Random Ramblings of a Neo-Post-Modern Geek (I have no idea what that means)
Posts tagged iphone
AT&T Microcell
Jul 24th
We’ve never had good cell phone coverage at home … even when we had Verizon service.
The coverage with AT&T is even worse … but, we do like the iPhones.
I was pretty interested when AT&T announced they were rolling out 3G Microcell devices.
Basically, a Microcell is a tiny 3G cell site. It provides 3G service to up to 10 authorized cell phones. The 3G service is provided using VoIP like service (if not exactly VoIP). The range is about 40 feet in all directions.
The Microcell has a built in GPS unit so that it can verify it’s in the correct location … for E911 service and, I assume, so the AT&T systems can tell which cell towers to hand the call off to when you leave the devices range.
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eBooks Readers
Jul 20th
I just finished the 12th book in Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden series … Changes.
The book was quite good … very intense … and a shocker of an ending.
I thought this was the last book of the series … but I’ve read somewhere else that there are eight more books planned for the series.
I got hooked on the Dresden series when SciFi (currently known as SyFy) was showing the Dresden TV series. I was quite disappointed to see the series end. It had a lot of potential, in my opinion.
One significant thing about this book was not the book itself … but how I read the book. I purchased it as an eBook from the Apple bookstore and read it on my iPhone.
I have to say … I was surprised how easy reading the book on my iPhone was.
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iPhone Complaint
Jun 22nd
Well, not so much a complaint about the iPhone … more a complaint about the manufacturers of iPhone accessories.
Specifically … I really wish they would design accessories that are supposed to hold and/or dock the iPhone so they are adjustable enough to accommodate a sleeve or case that the iPhone might be in.
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iPhone 3G S
Jun 20th
It’s been more than a year since we got the original iPhones … so when Apple announced the new hardware version for the iPhone, I figured it was probably worth getting. The new version has a lot of features that I wanted … and, frankly, thought should have been in the first version.
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WordPress XML-RPC error
Sep 20th
I’ve encountered a weird error in WordPress … for some reason, when a post is submitted using the XML-RPC api (which is used by the WordPress iPhone app), any leading ‘<’ symbols on the HTML is being stripped out.
Ginny noticed this a few days ago and I just confirmed it on a test blog.
The content that is posted looks something like this …
p>a href="http://beta.geekyramblings.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/p- 640-480-2fd9116d-5703-4e8b-b72c-2605beab02b5.jpeg">img src="http:// beta.geekyramblings.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/p-640-480-2fd9116d --5703-4e8b-b72c-2605beab02b5.jpeg" alt="" width="225" height="300" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-364" />/a>/p>
I’ll have to do some digging to find if this has already been logged or not.
I wish I was more skilled at PHP … I’m sure it’s someething I could sink my teeth into.
Update: FWIW I’ve opened ticket 7771 on the WordPress tracking system on this issue.
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iPhone for WordPress
Jul 22nd
This post is being written with the WordPress app for iPhone.
As expected, it’s pretty awkward to use, but functional.
- Documentation is non-existent … but that’s coming, according to the announcement post.
- Decent integration with the camera & photo roll, although there doesn’t appear to be a way to position the pictures.
- Can’t see a way to do trackbacks or even enter URL’s.
- It’s not clear if the text is entered in HTML or just plain text.
It’s going to take some getting used to … but I’m pretty sure this isn’t the next ‘killer app’.
FWIW: This post was originally entered on the iPhone, but edited in regular WordPress.
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WordPress for iPhone
Jul 11th
I can’t wait for this iPhone application …
It’s not available on the iTunes App Store yet … so I’ll just have to cool my jets for a bit.
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2.0 iPhones Upgraded to 2.0
Jul 10th
Ok, I got both iPhones upgraded to the 2.0 version of the iPhone OS.
Initially, I had some trepidation about upgrading a day early … and my feeling seemed to be valid when a co-worker tried to upgrade his phone and had a bunch of problems. He kept getting an “Unknown error (6)” message. I don’t know if he actually got his upgraded.
Regardless, I decided to throw caution to the wind and upgrade my phone anyways. Luckily, it worked without a single hitch.
When I got home from work, I proceeded to upgrade Ginny’s phone. This, of course, is where I ran into problems.
I started the upgrade process by first upgrading her iTunes to 7.7. That worked without any problems. Then I proceeded to upgrade her phone.
Initially it was going OK … then I got an “Unknown error (10)” message. Figuring that I would just restore the phone to it’s previous OS version, I tried the restore option … but when I did this I got an “Unknow error (20)” message. Tried a few more times and got the same message. This is not good.
I Googled around a bit and found a thread in the Apple support forum that said that, if I pressed Option (shift in Windows context) and clicked the restore button, I could ‘Recover’ to the 2.0 firmware. Luckily this worked.
About 20 minutes later I had Ginny’s iPhone working fine.
Five minutes after that, I we were both playing with the “Phone Saber” application.
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iPhone 2.0
Jul 10th
Well, I jumped the gun a bit and installed the iPhone 2.0 update.
Overall, I’m not super impressed … the incremental functionality improvements are rather limited.
Some of the applications look cool, but I’ve only played with a few of them.
What I’m really disappointed in is the lack of base functionality enhancements … things like ..
- No voice dial
- No stereo bluetooth
- No Google Calendar integration
- No Jabber / XMPP chat application (there were rumors about this)
- No cut & paste in the editor
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Posting from my phone
Apr 9th
mainly because it’s a geeky thing to do.
It’s gonna take a long time to make a single post.
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