iPhone dropped calls and poor reception did not improve with 3.0.1 As I reported a few months back, I noticed an uptick on dropped calls and overall poorer performance when I upgraded from 2.x to 3.0. Basically it felt like the phone reverted to the same performance levels before the 2.1 upgrade. So I hoped it was a simple visioning error and the 3.0.1 would take… Read More
Qik video now in the Apple store, but still no live streaming So now we can get Qik from the Apple store, BUT no live streaming. Piff.. However, Qik does have two cool features; it will upload the video automatically when you have stopped filming, and it will Geo tag that video. Nice eh? So its not live steaming, but if you are shooting is short bursts,… Read More
Retweet to become an officially supported function on twitter The story already broke a number of hours ago, but still for anyone who does Twitter dev, this is pretty big news. Basically, anyone who builds a twitter client has retweet as a feature. Basically all we do populate the send field with the selected message prepend with a “RT”. Now (not all) clients use… Read More
Rumor: there will NOT be an 8G iphone 3gs anytime soon. Sigh.. I made up my mind that I would get the new iphone 3gs despite the REALLY bad service I’m currently getting from AT&T. How I made my decision will be another post, but I’m going to take a leap of faith that if AT&T can fix the poor cell service issue once, they can do… Read More
Apples New $600 Tablet is more iPhone then netbook; that is why it will fail I have been a tablet (convertible) user for a long time. Recently; I bought an older TC1100 with a SSD instead of a hard drive and installed Windows 7 on it. Amazing! But that is for another post. I originally wanted an Apple tablet… but that’s not going to happen, and here is why. The… Read More
Into Scrabble? Got iPhone? Well check this app. I like Scrabble even though I’m not very good at it. However, I have a few friends that are just NUTS for the game. So when this press release came in my email today I thought I would share it out. 🙂 Oh, and wonder why they cannot call it ‘Scrabble” Trademarked my friend!… Read More
UStream does not stream, but you can remote edit and thus near realtime! UStream release a new iphone app today that has the word ‘live’ in it, but its not live. I mean, yea when you shot it it was live.. but anyway.. So far Qik (using jailbreak) is the preferred way to do live broadcasting, but UStream does have an interesting offering. Well, 2 actually, you can… Read More
What’s the best iphone app for twitter? Depends on how you use it I wrote an article for iphoneLife looking at a sampling of twitter applications for the iphone. The idea of the article was not to exhaustively compare and rate them because that is a losing battle. Everyone uses twitter differently and as such, what is a great app for some people, is overkill for others. So… Read More
iphone jailbreak for 3.0 will work for 3.0.1 Well there you go. I have been having issues with my iphone and have been thinking of a clean whip, so based on what I read in ‘Crave’ I’m going to do it. From Crave.. … In fact, the current versions of redsn0w and ultrasn0w work the same with the 3.0.1 firmware as they do… Read More
UPDATE: iphone should be secured tomorrow. Yeaaa for noise! Read this in Gizmodo: Seem Apple will have a patch out to take care of the SMS hijack issue tomorrow after knowing for .. what .. 6 WEEKS?? Oh, but 24 hours after everyone knows about it, AND people are yelling their collective heads off for a fix, AND it gets demo’ed and released at… Read More
iPhone SMS hack not patched?? After 6 weeks? When this story first broke 2 days ago, I though; well they are going to release a patch pretty soon given that the vulnerability is going to be released today at the black hat hackers meeting. Well, guess what I read in CNET? Apple new about this for 6 weeks!!! Are you kidding me? From… Read More
iPhoneDevCamp! You know you want it! Yup, almost time for another iphonedevcamp. What? You did not go last year? What’s wrong with you? If you have an iPhone and have ANY interest to building or help build what everyone will see either at the end of this weekend or the end of the year, this is the place to be. So,… Read More
Still want Google Voice? Get it for free via Cydia (jailbreak) They said yesterday that they would put it on Cydia and last night, ‘poof’ it appeared. I downloaded the app and it seems to work fine so far. So go get it already! Do not know what I’m talking about? Well Google Voice was submitted to the Apple Store, which was personally approved last April… Read More
Apple kicks Google Voice out of the iPhone bed. It never seems to end… Apple rejected Google Voice and removed GV Mobile from the app store. This is really a pain because I JUST got a work blackberry and will need to start managing my communication a little better. Being able to do that from my iPhone would be perfect. Seems Apple (read AT&T?)… Read More
Alternative to iTunes is here!! Oh wait.. Spotify is only in Europe As I’ve said before, I do not like iTunes, so I have been waiting for a good replacement. I REALLY hate that I cannot make changes to my playlist unless I’m connect to the ONE machine that has my playlist. Bollocks! There have been many I’ve played with, but I knew about Spotify (a Swedish… Read More
Twitter is the new business card I ran out of business cards a few months back and never bothered to get more. As such, I find myself in a spot when people ask for my card. Normally I take theirs and intend to email them when I get home. However, as with business cards since as far back as I can… Read More
Augmented Reality Apps for iphone not coming till 3.1. Gezz Read this in the LA Times. No Augmented Reality Apps till iphone 3.1 comes out. Why? Because part of what make this work is a function called ‘camera viewer’. This is a ‘restricted’ function and we should be playing with it. But, when 3.1 comes out, we can! huh? What difference does that make? Sure… Read More
New map options on the iphone? Part of Latitude? It might be. I just noticed today that when I go to maps I get a pop up for my location that allows me to share it out via email. I’m sure this is part of 3.0 and why I have noticed it till now I have no idea. If it IS new, then I’m… Read More
What is a cassette deck? R U kidding? This was funny. I have a number of cassettes from ‘back in the day’. Quite a large number in fact. So I decided that I would get my old cassette player and convert them to mp3 at work since I’m at the desk most of the day there anyway. So I packed my ‘ol cassette… Read More
Having lockup problems with intelliscreen and push notifications? Me too It seems intelliscreen can lockup if you get a push calendar notification as from exchange if you have unread email. The problem is when you get an alert, intelliscreen will ‘flip up’ so show the alert and a button to dismiss it. However, if you have unread email, you cannot access the slide bar to… Read More