Some thing I am growing to hate about mobile broadband is how crap it is on a train. I know why is it like this, but when a train boasts it has enhanced coverage like Virgin trains do and you find 90% of the time you have no signal or barely get GPRS you Gota wonder what it would be like without enhancement.
Well first post from the new Wordpress iPhone blogging app. Seems pretty slick.
There are a few more cool apps hitting the Apple appstore, the one that surprised me was the truphone VoIP app. All can be found with a quick search.
Something I noticed very quickly was how badly the battery can be hit by simple things on the iPhone 3G. Apple have a page of features that drain battery life, now problem is quite a few mean disabling features that you want to use like push email and wifi.
I did notice however that there are a couple that really make a huge difference, the first of these is using the GPS. You can turn it off by going to Settings > General and then turning it off as follows:
Then
Doing that when you don’t need the GPS will in effect double your battery life. Especially as the GPS will of very little use to you when your inside.
The other thing I’ve noticed that makes a big difference is tweaking the brightness settings, turning the general brightness down and turning off the auto brightness will help a lot. The screen on the iPhone 3G is a lot brighter than that off the old iPhone, side by side with the same settings it is pretty obvious.
Well I’m seriously considering ending my now 15 year relationship as a Vodafone customer.. Switching to O2 and getting another iphone 3G in August when my current Vodafone contract expires.
Looking at the Vodafone site I cannot find a price plan that can provide the level of data and minutes to match a iphone ones.
This kind of sportsman scum such take their punishment for using drugs, and stop whining and using legal arguments to get out of their rightful punishment. He admitted to using drugs which gave him an performance improvement, he is banned from the Olympics and to be perfectly honest he should stop dragging the sport through the shit and take the punishment metered out to him and live with the fact he cheated, he is being punished.
He uses the excuse that he served his ban 2 year ban, hell the whole punishment is still ongoing as far as anyone sane is concerned, his punishment includes the lifetime ban from the Olympics, he should just live with the fact he should never be allowed to compete. He is using legal argument to waste money and time of the sports governing body, personally if I was them I’d be making him take 20 drugs tests daily and disrupting him as much as possible. After all who is to say he is clean, he is probably using the latest drugs again like he did before that where not detectable… After all once a drug cheat always a drug cheat.
If I had may way he would have got a Lifetime ban from ALL SPORT, someone who cheats like that doesn’t deserve to allowed in sport. Hell he used banned drugs he should have spent some time in a prison.
Small oopsie today… Opened something I shouldn’t on the wrong machine, accidently opened while dropping into a bait VMWare session….. Ended up spending a good 40 mins cleaning up… It be a 0Day too so no virus scanner happens to find it..
Oh well, it has been sent off to the AV companies now…
Well after a day with it some more impressions.
App Store, there are a lot of things there that do the same thing and lots of useless apps.
There are some free apps, the best has got to be Apple Remote, which basically allows you to use your iPhone to control ‘paired’ iTunes installs, very handy.
AIM Chat, well the iphone needed a chat client shame with this it doesn’t have support for Jabber or anything remotely useful, I know no one that actually uses AIM or ICQ anymore for IM. Everyone is either Jabber (gtalk or straight jabber) or MSN.
There a a few games there which I’m seriously considering buying at least solitaire and maybe one or two others. There is talk of a wordpress blogging tool which will be nice…
Battery life well I’ve been trying to exercise this a bit, 3g is turned on and with push email going all day it has taken a hammering. The battery is half full and it came say 90% charged…
Some quirks, any restored mail account settings needed the passwords all reset so they would work properly. I’ve had that problem with the original 1st Gen iPhone before too.
I’m waiting on pwnage tool to be updated for the 2.0 firmware before I update my 1st iPhone to 2.0 as I’m using a vodafone sim in that.
Well it arrived, even though on Monday I never actually fully completed the order process, due to the busted O2 update site.
So I’m happy I didn’t have to camp an O2 shop to get my iphone upgrade.
So Exchange email, well it is awesome.. Just works.. It can be setup as fully push or on a schedule.
Cisco VPN client, well just works.. It is awesome..
WPA2 Enterprise, well this one I’ve been waiting for means I can finally switch back to it at home instead of the strange system it was before..
App Store haven’t tried it yet.
Battery life well we will see..
Well I’ve been busy putting together a bunch of Ruby versions of some tools we use at work, I’ve cleaned up the Google scripts for searching for emails within google. I’ve extended the tool into something that can pull from Yahoo! and MSN Live using their respective search APIs. These are not quite ready to be released as yet.
I’ve also put to get a DNS tool that goes through the DNS on a domain and gathers a bunch of information we use in the reports, so this is pretty much work specific. Pretty good exercise in playing with the Ruby port of the Perl Net-DNS module.
The other thing I’ve put together and will probably release is a Netcraft Module, it is similar in concept to the Perl one that you can find here but rewritten in Ruby and I think it is a little more elegant.
You can also have a play with the Ruby Netcraft module here. It is very basic but does what I need and I hope people find it useful.
Something I found today which is really handy is you can use the Google App Engine as your own little Content Delivery Network.
Having been playing a little with the Firebug Extension called YSlow that does the Yahoo! tests to see if a web site is optimized, I was looking at the whole CDN thing as I couldn’t get a decent score with it without it.
So looking around I found some Commercial CDN, an open source one or two, then I found a nice blog post about how to use Google App Engine to make your own CDN..
So bish bash boom, 10 mins later the Virus.Org CDN was born and serving off the virusdot.org domain which I already had registered within Google Apps.
