GameSetWatch - Interview: The Next Big Puzzle Game Wave? iPhone Accelerometer!

If I had time, I could play. Unfortunately, it will have to wait until May. Or thereafter.

Official Gmail Blog: Updates from Google Docs and Google Calendar

This is a really nice update, but I still wish I could just sync my iPhone's iCal with google calendar a little easier. With colours. It is a pain to use the web when I am not at home.

iPhone update

My phone has been Trekkified, but I can switch to a Galactica theme as well. You can create ringtones in iTunes, but it is imperitive to revert your iTunes back to the 7.4.0 version if you want to load them onto your phone successfully. I am still using 1.0.2 firmware for the phone, just don't see the need to upgrade at the moment!

Here is a description of the technique I used.

More iPhone Tips

So I finally got a phone account I can use iPhone with. The thing is, I wasn't too keen on upgrading my firmware, particularly since now 1.1.2 is out and I'm not clear on how easy it is to upgrade from 1.0.2 to 1.1.2 without bricking the thing. So, we decided to try anySim on 1.0.2 software. Worked like a charm, although once again reset the phone to displaying only 300 MB available. This time, to fix that problem we used Cyberduck to SSH in and remove the Media folders. There are some tricks on the net about renaming to Media.old etc etc. Well, that didn't work for me - in fact instead of saying 300 MB available I ended up with 1 GB available, because I actually had 6 GB of songs on my iPod already. I figured they were hidden in one of the folders on the phone. So, I simply deleted all Media folders (I couldn't find anyone else who'd done this so for anyone who finds this, it seems to work ok). Strangely, there was one called Media.iNdependence. This was the problem one - once I deleted I was back up to 7.2 GB available space. So there you have it.

iPhone Tip

Wondering why your iPod function sounds terrible? Go into your Settings --> iPod and disable the 'sound check' feature. I had a lot of static coming from my speakers and this really improved matters.