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From: nospam on 31 Jan 2010 19:26 In article <860168959286676040.776876jim_glidewell-yahoo.com(a)eternal-september.org>, Jim Glidewell <jim_glidewell(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > That leave backups and OS upgrades. To the best of my knowledge, there > is no way to do those things today for an iPhone or touch with a Mac or > PC running iTunes. itunes makes a backup when you sync, and firmware upgrades are also done via itunes.
From: Tom Stiller on 31 Jan 2010 20:40 In article <hk51le$6fv$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: > JF Mezei wrote: > > Whether the lighted background (as opposed to paper which reflects > > light) is good for reading so much text, I don't know. But the ability > > High contrast is good for readability. > > But I find that playing solitaire or reading e-mail in the dark, i.e., > my wife is trying to sleep, tends to give me some ocular discomfort. > > Changing brightness/contrast would prevent that, but it's just enough > screen-switching to make me not want top bother. Would be great if > the iPad had easy access to settings as a pop-up, instead of going back > to the top level and navigating down to them. According to the tech specs on Apple's website, it has an ambient light sensor. -- Tom Stiller PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF
From: Steve Hix on 31 Jan 2010 21:34 In article <860168959286676040.776876jim_glidewell-yahoo.com(a)eternal-september.org> , Jim Glidewell <jim_glidewell(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > Sorry - by "sync" I mean all the stuff that happens when I press the > "Sync" button in iTunes. This includes media syncing from the Mac and > backup. My contacts, etc. don't sync through iTunes. Because you turned them off, not because it's not possible to do in iTunes, right? I mean, there's this entry in the iTunes help: "Syncing contacts, calendars, notes, bookmarks, and email account settings with iPhone". The which makes be feel a bit more confident that my memory isn't playing me false, since I recall syncing them through iTunes recently.
From: BreadWithSpam on 31 Jan 2010 23:57 Jim Glidewell <jim_glidewell(a)yahoo.com> writes: > But backup to me.com does sound like a reasonable option - just not one > that is available today for Mobile OS X devices. Actually, quite a bit of important stuff gets backed nicely that way (calendar, contacts, etc). Plus if you use apps that deal with off-phone data, you're good to go there, too - dropbox, iDisk, Evernote, etc. -- Plain Bread alone for e-mail, thanks. The rest gets trashed. Are you posting responses that are easy for others to follow? http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting
From: John McWilliams on 1 Feb 2010 01:06
Wes Groleau wrote: > John McWilliams wrote: >> convenient.... Even moreso Amazon. It's frighteningly easy to order >> stuff online from them. > > I'll say! Ordered a textbook from aLibris. Day or two later, an e-mail > from Amazon thanked me for ordering something else. (Presumably fraud, > as the actual item wanted was also acknowledged by aLibris.) I've seen a fair number of phishing bits "for" Amazon and eBay, none "from" Craigslist, though. -- John McWilliams |