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January 31, 2011
Apple iPhone/iPad/iPod Remote Tips

The free Remote app and the inexpensive Keynote Remote app are both stable and fast, assuming you’ve got them working on your network. Many folks have had difficulty getting past the authorization screens of both iTunes and Keynote (and any other iPhone-to-app sync programs like Delicious Library), even when meeting the requirement that the host computer and the iPhone are on the same network (NB: I use iPhone, iPad, and iPod interchangeably with respect to the remote-control apps). There are a few rules to follow to ensure they work:

  1. If iTunes, Keynote, or any other program running on the Mac asks you to allow incoming connections, click “Allow.”
  2. Your Mac must be on the same LAN (wired or wireless or both) as the iPhone.
  3. Your router’s firewall must not filter WAN NAT redirection.
  4. If you use a third-party firewall on your Mac like Little Snitch, ensure that the firewall rules permit the Keynote, iTunes, and other remotely-controlled or synced apps are permitted to communicate with the local network (both the default method (IPv4) and the local network/IPv6 (yup, IPv6)).

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June 24, 2010
iOS 4 on my iPhone 3G

I jailbroke it. Of course. I need my iBlacklist, Apple. Aside from the new directory structure that I’ll be scouring over the next few days, there were a few things I like about the new software:

  1. The UI is snappier. Apps and screens respond faster with rare jitter.
  2. The ‘folder’ concept makes short work of getting to apps. Fewer touches = good.
  3. Geolocation appears to be faster.
  4. Photo storage is much compressed from the 3.x OS series.

A few things (there are more) that I don’t like:

  1. Can’t (by normal means) set the background of the non-lock screen.
  2. I’m not a fan of some of the new widgets, like the geolocation ‘arrow’ (which used to be more like a compass sans the arrow, since my device has no compass and the arrow within would be a tease).
  3. The universal email inbox. I use IMAP with MobileMe but send mail as a different user, which requires me to set up a separate email account in the Mail app that uses a different outgoing mail server. It results in duplication of messages so I only look at the account from which I send the mail. It’s not an iPhone problem, it’s a MobileMe problem, or lack of a “feature,” but annoying.

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