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I’ve had my original iPhone for over a year now, and I’ve had a pretty stable use pattern. I charge the phone often (every time I’m in a car (daily) and every other night attached to my computer) and rarely see the battery dip below maximum. For usage, I typcially use it for about 15 …
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Here’s something I’ve been wondering about. Ever since Apple released the roadmap of iPhone development and the SDK details, they mentioned that third-party apps can’t run in the background. After avoiding it for months, I finally did the jailbreak on my iPhone last month because I realized I listened to music/podcasts constantly on the device, …
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A few months ago I was thinking about Apple’s rise in value after the iPhone and how Steve Jobs does a great keynote every year, and naturally I thought “I wonder if there’s a way to make money off quick investments around the keynotes?” Then I thought “What if you did this every year, for …
After installing Leopard on three machines and using it for the past four days I figure I might as well write down my first impressions. Here are the high and low points for me: The installer is a bit buggy in that it doesn’t seem to recognize hard drives with any sorts of special partitions …
I’ve been hoping that someone was working on using the iPhone browser as a media controller and when I saw Signal, I decided to give it a try. It works like this: you install the app and it runs an internal webserver that you connect to using safari on the iPhone. Whatever is running in …
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I used PCs on a daily basis for about ten years, but over the last three or four years I’ve become a full-fledged Apple fanboy convert. I buy a new mac about once a year or so and have tried out pretty much every product they’ve released over the last few years. So when Steve …
Continue reading “Testing out .Mac, iMovie ’08, and the Panasonic AVCHD”
Here’s what I typically do in the course of a day. Start iTunes, play some new songs while I code, read email, and surf the web About every 15min or so, I run across a youtube video, mp3 link, or vimeo post that I want to watch, so I… pause iTunes, let the video/music play …
Getting an iPhone meant I’d be leaving tmobile after four years of service, and I re-upped my contract last year for a blackberry pearl, so unfortunately that also meant I’d get hit with a $200 contract charge. Today I called to cancel and I knew it might be painful so I decided to record it. …
After my initial problems, I got a new iPhone from my nearby Apple store and spent several hours using it. My first reaction is that it’s very good, meeting the almost impossible expectations I had for it. Photos are fun and look great, movies are nice and will work great on planes, and the iPod …
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So I’m thinking about getting an iPhone, but a few potential dealstoppers keep coming up and I haven’t seen much info on it even though it’s coming out in less than two weeks. Maybe some of you readers can help. Is there an airplane mode where phone functionality is shut off? The one place I …
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