‘General’ Archives
Video for iPhone
One of the best features of the iPhone is its beautiful screen and video quality. But where do you find video files to play on your iPhone? The first choice would be to buy TV shows or movies from the iTunes Store. They have a fairly good selection of both, but it's not exhaustive. Unfortunately iTunes Store is not available to me, so I have [...]
iPhone Restore
I've been installing/removing apps everyday, and yesterday (4/20) something happened to my iPhone. I upgraded two apps, Sketches and Ringtones at the same time, and I was asked to reboot the iPhone. Once I did that, the touchscreen wasn't responding anymore, and I couldn't use it at all. I even tried calling my number, but it didn't ring. I [...]
How to access iPhone from Windows
Normally iTunes is used to transfer photos, music and video to the iPhone, it also synchronizes some other data (contacts, bookmarks, mail etc..) to your computer. However if you've jailbroken your iPhone, some applications will require to transfer other files directly to the iPhone. For example Books, iComic, weDict etc... Here are a few [...]
Camera.app problem
I recently encountered a problem with my Camera and Photo apps, so I thought I'd share it in case someone else has this same problem. Premise: I took more than 100 photos with my iPhone, so I wanted to copy them to my PC and delete them from the iPhone. Instead of deleting them one by one on the iPhone, I decided to do it on [...]
Google on iPhone
Google recently released their mobile version of many of their services, and they work very well on the iPhone. Gmail loads very quickly, and it contains all the feature you need. You can also view your Google Docs files, but not edit them. Unfortunately the calendar doesn't work here, not sure if it's blocked here or what. However there is [...]
Controlling your PC with your iPhone
Sometimes we would like to control our PC while we're away from it, and the iPhone can be useful in this regard. - Signal is a way for you to control your iTunes from the iPhone. You install a small program on your PC, then in your iPhone you surf to your PC's IP address and you will see an interface for your iTunes. You can play/stop tracks, [...]
Using GPRS on iPhone
It is possible to use GPRS on the iPhone for people living outside US. This is actually very simple to do: Go to Settings -> General -> Network -> EDGE and enter the corresponding APN/username/password. Each country/carrier might have a different one, so Google yours. For China it is 'cmnet' for APN, empty for the rest. Now I [...]
Upgrading to 1.1.4.
When I bought my iPhone, the firmware was 1.1.2., and I was using the StealthSim to unlock it. However I decided to upgrade it to 1.1.4. and unlock and jailbreak it again. The process was faily simple, here are the steps I took: - Before upgrading I synched the iPhone with iTunes, so that iTunes made a backup copy of my iPhone (it does this [...]
How to make ringtones for iPhone
The iPhone has many ringtones by default, but it's always useful to be able to assign a custom ringtone to a certain contact. There is an easy way to do this, you can click here to find out. To briefly summarize: - Get an mp3 file, cut a 30 seconds clip (using a free editor like Audacity) - Convert it to AAC (with iTunes) - Change the file [...]
New iPhone Section
I've decided to create a new section of this site, entirely dedicated to my iPhone. I've been spending a lot of time on this new device (too much according to my wife), and I have a lot of opinions and knowledge to share. Hopefully this will be useful to all new iPhone users as well. I'll try to modify the main page in the future, but for the [...]