Category Archives: iPhone

Android vs iPhone: whats with all the hand-wringing?

The last week or so has been very interesting across the many technology blogs that I follow.  Ever since the Google IO conference and the announcement of Android 2.2 the amount of hand-wringing going on over on the iPhone side … Continue reading

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RTM and Appigo go at it over RTM API access

Well well.  It would appear that the folks at Remember the Milk and Appigo are in a bit of a dust-up over the Appigo iPhone/iPad app Todo. Just a quick piece of information to make the story clear: the Todo … Continue reading

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Thoughts on “Thoughts on Flash”

Steve Jobs posted a nice letter on the Apple website addressing the issue of Flash on Apple devices..namely the iPhone and iPad.   I would not be sad to see Flash go the way of the Dodo personally but I … Continue reading

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Inappropriate Use of Metaphor

I’ve been reading quite a bit the last week on my iPad using both the Kindle reader app from Amazon as well as the iBook app from Apple and one thing has struck me as very odd: the page turn … Continue reading

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iPhone on Verizon? Uh…don’t think so.

Until Verizon solves the problem of not being able to do 3G data and voice at the same time I really don’t care about being able to use an iPhone on their network.  Of course there are people out there … Continue reading

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You’d have think they would have learned by now…

The Apple “press” (I use quotes because they really aren’t but sure seem like they’d like to be) never ceases to amaze me.  What passes for two stories on The Unofficial Apple Weblog today: A story titled ‘Apple’s “renaissance” is … Continue reading

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Flash: what’s all the fuss over?

Update:  Here is a fantastic example of someone who has completely gone off the rails with respect to Flash… Wow…nothing generates conversation in the tech industry like Adobe Flash. In just the past couple of days I’ve read articles about … Continue reading

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iPhone 3G connectivity problem FIXED – it was a tower!

AT&T 2nd level support really came through for me.  After writing here about having my connectivity problems return and getting in touch with AT&T tech support I can happily report that I am now routinely getting 900kbps (on average) at … Continue reading

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iPhone 3G data connectivity problems…they’re back

Update: Problem solved! Awhile back I wrote about having found a solution for the data connectivity issues that were plauging my iPhone in 3G mode.  At the time a call to AT&T Tech Support made my reset my network settings … Continue reading

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iPhone 3G data connectivity problems…and a solution

Update: I’m still having these issues…. Several weeks ago, after upgrading to release 2.2.1 of the iPhone OS, and also installing the AT&T network update that came right after, I started having issues with data connectivity problems on the 3G … Continue reading

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