Is the battery life of your new iPhone 3G disappointing you? Try these three tips to increase it’s daily usage before having to recharge. I went from getting about a days worth of moderate usage to two days easily only doing the first two tips – the third is for when you need to squeeze…
A few people have been asking me about car chargers for the iPhone 3G so I thought I’d post a quick note about what I’m using. First of all, be careful what you plug your shiny new iPhone into! Plenty of things are meant for iPods only and can actually fry your iPhone. Many iPod…
Thanks to a tip from Kevin, I went to the Park Royal Mall Future Shop location to check out the renovations that are almost complete. It looks like some Future Shop locations are getting the Apple Store within-a-store treatment: This is part of an expanded deal between Apple and Best Buy (Future Shop’s parent company)…
The iPhone 3G and the Apple App Store has been out for a few weeks now so I figured it would be a good time to talk about what I’ve got on my iPhone and hopefully show you a few things you might want to check out yourself. First though, an annoyance I have about…
As you may have noticed, I really like Crumpler’s products. I just found out that a store that sells nothing but Crumpler products just opened in downtown Vancouver (corner of Richards & Cordova). This is the next best thing to an Apple Store opening in Vancouver…and just as dangerous. Check them out in person or…
Buzz was kind enough to include a quote and a link to me regarding the recently released Pwnage software tool for the iPhone. Here’s what it looked like in today’s edition of 24hrs (PDF link): and a photo of the real thing: Here’s a link to Buzz’ blog post about it. I still think it’s…
I got to thinking today about how much ‘memory’ I carry around all day. Here’s the breakdown: in my pocket: 16gb iPhone 3G on my keychain: 8gb USB drive in my wallet: 2gb ‘Micro Vault Tiny’ So I generally carry 26 gigabytes of data and don’t really even notice it. This doesn’t include stuff in…
I’ve wanted a fisheye lens forever…and really like my Lomo Fisheye camera. Super wide angles and fisheyes are fun to play around with…just not $800 kinds of fun (the cost of a real fisheye lens). So when I stumbled across this lens adapter for a measely $37 + shipping (from this eBay store – just…
Automattic has released (and Apple has approved) their native iPhone app for managing your WordPress sites. This post was created with it. Find the app on the iTunes App Store. Update (not from an iPhone): Here’s a video of the features of the app:
The iPhone Dev Team just released their Pwnage tool for the 2.0 firmware (Mac only at this point). You may also need some bootloaders to create the customized restore file you’ll need in order to get your 1st gen iPhone onto the new firmware. The updated 2.0 firmware will give your old iPhone all the…