How Many Apps Are You Running?
Over the past few months I have seen the battery life on both my iPhone and iPad drop steadily. Where at one point I was able to charge my devices every couple of days, recently I have barely been able to make it through a single day without putting them on the charger. What have [...]
Outlook Sucks
Is this really news? Probably not, but every now and then I am again reminded of just how frustrating Microsoft’s products can be. Below is an iCal invite, generated on the iPad and then viewed on the three platforms I use on a daily basis: iPhone, iPad and Outlook 2010 (Windows). Notice which one does [...]
Not Optimized For the iPhone?
This is a weird one and one that I haven’t yet gotten a real answer for. Last night the iPhone started displaying this message about every 5-10 minutes. Thinking that it might be a Bluetooth anomaly, I turned the Bluetooth off on the phone. That didn’t stop it. I re-started the phone. That didn’t stop [...]
Gotta Run For Shelter, Gotta Run For Shade
Apparently the iPhone4 can just get too hot. This is something that you don’t see every day. At least not in Seattle. Either this is only available in the iPhone4 or the temperature threshold on the previous iPhones was much higher. Discovered on Sunday while catching up on podcasts in a sauna.
iPhone Sent to Space
A Brooklyn father and son team put an iPhone and small HD camera on a weather balloon, and in a move NASA would be proud off, send the homemade craft into space to record a video of the earth. Read more at: http://www.examiner.com/ny-in-new-york/brooklyn-father-and-son-send-iphone-into-space-on-homemade-craft.
Cops Hacking iPhones for Information
Besides the obvious places (in the apps themselves), there’s a lot of information that you as a user don’t have access to. iOS apparently caches both screenshots and text used while multitasking and spell checking, so even if you don’t actively save information on your iPhone, odds are it’s there anyway. Read more on TUAW.
Angry Birds | The Movie
You may be familiar with the smash hit iPad/iPod/iPhone game “Angry Birds”, but now there is an Angry Birds movie in the works. Rovio, the maker of the game, has got to be extremely pleased with this. The game itself sold over 6 million copies without any formal advertising!
