by manatee on August 23, 2008
I’ve heard a number of times about iPhones crashing left and right and knew in the back of my head it was only a matter of time for this to happen to me. Well, today my number was drawn and my iPhone crashed while installing an app which tracked your location via the GPS thingy and plots your course. If my iMac wasn’t bogged down trying to restore my iPhone, I might be able to find out what app it was. I’ll find out in the next day or two if I’m lucky. The restore process takes forever!
My screwup is the application was still in the process of installing and I got impatient and decided to check my email. That’s when I got the black screen of death. The white apple logo and a black background was all I could get, no matter how many times I rebooted. I finally decided to restore by pressing the home button while plugging the iPhone into the USB port. Then the restore process started.
The restore process finished (I thought) but when I went to iTunes and it wanted to restore again. Hopefully, Apple will get some of these glitches fixed sooner than later. This has cost me at least 6 hours so far in lost iPhone time. I wonder if I will be able to get all the apps I purchased back onto my iPhone? 
by manatee on July 29, 2008
“At long last, Adobe has released it’s well loved Flash player for the iPhone 3G and iPod Touch! Never again will you visit a web site and see that mysterious thing that looks like a lego block with question mark on it. Now you can do what you’ve always dreamed of - watch living streaming videos on Ustream, play your favorite web based flash games and more!”
Hopefully, this is what we will see all over the web in the near future. Unfortunately, Flash isn’t supported yet, but rumor is that “they” are working on it. I wonder if there may be a reason Apple has stalled on Flash support? Could it something to do with the moola they are making from the App store? Hmm…
To be continued…
by manatee on July 27, 2008
Well, I am finally “cool” as I am now the proud owner of an Apple iPhone 3G. So far, without a doubt I can definitely say you should buy one of these - even if you’re still stuck in a contract with some cheesy old school cell phone. I’ll explain how you can get out of that a little later.
I will admit that I’ve been in the stone age with my cell phone as I was using one of those Go Phones - a Nokia 6300 which I seem to have lost. So… jumping from that kind of phone to the iPhone probably excites me more than the average person.
One of my favorite features is the use of GPS with Google Maps. This is going to be so useful in so many situations. You’re out on the town and you want to go out to eat. Just open Google Maps, pinpoint where you’re at and search for the words “mexican” or “chinese” to find the nearest restaurant of that type. You can also get turn by turn driving directions, showing your location in real time.
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