertaining read. Stephen Fry is a bit of a technophile with a long history of buying the latest smart phone. He pans the iPhone's virtual keyboard and the lack of support for custom apps but praises just about everything else.

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I made a call on my iPhone.The most comfortable way for me to make a call on the iPhone is by using those ear plugs with the built in microphone. The sound quality is excellent and people on the other end of the call can hear me clearly. If I am listening to music when a calls come in, a simple squeeze on the built-in microphone pauses the song and picks up the call. Another squeeze ends the call

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eMail on the iPhone is a mixed bag of goodies and gaffs.The one feature that invariably makes everyone go "ohhh" is when you rotate the iPhone 90 degrees and the screen goes wide in response. This useful feature is available in the browser, in the iPod mode, and with the YouTube video display. But when you try that in the native Mail application it only makes your head tilt as you try to read

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For me, the most unpleasant surprise with Safari on the iPhone was discovering that it does not offer to remember any passwords.However, for those few small, private sites that still use Basic authentication I can create a bookmark that includes my login credentials. This is a bad idea. I would not recommend it to anyone else but I do it myself in some cases because it makes things easier. Make a

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iPhone applications crash as gracefully as one could wish. You just find yourself unexpectedly back at the start screen, with all the icons looking up at you innocently as if nothing bad just happened.The easiest application to crash is the Maps application. While searching for directions to a regional landmark, Maps kicked us back to the start screen several times. Since our search was still in

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Everyone has been in one of those meetings. Profits are down, tempers are heating up, the tension builds and just then someone's cell phone starts playing Who Let the Dogs Out.As for me, I'll probably stick with the 'Old Phone' ringtone. It's eerie. But evidently a lot of people want something different. According to the research firm IDC:...230 million wireless subscribers in the United States

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I plotted a course to the restaurant.Getting driving directions may be the least intuitive thing to do on the iPhone. Add your own address to your Contacts first. It will make things much easier later.With some help from Google it is easy to find and call a place of business. I opened up Safari and searched for the name of the restaurant and the city. There it was, with the phone number first and

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The Apple repair center sent me a new iPhone.Just to review the sequence of events:Friday evening - I bought a new iPhone, activated it and it worked.Saturday morning - The "No Service" message appeared. I spent several hours hobnobbing with the intelligentsia working the support lines at Apple and AT&T.Saturday afternoon - Returned to the AT&T store for a new SIM card.Saturday evening - Support

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Just making sure I can update the blog from the iPhone. I need toremember to make a witty comment about some of the words offered as Itype.

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I made a note for myself.Unlike many of friends I can't recall off the top my head the 10 digit hexadecimal keys needed to connect to the various wireless hotspots at work so I typed them into the Notes application.Thus I considered myself prepared for the next time I entered a new hotspot and the iPhone offered to connect to it for me. Instead that's when I realized a painful truth. The iPhone

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This is a copy of the email generated when Apple noticed that my iPhone had arrived for repair. My status is currently "Diagnosing Product." AppleCare Dear Misahl, Repair ID:D####### Your IPHONE reached our repair center on 2007-08-30. We will notify youby email when the repair is complete. Visit Repair Staus to view the current details of your service

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Did you know there is a mobile version of Today in History for the iPhone? Just give the Safari browser this address: http://chronita.com/m/todh.php

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I took a picture with my iPhone.It wasn't that great but it was good enough that I wanted to work with it a little bit. So far, most of the photos I've taken with my iPhone have shared two things in common. They tend to be a little bit dark and a little bit blurry. I've had some success by arranging the subject to face the light and when I can get myself to hold it very, very still I've had some

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Tuesday morning my temporary replacement iPhone arrived and it worked.I'm impressed. After seeing the email notification late Monday evening that the package had been shipped I didn't expect to receive it until Wednesday. Yet Tuesday morning there it was. The replacement phone arrived in a small, sturdy returnable box which also contained an official SIM extraction device - a small paper

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Ah, well. Monday has come and gone. I did not receive the replacement iPhone as the Apple tech predicted, but I did get a friendly email late in the evening: AppleCare Dear Misahl, Repair ID: D######## The AppleCare Service Phone you requested shipped on 2007-08-27. Please allow two business days for delivery. Your AppleCare Service Phone shipped via FedEx Air using

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At home with a second SIM card neatly tucked away in my iPhone I launch the now familiar iTunes application and try yet again to activate my iPhone.At this point I have to say I was not even hopeful. I have a lot of experience troubleshooting and a different SIM card seemed one of the least likely possiblities. (Although there is no way to know at the time I write this if I am correct, my guess

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A service rep, a technician and an AT&T representative try to activate an iPhone...I wish it really was a joke. The nice lady from AT&T wanted to know the serial number on my SIM card. Luckily I still had my SIM extraction device ( a safety pin ) and was quite accomplished by now, having already successfully extracted it once. With my number in hand, she was able to find me in the system

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I still was on the conference call with the friendly customer representative and a tech specialist trying to figure out why my iPhone would not activate. At this point we were approaching the 30 minute mark.After verifying there was no service outage in my area the tech decided that the next thing to do was reseat the SIM card. They had me there. I'd never done anything of the sort before, being

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It worked! Yes, it worked for about 14 hours.I downloaded and ran iTunes on my friend's computer, docked the phone and followed the prompts. The choices were clear and simple. Once iTunes detected the iPhone, it downloaded the required software and installed it. The only glitch during the installation was the credit check reference number they gave me at the store didn't really work during the

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iPhone - the device that finally pushed me over the edge.Until yesterday I had resisted every PDA the high tech industry could dream up. I was not even remotely tempted by any of those clunky gray boxes, all of them looking like calculators with too many keys. The thought of scraping around on one with a plastic stylus seemed even sillier. Besides, I would have lost the little thing in less than

Misahlnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000074600956622548.post-4448272932703187952007-08-01T12:03:00.000-04:002007-09-01T14:08:52.735-04:00

This is where we collect suggestions for improvements to the iPhone. Add your own ideas by replying to this post.In the Maps application the up/down arrow in the bottom left corner is a toggle and it needs to change in appearance to reflect the currently selected mode.In the Maps application the car icon in the bottom right corner should be grayed out unless there really is traffic information

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