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Canvassing GPS track
My replacement iPhone arrived yesterday so I was able to put into use an idea that I had. I use an application on it called Trails which I was going to use to track last nights canvassing. Well here is the result on a screenshot from Google Earth. Unfortunately Google currently don’t have high resolution [...]
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At long last the iPhone has copy and paste
The latest iPhone firmware upgrade has been released today. At long last it has copy and paste as well as a few other much needed bits and pieces. Can now send and receive MMS messages Can now forward SMS and MMS messages! Spotlight search feature Landscape typing for Apple Apps Can now stream video and [...]
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Number one thing I don’t use my iPhone for
I’ve never used it as a music player! I shoved a few songs onto it when I got it first but I can’t remember the last time I fired up the iPod feature. And I have no idea what happened to the headphones that came with it. Lucas probably hid them somewhere I suspect. Probably [...]
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Spiffy iPhone App
Ever heard a song on the radio, television or wherever and wondered what it was and by whom? Yesterday I was poking about the Apple app store just to see if there was anything new of interest there. I came across Shazam and figured I would give it a whirl. It claims to recognise any [...]
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Something is definitely wrong when…
I’ve just been going over my MP3 collection and decided to listen to the rather brilliant album ‘Trailer Park’ by Beth Orton. When listening to the album and most notably the song ‘Sugar Boy’ for the first time in years all I could think of was Quake II!! For some beserk reason I was listening [...]
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Want to know where I am at any given time?
I’ve been playing around with my iPhone and installing various bits and pieces of software on it. The built in GPS is a great novelty feature and I found a lovely free app on the iTunes store that will plot my current location on Google Maps. The service is called instamapper and they seem to [...]