@Fleagle there's nothing wrong with her skills here; she asks question in a forum, not naive, but hopeful, and doesn't take her husband's "glitch" story at his word. It's her husband that should take some classes, not necessarily computer ones. - Vincent van Wylick
admit it fellas. we've all used a tech excuse to fool the other half - Jamie
Every day, I find one more person who gives me a good solid reason for never getting married. Susan is today's lucky winner. - Amanda H.
I'm not quite sure what the point of this is? It seems that it works on your desktop to make it look like the iPhone version of google reader? why would i want to do that exactly? - David Adam
@ David: it transforms the default Google Reader into an iPhone friendly version. It actually competes with the official iPhone version of Google Reader. Maybe it could be better, I really don't know, I'll give it a try. - Dudu P
"Are you complaining? Here in Brazil, I consider myself a lucky bastard which can afford to pay 100 USD/Mo for a crappy 1200 kb/s, the top speed available around here, that never -- ever! -- reaches something near that." - Dudu P
"IBM has released a way to get Lotus Notes e-mail on your iPhone that stops short of full support, but gets the job done." - Baard Overgaard Hansen
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"If they are selling DRM-free MP3s now, why the hell they don't just let DRM users download MP3 versions of the songs they own!? Cheap-asses!" - Dudu P
"Well, it happens that I actually own an iMac and a Air, and they do match pretty well. But I'm waiting a lot more than aesthetics on this upcoming redesign." - Dudu P
It's not a native app but I use the friend feed web app at http://friendfeed.com/iphone. You can save it to your home screen using the plus at the bottom of safari. There's also fftgo (friend feed to go) at http://www.fftogo.com - Jon West
if you mean a friendfeed app that you can get on the app store there is no such thing. - Colide81 (James)
is really an app necessary? I mean, the iPhone version of friendfeed works so fine! - Dudu P
Have to agree with DuDu P. I'm not sure that an app is at all necessary. besides I don't think that there are enough FF users to justify the developement cost, especially when it would have to be a free app. I'm simply not willing to pay for an app when the webapp does the same for free. - Fox Tucker
"if you've been having trouble finding reception after losing it (say you go into a building and lose reception, but when you come out still no dice) try turning Airplane Mode on and off. This admittedly sad fix may just find you reception in a bind." - Jonathon
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to quote one of my favorite British sitcoms The IT Crowd: "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" - Josh
Yeah, I find my iPhone 3G sometimes goes on walkabout for Wi-Fi, too (not just 3G), and turning it on and off seems to do the trick. I'll try the Airplane Mode trick next time, though. It'd be a lot quicker. - Grey Drane
The very same on the 1st gen with Edge. It also helps with another cellphones. - Dudu P
I had to do this just a couple hours ago. 3G totally stopped responding. It said I was connected but couldn't get any data. I flipped airplane on/off and then it started working. - Grant Gochnauer
@Dudu -- are you saying this will work when I exit a subway on my 1st Gen, and it takes forever to find the signal? Lordy I hope so, that's been buggin me like mad. - Marko Bon
@Marko -- probably, give it a try. Sometimes my connection is sluggish, I just turn it on and off and it comes back as new. I think it might be related to cell tower authentication or something like this. - Dudu P
I hear netshare drains your battery faster than it can be charged. - Granteezy
@Granteezy: true for 3G connection. For Edge connections, it drains way less, but since regular computers are way data hungrier and run much more simultaneous tasks than a cellphone, this should be expected -- although it's a shame. - Dudu P
@Granteezy: that hasn't been my experience. The main issue is that you can't let the phone sleep, but if you charge it while connecting it works fine. It might also help to reduce the screen brightness significantly. Overall I think it a crude tethering approach, but better than nothing. - Jonathon
If this is true, it looks like even after push is enabled for desktop apps, Mail.app will still rely on polling. - Wes Justice
I can confirm this after trying it between 2 macs and a phone - the desktop side is not immediate, and there are no 'push' options in the .mobileme preferences pane. It's a shame because you can't just enter an appointment on a laptop and then close it without hitting sync without risking it not being uploaded before the machine goes to sleep. Entering on the phone or website works very well though. - Robin Barooah
Yeah, it's a disappointment for sure. Though if the info in that link is accurate, we'll soon have push functionality for iCal and Address Book on the desktop. Just not Mail, unfortunately. - Wes Justice
Maybe on a future update, they just released an 1.1 Mobile Me desktop update today, one day after the launch. It makes no sense to have the main app not having this (since iCal and Address Book are more like a 'slave' from Mail) - Dudu P
"Agreed. Go for a refurb, they come as great as a new one -- even better since they go for QA procedures all over again. New serial number and full warranty. You can't tell the difference between a new and a refurb once they are out of the box. I bought a 24" refurb iMac, it was my first refurb, and I'm amazed about it." - Dudu P
Not. I think it's kinda like the MacBook Air: it's the easiest laptop to open from Apple ever, but you'll still lose your warranty if you do so. - Dudu P
Yea I'm thinking easier access for support personnel, at best. I wouldn't be surprised, though, if 3rd parties whip out battery kits and who knows what else that consumers can use—at the cost of putting their warranty in danger. - David Chartier
I've had my heavily used iPhone for nearly a year now, and I have no desire or need for a replaceable battery. I understand the battery degrades over time, but is it really that big of an issue? - Granteezy
"Usually I don't like Jakob's articles because he's a champion in pointing his finger on bad examples, and *never* points to good practices and examples on how to do things the right way -- always easier to criticize... But I have to admit that he's quite right on this one: web marketers love to sell the idea of "spike traffic" as a measure of success, and this got to end. This "phenomenon" is something that bothers me a lot. To get an article on Digg's front page is the holy grail of search marketing, and because of this, we have tons of submitted content being thrown here. To our luck we have Kevin and the Digg crew fine tuning the algorithm and creating new features like the recommendation engine so we can face less web-makreting-prostitution-junk on Digg." - Dudu P
