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MacRumors iPhone Blog: Apple Forces Removal of ‘Free Memory’ Functionality From iPhone Applications While third parties are limited from developing background applications for the iPhone, Apple allows their applications such as the iPod, Safari, and Mail applications to continue to run. After prolonged use, these background applications may take up most of the memory (RAM)…

Right now I carry a monstrous 5d ii with 3-4 lenses (24-105, 16-34, 100-400, 50 f1.4 for available light). But there is a big gap between a 3mp iPhone and 25 pounds of 21mp gear. What’s in between is finally getting filled in with micro 4/3 and high end compacts. The ideal is a point…

Given exchange isn’t reliable on calendar how can I use can iPhone, blackberry, iCal on mac, outlook on pc against googles backend mail, contacts and calendar. First off since last year google has done all the work to allow exchange replacement. It is a mess to figure out and I’m sure there r many bugs.…

WikiAnswers – What is the meaning of the idiom ‘on cloud 9’ According to the “Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins,” the phrase is based on U.S. Weather Service terminology. This theory holds that cloud types are numbered, and that “cloud nine” is the designation given to “cumulonimbus” clouds, the highest-flying clouds around, making…

Richard told me about Joseph Campbell and I just love this quote… Joseph Campbell: We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has…

If you like paying 7 cents a minute or less on Nobelcom from the US, life gets even better here are the access numbers: Melbourne (0+3)9001-8642 Vancouver (1+604)484-2664 $0.02 SINGAPORE 001-800-662-35623 HONG KONG National (3)973-3766 Hong Kong Toll Free 800-966-567

Some more cool places I forgot from last trip Lac Thai. Terrific Thai food. Get up to the third floor. Take your shoes off. Make sure to have the soup as the main course. Ciao. Coffee shop. Again the third floor is really comfortable. Across from Sun Wha Quan an ngon. Amazing traditional Vietnamese food.…

From the last trip to Ho Chi Minh City, always like to collect a list of conveniences and places to get things. It’s amazing what a few queries can produce. Anyway first some random facts on connections from Seattle. Best flight in terms of time is for an afternoon flight BTW if you are concerned…

Time once again for the annual review of calling overseas. Let’s pick a random example country and see how low the rates can go. For instance, if you want to call a Vietnam cell phone, what are the costs From US to Vietnam Cellular If have a mobile phone and sign up for AT&T World…

There are so many units out there and iLounge doesn’t spend much time reviewing these days as the market has stabilized, so what are the best systems out there for sound: Boston Acoutics Horizon Duo-i as a clock radio Logitech lead for a while with the discontinued Anywhere High-Performance (A) which beat the Bose Soundeck…

After spending a week listening for 8 hours a day to channel 16, I can’t help but wonder about the origin of the various strange terms. Why is French the language of the maritime trade for instance. Anyway, for all those classic things you here, what do they really mean? Out. You should normally never…

Wow there r so many. Apple is truly creating an amaIng franchirse. When u get yours here are the top 5 new apps I love and the top 5 I use over and over. 1. Cardstar. This let’s u put all your loyalty cards into your iPhone and it generate scanablr bar codes on your…

Putting aside policy issues and so forth, what a great time to get rid of that really unreliable, expensive to maintain, battery eating,  gas guzzling Volvo 850 and get something light and efficient. Here are some choices like the Nissan Cube and maybe some others. Reviews coming! Or if you really want to get off…

OK, I’ve tried a zillion headphones. From Shures to JVC to everything highly reviewed. I’m still back to the Etymotic ER-4P. Lost these on the plane and got them back. Main reason besides the amazing sound is that they really fit. The Shures are a semi-isolating. You get 10dB of silencing. The ER-4P really fit…

Thanks to twitter of all places, here are some great quotes and other things that suite my mood right now on this glorious early summer morning 🙂 Anais Nin (1903-1977) “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new…

Strange problem with iPhone 8.0, when I press on the slideshow button for an event, nothing happens, then when I click again, the screen goes blank like it is trying to do a slideshow and then returns to the main iPhoto screen. Nothing on the web on how to fix, but feels like either the…

Forecast for Ballenas Island.

It is so frustrating that Exchange is always forgetting recurring appointments. Every month it seems like I land on top of another board meeting that has “disappeared” from Exchange. Of course it has been happening regularly for 15 years now, so why should I complain. Maybe I’ll use Google 🙂

If you want the ultimate in geekdom, get the Vex Robotis kits. They are expensive, but a good deal if you know you love making robots. The part numbers that are the best deals are: VEX-CLASS-1. This is the complete kit that gives you remote control and also a microcontroller so you can program the…

What a great place to come. Herr are some notes but it is a terrific hour from Seattle Kenmore Air. They fly nonstop from their Kenmore site. Don’t go to Lake Union! But it is just 1:15 to Nanaimo at the center of Vancouver Island. The 9AM departure is very convenient as is the 2:15…

iPhoneCodes – iphone-elite – List of codes found in CommCenter – Project Hosting on Google Code Any command can be preceded by *#, ** or ##. *# is INTERROGATION.** is SETUP.## is CANCEL / DELETE. *#5005*78283# This dumps a baseband log in /Library/Logs/Baseband/ – Note 1**5005*78283# This dumps a baseband log in /Library/Logs/Baseband/ – Note…

This thing really works. Karaoke on your iPHone. I’m actually amazing by how nice the application is. TuneWiki for iPhone and iPod Touch | TuneWiki Tunewiki is the first media player ever to combine music, videos, community and legal lyrics for free! In this document we will guide you through all the screens and features…

Wow, hack around a little. You can now twist your fingers and move from tab to tab in Firefox. How nerdy!

And it went amazingly smoothly, I got my 3GS in 15 minutes at the Apple store. They are getting really good at fulfillment! 9 to 5 Mac | Apple Intelligence On this year’s launch day, iPhone sales exceeded sales recorded on 2008’s iPhone launch day, Black Friday 2008 and Dec. 26, 2008 — all heavy-volume…

Wow, this would be great news if true but it says that Apple is going to adopt the Micro-USB connector for charging and this is part of the an EU agreement. I sure hope this is true, having a standard cable really would solve lots of problems.

Where does iTunes store the IPSW files that is the atual IPhone SoftWare? On a Mac/Users/username/Library/Application Support/iTunes/iPod Firmware On Windows XP%Userprofile%\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunes\iPhone Software Updates On Windows Vista%UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\iTunes\iPod Software Updates

Get it while it lasts 🙂

Fun things for the summer: Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0. While NXTs were fun, the new versions are amazing, the new sensor can detect colors and laso you can load images and sounds into the robots memory so it can talk and show picture. The new hardward has 3 servo motors, an ultrasonic proximity sensor, two…

One of the more unobvious commands. Option Entourage and rebuild the database when you get a Microsoft Sync crash… Mactopia Product Forums: Entourage > When I upgraded to Microsoft Office 2008, I turned on Microsoft Sync /> Services to sync my Entourage calendar and Contacts with iCal and /> Address Book. It worked fine until…

Here are some that are useful tools if you ever want to create your own puzzle book or want to have a treasure hunt with clues: Boggle Solver. Find all words in a scramble of letters. This is the essence of Boggle.  Acrostic Poems. These are fun puzzles and this helps you put the words…