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From: Simon Dobbs on 9 Apr 2010 18:02 On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 22:55:57 +0100, zoara wrote (in article <936221979292517914.541424me18-privacy.net(a)news.individual.net>): > Simon Dobbs <simondobbs(a)froglet.net> wrote: >> On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 19:04:57 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote >> (in article <uf5sr5h9huiv04v2r8teol7ln94mmnecmf(a)4ax.com>): >> >>> Pretty neat stuff, to drop in Autumn: >>> >>> Vast array of 1500 new APIs. No Flash (surprise!). >>> >>> Multitasking is in across *recent* iPhoneOS devices - 3GS and Touch >>> 3rd gen and iPad. Not true (and simple) using-lots-of-memory >>> multitasking, but cunning API methods that give the same effect for >>> the user. Effort on the part of developers is required. >>> >>> Backgrounded audio apps can use the lockscreen audio controls. >>> Hurrah! >>> >>> VOIP. Eg Skype can use official VOIP APIs, and background during >>> calls, and send notifications to you, and *ring* at the lockscreen. >>> Yow. AT&T just keeled over with a heart attack. >>> >> >>> Cheers - Jaimie >>> >> >> etc etc. >> >> >> The thing I would like is very simple but would save lots of time and >> or >> battery. A simple button on the front screen which toggles between 3G >> and >> wireless networking, maybe bluetooth as well , so that one does not >> have to >> burrow through many menus before changing this when going away from >> wireless >> networks. I know their was once a way of doing this for jailbroken >> iphones, >> but it seems so obvious... > > Why would you want to do that? Serious question. Just battery life, or > something else? > > -z- > > > > I wondered if you could read.
From: Woody on 9 Apr 2010 18:26 zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > Simon Dobbs <simondobbs(a)froglet.net> wrote: > > The thing I would like is very simple but would save lots of time and or > > battery. A simple button on the front screen which toggles between 3G > > and wireless networking, maybe bluetooth as well , so that one does not > > have to burrow through many menus before changing this when going away > > from wireless networks. I know their was once a way of doing this for > > jailbroken iphones, but it seems so obvious... > > Why would you want to do that? Serious question. Just battery life, or > something else? The reason I have it is for when walking round. When i am walking round I will often read facebook or forums (or here). It is very irritating when you have written a reply, hit post and find your iPhone has decided to join one of those BTHomeHub in someones house. It can't post from it, but you can't stop it auto joining it, and then you have press home -> settings -> Wi-Fi -> Off -> Home -> back to application you are in, and hope it doesn't refresh and lose your stuff (as safari does). With SBSettings I swipe along the title bar, press the wifi button, press close and carry on as before. -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: Dorian Gray on 9 Apr 2010 20:34 In article <0001HW.C7E4DA0F01CA3926B02919BF(a)news.newshosting.com>, Simon Dobbs <simondobbs(a)froglet.net> wrote: > On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:29:31 +0100, Dorian Gray wrote > (in article <D.Gray-4EE137.11293109042010(a)nntp-serv.cam.ac.uk>): > > > After 2015 you won't need to worry about that - analog radio will be > > switched off in the UK by then, according to the Digital Economy Bill > > that was passed by parliament on Wednesday. > > I think he means the regular interference with the audio circuit in a home > radio- any loudspeaker amplifier system - by the iphone as it talks through > the cell phone network. Whatever home radio you use, this will still be a > problem. Ah, yes, if that's what he means (and he says in the other post that he does) then digital radio or analog will suffer the same. > Similarly, someone at work got their knickers in a real twist by putting a > mobile phone near a geiger tube connected to a counter and loudspeaker. The > counter went wild, espec when receiving/sending calls, and they harped on > about it giving off ionizing radiation etc etc. Priceless. > It took me to demonstrate the same effect with the geiger tube removed to > convince all that it is an electromagnetic interference effect in the audio > circuit, rather than ionizing radiation.
From: James Jolley on 9 Apr 2010 20:38 On 2010-04-09 20:15:15 +0100, Bruce Horrocks <07.013(a)scorecrow.com> said: > On 09/04/2010 12:52, James Jolley wrote: >> That's reasonable enough. VO will e fine then. I'm probably thinking >> more about how irritating it can be on the desktop and magnifying that. > > I'm sure the users of iAD will find a way for Voice Over TO SHOUT VERY > LOUDLY WHEN READING OUT THE ADVERT TEXT and then be too quiet to hear > when back on the application. > > (I hope that works in Voice Over) :-) Can imagine that. This email brought to you by.... No thanks.
From: Woody on 10 Apr 2010 06:52
Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > Simon Dobbs <simondobbs(a)froglet.net> wrote: > > > On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 19:04:57 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote > > (in article <uf5sr5h9huiv04v2r8teol7ln94mmnecmf(a)4ax.com>): > > > > > Pretty neat stuff, to drop in Autumn: > > > > > > Vast array of 1500 new APIs. No Flash (surprise!). > > > > > > Multitasking is in across *recent* iPhoneOS devices - 3GS and Touch > > > 3rd gen and iPad. Not true (and simple) using-lots-of-memory > > > multitasking, but cunning API methods that give the same effect for > > > the user. Effort on the part of developers is required. > > > > > > Backgrounded audio apps can use the lockscreen audio controls. Hurrah! > > > > > > VOIP. Eg Skype can use official VOIP APIs, and background during > > > calls, and send notifications to you, and *ring* at the lockscreen. > > > Yow. AT&T just keeled over with a heart attack. > > > > > > > The thing I would like is very simple but would save lots of time and or > > battery. A simple button on the front screen which toggles between 3G and > > wireless networking, maybe bluetooth as well , so that one does not have to > > burrow through many menus before changing this when going away from wireless > > networks. I know their was once a way of doing this for jailbroken iphones, > > but it seems so obvious... > > SBSettings, it is what I use on my jailbroken phone and it is why I > would be loathed to unjailbreak it again to upgrade unless I knew I > could get it back! And what do you know, OS4 is already jailbroken so I went and big fat stuck 4.0 on my phone anyway. And you know what, multitasking is way cleverer than I thought it would be. So clever in fact I didn't know it was doing it. And no, it isn't like the dashboard thing. -- Woody www.alienrat.com |