Blackforce » Apple

Plex and Snow Leopard

Dale — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:26:00 +0000

I upgraded my mac mini to Snow Leopard last week. Had to go back to Leopard as Plex doesn’t work properly. The remote is all over the place. Playback stutters. Not good.

Also within 20 mins of having it up and running Photo Booth Crashed!!!! It never has before.

Snow Leopard released on August 28th

Dale — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:08:33 +0000

Been reading up on Snow Leopard. Apple have certainly bigged it up and made it look very impressive.

Lets hope that it lives up to the hype and most importantly my order from Apple arrives shortly after the 28th.

OldBooth iPhone App

Dale — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:08:04 +0000

OldBooth is a cool new app out in the iPhone App Store.

It allows you to take a photo of yourself and make it look really old and trendy.

Carry on below to look below at the interface and some I have done.

ORIGINAL

RESULT

Not a bad result. Good for a laugh.

How to Forward SMS / Texts on an Apple iPhone

Dale — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:09:07 +0000

On every phone I have ever owned I have always been able to forward texts. This was until I got an iPhone.

I normally get loads of funny jokes text to me each week and I cant send them on.

That was until I found out about a nifty program called “Clippy”. This program essentially adds a simple copy and paste feature to the iPhone. Using this you can then forward them on.

Unfortunately this program is only available on jailbroken iPhones. If you have not already done so I would advise you to jailbreak your phone. You can then get access to lots of cool third party programs that will never feature on the App Store.

In order to jailbreak you will need a program called Quickpwn which can be sourced from : http://blog.iphone-dev.org.

After Jailbreaking you will have a program on there called Cydia. This program is like another app store. Tap on the Cydia Icon.

It will take a couple of seconds to open. Then it will look like below.

Tap on Search.

Type in Clippy.

Then tap on Clippy that appears below. You will then be presented with the following screen. Tap Install.

It should then start installing. You might have to tap confirm.

Once its finished installing, you will have to tap restart springboard when it appears. This will then take you back to the main iPhone screen.

Open up the SMS program and find a text that you would like to forward on.

Double tap on the bubble of the text. You will then see the following. Tap ok. This will copy the text into the clipboard

Then compose a new text. Once the keyboard appears, tap on the .?123 button.

You will then see a paste button. Tap it and then text you copied should now have appeared in the text box.

You can then click send.

Thats it. Why Apple didn’t add this feature as standard I dont know.

New iPhone 3G Came With Pic’s of Production Line

Dale — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:53:40 +0000

This is so funny! Someone just bought a brand new 3G iPhone and someone at the production facility took pictures and never deleted them. So fired.

read more | digg story

Misleading Apple iPhone 3G Advert

Dale — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:58:53 +0000

Everyone must have seen it by now. The advert for the iPhone 3G where they demonstrate an iphone doing tasks. If you have ever used an iphone you can clearly see that it is well too fast. Well someone has done a side by side comparison of doing the same tasks on a real iPhone. As you can see Apple is clearly misleading People. Even on Wifi it wouldn’t be this quick.

Apple iPhone 3G Advert
Click here to view the embedded video.

Side by Side Comparison
Click here to view the embedded video.

Apple iPhone 2.0.1 still slows down

Dale — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:11:15 +0000

Well, I have been using 2.0.1 since it was launched. It still slows Down wheb using the SMS keyboard and on contacts. Not as bad as before but it does slow down after prolonged use. DRY!!!!!

Apple iPhone Feature Wishlist

Dale — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:59:37 +0000

The Apple iPhone is missing some features I used to use loads on my old Nokia N73. I would like to see the following features added by Apple.

- Forwarding of Texts
- SMS Delivery Reports
- Multimedia Messages
- Mark emails as read without opening them.
- Attach more than 1 attachment.
- File Explorer So can save attachments and reattach etc.
- Instant Messenging
- Profiles (so can disable mail at night, and make ringtone lower at work easily)

Let us know your opinions.

Apple iPhone 2.0.1 Firmware Loaded

Dale — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:48:21 +0000

I bought my iPhone 3G mid July. Since then I have found the iPhone to slow down a number of times. The keyboard becomes laggy, you cant click on contacts after opening for a while. So as soon as I heard that 2.0.1 was out I quickly plugged in my iPhone and upgraded.

Well so far I am very pleased. I have listed below my findings

- Contacts Much quicker to respond.
- Keyboard has not become laggy yet
- Signal seems stronger. Now get 3 bars of 3G at work, instead of previous 1 bar.

i’ll update this post with more findings.