So it turns out Apple’s next generation iPhone that was supposedly found in a bar is actually a real model that fell out of an Apple developer Gray Powell’s pocket. I won’t go into all the details though, since Gizmodo already paid $5,000 to show them to you.
Posts Tagged ‘iphone’
Google calendar CalDav
2009
11.12
11.12
I just moved all my internal calendar items on my iPhone over to Google and setup a CalDav connection with Google so my iPhone calendar matches Google and I can update the calendar on either and then share it with people. It’s quite handy really.
Note: If you’re trying the following, it may be easier, after moving your data to google, to setup an exchange connection with Google. This will allow push email with Gmail on your iPhone, as well as contact syncing.
Steps:
1. Sync your phone (to copy any items over from your phone that may not be on the computer) and export your calendar with whatever program you’re using to manage calendars on your computer. For me, it’s Outlook 2003. I clicked file, import/export, and then selected export, clicked the csv option, and then chose to export only my calendar.
You may benefit from choosing a small range of dates to export reoccuring events for, since Google doesn’t support importing of these dates. You’ll have to delete any you import and recreate them in Google Calendar to have them repeat.
2. So you’ve got a nice CSV file saved somewhere now, right? Now go to Google Calendar and import them (under the drop down arrow on the left, click export calendar).
This is where you can stop following these steps and setup an exchange server if you’re wanting to go that route
3. Setup a new CalDav connection to your Google account by opening the settings app and navigating to mail, contacts, calendars > add account > other > CalDav. Enter your login information as demonstrated below.
4. Your phone should now be syncing with Google every 15 minutes by default, but you can always change this in your phone settings under mail, contacts, calendars.
Optional:
5. Delete events from your phone calendar to avoid confusion. You’re still going to have both your Google calendar and the internal phone calendar, even if it’s blank, showing up under your calendar app. This step isn’t important if you don’t mind the duplicate events. This is unrelated if you’ve synced using the Microsoft exchange method.
Setup a new blank calendar in outlook, and sync only that selected calendar to your phone (click your iPhone under devices > info tab > scroll down to calendars > “selected” radio button > *your blank calendar name*).
Alternatively, you could simply delete the events from your phone manually. This is likely a tedious process so I recommend the above method.
Facebook iPhone app
2009
08.28
08.28
Facebook FINALLY updated their iPhone application and it now includes features such as notes, liking photos, and all that stuff you could previously do on your desktop. So go download that app and update that review like you promised Facebook you would if they “ADD ALL THE FEATURES OF THE DESKTOP SITE lolz”. Alright? Good.
Ocarina iPhone app
2009
08.15
08.15
Ocarina’s cool enough I can’t help but post it here. You can play just about anything on it, except maybe Through The Fire and Flames. I’m usually not willing to give up any amount of money for apps, even $.99 ones because frankly, most of them suck. I’m thinking this one’s one of the best music apps out there. You can even play the Harry Potter theme song on it. Now excuse me while I go learn how to not look dorky and know how to play Harry Potter on my iPhone.
Sweet new jailbroken iphone
2009
08.03
08.03
So I spent a whole day jailbreaking my iPhone when I could’ve done it in about an hour if I knew what I was doing. So anyway… Screenshots of the fanciness.
The backgrounder app allows apps to run in the background. Hence the name. Why didn't Apple allow this in the first place?!
One of the advantages to jailbreaking is all the apps developers have made that just don't make it to the App Store.
Yesss! I can fiiinally hide those apps like weather that I don't use!
Handy, isn't it? See that processes button? I can free up memory right from there.
Cydia is the jailbreak communities' alternative to the App Store.
The Winterboard app allows the lock screen background to replace the normal black background on the home screen.
iHouse is another free app from Cydia that lets users watch House. Handy.
Apple releases 3.0 iPhone and iPod touch firmware
2009
06.17
06.17
After an all night wait for some, Apple has finally released the 3.0 Firmware upgrade for the iPhone and iPod touch. It was scheduled to be released last night around midnight (or at least that’s what everyone was hoping for), but Apple has kept us waiting almost 12 hours after the expected release time. Midnight in California would be 2am here in CST, the scheduled time. I’m downloading at approximately 1pm here, 11am in California at the Apple headquarters. I’m hoping their servers hold out until the download is complete but it seems to be doing pretty well so far. I will update with a few screenshots after installing 3.0.
If anyone wants to check the current version released, someone has designed a handy tool that pulls data right off the Apple server to check the current version: http://1strule.org/iPhoneFirmware.php. It may not be much use now that 3.0 has gone public, but it deserves a link for the effort.
Update: It seems Apple may have beefed up their servers a little for the millions wanting to download, or maybe I got to be the first lucky few to connect, but I downloaded the 230mb in about 10 minutes. That was before I got the network connection error after I forgot to turn off ESET Smart Security. If you’re getting an error downloading iPhone updates, turn off ESET before the download finishes and it should finish and verify successfully.
Update: “dude, this is cool!” 3.0 contains stereo Bluetooth capability as promised, meaning ALL sounds coming out your iPhone can be played on a stereo. Pandora, your iPod, even the keyboard clicks as I write this can be played on my stereo! If you’re having trouble with the connect to iTunes screen, keep trying. Apples servers are swamped right now. Try and catch ‘em during a break. Otherwise, get on at 4am. 
