Own This World : iPhone app review
This review referred to the version 1.3. Version 2.0 and 2.1 have been released that make the game even better (and address most of my issues with it). Go check them out. Own This World is a location based game for the iPhone by Big Nerds in Disguise a company in Calgary, Alberta. I discovered […]
Invisible Shield
When I got my iPhone I went looking for a case that ideally would not make the iPhone much more thicker than necessary, protected the screen from fingerprints and scratches and generally didn’t suck. It took a while but after reading reviews I settled on using the Invisible Shield by Zagg. Good The Invisible Shield […]
iPhone Restoration : Restoring Home Screen Layout (Pre 3.0)
After having gone through 3 iPhones and countless restores of different iPhones and iPod touches I had to get to the bottom of how to restore my layout of my apps on my home screens. The Cause When you restore your iPhone / iPod touch to it’s factory defaults the device is not connected to […]
iPhone Cryptic Error : Invalid Recipient
While I really enjoy my iPhone’s ease of use it does spit some really cryptic errors sometimes. Namely one I’ve kept running into after changing over my domains to the new Shared Accelerators from Joyent which changed my SMTP information. For some reason my new SMTP information just wouldn’t sync to my iPhone correctly - […]
Tethering your iPhone : Experiences
Update: Nov. 17th, 2008 - PDANet 1.4.0 allows VPN access, however at first look it doesn’t work correctly with VPN Tracker 5. One of the biggest benefits of my iPhone that I’ve been waiting vainly to try was the ability to tether my iPhone to my laptop so I could access the net from anywhere […]
Interesting Feature of the Day: iTunes and iPhone
I stumbled across an interesting feature this morning - when you start a download from the App Store on your iPhone / iPod touch and then plug your phone into your computer before the download is finished iTunes will take over from where you left off and download all the applications you were downloading for […]
iPhone After Two Months
After seeing D’arcy’s post today I felt the motivation to get off my butt and finish my iPhone review / showcase of my increasingly cluttered screens. First my screen setup followed up by short reviews of each application. My first screen is my main screen which I reserve for applications I use most or are […]
The Case to Remove Twinkle
Today I removed Twinkle from my iPhone and given that it has sit on my front screen since launch day I feel a review of Twinkle and it’s subsequent banishment are worth expounding upon. For those who don’t know Twinkle is a program available for the iPhone created by Tapulous. The program is both a […]
iPhone oddities : Bug 001
I discovered a rather odd bug today on my iPhone (running 2.0.2 and would assume it has been around since 1.1.3) that exists because of the ability to change home screens. The bug will result in a home screen like this: The steps to create this are: Open an application - doesn’t matter which one. […]
kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork: 302
After seeing this error popping up a lot while having issues with my internet connection dropping packets left and right I searched CFNetworkErrors.h for what the error code meant (since Google didn’t say much other than it appeared in 10.5.3). The line in question is: kCFErrorHTTPConnectionLost = 302, So if you get kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork: 302 errors, […]