Category: iPhone

• Child Friendly iPhone

  10.16.08 |iPhone| Permalink | Comments Off on Child Friendly iPhone

  One thing with the iPhone is that it is very children friendly. Imagine my children know where to find the games and can operate on their own. My youngest is only 4 and she can maneuver it. She is able to take pictures, remove pictures and view pictures by herself. I just show her once and she could do it.

  Ooh, my 4 year old can even call the papa using my iPhone without help. She did it when I was driving.

  I must give it to Apple team to create such a phone that is so easy to use with minimal tech knowledge. Before the iPhone I used to own another brand. To date, I still do not know how to dial a number using short cut key. The menu drives me crazy as most the functions are not categorized properly. There are so many layers.

  Too bad, now the purchase of the iPhone comes with a 2 year telco plan. If anyone knows which country is not offering a plan, I would want to get another one. Nah, it is not for my kid. Maybe for my mom who has no knowledge of IT whatsoever. It will be so cool.

  
  
  

• Vexed & Brain Tuner

  08.31.08 |Game, iPhone| Permalink | 1 Comment

  After upgrading my iPhone to the new 2.0 firmware, I am overwhelmed by the things I can do to my iPhone. iPhone is great because it is a music machine, a phone, a electronic book, a camera, a voice recorder and a game station.

  Talk about games, now app store has over 500 games for me to download. Obviously I have a bunch of free games that I downloaded and tested. Let me share some with you.

  Vexed:

  
  
  

  Vexed can be very addictive and it is an award winning game. The mission is to get rid of all the colored balls by putting the same colored balls together. It sounds easy right but of coz it has its difficulty. It is a good game to train you on problem solving skill. Sometimes it needs you to think outside the box in order to solve the puzzle.

  With the iPhone version, there is a “solve” button which allow you to see the answer of the puzzle. With that, you can proceed to the next puzzle and not get stuck. Very cool for a free game.

  Brain Tuner:

  

  Another additive game. The game is to see how fast you can identify a 20 or 100 correct math problems. All you have to do is to select wrong or right to the problems on screen. It is very challenging to break your own record. Of coz for any wrong answers, points will be deducted. My fastest time for a 20 math questions is 17 seconds that is less that 1 sec for each questions. Try it yourself and see whether you can beat my record.

• Upgraded to iPhone 2.0

  07.30.08 |iPhone, Technology| Permalink | 3 Comments

  
  
  

  Finally I upgrade my first generation iPhone to 2.0. With some tips from my friends, it was easily done. It took a mere 10 minutes but of coz the download of files and recovered back up data took longer. For those who want the crack version, you can look at iclarified site. Instructions are very detailed. Please backup before doing anything.

  How is the new version? Good and bad, let me talk about the bad. It is no longer installer.app but Cydia installer. I do not like Cydia as it does not allow me to add new source. You can only install apps that are there. Some claims that old apps will not be able to work on 2.0, another bad. I will miss my iZoo, iWoman, Bible Reader, weDict with pronunciation and others.

  The good, there are more new apps available. I have to install it through iTunes 7.7. There are a lot of free apps out there. For you to sign up to iTunes, you need an AppleID . The bad is when you register, it asks for your credit card or pay pal US account.

  Now it has a search in the contact lists which is good. It allows me connect to CISCO VPN which means I can download my company email when I am connected. And I finally got my ringtones of my favorite songs working.

  There is as far as I went for a night’s work. I will blog about this when I discovered more. Do let me know if you find any good apps out there.

• Edge/GPRS Data Plans

  06.19.08 |iPhone| Permalink | 2 Comments

  If you are like me who loves to surf with the iPhone and do not like to spend too much money, you can subscribe to a data plan or use free WiFi. So how much are those plans out there? I found out some useful info from Digi website on data plans for Digi and other competitors. You can pay RM66 monthly and surf all you want. Isn’t that great? Hrmm..better surf at home on my broadband and save some gas money.

  Stay at home is always the best.

  
  
  

• Half The Price

  06.10.08 |iPhone| Permalink | 6 Comments

  *Geram* *Geram* *Geram* *Frus* *Frus* *Frus*

  Today I received news from Apple that Apple will launched 3G iPhone on July 11th and half the price with twice as fast. What is Apple CEO doing? Basically he is going against the law of business. Now I wished the oil price follows this type of law, Steve’s law.

  Anyway, I am not upset at the price going half but twice as fast. It is making my first generation iPhone so cheap and non-sellable. Sigh.

  Let’s hope I can upgrade the firmware image to iPhone 2.0. I read that the beta version is hackable. The release version, I guess have to wait for it to release right before one can hack.

  What are the great features with new iPhone? Enterprise, SDK and New Features. Finally, you can use VPN to connect to your Enterprise network securely to access email, company applications and intranet. With SDK built in, you can even program Enterprise applications. New features are contact search, iWork, MSOffice interface for viewing Excel, Word doc & PowerPoint slides, bulk delete, save images, scientific calculator, parental controls and languages such as Chinese & Japanese. You can even write Chinese using a writable pad. Lastly it has 3G and GPS. WOW. It makes me want to get another one.

  It will be sold in 70 countries. So sad Malaysia is not one of them. The price…see for yourself.

  
  
  

• iBox Arrived

  05.01.08 |iPhone| Permalink | 3 Comments

  
  
  

  Yeap, it was my 16G iPhone that came all the way from US for me. The last one I got was from my hubby. You must be asking, why I liked iPhone so much. I can go on and on. So far, I have influenced a bunch of people to get iPhone. Apple should give me some commission.

  I like the Safari browser. It is superb, fast and zoom-able using your fingers. It has WiFi, I can surf at home without booting up my computer. I can sync my work meeting schedules onto my phone with ease. Now I get reminder from my phone on meetings. I need that because a few cases, I missed night telecons because I forgot all about it. It has iPod which is great for viewing video, music and sermons. I managed to copy some of my children video in my iPhone. Now I am trying ways to copy CSI series onto my iPhone which I can view when I am travelling.

  I can check my gmail whenever I am connected. I can either use WiFi or Digi Wap to download emails. By the way, there is a free VOIP software too which I haven’t tested out yet. With VOIP, you can dial anywhere in the world without worrying about expensive charges.

  Here are some of the tools I used:

  SimPort – Copy all my SIM contact to the iPhone.
  iZoo – My favorite game.
  eBooks & KJV – Electronic Bible.
  Dictionaries – Concise Britannica & Merriam Webster with pronunciation.
  Converter – Converts all kinds of measurements.
  iToner – Copy ringtones over.
  iTunes – Sync Office Outlook Calender & Mails.

  I am hunting for a WinXP Tool that I can copy files directly to the iPhone. With that, I can change ringtones, wallpaper and copy applications over. Believed me, iPhone is like a palm computer with a superb Mac OS.

  If you are an iPhone user, let me know what other good tools out there.. 😉

  
  

  

  
  

• iPhone: MMS

  04.09.08 |iPhone| Permalink | 3 Comments

  
  
  

  mom2Ashley left a comment here with regards to MMS. Here is what she asked:

  how about mms though? Can you send/receive mmses with your iphone?

  I read in order to use MMS feature, you have to install swirlyspace. I haven’t tried it yet but details are at this site: http://www.swirlyspace.com. Just add http://swirlyspace.com/SwirlySpace.xml to your source installer.

  Local Malaysia Telco Setting is as such:

  MMSC: http://172.16.74.100:10021/mmsc
  Proxy: 202.075.133.049:80
  APN: unet
  Username: maxis
  Password: wap

  MMSC: mms.digi.com.my/servlets/mms
  Proxy: 203.92.128.160
  APN: digimms
  Username: mms
  Password: mms
  Image Size: Low

  Let me know if you tried it and works.

• iPhone Edge Setting For Local Telco

  04.08.08 |iPhone| Permalink | 1 Comment

  Do you know you can set iPhone Edge to connect to your local Malaysia telco APN? With this feature, you can surf using your telco line. Beware of the cost associated with it. All you have to do is:

  
  
  

  Go to Setting -> General -> Network -> Edge

  For Digi, APN: diginet . Username and password is blank.
  For Maxis, APN: net Username: maxis Passoword: wap
  No sure about Celcom.

  If you have your email setup, your iPhone will use Edge to check incoming email if no WiFi available, every 15 minutes I think. If you do not want that, remember to turn Edge off. You will be charge every time you use Edge. I probably will use it on an urgent need basis.

  By the way, you can set iPhone to read Gmail or any other mail system with SMTP services. You need to setup the Mail setting on your iPhone.

  I cannot wait for my 16G iPhone to arrive, end of the month. It will come earlier as intended. By the way, I must give it to Apple. I made an order which was supposed to ship out this week, which they did. Apple upgraded my shipment to Fedex Express without any additional charge. Usually a Fedex express will cost US10. How cool is tat?

• iZoo

  04.03.08 |iPhone| Permalink | Comments Off on iZoo

  
  
  

  I am addicted to iZoo, a game that is similar to Bejeweled. Bejeweled was one of my favorite games to past time. I was looking for Bejeweled to install on the iPhone and I found iZoo. You can play iZoo without having any internet connection.

  Here is what you do to install it:

  1. Go to the Sources icon and select it.
  2. Go to Edit -> Add
  3. Key in this URL http://www.touchrepo.com/repo.xml
  4. Go to install and look for iZoo under Games category.
  5. Select iZoo and install.

  I was able to reach level 10, too bad it didn’t allow me to save my level. If you know any cool installers, please comment.

• Apple iPhone Arrived

  03.25.08 |iPhone, Technology| Permalink | 10 Comments

  Finally, the iPhone I ordered from apple store cost US399 arrived today. I got this for my husband as I wanted a 16G one. Mine will arrive sometime in May. However I am equally excited. Why? Because this is the first time I hacked the iPhone.

  Now it is pretty easy to unlock, jailbreak or activate the iPhone so that I can use it with the local telco. I have been waiting for iPhone to come to Malaysia for so long. I couldn’t wait any longer. As soon as I found out from my friend, it can be hacked using a software, I made a purchased.

  Here is the cool software:

  
  
  

  Yeap, tested and it works. There is cool software you can install in the iPhone if you know how. You can even use it as a game boy. Ok, I can go on and on about it forever but I shall not. It is late and I wanna snooze.

  P/S Everyone: Don’t let any sales ppl cheat you of your money, charging you a bundle to hack. By the way, it takes only 10 minutes to do it. Download and unzip, install on yr PC, hook yr phone and start it up, click the button on the software and it does the job.