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Leo Laporte has been complaining about the iPhone not letting him typing “Laporte” on the iPhone. As of recent, Laporte still complains that iPhone 2.0 still won’t let him type his last name.
This one goes to Leo Laporte and all The Laportes in the world:
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Notes:
Video recorded using Panasonic HDC-SD5, imported and edited using iMovie ’08 on 15″ Macbook Pro Core Duo.
Video encoding for the web is using QuickTime Pro 7.5, it is iPhone compatible.
Just a little glitch with Mac OS X after applying some iLife ’08 updates. For some reasons Quartz Extreme supports disappeared from the system. Everything went back to normal after I rebooted the MacBook Pro.
Apple started the .Mac to MobileMe transitions on July 9th, 2008. The transitions was anything but a smooth process. First, it was delayed by 2 hours. The .Mac web-interface was down for the next several days while Me.com was having problems. Despite of the troubles, most .Mac/MobileMe sevices were online. After a few days, the MobileMe launch finally was going somewhere. The web services went online although the performance was considerably slower than expected. Later on Apple re-explains and re-defines what MobileMe service is. The “Push” services only available between the “cloud” and the iPhone/iPod touch. Apple is still working on the “Push” service for Mac OS X/Windows. Apple also apologizes to their customers and adds 30 days extensions to MobileMe subscriptions. As of July 21st, 2008 Apple acknowledges some problems with Webmail access affecting 1% of MobileMe Members.
MobileMe launch is riddled with problems, but it is far from being a disaster as echoed by many tech-news site and blog postings. Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott called MobileMe launch as a “Crash and Burn” disaster.
Now, let’s take a look at a few things here:
Despite all of the troubles its having, MobileMe is working. Most of the blog-postings regarding MobileMe are merely copied and pasted from another site. Welcome to the echo chamber.
Yet another feature from iPhone Software 2.0 confirmed. The Wi-Fi can be turned on in Airplane mode.
What is the practical use of having Wi-Fi on in Airplane mode? Maybe now the iPhone can be used for browsing the internet on the airplane during flight. But the obvious use is to have the iPhone functioning just like an iPod touch, all the Wi-Fi without the phone signal.
If you recently replaced your original iPhone with iPhone 3G, you can now use it as an iPod touch by switching to the Airplane Mode with Wi-Fi on. It saves some battery life not having the iPhone still looking for the GSM signals.
UPDATE 2008.07.16 17:30 Pacific Time
Email services has been restored to the particular accounts.
I was first notified in the morning about the problems with Goggle Mail. Apparently some Google Apps accounts are unable to access their email. The accounts can still access all Google Apps with the exception for email.
In addition to that, the accounts are unable to access mail through Gmail POP and IMAP. The particular accounts cannot access Gmail SMTP server either. Meanwhile other accounts can access Gmail without any problems.
As usual, it is almost impossible to contact Google. All I can find is some web-forms to contact Google Technical Support team.
Tips on draining iPhone 3G battery in minimum amount of time. All you have to do:
Most likely the battery will drain within 90 minutes or less.
OK, that was somewhat pointless, but now I know not to do that anymore.
After upgrading to Mac OS X 10.5.4, Safari stops updating the bookmarked RSS feeds. The 10.5.4 update includes Safari 3.1.2 for Leopard.
Previously, to fix the problem I deleted the “Syndication” folder inside my “Library” folder.
I deleted the RSS bookmarks and adding them again, but it still doesn’t fix the problem.
I have not tested this with Safari 3.1.2 on Windows and on Tiger.