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iphone

A new way to touch type because of the iPad

March 12, 2010

As a touch typist, I am rather picky about keyboards and input methods. I always liked the mechanical keyboards with the old “Cherry electronics” keys. After switching to the Mac, the only reasonable keyboard to use is their aluminum external keyboards (wired or bluetooth model), but is is far from ideal.
With the iPad coming in [...]

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Apple Bluetooth on the iPhone

March 16, 2009

Now that I have a good bluetooth headset (the Jawbone 2), I need to toggle the bluetooth interface on and off all the time on the iPhone. When I don’t need it, switching off saves battery. Normally it make sense to have the bluetooth on/off setting under, well, settings (settings – general, to be precise). [...]

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Broken iPhone replaced

January 15, 2009

I blogged this before, the ringer on/off switch on my iPhone fell off soon after I bought the phone (yes, on launch day). Last week, the audio jack broke as well. The mic-input is not working anymore. This is a problem for me as I use a wired headset all the time with the phone [...]

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Steve Jobs is not Reliving Past Mistakes

September 26, 2008

Times article on Tuesday headline “Google vs iPhone: Is Steve Jobs Reliving Past Mistakes” puts forward that because Andriod is open, and iPhone is closed, Apple is going to loose the smartphone platform just like they “lost” the PC platform. Article sounds convincing until you realized that there is a very mature and reasonably open [...]

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My iPhone ringer switch broke

September 2, 2008

Six weeks from day zero. I picked up my iPhone 3G, and the little metal stud falls off. I wondered about the design of this switch before, it is pretty to look at, but sliding in a circular path probably put a lots of strain on it. I use this switch probably on average four [...]

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I called it one month ago.. all you can eat iTunes

August 30, 2008

Look at my post way back in July here. A month later and CNET is talking about it?

Technorati Tags: iphone, apple

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Things on the iPhone now Sync with Desktop

August 18, 2008

I meant to blog about this for a long time. Things.app is, IMHO, the best GTD app for the Mac. I have been using the beta for a very long time. In fact my GTD system is on it. When the iPhone 3G is announced, the folks at CulturedCode started working on a version specifically [...]

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Upgrading to Leopard breaks iPhone syncing in iTunes

July 19, 2008

This has been a very Apple centric month. I finally upgraded my very first mac, a pre-Aluminium iMac from Tiger to Leopard. The upgrade process was very easy. The next morning, I discovered that my new iPhone is no longer recognized by iTunes ! It worked before the upgrade.
The problem only exists with iTunes. When [...]

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iPhone Crashed

July 16, 2008

My iPhone just crashed. I clicked on the iTunes Remote app, the phone went to the “silver apple” screen, which I think is the restart screen. It stayed there for a very long time. I ended up doing the reset sequence — holding down the sleep/wake and the home buttons for 10 seconds or more, [...]

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iPhone 3G Day 5

July 16, 2008

Day 5 using the new iPhone. I love it. I thought about it before using the verb “love”. It is fun to use. it works. It’s sexy. I find myself using it instead of the laptop (which is already on) to check emails, for example. It works and feel better than the Treo. Typing is [...]

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