July 13, 2008
One of the features that was supposedly going to be in the new 2.0 software was mass deletion of emails and contacts within the iPhone interface. I’m sorry to say that only one of these two features showed up in the update. Went through Apple’s revised manuals for the iPhone and it has nothing on mass deletion of contacts within the iPhone but we do have success with the emails.
To delete/move multiple emails:
You can delete/move multiple emails by clicking the “Edit” button in the upper right hand corner (you must be in your mailbox for this). Select your emails and then either choose the “delete” option or “move” option at the bottom.
At least this has been address and I’ve used it quite a bit so far. Hopefully we’ll see the same for contacts and maybe, just maybe, copy and paste will find it’s way on the iPhone.
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July 11, 2008
After four hours of messing with my temporarily bricked iPhone, the 2.0 software was finally activated. After all this wait, it was a bit of a let down to turn on my iPhone and really not much has changed. You now have the App Store icon and the new scientific calculator but that’s about it. But I didn’t upgrade or get the iPhone for those, I wanted Direct Push/Pull for our systems Exchange server and it was a long time coming. Configuring it was very easy and I was ready to go within minutes. The only problem that I had was when I added the username (DOMAIN\username) and password, I was told it was incorrect. I didn’t bother troubleshooting it too much because went ahead and used the username along with active directory domain name (user@domain.com or user@domain.comanay.local). After that, all was well. My contacts and calendar synced without fail. It’s sure nice to have that functionality back again.
More thoughts to come as I play with this. Already found some apps that I just might have to purchase. My question is, how will those apps transfer to my 3G iPhone I’m getting next week?
Quick Add: Just installed the Pandora radio app. A must have for music lovers.
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July 11, 2008
Still can’t activate my iPhone and it’s been 2 and a half hours later. I’m watching Leo Leporte on twitlive.tv and I thinking I’m not the only one. The chat line is going crazy with people that can’t update. It looks like some can but they are the minority. It also sounds like the Apple/AT&T stores are sending people home with un-activated iPhones because they are having the same issues as the rest of us. My question is how long will it take? My bet is that I won’t be able to activate until after 12:00 MST (I’m in Colorado), at least. If the Apple/ATT&T stores are having issues, people like us, activating at home don’t stand much of a chance either. The office pool has started how much longer do you think you will wait until your iPhone becomes useful again?
3.17.09 - The question now is: will we have this same problem with the iPhone 3.0 update?
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July 11, 2008
It will be a week or so until my 3G iPhone
comes in but that’s no big deal because I am still able to update my current iPhone to the 2.0 software, or so I thought. Needless to say, the upgrade is going less than smoothly. First, I had to update all the apple software like the Apple updater and iTunes. After a few reboots, I was told that the 2.0 software is ready for me to download. Not so, because the iTunes store went down and for about 30 minutes or so, iTunes did not see the new 2.0 software. I was thinking, “OK, no big deal. Servers are probably overloaded with downloads.”
Eventually, I was able to download the update and upgrade my iPhone. Well, in theory that was supposed to happen. The update backed up my iPhone and reset it to factory defaults. It rebooted and I got the following error:
“We cold not complete your ITunes Store request. A secure network connection could not be established. Make sure SSL 3.0 or TLS 1.0 is enabled in the Internet Options control panel, then try again”.”
As I write this, my iPhone is only good for emergency calls. It’s not my system because SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 is enabled. I checked again and I’m being told the iTunes store is unavailable.
I would like to think that Apple would have been more prepared for this but so far, this upgrade has been far from the “it just works” statements I hear from the Apple fans. But this isn’t unusual in large launches like this. We saw this happen with Firefox as well when they were going for the record for most downloads in a 24 hour period and I should also know better but I really wanted to get this installed ASAP! Been waiting months for this and I had to have it now. Sometimes it hurts to be on the bleeding edge.
3.17.09 - The question now is: will we have this same problem with the iPhone 3.0 update?
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June 25, 2008
For all of you that attended my presentation at the TIE conference on open source content management systems, thank you for coming and for being a great/patient audience. Anyway, we were talking up Gimp quite a bit in the presentation and I stumbled on this web site and thought I would share it as a good resource if you trying to learn this power full and free program. Hope the rest of your conference goes well for you. Cheers!
http://creatingdrew.com/2008/06/10-great-sites-for-gimp-tutorials-and-guides/
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