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Exploring iPhone 2.0: Wordpress app

Heini — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:26:29 +0000

After updating my iPhone to firmware 2.0, I’m now testing all the great apps in the App store. One app I ran into is the Wordpress app. In the description they’re promising me I will able to write posts from my iPhone.

Curious as I am, I want to test this. So here I am, writing a post about this app.

Writing a post is quite simple and intuitive, I’m even able to preview the post and to add pictures. I picked a random picture from my trip to New York last year. This picture should appear on the bottom of the post.

One thing I still run into is missing the ability to copy & paste. The is not caused by the Wordpress app, but a general iPhone shortcoming. I have no idea how in the world I could include links without writing them down and fully type them (mmm, this really sounds old-fashioned).

So far so good, now let’s publish this post to see what it actually looks like.

Updating iPhone to firmware 2.0

Heini — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:25:31 +0000

Since it’s my holiday I now have the time to upgrade my jailbreaked Iphone to software version 2.0. I’m always kind of anxious to do such an update, because I can’t imagine to have to miss my Iphone because of a wrong update.

I’m using the Pwnage Tool 2.0.1 tool for updating.

Let’s take a look at he process so far…

First I went to look for the best jailbreaking tool and found Pwnage. Downloading the tool and following the instructions, made me very curious…

The first attempt however went wrong. I got the message that my sim was not supported and could not ue my iPhone. The second try (and half an hour later) gave me the same result.

That’s when I start taking a real good look at the manual (read the f**cking manual) and found out that I forgot to press the [alt] key before restoring from iTunes. That did the trick.

Firmware 2.0 is now correctly installed and now I’m restoring all my music, meetings, contacts, etc. back to my iPhone.

I’ll keep you updated on my experiences with 2.0 and if something strange comes up.

Palringo introduces multiservice IM for Iphone

Heini — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:42:02 +0000

What of all us Iphone users were looking for quite some time now, is introduced by Palringo today; An Instant Messaging that handles multiple IM services.

“Palringo integrates with several existing popular instant-messaging (IM) services: AOL’s AIM, Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, Gadu Gadu, ICQ, Jabber and Windows Live Messenger. People can also use Palringo to contact their friends using iChat, Apple’s IM client.”