First off, I had no idea that the Mac OS X 10.6.4 update affected Mail. Probably because Apple never bothered to mention it in the release notes. Nonetheless, this greets me after launching Mail post-update: I’m also surprised at how much I’m liking iBooks for my iPhone. There are tons of free, interesting-sounding books, and [...]
Much has already been said about the high-profile features in the new iOS 4. But there are also a bunch of smaller, subtler changes that I really enjoy. Mail Gmail settings for mail, calendars and notes are now all integrated and accessible from one attractive page. To take advantage of this change you’ll have to [...]
Is it just me or does it strike anyone else as somewhat strange that the new Find My iPhone application is for the iPhone? Uh, guys, if I can install an app on it, it’s probably not that lost. I mean, how many of these things do you think I own? Oh… A lot, I [...]
Gruber points out that the flat edges on the iPhone 4 make it “feel much more like a camera.” It occurs to me that those flat sides might also have the added benefit of allowing one to place the iPhone on a flat surface while shooting, for hands-free video recording, for instance, self-portraits, or longer FaceTime [...]
Two small but exciting improvements revealed today. 1. Google has at last made some design improvements to their search results (via Daring Fireball). I wrote about my frustration with Google’s lack of design vision some time ago. It’s great to finally see them trying to improve their usability and their aesthetic at the same time. [...]
One of the exciting new features in the iPhone 3 OS is the ability to access calendars via plain old, standard, vanilla CalDAV. This allows you to finally keep an updated version of all your calenders without syncing your phone to your computer. Just subscribe to your calendars on your iPhone, just like you do [...]
I was recently reading an article on the Tao of Mac that said, among other things: “I’ve long preferred to use iPhone Twitter and Facebook clients over desktop ones…“ It’s true, there are a handful of iPhone applications that are actually better than the original apps they replace — Facebook, for sure, and my recent [...]
One of the touted features of the 3.0 iPhone upgrade was the addition of landscape mode throughout most Apple applications. Initially this sounded like quite a boon. Until I realized: I never use landscape mode, I don’t like landscape mode, landscape mode is always activating when I don’t want it to and there’s no way [...]
Apparently, Sprint’s not doing so well. Apparently they’re having customer retention problems. That means that people would rather go to the hassle of changing phone service providers than continue giving their money to Sprint. While it wasn’t my number one reason for switching, I can say from personal experience that Sprint’s horrendous customer service was [...]
Yeah, my iPhone 3GS has been actin’ funny, and I don’t know why. I really don’t. And as a SysAdmin I find the lack of real troubleshooting tools very frustrating. About the best I can do here is to report my findings. So here are some of the things my iPhone 3GS has started doing. [...]