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 fave, the [...]
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.
Network Confusion
The [...]
I’m with Mr. Gruber. While I think it’s cool that you can now see the iPhone’s remaining battery life as a percentage, doing so is only making me tense and nervous as my battery life trickles away before my eyes. I’m turning it off.
When I got my new iPhone 3GS I wondered what to do with the old one. After activating the new phone my 1st Gen was still loaded with all my content, and still functioned like it always did, just without phone functionality. In other words, an old iPhone is still a pretty cool thing to [...]
A while back I wrote about my initial impressions of my new iPhone 3GS. One of main reasons for upgrading was the touted improved call quality associated with the 3G models, but in my article I lamented that the improvement seemed nominal at best, from my cursory tests. I also noted that this would take [...]
I think the Voice Control screen on my new iPhone is damn pretty. I doubt I’ll use it much as it tends not to work as well in noisy areas, and I live in one of the noisiest areas on the planet. But there’s one nice touch that might make the feature that much more [...]
Here’s a fun one: Tap the microphone image in the Voice Memos application in iPhone OS 3.0 and the virtual VU meter will respond.
The peak light will even flash red, just like a real recorder attached to a real mic.
Blowing into the screen will do nothing, however.