Alan Luckow felt like he’d made too many trips to his local Apple Store to fix an iPhone annoyance. Specifically, the iPhone’s handset stopped working and he could use it only when wearing his earbuds or Bluetooth headset.
Rather than make one more trip, he came up with a solution of his own. You can view his entertaining and likely helpful solution here.
Warning: His solution (and the solution he uses) looks safe enough, but Apple’s Warranty Department may feel differently. In short: You’re on your own.
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Written by Christopher Breen on October 18th, 2007 with no comments.
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Remember Bob from the iPhone guided tour (real name: Bob Borchers, senior director of worldwide iPhone product marketing)? Well, if you’d been missing his calm, reasoned delivery explaining all the features of the iPhone, never fear: Bob is back.
Apple’s posted a new guided tour video that goes over the features introduced in iPhone software 1.1.1 made available today. The bulk of the video focuses on the marquis addition to the iPhone: the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store. The iTunes store is actually pretty straightforward; I already purchased an album with no problem. Bob also gives a quick overview of custom ringtones in iTunes.
Other features covered in the update are the ability reorder cities in Weather and stocks in Stocks, the display of the Apple Bluetooth Headset’s battery life in the menubar, double-clicking the home button to bring up favorites or iPod controls, and the ability to double-tap the spacebar to insert a period and a space. I had some trouble with viewing Mail attachments in landscape, but I think that’s because it only works if the attachments are not displayed inline, as most images are; I sent myself a message with a PDF, XLS, and DOC attached, and those worked as advertised. I don’t have the equipment to confirm how well TV Out works, but I can confirm the existence of Widescreen and TV Signal options in Settings -> General -> iPod, along with a switch for Closed Captioning.
Bob glosses over several other new features, such as the fact that speaker phone and receiver volumes are louder, alert volumes now match your ringer volume, and the ability to turn of EDGE data when traveling internationally (under Settings -> General -> Network; note that this does not seem to deactivate the GSM radio).
According to Bobbo, there are plenty of other new features in the update; the only I noticed that Bob didn’t mention was the ability to change the alert sound when you get a new text message—but, for some bizarre reason, only text messages. You can’t change the new email, new voicemail, or calendar alert sound. What’s up with that, Apple?
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Written by Dan Moren on September 27th, 2007 with no comments.
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Watching video on the iPhone is a joy: the screen is vibrant and crisp. But if there’s one major problem with video on the iPhone, it’s the lack of storage space. Even an 8GB iPhone can only hold a few movies at a time, especially if you also want to store music and photos.
The folks at Embraceware have pointed out one way that you can work around this problem. If you happen to have a lot of movies stored on your home Mac, you can enable Web Sharing on it and then watch your videos on the iPhone by accessing them via Safari (as long as said movies are in an iPhone-compatible video format). They give you a step-by-step set of instructions for doing just this.
Supposedly this method works pretty smoothly on a local network, but if you want to access those videos from anywhere, you’ll have to do a little more tweaking on your network setup (port forwarding and firewalling, for example). Also, you’ll probably find pretty quickly that performance isn’t as good, especially for long, high-quality video files.
Given this a try? Let us know how it’s worked for you.
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Written by Dan Moren on September 24th, 2007 with no comments.
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