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TOTA - APPLE iPHONE & iPAD & Mobile News Thread PT1 (CLOSED) (pg. 32)
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| Orko |
| quote: | Originally posted by VERTiG0
Heh, charging every night. That's for iPhone and Blackberry owners. HEH. |
That is for anybody that wants to prolong the life of their lithium ion battery. |
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| Djsketchbag |
| quote: | Originally posted by UmmiE
There is one for chuck norris as well. |
it would be so awesome if your phone roundhouse kicked you every time u used one of his quotes |
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| Dr. Z |
| quote: | Originally posted by VERTiG0
Heh, charging every night. That's for iPhone and Blackberry owners. HEH. |
I dock it every night, so it automatically charges. Can't do anything about that. But, it'll go 6 days EZ just on edge. |
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| VERTiG0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orko
That is for anybody that wants to prolong the life of their lithium ion battery. |
I'm aware of this, I'm just being a dip. It's nice to have a 1500mAh battery though, but yeah, I never let it dip below 50% or so. |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by E2EK1EL
I just realize you just got burned from your own moronic actions. |
I'm well aware of the DBCache issue and have used both Flush It and CleanStart to deal with it.
Actually, this problem runs counter to your assertions about rebooting. The DBCache is stored in flash memory - that's nonvolatile memory that survives a reboot or power loss. That's why you have to use these add-ons to clear it - because it doesn't automatically get cleaned up on reboot. So there are actually three problems compounding each other here:
1. A free-for-all system cache that any application can tap into and that the OS doesn't really manage at all;
2. Applications that all think they're the biggest and baddest on the system and cache aggressively and carelessly and do not dispose of their resources when finished (what I mentioned earlier);
3. A cache that's stored in nonvolatile memory where it's not automatically cleared, without any built-in UI to monitor and/or clear it manually.
Frequent reboots can actually exacerbate the problem, which is why it seems to get worse and worse once it starts. New app instances just keep dumping the same data into an already-stale cache and the kernel has to go into overdrive trying to find something to free (and often failing, hence the random freezes and reboots).
In any event, it's clear that my specific problems are unrelated, because clearing the cache makes no difference. I'm guessing that they are at least partially related to the bluetooth on it because it especially likes to freeze or reset while I'm in the car or just getting in/out. Maybe the BT is just incidental and triggering some other bug lower in the OS. I don't know, I don't care, I'm tired of trying.
The point about getting a custom firmware without all the RealPlayer/QuickTour shovelware is well-taken and would probably help performance a bit, but for me that is too little too late. This Palm OS - and in my opinion, any OS which has to be rebooted more than a couple of times a year - is a throwback to the Windows 95 days when the only people who actually knew how to write stable operating systems were the Unix geeks, and there were almost no standards at all for applications.
I know that it's trickier to write software for mobiles because, well, I've done it, but the bar seems to have been set so low for so much of it and to me this is completely unacceptable. It's criminal what the likes of Apple and RIM charge for such shoddy software. I'll have to withhold comment on Palm until I see their new offering. |
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| E2EK1EL |
Main functions:
1. Filter incoming/outgoing calls and sms.
2. Support "black" and "white" lists.
3. Six block modes to reject the call.
4. Set a profile to change MCleaner filter policy quickly.
5. Scheduler mode for regular event.
6. Protect user's privacy by password and automatically move outgoing logs of blacklist to MCleaner's private log database.
7. Option to fake data when wrong password is input (and not null).
8. AutoReply to blocked calls using SMS .
9. Ability to block the hidden number.
10. You can define your own schedule, profile .etc.
11.Disable Sms Preview.
12.Out call accepted Vibrate;New blocked call/sms Vibrate.
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MUST HAVE! Great for those annoying telemarketing calls from the state of California & others, worldwide |
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| E2EK1EL |
TIKI TOWERS by Real Arcade
As physic-based puzzlers go, Tiki Towers is one of the best. It’s among my current favorites…” – AppCraver.com
“…the gameplay proved both engaging and challenging from the start. The overall graphics and cute monkey animations give the game a nice feel of polish.” – TouchArcade.com
*** Nominated for "Best Casual Game" - 5th Annual International Mobile Game Awards ***
Save the monkeys! Only you can lead them to safety in this fun new puzzle game featuring construction, destruction, problem solving, and monkeys!
Travel between five tropical islands leading your tribe of monkeys to safety by building bridges and towers out of bamboo, coconuts, and vines. If you're not careful, your structures will collapse and your monkeys will perish.
Clear all the levels to acquire the ceremonial masks of an ancient tribe and discover their mythical lost treasure. Tiki Towers is action and puzzle gaming at its best!
* 5 different islands and 45 challenging levels
* Build bridges and towers using bamboo, coconuts and vines
* Realistic physics - bamboo structures will bend, break, and collide with the environment
Monkeying around has never been more fun!
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Recommended for fans of physics-based puzzle games such as: World of Goo, Enigmo, and Fantastic Contraption.
Support for English, French, German, Italian and Spanish
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HOOKED like CRACK! Don't like playing that many games ... but, after trying this out, i can't sleep @ night |
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| E2EK1EL |
Apple Owns 51% of Mobile Web… And Growing!
According to Admob (via TUAW), Apple’s share of the mobile Web is big and might just be getting bigger:
Worldwide requests from Apple devices grew 28% month over month to 1.2 billion in January. Building on its strong December, iPod Touch growth outpaced iPhone growth in top markets. The iPod Touch now represents 40% of Apple requests, up from 20% in September.
People like great mobile browsers that can handle HTML, CSS, and AJAX, who’d have thunk it?
Of course, competing devices from Nokia, Palm, and Google, are beginning to use Apple’s WebKit in browsers of their own, Firefox keeps threatening to push their mobile Fennec client to release status, and RIM is inching the Bold towards usability, so can Apple and the iPhone/Safari team maintain their leading edge?
http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/0...le-web-growing/ |
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| E2EK1EL |
Apple Sez iPhone Jailbreaking is Illegal
It is a sad day for our Jailbreak Pirate, so sad that he is even sporting a frown today. Apple has finally, after a full year plus, publicly came out saying that Jailbreaking the iPhone that you paid for is illegal. Does this mean the FBI will be knocking on Rene’s door to lock him up for Jailbreaking publicly over the internet???
[No, I'm Canadian, so all I have to fear is the red surge of the Mounties - Rene]
Read more after the break!
Apple states that Jailbreaking is a copyright infringement and is in clear violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The US Copyright Office has a rule-making session that occurs every three years for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. This is also where exemption requests can be filed. Well it seems the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed an exemption request for Jailbreaking iPhones. Apple has now responded to this request. You can see the complete filing here in this PDF file. If you don’t feel like reading all of that here is the important part:
Jailbreaking therefore involves infringing uses of the bootloader and OS, the copyrighted works that are protected by the TPMs being circumvented. Unauthorized derivative versions of the bootloader and OS have been created. Copies of those infringing works have been stored on web sites, and infringing reproductions of those works are created each time they are downloaded through Pwnage Tool and loaded onto the iPhone.33 In addition, as discussed in Section II.B.2 above, the jailbroken OS enables pirated copies of Apple copyrighted content and other third party content such as games and applications to play on the iPhone, resulting in further infringing uses of copyrighted works and diminished incentive to create those works in the first place. In sum, the jailbreaking of the iPhone that would be permitted by the proposed Class #1 exemption in 5A and 11A would result in infringing uses of copyrighted works. It would involve the creation, distribution, and copying of unauthorized modified versions of the bootloader and OS, and it would facilitate and encourage the making, distribution, and use of infringing copies of copyrighted material such as games and applications, owned by both Apple and third parties, that run only on jailbroken phones. The proposed exemption therefore does not satisfy the fundamental prerequisite of the statute that it aid “noninfringing uses” of copyrighted works and should be rejected.
It goes on and on but hopefully you get the idea. So what do you think? Will Apple now go after the Dev Team for their Jailbreaking software, QuickPWN and PWNage Tool? Lawyers will be the ones handling this one and it should be interesting to pay close attention to this.
http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/0...egal/#more-7116 |
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| Dr. Z |
| quote: | Originally posted by E2EK1EL
Apple Sez iPhone Jailbreaking is Illegal
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How convenient.
Ignore jailbreaking for a year so you can drive your phone sales up, and when you saturate the market make jailbreaking illegal, so you milk the owners through services. |
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| dEsidEL |
how does Apple expect to reasonably enforce this? what if the DevTeam just moves their servers and content to some country outside of US copyright law jurisdiction like Sweden or something?
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| DigiNut |
Stupid move from Apple IMO. I don't think a lot of people would have ever bought their iPhones if not for jailbreaking. It's almost as if they don't like having any significant market share and are determined to knock it down.
A little bit ironic too, considering that most of their OS is just a patchwork of other open-source code. I'll bet that large swaths of the pieces they're claiming copyright infringement over are already violations of the GPL. |
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