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Geek street

December 5th, 2008 · Comments Off · iPhone

While I love the iPhone. I have to say some of it’s quirks are really annoying. Here’s my list. If anyone can find work arounds let me know.
1. Activesync doesn’t work in airplane mode! Man ur on an airplane reading your exchange mail and it won’t delete messages. Just says can’t do it. Works [...]

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Sim City, The Sims 3 and Tiger Woods

September 8th, 2008 · Comments Off · iPhone

EA is going to town on the iPhone. I like these games, hope they don’t crash too much. My favorite will be Sim City and the golf game!

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iPhone and iPod Touch Firmware 2.0.1 available

August 5th, 2008 · Comments Off · Geek, iPhone, iPod

It is a 256MB download, so hope you have a fast connectionApple Releases iPhone Firmware 2.0.1 – Mac Rumors Not clear what has changed, but early claism are – Backup process for the iPhone is much faster. – Netshare still works – SMS typing faster

Apple releases iPhone 2.0.1 Software Update – AppleInsider has a forum thread and [...]

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Cool iPhone applications

July 18th, 2008 · Comments Off · iPhone

Twinkle is available. Its a terrific twitter client and it is so cool that the App Store

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iTunes error E8000001 could be a bad cable

July 18th, 2008 · Comments Off · iPhone

I got this cable trying to sync the new iPhone 3G, but kept getting an unknown 0xe8000001 error. I tried a bunch of things and was using the combo Bluetooth headset charger plus USB connector. On a lark, I swapped cables and the error 0xe8000001 went away. I think the cable was flaky. I did [...]

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iPhone 3G Exchange setup

July 18th, 2008 · Comments Off · iPhone

Got it! AT&T dropped shipped it. The least painful way in the US anyway to get it. Lines at Apple store are still 3 hours long. Apple is going to sell 3M in a week at this rate. In any case, things that are unclear are how to setup Exchange. It needs yet another site [...]

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Cool Tool, iphone availability and early reviews

July 11th, 2008 · Comments Off · iPhone

Apple has a tool showing what is available where. The stores open at 8AM. Amazing the demang. All models except the Black 16GB in Alderwood Mall are available at all four Seattle area stores in Bellevue, Lynnwood, Seattle and Tukwila. 16GB Black not surprisingly is the most popular model. And there are activation issues that [...]

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iPhone 3G

June 13th, 2008 · Comments Off · iPhone

iPhone 3G reviews are out. Big differences are it is all plastic insted of metal. GPS is included and it supports 3G jof course. The headphone port is flush (yeah! so no need for special headphone adapters!). You’ll need a protector for this one. The new iPhone is the same width as the iPod touch [...]

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iPhone as Internet proxy for your notebook

April 5th, 2008 · Comments Off · iPhone

Well, it took me three days to do this, but finally figured out how to get an iPhone to use its internet connection over EDGE to be used with your laptop. Its convoluted because most phones allow what is called Bluetooth sharing and you are in. In the iPhone’s case, it is more complicated as [...]

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iPhone and iPod downloading

March 11th, 2008 · Comments Off · iPhone

Now that there are so many devices and I’m using a laptop with a small hard drive (80GB), it is really hard to keep iTunes synced because you need to use half disk just to keep music, so you really want to have iPod or iPhone have its own libary and just add to it [...]

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