With all the things wrong, or that have been complained about the iPad, the community can most likely be able to fix or come up with work arounds. This can be done by the same people who have come up with solutions for the iphone and ipod touch. It is clear that apple just wanted to make a glorified ebook reader. But in their efforts to do so they ended up making it too powerful to be just this. It wants to be much more. So hopefully Apple can see these complaints and make changes soon. Rival the Kindle DX? Yeah I would rather buy this than that because it does more for almost the same amount of money.
Multitasking.
Backgrounder has been doing this job for a long time now. Now with more battery to play with you can have applications running in the background for longer than before. But less than 10 hours.
Camera.
I’m certain that a camera add on can be made. This can attach to the docking port to allow video conferencing capabilities. We know that Fring was waiting on apple to make a front facing camera. There latest update makes use of the iphone camera. So we know its definitely possible.
Hulu?
The Lack of flash makes this option not possible. Hulu would make this a killer device. Perhaps they do not want the network to be clogged with people streaming video. But face it this is the time we are living in. The demand is needed therefore the business should adjust to it. Not the other way around. What ever happened to supply vs demand. If Hulu re-encodes there video much like youtube has done then im sure this will sell more device. It could be that apple only wishes for people to use their store to buy tv shows. But why buy them when I can just see them for free on my TV or Computer.
BTStack.
This hack made it possible to use a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard. Why not use that instead of an ugly docking station. Keep selling us things that we already own or we can re purpose things we already own in a more useful manner.
I have encountered a few issues trying to get OSX 10.6 installed on my Dell Vostro but mainly because of the ICH9 chipset causing a panic on start up. This is why most tutorials find it best to use a thumb drive or flash drive to get past any errors in installation. Unfortunately once you get past installation you will still need to be able to boot from that drive without it going into panic.
I grabbed a 250GB drive and installed it into HDD enclosure. I created the partitions I needed in the mac Disk Utility for each partition I wanted to have an install for. The size of which is just enough to hold the image. The remaining space is free for utilities or other files.
To start I did a restore of both my 10.5.6 and my 10.6 images to their respective partitions. Then I patched the drive with EP45UD3P.dmg so I can pick and choose the partition to load on startup. There is an excellent lifehacker guide that you should use as a frame for this guide. After your restore is completed run the file you downloaded and pick the leopard install partition. This will be recognized as a USB Mass storage device instead of a SATA HDD which will allow you to boot with no panic. Boot into your 10.6 partition on the external drive and install Snow Leopard to the same external HDD. Make sure you make space for the OS to intall. Please note that some Dell Vostro users reported success switching from IDE to RAID when their drives are not detected. Some cases not all.
What you will need
1. Hard Drive (Space will vary based on your needs)
2. Copies of each OS you will use
3. Partitions (Based on how many OS you want)
4. HDD enclosure. (For booting HDD when you want to do installs)
5. Time to spare.
UPDATE
This is only partially working. It will boot fine but then it will freeze after a few minutes and shutoff. I dont know if this is happening to others. I will see if I can work around this.
UPDATE 2
Ok I have it fully functional now from the USB Drive as I am posting this update from snow leopard. What I did differently this time was I installed it directly on top of an existing OS X install opposed to a fresh install. Next I will take this out of the enclosure an put it back in the dell to see if it will boot with out usb.
UPDATE 3
Ok none of my SATA drives are being detected. Causes Panic when connected without usb enclosure.
Have you been using your unlocked iPhone on tmobile hoping to save some of your dollars on data useage. Did you run from your first months AT&T bill to another carrier in order to avoid expensive rates. Well it looks like tmobile is not allowing unlocked iPhone users to connect with their inexpensive data services. While trying to browse I get this splash page telling me that I cannot connect using this plan and that I will need another plan to access data.
Why should tmobile care what phone I use on their services. Tmobile is a service provider and I paid for service that I can no longer use. Tmobile never has and from my knowledge never will begin to manufacture phones. So they should continue to be just that, a service provider. It’s interesting that when I call they always ask what phone are you using, when they already know.
Update:
It appears that when you remove the data settings from the iPhone and reenter them without guest as username and password it works again. Strange very strange.
I got my iPhone 3G S yesterday and of course I had to open it up and risk destroying it on day one. Well it all turned out very easy since the process has become extremely simplified. One word of caution before you begin the process. It would be wise to make your own back up for now if you know how to ssh into the phone. Copy your contacts and your sms and save it for later to restore back when your complete. When your finished jailbreaking don’t restore from back up. Setting your iphone as a new phone will prevent some small 3g bugs. Its better to start fresh anyway, trust me I wasted much time so let me save you some time here. Then ssh back and your message and contacts will be back the way it was. In the video I am comparing it to my 3G as you can see nothing changed in size. Overall in my opinion the “S” for speed is true. It loads everything significantly faster than previously. Especially cydia which started to take an eternity to load. And this is with all my repos back.
I was very eager to update my iPhone 3G to the latest 3.0 firmware. With this new firmware they would unleash a2dp upon the earth; they will finally allow us iPhone users to enjoy wireless music bliss. So I didn’t hesitate to purchase new wireless bluetooth stereo phones. So I ordered a pair on eBay. I ordered a pair of Motorola S9 headphones. I did some research and read good reviews about these as they didn’t look to geeky plus they are stylish and very popular. To my dismay after I paired it up with the iPhone 3G I noticed I could not change tracks backwards or forward. I could only pause and change the volume but that’s it. Why is this? Apparently not all a2dp headphones are 100% compatible with the iPhone 3G. I am hearing from others having this exact same issue with their headphones. This is from apple’s own discussion board. How on earth are cheaper cell phones on the market capable of handling a2dp with no issues but when apple allows it they do not work completely. If anyone would be able to get this perfect it would be apple. Unless they did a rush job and did not test bluetooth headphones. If by any chance apple somehow comes out with special Apple iPhone bluetooth headphones I will be very upset. If somehow their headphones work perfect but others do not will be strange and suspect. Is anyone else having these issues with other types of stereo bluetooth headphones if so please speak out. At least there can be some type of compatibility list so people can know what to buy and what not to buy, seeing as how these things are expensive and apple didn’t specify not all headphones would work.
Update:
As stated in the comments it’s not a2dp to be blamed because it does indeed stream music but it’s the avrcp profile that is not fully implemented. However it is foolish for apple to release this knowing that these two profiles go hand and hand. We all known how long it takes apple to release new firmware updates. Should we keep waiting and for how long?
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.
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.
