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Brush It Off

After reading the article on Lifehacker about giving your iPhone a “brushed metal” makeover, I decided to try it myself. Now, I had previously done this same technique back when I had an iPod Photo, and it worked quite well (especially since I bought it off a friend, so it already had some wear to begin with). After getting some materials together, I was ready to start my brushing adventure!

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Make Google Notifier More “Push”-Like

I recently installed Prowl on my iPhone to receive push notification from, well, just about everything. One of the things that was excited was that I could setup a faux-Gmail Push System. After setting everything up, I noticed that the Google Notifier was only checking every 15 minutes (sometimes longer it seemed). After doing a little digging, I came across a forum post over at macosxhints. Luckily, it was quite easy to fix:

  1. While holding Command and Option down on the keyboard, select the Google Notifier Gmail icon and select preferences. This will generate a pop-up dialog.
  2. In the dialog box, enter AutocheckInterval as the key, and for the value enter 1 (for number of minutes to check).
  3. Hit set and you’re done!

After applying this fix, it’s just like having push Gmail (as long as my computer is on)! Thank you jonnygozy!

WordPress for iPhone

The WordPress for iPhone app is great! So far I’ve enjoyed using it with a couple of new blogs that I have setup (including my own). Having the ability to blog while on the to will help a lot with me actualy trying to get content on the web.

A few of the features I really like:

  • landscape mode: it’s a lot easier to type long lengths of text with the iPhone landscape keyboard
  • support for drafts (local and server based), this makes it very easy to start writing a post on my iPhone, then finishing it up on my desktop/laptop (I did that with this post)
  • photo uploading; it’s very easy to select photos and upload them along with a post. This will be very beneficial come next school year – I’ll be able to take pics at GAA events and post them instantly with a write-up of the event

Using this in combination with my desktop should make me quite the productive writer.

iPhone 3GS and OS 3.0 (and the Palm Pre, Too)

The new iPhone looks pretty cool, but it really is a minor upgrade. Besides the few hardware improvements, such as the increased processor and ram, as well as the new digital compass, not much has changed. If there is one feature that I would want from the 3GS, it’d be the digital compass, if not only for the new tomtom app that will be coming out later this summer (although, it should still work with the 3G).

I am very excited for the 3.0 release, though. Spotlight, the iCal updates, and copy-and-paste are my most anticipated features. Just over a week to go before I can update my iPhone!

Speaking of all of this cellphone stuff, I had the opportunity to play with a co-worker’s new Palm pre, and I’ve got to say that it is a pretty slick phone. Palm really is giving Apple some competiton, and I hope Apple brings a good plate back to the table. Favorite feature of the pre: unified contacts/calendar/mail.