Tuesday, June 30, 2009

How to edit Google iPhone app

Don't like the order of Google Apps? Rearrange them (for example, I like Reader on top).

Launch Google app ->
Edit (top right corner) ->
Drag the three stacked horizontal lines on the right to sort ->
Done





Monday, June 29, 2009

Why doesn't the iPod Touch have a camera?

So what's the reasoning Apple? Is it that putting a camera on the Touch would 'somehow' cannibalize sales of the iPhone? Seriously, what gives?

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Buying the $99 iPhone 3G with no contract instead of the iPod Touch - how much would it cost?

The 8G iPod Touch and the 8G iPhone are very similar except for the phone and camera (which the iPhone has, and the Touch doesn't). Now that Apple is selling the 8G iPhone 3G for $99 (with AT&T two-year contract), I wondered just how much more it would cost to get it over the 8G iPod touch if I tried to buy it without a contract. The answer? $499 (plus tax).

Thursday, June 25, 2009

iPhone - Copy and Paste to phpMyAdmin?

I'd hoped that the new iPhone 3.0 software with Copy and Paste would allow me to be able to work with phpMyAdmin, but so far I can't get it to :-(
Anybody know why iPhone Paste doesn't work in phpMyAdmin?
Thanks!

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

'A Dictionary for the Modern Flutist' on serious sale on Amazon.uk!

Thanks to David Oliver on flutenet, I got tipped off to Susan Maclagan's new book 'A Dictionary for the Modern Flutist' on sale on Amazon.uk for 1/50th of the price!

I ordered mine yesterday for £1.00!
With shipping to the USA, total came to $13.06
Here's the link:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0810867117/ref=ox_ya_oh_product

Twitterfeed?

I'm using Twitterfeed to post RSS feeds, but the updates are VERY far apart - days, even weeks! Does anybody know if Twitter has/or will be offering a direct way to do this with reliable updates rather than having to use a third-party like Twitterfeed just to import RSS?

Thanks!

Monday, June 22, 2009

Yahoo! Mobile Mail app - where's the checkboxes?

I really like the Yahoo! Mail app, because now (finally!) I can read emails in any folder at the same easy-to-read full size font like the iPhone's native Inbox has. But where's the checkboxes like in the regular Yahoo! Mail? Unless it's tucked away somewhere I haven't seen, there doesn't seem to be a way to select emails using checkboxes (Delete, Spam etc.) in the Yahoo! Mail app.

Friday, June 19, 2009

iPhone 3G S - yup, it's fast

Just got back from the Apple Store in Santa Rosa where I had a chance to see the 3G S in action. It's definitely a lot faster than my regular 3G (the one I saw was using the Apple Store's very fast Wi-Fi connection, not AT&T 3G. Next time I'm there I'll do a side-by-side on 3G and see what the difference is like).

UPDATE 6/22/09
Went over to the Apple Store to try a 3G S on the AT&T network (since that's where most of my iPhone airtime is spent) but they had no iPhones hooked up for that. So off to AT&T I went.

At AT&T, they did have an iPhone 3G S connected to their network and so I was able to do a side-by-side speed test loading the Yahoo! home page. As expected, with a 50% faster processor and twice the RAM the 3G S loaded the page faster than my iPhone - but only by a few seconds (the difference in speed was nothing like the experience I had had earlier on Wi-Fi via the T1 line ($3500/month) at the Apple Store where the 3G S really flies).

On another note, AT&T told me that their 7.2Mbps download speed is already available in certain places, like Santa Rosa. It's even faster - around 18Mbps in Sacramento. No word when Sebastopol will get any of this, unfortunately.