I've taken ownership of my step daughters damaged iPhone 3G. A cracked screen and a missing power button is going to be expensive to put right. However, I may attempt a DIY job by purchasing the parts separately and trying to take it apart and repair myself.
There's obviously many tutorials available on the web and it looks reasonably straight forward, as long as there is a hair dryer available to melt the glue from the screen it seems….
Being away on business this week and stuck in a hotel with no Wifi I took the opportunity to enable Internet Tethering on my iPhone. However it’s taken o2 so long to enable that I’m almost done and ready to head home.
It would have been so useful to carry on developing and testing my latest iPhone App while stuck in the hotel room. The Apps reliance on an Internet connection to grab data from a particular site means I couldn’t do
any work on it without such a connection.
In terms of tethering itself, I do like the blue glow at the top of the iPhone screen and it works great over bluetooth with my MacBook Pro.
Due to unforeseen circumstances I couldn't get along to the much anticipated Apple Store opening in Eldon Square, Newcastle last week. I did however, finally get to take a look around today and perhaps the most striking part of the store is the huge Apple Logo that stands out as soon as you turn the corner into the new mall.
Every other store you see has their name showing, Apple simply don't need to do that.
I'm really pleased to finally have a store on my doorstep, i've had to drive many hundreds of miles previously when I've really wanted something quickly but I'm thankful that I'm not required to travel so far for my Apple addiction in future.
I've been meaning to post about this nice little feature for a whlie. I have a reasonable amount of movies that are stored within iPhoto but they are just scattered across the many photo albums and events and they prove difficult to see. I could never find a way of consolidating all those movies into a single view without actually pulling them out of iPhoto altogether and simply storing them in the Mac's Movies folder. I ideally want to keep them in iPhoto for it's tagging features….and I've recently found there just a way to do it.
By creating a smart album (File->New Smart Album) you can define a search criteria based on certain attributes within your iPhoto library, in the screenshot below for example, i've chosen to base my smart album on photo's that are of type movie, calling this particular album 'Videos'
Hitting the OK button after creating the search criteria will show all your videos under Albums section in the left hand pane of iPhoto. For something so simple to set up I can't believe it took me so long to find the option. Typical Apple style…
I'm planning to blog more and more through 2010 and if I'm to do that effectively then taking advantage of the iPhone is the way forward. I really like the idea of posting a quick thought or something I've found of interest while out and about and generally increasing my blog's overall content while I'm not near my Mac.
So for this very reason I've purchased and/or installed what is seen as the three best blogging Apps available from the App Store;
Being a WordPress user WordPress 2 would seem the most sensible choice and the big plus over the other two is that It's completely free, it's pretty solid too, allows moderation of comments, something the other two Apps don't do but..and it's an annoying but, any photos you add to your post are appended to the bottom of the post, there is no choice to move it anywhere else. I have heard that the developers are looking into improving the photo feature which I do look forward to.
BlogPress is a generally nice App from coollittlethings and reasonably priced at £1.79 at the time of writing. It doesn't have comment moderation but it does allow you to format your post more effectively than the WordPress App. I really like the Geo-Tagging feature, where it creates a link within your post to Google Maps, showing your current location, most useful if your visiting somewhere of interest and want to append it to the post. However, and this may only be specific to certain blogs but the three options you have with photo alignment just doesn't work well with my own WordPress theme (Modern Clix). I'm particularly fussy in terms of making every post layout the same where possible (photo first, then content) and no matter where I align the photo using BlogPress it doesn't come out right on screen, it's a disappointment as I favour this App over the other two. I do like the ability to post to flickr and your videos to youtube – very nice and something the other two Apps can't do and i'd love to use this App on a regular basis if it wasn't for the odd formatting.
iBlogger is certainly the most expensive App at the time of writing, £5.99 when I purhased it, but this particular App comes highly rated. Written by Illuminex, the makers of the Ecto blogging software, It has very similar features to BlogPress, including Geo-tagging your posts, in fact there is very little to tell the two apart, except the fact iBlogger doesn't allow multiple photo uploads in a post and doesn't pull back post tags that you already have setup on your site (and occasionally crashes) but in terms of how it formats the post it certainly works the best out of all three for me (as seen in this post here that used the iBlogger App). As stated, it is more expensive but it seems to be in active development. It does some extremely weird formatting of text if you have posted a photo but amending the html after posting and then re-submitting seems to do the trick.
There isn't one perfect mobile blogging application for the iPhone as yet. They all generally work well but all have their flaws. Out of the three i've tried and tested there is one i'll be using over the other two due to the fact it's final format once posted works well with this site, so future mobile content to macjasp.com will likely be posted courtesy of iBlogger for iPhone.
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