Posts Tagged ‘iphone’

No restore required; no jailbrake required (!?!?); just a reboot.

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 at 09:00 | 0 comments
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Navigon released their Navigon select Telekom Edition for T-Mobile customers, and I took that for a test drive today, with quite unsatisfactory results. This may be due to the GPS reception on the iPhone proper, or on the software: I simply don't know.
Now, I don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth, so [...]

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 at 18:17 | 0 comments
Categories: Mobile

Simplenote is probably a wonderful app (at least others think so) but I'm currently not amused, as the following screen shot demonstrates:

New notes are duplicated in the cloud somewhere. I suggest it is the Simplenote Web service, because duplication also happens when I use Notational Velocity (yeah, latest version) with synchronization to the Simplenote service [...]

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 at 14:22 | 0 comments
Categories: Software

In spite of several reboots, I couldn't get wireless LAN connected on the iPhone — something that had worked flawlessly until now. No amount of resetting the network settings helped either until the iPhone wouldn't even reboot. The only solution was to put the iPhone into DFU mode with which I could perform the Device [...]

Saturday, January 16th, 2010 at 20:46 | 0 comments
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At least one of the members of this household sometimes asks "what are the words (s)he singing?". It's easy enough to find lyrics for most popular songs but where to put them?
I was browsing around (pun intended) iTunes last night and I found the Lyrics tab in the track information (right-click, get Info or CMD-I).

I [...]

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 at 10:37 | 0 comments
Categories: Entertainement

The BTstack Keyboard application allows you to use a Bluetooth keyboard with a jailbroken iPhone and iPod Touch.
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Monday, December 28th, 2009 at 12:48 | 0 comments
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Mac OS X' iCal has a Birthdays calendar which pulls birthdays you set in Address Book and displays them, and this works very nicely, but it doesn't satisfy my needs. First, because I manage birthdays differently, and second, because I sometimes have more than one birthday reminder for a single address book entry. (E.g. one [...]

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 at 13:45 | 0 comments
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My iPhone woke up this morning without Wifi, similarly to what happened to Volker recently.

I didn't want a paperweight, so I tried resetting network settings again and again, until the MAC address then finally showed up. Whew.

Saturday, November 21st, 2009 at 16:50 | 0 comments
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