Its not obvious how to turn on caps lock on the iPhone, so here is how in case you’ve wondered this yourself. Start the Settings app. Click on the General menu, and then the Keyboard menu. Turn Enable Caps Lock on. Now, when you’re using the keyboard, just double-tap the shift key. This will enable caps lock and the shift key on the keyboard will turn blue. To turn off caps lock, tap the shift key once. The use of a punctuation key also turns off caps lock (unless you use the double-tap of the space...
I wanted to write a blog post to document how I do some day-to-day things. It helps me to keep track of my work habits, refine them and perhaps help some others who are looking for some solutions. My current rig is a Apple MacBook Pro 13” unibody. It has the 250Gb drive with 4Gb memory. I am running the latest version of OS X Leopard. I am really enjoying the 13” form factor. It is a little smaller and lighter than the previous 15” unibody which, to me, just felt heavy. I also don't notice the lost...
I have had the good fortune to test both the Palm Pre and Apple iPhone 3Gs. In my day job I am an architect with responsibilities over messaging and mobility – hence I get to try a lot of new devices in order to evaluate their applicability for our enterprise users. One thing I have come to regard as a universal truth is that ranking mobile devices is almost a waste of time. They are so subjective depending on the personal habits and preferences of the person using them. There are some things that...
Based on Yesterday’s post. I thought we could take the new HTML 5, featured offered by Android and iPhone OS 3.0 and do something almost useful with it. So sticking to things close to my heart, I decided to expand my example and build a simple web-page that finds geo-caches near where you are. Use it here. http://www.binaryrefinery.com/gnm.htm It works really well. Technorati Tags: iPhone,HTML 5,Geocaching,OS 3 Source here - <html> <head> <title> Geocaching Lookup </title>...
So, after my server died, I needed a quick way to re-establish my email as I had previously been running Exchange server. My family all have email accounts on this server, so I’d thought I’d explore a few options for hosted email, that would work with our mobile phones (Windows Mobile and iPhone). Reading all the press coverage about Gmail supporting The Microsoft Air-Sync protocol, I thought I’d give this a go. I set up a couple of Gmail accounts. Then on the iPhone went through the process of setting...
I was just chatting to a friend of mine (Hello John), about sending SMS from an iPhone. We talked about instigating an SMS from a mobile web-page. This is of course possible, with an HTML tag like - <A HREF=”SMS:2323232232”/>TXT ME</A> Note, you can’t put any spaces in the phone number. Also you can’t do <A HREF=”SMS:2323232232?BODY=some%20message”/>TXT ME</A> which is a bit of a shame. We have been making use of this for some time, on mobile portals. See below : Technorati...
New iPhone owners will commonly ask themselves how they can sync their Google Calendar with their iPhone calendar. Or maybe how to sync their Gmail or Google Reader items with their iPhone readers. If you do a web search you’ll find some applications that will actually do this, but don’t waste your time. You want to go to the source, straight to Google, instead of going to Joe Bob Simpleton who has written some half thought out iPhone app to sync these things. So here’s what you do: Turn on your...
My apologies for being tardy with the follow up post on my Nokia E71 experiences. Its amazing how work tends to take over your life at points and keep you from the things you truly love – spending time with your family or writing blog posts. Thanks for the reminder emails some sent me that I promised to pen this. Before I get started, there has been some other follow-on Nokia news. First Nokia is rumored to be working on the E75, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard version of the E71. It offers a 2.4” screen...
For the past three weeks I have been testing the new Nokia e71 and Apple’s iPhone 3g. Both phones are well built and deliver as promised in almost all areas. Below I will give a few tidbits about my experiences with each one. I am also at the same time working on deploying Microsoft’s System Center Mobile Device Manager (SCMDM). This will not come in to play with either of these devices though. Although they have licensed and support Exchange ActiveSync, SCMDM will only support devices running a...
So I finally went out got the IPhone and love it so much. I ended up not killing At&t and getting it an entire day early without getting charged. I downloaded a ton of different applications for music and tweeting and such. There some things I don't quite like, but will deal with as time progresses and get used to the quirks: For example, I must have really big fingers and continuously hit the wrong buttons. It drives me insane, but it is still far superior to text messaging on my horrible old...
So, I've been on a mission, to show that we can port our mobile portal application suite over to iPhone. We've long been using a Windows Mobile delivered portal that takes Sharepoint, Dynamics NAV and a host of other line of business system (LOB) and delivers them to our mobile workforce. The core of our business at Anglia Business Solutions (www.angliabs.com) is to allow our consultant's, sale staff and support engineers to work remotely. For any service based company our lifeblood is accurate time...
Its my birthday in a couple of weeks and as a present my girlfriend bought me an iPhone...its an early present, but she's been going to the o2 shop for the last couple of weeks and this is the first time they have been in stock. Anyway, she is a gem, because she used her contract so I could get it! I had too long remaining on mine! (Which means for the first time in about 5 years my mobile number has changed, which is probably a good thing, anyway, if you haven't got my new number and want it, contact...
Why isn't Guitar Hero out for the iPhone yet in the app store? Don’t tell me the folks that make this awesomely addictive game have overlooked this platform! For anywhere from five to ten bucks I wouldn't even think twice about getting this game. Especially when it could be combined with the iTunes store in some fashion to download the songs from the game, or get exclusive game-related content like live song versions or other unreleased material – videos from the band or interviews? Rock on. And...
From ZD Net Australia: in brief Citrix used its thin client technology to demonstrate an Apple iPhone running Windows XP, at the recent Citrix Application Delivery Conference in Melbourne. Windows XP, seen below running on the iPhone, was loaded using Citrix's thin client desktop software XenDesktop. Using the Citrix ICA client — a UNIX application that allows devices to access Windows sessions on a Citrix server — the presenter was able to run Windows on the iPhone via Wi-Fi. Hit the link above...
O2 remains the exclusive carrier of the iPhone in the UK for iPhone 3G. In keeping with Steve Jobs announcement the cost has been kept right as well. O2 offers the following four tariffs for iPhone 3G: £30/month - 8GB iPhone £99 - 16GB iPhone £159 - 75 Minutes - 125 Texts - Unlimited Data & WiFi - 18 month contract £35/month - 8GB iPhone £99 - 16GB iPhone £159 - 600 Minutes - 500 Texts - Unlimited Data & WiFi - 18 month contract £45/month - 8GB iPhone Free - 16GB iPhone £59 - 1200 Minutes...
At the end of the iPhone commercials there is a pleasant ring tone demonstrated that somehow never made it to the shipping iPhone. It is in fact, a sound from the iLife application that ships with new Macs. You can download it from this web site that solved the mystery! Technorati Tags: iPhone,iLife,ring tones...
In a move sure to make many an ITPro squeal with delight, Apple announced today that the iPhone will soon be enterprise-ready by licensing ActiveSync from Microsoft and adding remote lock, remote wipe and other requested features. Sign up for the Enterprise Beta program here. The iPhone will offer full Exchange support, thanks to licenses from Microsoft. The iPhone will also get enterprise-friendly security features, including remote wipe, support for Cisco IPsec VPN, certificates, identities, and...
If we could add Skype to an iTouch we would almost have an iPhone!! Well not really.....Technorati Tags: iTouch, iPhonePowered by ScribeFire...
Gmail has added IMAP access. It does not show up in all the accounts, but it will be rolled out to all accounts in the next few days. https://mail.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=12760 You can configure IMAP on your iPhone too. https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77702&topic=12761 Anyway there is also a URL for mobile phones which is almost like the web interface. http://m.gmail.com Technorati Tags: Gmail , iPhone , IMAP , Mobile , Google...
What would an iPHONE have to have for bidders on ebay to bid over $2000 for it? What if the phone could use any carrier and not AT&T the official mobile carrier for Apple? Many are bidding today on this phone that was hacked into by a 17 year old teenager who spent the summer doing it. In fact, if you go to his blog, you can learn how he did it. Amazing that a 17 year old teenager would discover this. I'm sure he has a future in the high tech world but he's off to RIT to study Neuroscience. Technorati...
Whatcha think? Will the iPhone blend? See for yourself Technorati tags: iPhone, Will it Blend, YouTube Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
Mark Pilgrim highlights "every developers's worst fears about the iPhone". In the article, Jobs chooses his words carefully to be sure. But really they're just nice ways to say "screw you", and "give us more money": "You don't want your phone to be like a PC". Oh, thanks, I didn't realize. I guess I misunderstood what you were doing with the iPhone in the first place. Oh...or were those words just a sneaky (yet brilliant) way to draw comparisons to Pocket PC phones and Smartphones? Technorati : iphone...
All this talk about the iPhone (hurry and grab quicktime killer before it's too late) reminded me of Lance's post about converting a PocketPC into an iPod. I guess Apple is close to finding out how many times they can beat a dead horse. Technorati tags: iphone, quicktime killer, Lance Robinson...