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Well I installed iOS 4.0.1 on my iPhone 4 and it sure did change how my bars are displayed. In fact, I don’t have any bars but instead the “Searching…” status message. I let my phone sit for 10 minutes and it only went away after two hard reboots.
Anyone else experience this?
One another note, I do like the new way bars are displayed. It seem to me that Apple was displaying the lower bars too small compared to other phone on the market.
So far my iOS 4 experience on my iPhone 4 has been very good. There are however a few bugs that have cropped up.
The first major bug is with sending email with Gmail configured to use Exchange/ActiveSync. With this problem any emails that originate from outside Mail, such as emailing a photo, get stuck in the outbox until you manually go in an click send on each individuality. This goes not happen when it is configured to use IMAP.
The next bug is in Photos or the camera roll which will occasionally displays images misaligned with the screen or just a plain black background (it should be white). The picture below should show the images in your camera roll tiled on the screen but instead it is just black.
There has been a lot of hype and hubbub around the Apple iPhone 4’s new “retina” display. Apple claims that at 326 pixels per inch the human eye is unable to differentiate the pixels from one foot away. Raymond Soneira, president of DisplayMate Technologies, refutes Apple’s claim.
Whether it technically is a “retina” display or not, after looking at a side-by-side comparison of the iPhone 3G S and the iPhone 4, it is pretty clear that the new display on the iPhone 4 is an impressive improvement.
Click to see high resolution version. Photos from Robert Scoble under (cc) license.
In this review I will be focusing on the cloud synchronization services: Dropbox, SugarSync, and SpiderOak. All of these services allow you to synchronize files between a group of computers over the internet.
The most hyped of these services and the one I have the most experience with. I have used Dropbox to sync my school files between a netbook and my main desktop at home for the past two semesters and it has been rock solid. I have had absolutely no issues with Dropbox in this time.
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SugarSync offers the most features of any of these services at an affordable price. Is my favorite of the group but has one major handicap.
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This is a newly discovered service I have been testing out because of my problems with SugarSync.
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Overall I like Dropbox for its simplicity and robustness but I can not justify the price until versions 0.8 and 0.9 are rolled out in the next year. SugarSync is the service I would probably have settled on until I noticed the speed issues. SpiderOak is nice but I would like to see a lower pricing tier. It also is backup services first and a synchronization service second.
I will for now continue to use Dropbox to synchronize my working files while I rely on JungleDisk for backing up other data.
In this tech tip, I show you how to easily install multiple applications on a Windows PC.
In this Tech Tip, I show you how to use the inline Dictionary keyboard shortcut in OS X.
In this Tech Tip, I should you how to use the file path save dialog found in most (if not all) OS X applications.
Recently I have been watching a lot of streaming video streamed by the CDN Bitgravity. I however have been having an issue with the video shuddering every few minutes. Whether this is caused by my computer, my internal network, or more likely Comcast, it tends to get annoying.
After some searching a found an option in the VLC preference pane to increase the streaming cache (buffer).
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