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Sirius XM now in App store
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Hard Quit an App in iPhone 3.0
The problem with this is that other apps have less memory allocated to them, causing crashes, or, at the very least, freeze ups. In order to avoid this, I made heavy use of the "hard quit" ability when quitting apps like mobile Safari, the Mail app, and even the iPhone iPod app. In iPhone OS version 2.0 and above (I never had the previous versions), I would cause a hard quit of Safari by holding the "Home" button down for about six seconds. This caused the app to hard quit, thereby preventing it from using system memory when not in use. Indeed, prior to using this method, soft quitting Safari (i.e., pressing the Home button normally) still allowed the app to gobble up system memory, sometimes leaving only 3 or 4MBs of ram left for other apps. Hard quitting Safari recouped the memory it was stealing.
But now with the iPhone 3.0 OS, no noticeable improvement in memory management is to be found. In fact, this problem seems to be worse, where even when apps havent even been opened by me, system resources still seem to be pulling way too much memory and thus leaving only a scant amount of memory to run apps.
This is highly disappointing to me. I was even more shocked to learn that the old way of hard quitting by holding down the home button is now not available in this software update. Gasp! It appears that holding the home button of the iPhone is now reserved for voice activated dialing and contact search, if you have an iPhone 3GS. I have the iPhone 3G. Holding the home button down for six seconds does nothing now.
Luckily, a quick search on the web for "hard quit app on iPhone" presented me with an article that detailed a solution to how to perform a hard quit of an app in iPhone 3.0. Here's how:
1. Hold the sleep/wake button on the top of the iPhone until the "slide to power off" appears.
2. Release the sleep/wake button.
3. Hold the "home" button down for six seconds or until the app quits.
Voilà! That's how to perform a hard quit in the iPhone 3.0 OS update. Comment below and let us know how it works for you, and what do you think about the iphone software update.
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Perhaps we'll see an incarnation of the store in the future. Or maybe not.
Either way, it was a fantastic learning experience. Imaging owning a real business, and having to make real business connections and relationships. I had to learn how to contract with vendors, how to open business accounts, and manage lines of credit.
On top of that, I got real world experience in customer relations; giving people refunds and keeping current customers happy takes a lot of understanding. I'm grateful that I got this opportunity to be an internet business owner.
I'm grateful that the universe manifested its consciousness through me in this way. I am looking forward to the future.
Regards.
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BSG: Approaching the End
Many fans of the original BSG series done in the 1970's were a bit skeptical and reluctant to accept the myriad of changes that the new series introduced - including myself. But the underlying story was the same: the search for the meaning of our very existence amid the tragedies and struggles of daily life. I eventually became a convert of this new Battlestar Galactica.
Watching others deal with tragedy and struggle, even if in a fictional time and place, is easier than having to deal with those human experiences yourself. Easier, yet also instructive, inspirational, and definitely useful as a way to temporarily break from the real world. Temporarily. Battlstar Galactica provided its fans with a means of escape, if only for an hour a week.
While I am disappointed whenever a generally good show goes bye-bye, I must admit that the last two weeks of Battlestar Galactica have been pretty boring. The series is about to end and there is no "umph!" (or is it "oomph!"?) to get me to want to watch more. I'll watch the last two episodes next week (which will be presented as a single two-hour episode) because it's the end of a good show, not because the last few episodes have made me want to call the network to protest BSG's series cancellation.
There are still a bunch of questions about character backgrounds, story elements, and plot holes that need to be answered, as fans can attest to; four seasons worth of questions. Will the series finale be able to cram all these in during the final two hours? I hope so. I hope that Battlestar Galactica, the reimagined series, gets an appropriate send-off.
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kids paint is a web based drawing application for iPhone
Found a neat little iPhone app at the Apple Web Apps site called Kids Paint. Kids Paint lets you (or your kid) draw on your screen when you visit the online site. Might be a useful app to have for your kids to play with during an extended road trip.
Colors are picked randomly with every stroke. Delete screen by tapping with two fingers. Pinch/expand gestures on the iPhone screen evoke gradient background generation, again with randomly selected colors.
No saving enabled, but you can take a screen shot by holding the home button along with the power button for a second. The screen flashes and saves the screen image to the iPhone Photo app.
Also check out Simple Paint, by the same company. Same concept and web app, but you can choose your colors.
Print a file from your iPhone
Ok...I'm not a tech saavy guy. I'm a nurse and a retired psychotherapist. Interacting with people in a professional capacity is what I do. Spending my free time on the computer is a hobby.
Somehow I figured out a way to print documents from my iPhone to my printer on my desk.
You'll need an iPhone app that can send files and documents to specified destinations on the Mac. I'm using a great iPhone app called "Briefcase" by Hey Mac Software. You can browse files on your Mac and transfer them to your iPhone to take with you, like having a portable hard drive. It can also send a file back to any place on my desktop computer that I specify, like a folder specifically for receiving files from the iPhone.
You'll also need this script here which was written by a guy looking to solve a different problem than mine. I just took his idea and script and retro-fitted it to solve my own problem.
The idea is that a file housed on your iPhone is sent to a folder on your Mac's desktop that is programmed to automatically print whatever file is dropped into it. I don't use a PC, so I don't know how printing from an iPhone would work, but I imagine that there is a similar process for Windows users.
So, here's a way to print a file from your iPhone.
1. Create a folder on your desktop, and name it something like "Print from iPhone", for example.
2. Save the script found at the link above by running it in a script editor (Mac users have Apple's script editor on their systems) and then putting the saved file into the "File Actions" folder. There are specific instructions at the link to the script above. By the way, I changed the delay time shown in the script from "50" to "5" because for some reason the longer delay time caused repeated printing of the file.
3. Enable folder actions for your "Print from iPhone" folder. You can do this
by right clicking on the folder and choosing the option to run the print script.
Make sure your printer is on and send a file from the "Briefcase" app on your iPhone to the "Print from iPhone" folder on your desktop. The script attached to that folder should send the file you dropped into it to your desktop's default printer.
Give this a try, and let us know how it worked out for you.
