1. The ability to hear messages from the phone and not speaker phone or headphones. Just for privacy concerns.
2. The ability to record greetings directly from the phone. If you don’t have access to a computer and you want to change or add a greeting, it would be a nice feature to have.
3. Pictures of your contacts. Either from your phone or if you could upload them to the site.
4. Ditch-Mail access (Toggle on or off). If you do not want to talk to someone you can send them directly to “ditchmail” from the phone. This would be awesome.
5. Push Notification (To let you know when you got a new message). You could easily enable sms notifications. However if you don’t wish to use your own text message account limit, push would be the ideal method.
If you have had problems after changing your monitor resolution this little thread from the apple discussion board might come in handy link. I have a GeForce 8400GS and after playing around with higher resolutions I was no longer able to see what was on my monitor. That is until I followed these “Blind” instructions on how to get to the dialog box to change the resolution to something more suitable. Scroll over to the last post by BSteely and follow everything to the letter. Trust me it works if you can see whats on your screen.
Update:
Actually when using dvi and not VGA this blue monitor thing does not happen and it changes smoothly. Update 2:
Using NVDarwin seems to work better than NVInject for some reason. But only when there is absolutely no other injects. That means on a fresh install.
The Youmail service Youmail link for those who do not know what it is, is a voicemail alternative for your cell phone or possibly your home phone. They provide rich features like customizable voice greetings for each of your contacts. It is a really cool service. They recently added an app to the iPhone app store. Soon as I received their email announcing it’s release I jumped on and downloaded it. Well…….. It works. But it’s lackluster on purpose. This is because its features and services are too similar to AT&T visual voicemail. Therefore when you get a voicemail no photo of the person will show. In addition to this when you play a voicemail it’s forced to play in speaker phone. What developer would do such a thing, haven’t they heard of privacy before. You can solve this by grabing some headphones but if you don’t have a pair with you expect your messages to be played aloud.
This is a major concern, if Youmail is to be taken seriously they need to address these matters soon. Also Apple needs to release the stranglehold on developers to create rich content for everyone to enjoy.
AT&T wont be able to support MMS till sometime later this summer. This is not good news, you would think that they would have worked this part out already in time for the 3.0 firmware release. Ahh well such is life.
My sister recently asked me where could she find an older 1st generation iPhone. She preferred this model more over the 3G model. I told her the best place to find an older version would be on eBay and thus the calamity begins. You wouldn’t believe how difficult it was to find legitimate iPhones on eBay. All we could find were cheap aftermarket unofficial knockoff facsimiles of iPhones. Sellers were boasting and proudly selling these knockoffs as though they were the authentic company. This is what we found when looking for iPhones eBay Link I asked this seller if this was an official iphone from apple because I was skeptical and that I felt the title was misleading people the seller responded by stating
I dont think it is misleading, it does not have Apple iPhone in the title. But is an iphone only difference between this one and an Apple is it doesnt have a GPS app.
meanwhile the pictures and descriptions were taken directly from the apple website. How could this not be misleading people. There is only one company which is able to sell a product named the iPhone and that’s apple. Linksys tried to make use the iPhone name prior to apple and then tried to sue apple for the rights of the name and lost. I just feel sorry for the person who purchased this item because I don’t think they know what they bought. Buyer beware.
UPDATE: eBay pulled the auction because they must have realized this guy was a scam artist link.
You would think sony would get it by now that it would need to keep up with the times and correct things which were wrong with the original PSP. Why o why in the world would they not make the PSP go touch screen. I mean you still have to peck at a virtual keypad to type. Why not move into the next gen like everyone else has guys. I like the idea of a smaller more casual version of the PSP, but Sony if you truly wish to capitalize now would have been the time. If this system came out with a touch screen it would have murdered both the iphone/ipod and Nintendo DS. Too late now Sony but maybe next time or version (Stop wasting peoples money).
After watching Microsoft’s Project Natal promotional video I began to think of possible concerns that might arise while playing games or movies. The potential of this is monumental and is a great leap forward in the future of gaming technological advancements. But when seeing this it almost screams first person shooter all over the place. But how could this sensor see small hand gestures such as pulling a trigger on an imaginary gun. It doesn’t appear feasible unless there is some hardware component that works in addition to the camera. Or quite possible holding your existing controller and using it as a gun while the sensor picks up on your movements. This seems like a step backwards, when the idea is to not use a controller at all. Maybe they might go the wii route and come out with FPS peripherals that work in conjunction with FPS games and project natal camera.
My next concern comes while watching the promo video where it depicts a couple watching movies and navigating through menus with their hands and also voice controlling the playback of the movie by saying “Play Movie”. I really do hope they sorted this out but how does it know when I am talking to the device or if I am talking to a person in the room? It seems like a big whoops if they didn’t work on that part. Unless it works similarly to how computer interaction is done in star trek. A geeky example from star trek is when someone wishes to locate someone else on the ship they simply give a touch the emblem on their uniform to initiate a response to the computer and they state “Computer” followed by command “Locate Captain”. This implementation would avoid massive confusion than if I were to casually ask a friend could you locate captain… and the computer would jump in and try to answer me.
Well I took a chance and did an update to see if the new apple update would crash my system. Voila it works, but not at first. It took 5 minutes to start after installing the updated then it shutdown with out booting. I didn’t panic I just waited and started the system up again and it’s back up to full functionality. So if you wasn’t sure if you should pull the plug and update its ok I was the guinea pig for you. ‘
UPDATE
The audio disappeared I have to try installing the drivers again.
UPDATE 2
Installed legacy drivers again and sound is back to normal.
Sony is back with a new handheld system which is really there old handheld system redesigned. They will call it the PSP Sidekick I mean the PSP Go and will officially reveal it at e3 this June. Of course nothing is ever revealed when it is suppose to be thanks to the internet. But maybe this was the plan to gain some hype in the hype machine before e3. Is this system a go or a no go. I for one think its very sleek and sexy but the analog still looks to be a problem once again, I mean they should just get rid of it. Come on do you see how close that thing is to the buttons. You would have to play all deformed to make use of that analog, they should just save some more space and rid us all of the half attempted analog nub. I see many PSP go’s on the floor because It wont looks like people wont be able to keep a good grip on the thing when using the analog nub. This is just me ranting I am still very anxious to get my hand on one and play around with it.
