Hi all, I would like to announce that I am going to move to a new domain, weuseiphone.com and more focus on optimizing the use of an iphone. There will be apps/games review as well as guides and informations to ease up certain task. I hope you can join me there as soon as I get the site up and running.
If you open up App Store on your iPhone, you should see an update for Ping! is available. As you might have heard or read about this update, the “new” feature regarding the ability to send a picture is actually appear to be an optional feature, available as an in-app purchase. The good news is that it is priced at $0.99, so I think it’s totally worth it.
I have tried sending images to a few of my friends and all was successful.
This update also provide you with a buddy list, though I prefer the list should displayed the contact’s linked name instead of the nickname. It also runs more stable as I have not had any crashes anymore. So go and grab your update now.
So here it is, the new magic mouse by Apple, as always, the case is simple in design.
Inside, you’ll find the mouse, a quick start guide (located under the mouse) and a brief instructions if you flip the case.
Just by chance, I decided to open the battery cover and found that the battery was installed in the opposite way (really strange), so I have to say, please check it before you turn it on. (the picture taken below is after the battery was placed correctly)
Ok, now for my impression on the mouse, first of all, the slimness of the mouse doesn’t matter at all, it works great, you turn it on both the mouse and mac’s bluetooth, then choose “Set up bluetooth device”, the select a mouse, it’s done, the mouse is connected for your use, but as Apple has mentioned, the mouse will only work in Leopard 10.5.8 or Snow Leopard and do a software update to download the required files.
Once completed, you will be prompted to restart your mac, after that, you can go to “System Preferences” – “Mouse” to configure the settings.
I really like the scrolling, though the two finger swipe needs a little get used to and screen zooming should re-render the display better, it’s blurry so I don’t really find it useful at all (I’m not sure if you can see what I meant by the picture below).
I think if you own newer MacBook that already has a multitouch trackpad (that can do 2-4 finger navigations), I don’t feel the “magic” in the magic mouse, I miss out the 4 finger gesture to activate expose / desktop the most, so when I use the magic mouse, I have to set my screen corner back for it. I don’t think the magic mouse is needed / meant for newer / latest MacBook (Pro), it is more for iMac’s mouse replacement, to get to know how great it is to have a multitouch trackpad just like on the MacBook (Pro).
Recently, wordpress app got updated to version 2.0 (which come as a surprised that it also appear as a whole different/separate app in iTunes App Store, just like tweetie 2, wonder why but who cares, it’s a free app anyway). It still has the same icon (i think) and named as only Wordpress underneath (instead of wordpress 2), why does it have to be a different app then? Anyway the splash screen will tell you that it is version 2.0.
Here’s one bug that I consider minor, when you want to write new post, the screen should be like this
But if you view any of your previous posts, the new post screen will still hangs on to the last viewed post’s title (as shown below)
And all navigation will reflect on that title as well
Other than this one bug, I also experience few crashes while switching between blogs and viewing comments (I also like how the comments are grouped together when viewed from inside a post) but hey, it’s a new release app, there’s going to be a couple of updates or more to fix it and adding new features (such as replying to a comment within the app? come on, wordpress on blackberry already has it on their latest beta version).
Just before I went to bed, I plug my iPhone to my macbook and a little habit of mine pressing check for update gets a surprising result, the iPhone OS 3.1.2 is available for download.
Here’s the list of fixes:
I experience the “not wake from sleep” on my iPhone 3G and my wife’s 3G[s] gets a few “intermittent issue of missing cellular network services” (usually have to “Reset Network Settings”)
I’m glad the update is here to fix these issues, so get yours now …
I prefer the “Status Update” as the default feed when I open up facebook. From within the app, you won’t be able to set it as default and I don’t see any options to set it. You need to open facebook.com from your desktop/laptop and on the left side, you will have a list similar as shown below.
Next, click “More” at the bottom and you can rearrange the list as you like, where as the top of the list will be your default “News Feed” in facebook 3.0 app on iphone (for this purpose, I had moved the “Status Update” to the top).
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