TimesToCome Mobile

What a shame they only built this one for the iPhone.

Converter converts angles, area, bits, currency, energy, temperature, time, length, speed, pressure, power, volume and weight.

Easy to use from your phone.

This is probably the thing I miss most about my old Palm and the one thing that held me back so long from buying an iPhone.  There is no way to store / read pdfs on the iPhone.

If you have an internet connection you can store a bunch of pdfs in a mailbox and then download each one and read it while you have an internet connection.  That was useless under edge and is only  a slightly better option on 3G.  It forgets where you are in the document each time.

So it was with great anticipation I downloaded and installed FileMagnet.  FileMagnet does what it says it does, it allows you to transfer pdfs (and other documents) to your iPhone and access them while offline.

What it doesn’t tell you is there is no landscape mode, or text mode, so you have to scroll back and forth through each line you read.  It also doesn’t remember where you are in the document.

So you can either store a pdf on your iPhone or read a pdf on your iPhone but not both.  At least not yet.

I’m still hoping Adobe will step up and fix this problem.

The new WordPress 2.6 broke my favorite mobile interface plugin. That is not good. So I was happy to see an iPhone Wordpress application.

The application lets you edit your most recent posts, create a new post, upload a photo to a post, and publish a post.

What is missing is the ability to delete a post, or edit a comment, or post a comment or approve or disapprove a pending comment. I’m hoping this shows up in future versions.

What the iPhone Wordpress application does, it does well. I’m hoping other iPhone WordPress applications will follow, or this one will get fleshed out more. Better yet would be a fix for the mobile interface plugin.

In the meantime we shall make do with what’s available.

I tried setting up email to use to blog from my cell phone with WordPress. While it worked effortlessly when I emailed from my desktop computer, all emails from my cell phone were placed in a ‘hold’ instead of being published. Posting by email does not handle images.

You can set up Flickr to push email posts to your WordPress blog as another alternative. But I think you’ll find the iPhone WordPress application does just fine.

Slashdot has a story on O2, Sprint and Boost Mobile allowing search engine spiders to crawl your messages. Any MMS messages that send the photo to the phone website are findable:

Google inurl:pictures.sprintpcs.com/share.do?invite= to see Sprint’s list.

So if it is private – don’t mms it!

Check to be sure your phone provider is blocking search engine spiders from making your mms searchable.

Heysan is a free chat client for MSN, AIM, ICQ, Yahoo and GTalk. It uses a web interface so you don’t have to download software on to your phone.

It works very well.

It also sends auto sends a message that you are using Heysan to anyone who IMs you and has advertising. It may or may not be a reasonable trade off depending on your needs. Also away messages are not supported at this time.

The mobile interface for the site can be found m.heysan.com.

It’s probably worth a bookmark and will do in a pinch, I’m not sure you want it for your main IM client.

After I bought the new iPhone I decided to keep the old one as a back up ipod.

I loaded up the leaked copy of 2.0, then erased it and put the official version on it, then wiped it and resynced it. Just because.

I found that even if I had wifi hooked up the phone would not let me reset up the email accounts in airplane mode. I kept getting “Cannot connect using SSL” errors. Turn off airplane mode to set up the email accounts, then you can swap it back to airplane mode on/ wifi on and all will be well.

If you have it in airplane mode it won’t keep searching for the ATT network and run down your battery on you. Plus you won’t keep getting the ‘activation’ error messages.

Don’t worry about wiping it. I totally wiped it and put the 2.0 software update on after I took that phone off the ATT phone plan and had no problems.

You can sync both the old and the new phone with the same computer. You might want to rename one of them. While syncing click on the name of the phone in the iTunes sidebar. It will let you erase the old name and enter a new name.

Purchased music can be loaded on both phones, you are allowed up to 5 devices including the computer where you store all your information.

Remember to reset time zone support [ Settings->Mail, Contacts, Calendar scroll all the way down ] to your time zone. My calendar appointments kept changing times. It drove me nuts for a couple of days till I stumbled upon that setting.

If an activation screen pops up on iTunes while synching your old phone, just select ‘cancel’.

I love it.

The new phone gets a signal in the house which the old one would not. That’s a huge plus.

We are at the edge of a 3G network. If I stand out back on one leg and face north I get 3G. Otherwise a short walk down the street puts me in 3G. What a difference it makes. In the city 3G is everywhere and that’s when I need it most, when I’m not home.

So far battery life is fine. It was rough the first day, but I was playing with the phone a lot. It was better the second day. Today it is fine. Remember it takes about a week to properly break in the cell phone batteries so that they will hold a full charge.

The screen is fine. It does not appear yellow to me. It is crisper and brighter. In a million folks I guess you just can’t please them all.

The form is nice, the old phone feels clunky in my hands now.

The apps will get better. It took Palm a while to get some good applications. Palm never did give us gps before they vanished. This phone has gps which opens a whole new world of cool application possibilities. Windows Mobile has some great applications for their phones. Ours will be coming.

I am synching the old phone and the new with the same computer. I did give the old one a different name ( click on the name when the phone is hooked into iTunes and it will let you edit the name ).

The calendars got a bit confused at first when I synced both phones. I deleted the events in the old phone and told iTunes to over write the old phone calendar with the computer copy. That straightened everything out.

If you put your old phone in airplane mode and turn on wifi it will quick whining about not being able to activate.

If you’ve gotten a new phone number don’t forget to add it to the ‘Do not call list’.

I’m still wishing for a pdf reader that will let me store several pdfs on the iPhone. Other’n that all is right and wonderful.

The anti-glare screen covers (Power Support anti-glare screens ) you can buy at the Apple store do a great job of masking fingerprints. It makes the phone much easier to read outdoors as well.

If your contact list is slow loading and slow responding to your taps, try removing the Google application and shutting off and restarting your phone. It worked for me.

Ok, so there is really a geeky girl hiding behind this forum who knows next to nothing about sports.

But I can tell you all the guys over at PPC Geeks are raving about this Sports application for your phone.

Scottymomo’s Pocket Sports Center is a free download for your Palm or WM phone. (see the bottom of the first post in the thread )

You can track your favorite sports scores, teams and it will auto update the scores for you. If you are a sports geek go check it out. The interface is well thought out and painless to use.