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iphone 2.1 firmware hit this morning! September 12, 2008

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The iPhone 2.1 contains the following updates as listed by Apple:

- decrease in call set-up failures andcall drops
- significantly improve battery life for most users
- dramatically reduced time to backup to iTunes
- improve email reliability, notable fetching email from POP and Exchange accounts
- faster installation of 3rd party applications
- fixed bugs causing hangs and crashes if you have lots of 3rd party applications
- improved performance of text messaging
- faster loading and searching of contacts
- improved accuracy of the 3G signal strength display
- repeat alert up to two additional times for incoming text messages
- option to wipe data after ten failed passcode attempts
- Genius playlist creation

i’ll be updating later today after some decent use and we’ll see if these truly stop the lag and crashes

aimless September 3, 2008

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i apologize if today’s blog seems to be lacking direction…. i couldn’t narrow it down to a specific topic, so i decided to just kind of throw out three or four random things….

first up is a great article that i love to throw in the face of all you losers out there who love to brag about your 4gb of ram and 1gb super macho gpu killer gaming machines:
article [will open in new window]

which leads me to a apple/iphone semi rant:
1) FIX THE DAMN KEYBOARD LAG ALREADY….
2) IMPLEMENT BACKGROUND SERVICES ALREADY SO I CAN USE AIM….
3) Where are all the amazing productivity apps? When the SDK was announced I went to sleep each night dreaming of the amazing wonders that awaited me. I dreamt of controlling anything and everything with my iphone. Is it me, or is it just 98% games? Maybe i’m just not looking in the right places? That being said, here’s what I currently have installed:

anyone who has any good recommendations, please leave me a comment….

and finally, i was having a little bit of a hard time getting started this morning, so i had to power myself up with a super healthy breakfast:

all you iphone kiddies out there…. August 15, 2008

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Its about time! SIMPLIFY just hit the apps store….

you install it on your phone, as well as on your computer, and it lets you play ANY of the music on your computer in your itunes library on your iphone. Over WIFI, 3g, and even EDGE! and it works great!!! plus you can stream your friend’s librarys also!

Its free for the first 100k downloaders, so go get it!

more info:
Gizmodo Article

bbq adventures July 16, 2008

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okay everyone take a reaaaaally close look at the assembly time:

starting the timer at 0 with the sealed box:

pretty much 16 minutes or so just to get everything out and finish step 1:

finally finished…. im happy with it at least:

aaaaaand the ending time is?:

so to summarize. don’t ever believe the instruction assembly time. even with two people there was just no way. the instructions were also terribly vague at some points, while exceptionally detailed at other points….. hmmmmm
off to the store to pick up some steaks to grill up, im starving