Iphone

This morning I discovered my jacket pocket will not hold my phone while I run around with the kids. The apple case didn’t help at all.

Pro tip. On the desktop we’re mostly limited to using iTunes for music playback (aside from streaming services). If you don’t like iTunes, good luck finding a better alternative. Thankfully the situation is different on an iOS device. Don’t like apple’s music app? Simply fire up the AppStore and download a 3rd party music player. I recommend checking out Ecoute, Track 8 , Groove 2.

Streaming Music Services VS an iTunes Addiction Music has been a huge part of my life for many years. I’m no longer a touring musician but I still play music as much as I can. Music is always playing in our house and I can’t imagine living life without it. Time has changed the way I listen to music a lot. I came of age in the era of the CD, but ever since I got my first iPod I’ve relied almost entirely on iTunes for my music consumption. At this point I’ve amassed a collection that would take 43 days to listen to. ...

My battery life has been absolutely terrible ever since I updated my iPhone 5 to iOS 6.0.1. Tonight I discovered it was because the brightness setting was set to the maximum after the update. Thinking this might’ve been some sort of fluke I checked my wife’s iPhone 4. Sure enough the brightness setting was maxed on hers too. If you’ve been having battery issues since the update you might want to double check this setting. ...

Reorganized the homescreen.

I too have been fiddling around with Bing for the past few weeks and have found it surprisingly good experience. The results seem just as good as Google’s and they look a lot more attractive and clutter free on the iPhone. Though oddly enough the desktop results seem a lot more cluttered on Bing than Google. I Switched to Bing on my iPhone and I kind of liked it

It did this without me dropping it. It was in my pocket and in an Incipio Feather case. I pulled it out to find it shattered all around the camera. Thankfully a few minutes at the Apple store and $29 later it was sporting a brand new back. As I thought about it on the train home it started to make more sense. Squaretrade sent me a refurbished replacement for my defective iPhone 4 a few months back. I was positive that their replacement used 3rd party glass for the front and the back. There was no oleophobic coating and fingerprints were extremely difficult to wipe off. Something also felt different about the glass. I put an oleophobic screen protector on the font. It scratches a lot more easily than the glass but it also only takes a swipe of the shirt to clean. There was no such solution for the back. Now that I have a true Apple back again, I realize what a big difference there e is. I really think the glass shattered because it was cheap knock off replacement part used by Squaretrade. ...

A couple weeks ago my iPhone developed a permanent vertical line down the right side of the screen. I have a Squaretrade extended warranty on the phone so I filed a claim. Squaretrade responded less than 12 hours later to request pictures. It is difficult to capture with a camera, but I did the best I could. I emailed Squaretrade these pictures at 9pm. The next morning I already had a response in my inbox saying my claim was approved and they would be overnighting a (refurbished) replacement phone. It was an incredibly easy process and Squaretrade was a pleasure to deal with. I also did not have to pay any form of deductible since it wasn’t considered accidental damage (i.e. cracked screen, phone in toilet). ...

Sure enough Gmail is live in the app store. Unfortunately its not an entirely native application. Most of it is a native wrapper for a web view of the mobile site. We get push notifications(except that their broken right now), address book integration, and the ability to attach photos, but the interface is a bit laggy and still won’t format an html email to fit the screen. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. Google usually releases products publicly before they’re ready and then slowly improves them. Link to the app store below. ...

This would make me quite happy if it’s true. Native gmail app for iPhone!!!