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Posted on August 27th, 2007 by admin
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If you need some strategic ways to reduce battery usage and conserve energy with your tech toys, your new iPhone offers plenty of options to make the most of its daily life. The iPhone is a power-guzzler, there’s no doubt about it. You need a considerable amount of energy and battery power to keep that web browser humming along at full speed, and you’ll notice the battery shrinking in power after just a few hours. There are a few iPhone battery replacements available, but you can take steps to reduce your output with just a few tweaks.
Make sure you’re turning the Wi-Fi radio off when you’re not online. This turns on automatically every time your wireless device is enabled, and can take away lots of energy from standard PDA applications. You’ll notice things run much faster as soon as you make the switch. Turn off the Bluetooth radio while you’re at it; just go to the ‘Settings’ tab and switch it off when you’re not roaming.
Second, turn off the equalizer. You’re probably already doing this on your iPod, and it can help lower the need for extra energy when you’re not listening to your bass-blaster music. In most cases, you don’t need this set at all when you’re browsing on the web either; unless you’re watching a lot of videos, the equalizer can be turned off in most cases.
Even though Apple has developed a battery that outlasts many competitor PDA gadgets, you can still extend battery life by running it out completely before recharging it fully. It’s a classic maneuver for standard cell phones, and works well for the iPhone too.
Checking e-mail takes a lot of energy to load up and refresh. Checking e-mail constantly can be a difficult habit to break, especially if you’re used to using a laptop on the road. Start getting into a routine of an hourly check, and you’ll save a considerable amount of battery power in the process.
The backlight display is bright enough to serve as a flashlight, and is one of the iPhone’s most attractive features. Still, that sharp picture is taking the juice out of the system. You can lower the brightness setting and save some battery power by selecting the ‘Settings’ tab and reducing the light output level; 15-20% will still give you plenty of screen visibility.
You can manually control the ‘Auto-Lock’ feature of the iPhone to program so that your iPhone goes to sleep after a short period of inactivity. You’ll be using up much less power throughout the day, and it will be easier to load it up whenever you do need it.
Extend the battery life of your iPhone with these easy tips; you’ll enjoy more flexibility for usage throughout the day, and be energy-conscious in the process.
Posted on August 27th, 2007 by admin
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Apple’s latest iPhone software update appears to repair camera issues and improve wireless performance, according to various owners of the cellular handset. Apple said the update included unspecified bug fixes, but those fixes are making some iPhone owners extremely happy. “My Wi-Fi reception is definitely better,” said one forum poster cited by Computerworld. “While in my office, I have never been able to connect to the wifi hub in the conference room down the hall [but after the update] I was surprised that the Edge connection seemed faster, until I realized I was connected to the wifi hub with two bars.”"For me, this is a huge issue, as I was preparing to try to deal with whatever hassle it would take to get the wifi connection extended to my office area,” the user wrote.
“Wifi reception and connection is much improved,” said another forum poster on the same message board thread. “The phone works better. Some places I had problems with before now work like a charm.”
Other users suggest the update could boost Web surfing performance via Safari on the iPhone, and others say iPhone reception has also improved. Many iPhone users insist that the camera has undergone drastic improvement, no longer blurring the live video preview with the sweep of a hand across the camera lens.
“Before even small hand movements would blur the screen really easily,” said a different forum poster. “But now it seems to have much higher refresh rate or some kind of stability enacted.”
Posted on August 24th, 2007 by admin
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Either someone at AT&T has discovered the environment or they’ve realised that printing off 300-page bills bites uncomfortably into their profit margins, as iPhone owners are discovering text messages informing them that the previously itemised diatribes will herein be delivered as e-bills. Flickr user Lon Seidman captured the message for us all to enjoy, using what is anecdotally known as a “camera”:
Of course, the customer is king and as such if you still require a full paper statement - for instance you might be crafting a papier-mâché model of Steve Jobs to use as a comedy nightlight - then calling AT&T on 611 from your iPhone will let you demand a physical copy. But honestly, aside from accountants and the lonely, who goes through their bills anyway?
From Myitablet.
Posted on August 23rd, 2007 by admin
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Apple’s iPhone has only been on the market for about two months, but the company is already selling refurbished phones to customers with a one-year warranty.
The “Apple Certified Refurbished” iPhones are available online for $499 and $399 respectively for the 8GB and 4GB models. The $100 price cut represents a 17 percent and 21 percent discount respectively.
Apple offers free shipping on both models and says that the refurbished phones ship with 1-3 business days. Apple also offers the AppleCare Protection plan for the refurbished phones at the regular price of $69.
The news of the refurbished iPhones comes right on the heels of the announcement of a second iPhone lawsuit. Sydney Leung is seeking more than $5 million USD in damages from Apple over the cost and replacement of the iPhone’s battery. The first lawsuit — filed by Jose Trujillo in July — made similar claims.
The price cut should be welcome news to potential buyers looking to get a deal on an iPhone. The full one-year warranty should be enough to entice many buyers who might otherwise be turned off by refurbished devices.
Now if Apple would only cut those tiresome iPhone commercials with the lullaby music…
From DailyTech.
Posted on August 21st, 2007 by admin
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A brand new version of the iPhone Nintendo Entertainment System emulator for Apple iPhone is now available. As usual coded by the talented stepwhite and nervegas, this iPhone NES version includes the following changes:
# 0.22 stepwhite Added diagonal direction hotspots, SHOW_HITSPOT flags
# 0.23 nervegas Tweaks to orientation change, DEBUG shows hot spots now
# 0.24 nervegas Using K6502_rw.h from older core, Metroid and Punchout work! Made more improvements to orientation sensitivity. Implemented slightly faster rendering
# 0.25 nervegas Enlarged controls for landscape mode
# 0.26 nervegas Change status bar background to black on landscape
# 0.27 nervegas Controller fix to allow button, then directional pad hold
# 0.28 nervegas Added save SRAM support (to save SRAM for games like Zelda)
# 0.29 nervegas Added auto-save state and “Saved Games” selection
# 0.30 nervegas Fixed SaveState for many games, +Mapper1 +Mapper5. This fixed Tetris, Bubble Bobble, Super Mario 2, others…
# 0.31 nervegas Fixed SaveState for Mapper4 iphone games (Earth Bound Zero, etc)
Those that have a pevious version of the iPhone NES emulator should really consider downloading v0.31 in order to benefit from the new important features that were introduced.
Direct Download:
- iPhone NES Emulator v0.31 (155KB) by stepwhite and nervegas
- Readme
- Changelog
Posted on August 20th, 2007 by admin
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Apple’s iPhone is probably the most-hyped gadget ever created but it is not problem free.
Hopefully you don’t face this issue but if you know would like to know how to bail out of a situation where your iPhone is not restoring to resolve most of the documented errors on the iPhone or wondered how much free space should be kept on your iPhone, then read on.
Use “Recovery Mode” as the last option to rescue your iPhone
We all know that restoring the iPhone using iTunes is a troubleshooting lifesaver as it helps resolve most of the documented errors on the iPhone faced so far, especially important if you have tried one of those iPhone hacks which has caused your iPhone to behave abnormally. However, what does one do when restoring itself does not work, there is no reason to panic, as here is an iPhone tip to get you out of exactly that situation.
It is the iPhone’s “Recovery Mode”, which is a mode in which you can force the iTunes to restore the iPhone to resolve any of the errors. You need to follow these steps to put the iPhone in recovery mode:
Advicable to keep some free space on the iPhone
You have got the spanking new iPhone and are planning to transfer you favorite music and videos to it and the following question crops up in your mind: “How much memory should I leave free on the iPhone?”
Fix for not all tracks getting synced to the iPhone
It seems quite a few users are reporting an issue where iTunes fails to transfer all selected tracks to the iPhone. If you are one of them, then here is some of the options you have.
Posted on August 20th, 2007 by admin
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Apple Inc. this week continued to expand its national television ad campaign for the iPhone, recently adding an eighth spot into the rotation on network television.
The latest 30-second commercial draws of iphone videos particular attention to the handset’s built-in Excel document viewer (when viewing e-mail), stock quote widget, and fully-functional Safari web browser.
The dialog of the commercial, which is available for viewing below, is as follows:
“All these years… you’ve gone through the day without e-mail like this in your pocket. Or stock updates like this in your pocket. Or Internet like this in your pocket. And you survived. The question is, ‘How?’”
The new ad arrives less than a week after Apple began airing two similar spots, titled ‘Instead’ and ‘Amazing.”
Thus far, all of Apple’s iPhone television spots have followed the same general theme, which depicts an iPhone in the hand of an actor as a narrator offers subtle suggestions to the viewer.
Posted on August 17th, 2007 by admin
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Something tells me there’ll be a whole lot of people very surprised when their AT&T iPhone bills drop into the letterbox. For a start, it might not be the envelope you’re expecting but, like JustinTV’s Justine Ezarik, a great bloody box full of three hundred pages of itemised goodness. Or, alternatively, you might get another type of huge bill: $5,000 thanks to international data roaming charges, as Adam Aronson discovered.
Adam spent some time in the UK recently, taking his shiny iPhone with him of course, assuming his contract wasn’t set up for international data roaming. Unfortunately, AT&T work on a system of automatically enabling it if you’ve got a decent credit record (something Adam might not have for long if the carrier insists on him paying the full bill), so unwittingly he was paying two-cents a kilobyte.
“While I was in England I actually tried to access my account to find out how much data I was using and my account only showed “data not available”. $5k for something I had no idea I would be charged for, (let alone those exorbitant rates of $2cents per K!) and no way of checking my data consumption” Adam Aronson
He’s now hoping that AT&T take pity and wipe out the charge. Anyone else living in fear of hearing that heavy thud as their cellphone bill arrives?
Posted on August 15th, 2007 by admin
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Many has found out that why Apple haven’t included some kind of an ebook reader to the device. The fact that the iPhone has a large 3.5 inches screen and is good enough for anyone to read on its beloved handset while traveling or commuting in case they are in public transportations.
Books.app is a native eBook reader developed for the iPhone. As it’s not an authorised third party application, it’s not simple to install, according to MacNN . Users must first “jailbreak” (or open up) their iPhone’s file system and then install the software.
Books.app requires users to transfer eBooks via the iPHUC (iPhoneUtilityClient) tool used by iPhone modders to get new apps on to the iPhone. iPhone users keen to give it a try should see iPhone Dev Wiki for instructions.
For download link, click here. For instructions on how to add ebooks click here.
Posted on August 14th, 2007 by admin
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