iPhone
iPhone Safari Crash Fix
Nov 15th
No doubt iPhone’s Safari browser is the best mobile browser, though it seems to have an unfortunate issue, namely, that it tend to periodically crash after a longer time of use with multiple pages. Safari shuts down and returns to the home screen. On the Apple Discussion Forum it seems that more people have experienced the same as I.
I am sure that Apple is aware of the problem, and continuously will provide stability fixes for the iPhone. However, running the latest version, which at this moment is the iPhone 2.1 firmware/software, the iPhone still have stability problems. Hopefully this will change in the next version, the iPhone 2.2 software.
However, it is possible to prevent the iPhone Safari from crashing, though it is not a permanent fix:
- You can try to clear the Cache, Cookies and History. To do this, go to Settings > Safari and tap Clear Cache, Clear Cookies and Clear History.
- If that is ineffective, try makeing a soft reset of your iPhone by holding down the Sleep and Home buttons until the Apple logo appears (about 8 second). Note that this is also how you power the iPhone off. When the “Slide to power off” slider appears, just keep holding the buttons down and pretty soon you will see the Apple logo appears, indicating that the iPhone is reseting. This can help reset some apps that may be running in the background. Importantly you will not lose any data.
Use Apple iPhone Bluetooth Headset with MacBook
Nov 5th
After I bought my Apple iPhone Bluetooth Headset for my iPhone a thought came to my mind, namely, whether it was possible to pair the headset with my MacBook and using it together with e.g. Skype.
Pairing the iPhone headset with the MacBook can be done seamlessly, just go to the Bluetooth in the menu bar, select “Set up Bluetooth Device…” and choose “Headset”, then press and hold the headset button for about eight seconds, until you hear the startup tone and then five quick high beeps. The headset is now discoverable and will remain so for about five minutes. The status light blinks green while the headset is discoverable.
Unfortunately, I believe that the audio quality over Bluetooth is quite unsatisfying, it seems to be poor and a bit crackly. Therefore it is kind of tricky to recommend using the Apple iPhone Bluetooth Headset for that purpose.
Google Earth for iPhone/iPod Touch
Oct 25th
Google Earth available for iPhone and iPod touch. Hold the world in the palm of your hand. With Google Earth for iPhone and iPod touch, you can fly to far corners of the planet with just the swipe of a finger. Explore the same global satellite and aerial imagery available in the desktop version of Google Earth, including high-resolution imagery for over half of the world’s population and a third of the world’s land mass.
With Google Earth for iPhone, you can:
- Satellite and aerial imagery: View the same imagery available in the desktop version of Google Earth.
- Local search: Search for cities, places, and businesses around the globe with Google local search.
- Motion detection: Tilt your iPhone to adjust your view of mountainous terrain.
- Panoramio photo layer: Show the Panoramio layer and browse the millions of geo-located photos from around the world.
- Wikipedia layer: View geo-located Wikipedia articles.
iPhone 2.1 Software Features
Sep 12th
Today we got the iPhone 2.1 Firmware:
The iPhone 2.1 software update contains many bug fixes and improvements. To get it, connect your iPhone to your computer using iTunes 8 and click Check for Update.
Official Updates:
- Decrease in call set-up failures and dropped calls
- Significantly better battery life for most users
- Dramatically reduced time to backup to iTunes
- Improved email reliability, notably fetching email from POP and Exchange accounts
- Faster installation of 3rd party applications
- Fixed bugs causing hangs and crashes for users with lots of third party applications
- Improved performance in text messaging
- Faster loading and searching of contacts
- Improved accuracy of the 3G signal strength display
- Repeat alert up to two additional times for incoming text messages
- Option to wipe data after ten failed passcode attempts
- Genius playlist creation
Unofficial updates:
- Pause application installations by tapping on the icon.
- Triple clicking on the headset button goes to the previous track
- Podcasts listings indicate partially listened to items.
- iPod song listings show artist and album name
- Improved compatibility with certain bluetooth headsets.
- more…
iPhone 3G: No Sound
Sep 5th
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UPDATE: My iPhone was replaced with a brand new iPhone after being sent to Apple Support, so now that I have my second iPhone, I hope not to see the problem again – or any problems at all.
Recently, I experienced an issue with my iPhone, during phone calls the sound disappeared from the ear speaker, but when plugging in the headset or switching to the speaker (loudspeaker ) the sound was available. I was afraid the iPhone already after a couple of month had to be delivered to Apple Support/Service, but when I turned to my good friend, Google, I found some of methods through which people solved their sound problem:
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iPhone: Create and Download Free Ringtones
Aug 28th
If you ended up on this page, you were properly also looking for a way to get free iPhone ringtones since Apple got the crazy idea that we should pay for ringtones. However, there is no need to use any money on ringtones for your iPhone. Simply go to audiko.net, which is a very nice service that allows you to upload your favourite music or audio files, cut out a fragment of up to 40 seconds, and download it to your iTunes Ringtones Library ready for synchronizing it to your iPhone. When a ringtone is made, it can also be share for others to use it.
This is easy way how to do it:
- Go to audiko.net.
- Search an artist or a song.
- Choose a ringtone from the results.
- Click the “Download Ringtone for iPhone” link.
- Save the file and open it in iTunes.
- Now the new ringtone is available in the Ringtones Library in iTunes
NOTE: As default the Ringtones Library is not shown, here is how to enable it. Go to iTunes > Preferences… > General > check the “Ringtones” checkbox, and now the Ringtones Library should be visible.
Here is some examples:
