Archive for the iPhone and iPod Category

Restoring iPhone Camera Roll via USB or SSH file copy

For those who hate that blasted peesashit iTunes and who wish to restore your photos and movies back into your jailbroken iPhone using straight file transfer, here is the trick to getting it done quickly and with a minimum of fuss. 1a) You can use SSH via Wifi if you don’t have that many photos [...]


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Windows Phone 7 and Microsoft’s future – too little, too late?

I have been quite excited about Windows Phone 7 since it was first leaked to press, and now with its release, I am frankly, quite disappointed with the outcome.  Virtually all the complaints leveled against the iPhone apply to Windows Phone 7 handsets as well! e.g. No multitasking, No Flash (and no Silverlight either!), crappy [...]


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Microsoft’s mobile device strategy – a suggestion

For Windows to have any chance of competing with Android and iOS, Microsoft should rethink their strategy on the tablet/slate form factor. Hardware-wise, the Asus EEE Pad proves that it is possible to run Win7 on a pad/slate. However there are two other important things that distinguish the slate experience from the desktop experience which [...]


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iPhone – Why you’re getting excessive data billing

I just realized tonight why my internet usage billing on the iPhone seems excessive compared to, say, when I was using my Nokia XpressMusic 5800. I’ve seen a lot of complaints on the internet about such incidents and contrary to what many are suspecting it is most probably NOT the telecom carrier’s sneakiness/dishonesty, nor is [...]


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iPhone Tip – Playing Audio only for Videos

The iPhone is a very nice device, but one of its many flaws are that it sucks up battery juice like there’s no tomorrow (which there literally won’t be if you don’t charge it every chance you get).  For someone who has lots of music videos and who may just want to listen to the [...]


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