I’m creating an office locator. I have several offices that are
located on an Air Force Base. For some reason, when I generate the
Google map link, and click on the link with the iPhone, the
descriptive text is incorrect on the iPhone’s built in map
application.
Here is an example link:
[link]
This might be a really stupid question but … I trap the Enter &
Return keys to pass a search item from a form using this javascript
function
function submitenter(event)
{
var keycode;
if (window.event) keycode = window.event.keyCode;
else if (e) keycode = e.which;
else return true;
if (keycode == 13) // ASCI keycode id for enter & return
Just off of the reviewing the original Jawbone bluetooth headset comes its sequel: The Jawbone…2. This headset takes what made the original so great and takes it to the next level in terms of size. Does this headset live up to its older brother? Or will its smaller size make it less competitive? What makes this bluetooth headset so great its the noise canceling technology; it is truly remarkable. Let’s start off with the basics though, shall we?
I really enjoy the Jawbone packaging. Black mixed with clear plastic. It not only looks good, but professional and very trendy. Be warned however, once disassembled, it is near impossible to reassemble. You are then left with many small compartments that once housed the phone. I am still trying to determine what to do with all of the sub-components… but I digress.
The headset has three molded ear pieces. This is a couple less than the previous model, but these are actually way more comfortable and are simple circles of varying sizes and thickness. You also receive four ear rungs to place over your ear. There is nothing in the instruction book, but I think these are optional, more on that later. The AC adapter for the Jawbone is very compact and it allows for the 2 prongs to recess into the adapter body, saving you some potential space.
This headset is slightly smaller than your average bluetooth headset and is crafted with great build quality. This headset feels just as sturdy as the previous model, but smaller. One of my complaints with the previous model was that, though efficient, it was rather large. You no longer have to worry about people staring at you as you walk done the street with this headset on your ear.
The plastic is solid, molded into two halves to form the headset. There is still the clear plastic sensor towards the mouthpiece that must rest against your cheek.
The Jawbone is very light and is snug in your ear. The three ear molds do an excellent job of fitting in your ear. The additional ear rungs also allow you to adjust the fit accordingly. Interesting to note that two of the ear rungs are wrapped in leather and two are not. I happen to like the leather wrappings, it makes the ear rung thicker and more comfortable.
I do not have any problems with the headset staying in my ear as I did with the previous model. The combination of the redesigned ear pieces and ear rungs make for a snug fit that I do not feel will fall off my ear and is comfortable. So comfortable in fact, I removed the ear rung to see if it was possible to use it without. Sure enough, it is! This way, it is held in place by placing the headset in your ear a-la the Apple bluetooth headset. Having said this however, There were a couple of times where the headset has popped out. The same thing happens with the Apple device, just be careful.
The only issue I had with this device from a “fit” perspective is this; I was laying in bed on my back looking at the ceiling, calling a friend of mine. My friend kept saying he could not hear me. This is odd because the noise cancellation is where this headset excels. I thought about it for a second and I realized that the instruction book specifically says that the clear plastic sensor must be touching your cheek at all times. Lying on my back, the headset had drifted away from my cheek. So, unlike a traditional bluetooth headset, you have to make sure the Jawbone is touching your cheek. Though not annoying or uncomfortable, it is limiting the means in which you can talk.
Exceptional. The technology used is called “Noise Assassin” as Jawbone has coined it. This is how it works:
The device has a sensor that rests against your cheek. This tells the headset what your voice is. When it sends the voice signal to the phone to get processed, in essence, anything that is NOT your voice gets filtered out. Pretty amazing stuff, huh. I have driven with the window down and even tried calling a friend with the lawnmower going. People on the other end hear just a little background noise… just a little, but nothing to tip them off that you are driving or mowing the lawn. The only real issue is for you, the wearer. You see, there comes a point when the noise is too loud for you to hear anything… the Jawbone does a great job of automatically increasing the volume, but there does come a point where it is frivolous. Just be aware of this and use some common sense in noisy areas.
The Jawbone gets over 4 hours of talk time and almost 10 days of standby time. That may seem like a lot, but they are the extremes. For most phones, the 4 hours of talk time might even eclipse the talk time of their phones. I am packing an iPhone and that only covers about half of the time I need. Realistically, I don’t talk that long on a daily basis on my phone, so this is a minor gripe since I charge the headset almost daily when I am using it.
This is one awesome headset. Not the smallest out there, but not the biggest either, it sure looks good though. But it also does what few other headsets can do; eliminate background noise. I think your next headset purchase might have just been made.
Not so fast New Zealand, turns out some NDA/do-not-open violating Portuguese iPhone-luster got his or her hands on the first iPhone 3G! (outside of Steve Jobs and Walt Mossberg, ‘natch!) Apple Store insider? Carrier higher-up? Who knows — and who cares — we just want the pics! (Actually, we just want the iPhone 3G ourselves!
Check out the photos via the read link, if the Portuguese interwebs don’t come crashing to their knees under the load…
Among the features we’d hoped to see in iPhone 2.0 that we didn’t: Photo Speed Dial. Sure, there’s a nasty hack to get photo speed dial by adding web shortcuts to your homescreen, but it’s not very convenient and the photos are very small. TechAU managed to have one of those moment where they think of something that we all should have: Contact Coverflow. We like it because, well, the Coverflow framework is already on the iPhone (you’ve seen it in the iPod app) and can be utilized by other jailbroken apps — as witnessed in the jailbreak app AppFlow.
We wish we’d thought of this first. Actually, we wish Apple had thought of this first. iPhone 2.1 anybody?
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I’m only trying to help other people to get free iPhones, and don’t worry its 100% legal!
This is it. We’re in the home stretch. Games in overtime, the shot clock is almost done, and Steve Jobs is soaring from mid-court looking for the slam dunk. In 3 days we find out if Apple brings down the net, the two-peat for smartphone (even gadget) championship, or if they bounce it off the rim (pun sorta intended) with their mostly evolutionary, not so much revolutionary, next generation handset.
Saturday we mentioned one big change: the fast 3G data chip. Sunday it was GPS. Monday we tackled the 2.0 Firmware update. Today we’re looking at the rebirth of .Mac: MobileMe.
Note: .Mac users have been able to send to username@me.com for a few days already, and as of yesterday, July 7, could both send and receive using me.com. (Just tried it out and it works!)
Now word comes that, to accommodate New Zealand, which due to their time zone gets the iPhone 3G way before anyone else, Apple has announced that it’s really not 3 days to MobileMe — just one! That’s right, MobileMe goes live on Wednesday, July 9 between 6pm and 12am PST. Mark your calendars, then get ready to “push” sync them!
Why should you want to? Read on after the break!
iTools made its debut at Macworld 2000, way before the iPhone, and before OS X as well. Originally free, it became the subscription based .Mac in 2002. The first version of .Mac included IMAP email, web hosting, iDisk, Backup, and… er… iCards. Small tweaks were made over the years, including increases to iDisk storage (currently starting at 10GB), syncing Mac applications like Mail, Address Book, iCal, Safari bookmarks, Keychain passwords, Dock, Dashboard Widgets, etc. between multiple Macs, an AJAX web 2.0 interface for .Mac Mail, Galleries with iPhoto/Aperture photo and iMovie video integration, and Back to My Mac for easy remote file and screen sharing between laptops and desktops, work, home, and travel.
While the $99 price tag (discounted if you bought it with a new Mac, or from online retailers like Amazon) was stiff for some, there were arguable benefits for people with multiple Mac, but not much for iPhone users aside from an email account they could get for free form Yahoo!, Google, and many others. Indeed, the industry in general felt .Mac had fallen badly behind the times. Even Steve Jobs conceded the service had been neglected, and promised to do better.
And do better they have! (Well, except for the name…) At WWDC 2008, Apple VP of Marketing, Phil Schiller announced the all new, all better, .Mac replacement: MobileMe, and dubbed it “Exchange for the Rest of Us.”
Exchange, of course, is Microsoft’s business solution, which the iPhone also supports via ActiveSync. Exchange, through proprietary technology’s requiring an Exchange Sever, “pushes” updates to email, contact lists, and calendar events to desktop clients like Outlook on Windows and Entourage on the Mac, and to scads of mobile devices, including Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Palm Treo, etc.
Unlike traditional services, which “pull” data at user-definable intervals (i.e., manual, every 5 min. every 10 min., every hour, etc.) and are only updated during those server checks, “push” immediately sends anything arriving on the server. So, if you “pull” email at 12:00, an email arrives at 12:03, and you only “pull” that email again at 12:10, you only receive that email at 12:10 (7 minutes after it arrives). With “push”, you wouldn’t check the server at all, the email would arrive at 12:03 and instantly alert you it was there. (Whether you need precise, per second email, and whether you want to be alerted constantly, on demand, without pause or respite, is up to you).
MobileMe provides this very same service to any subscriber. Push email. Push contacts. Push calendar. Someone sends you an email, it pops right up on your iPhone. Change a contact on your iPhone, the MobileMe website will instantly update it as well. Delete an appointment on your PC, it will immediately be removed from your iPhone. All your data, synced instantly, all the time.
Add to that some SproutCore powered eye candy in the form of lush, desktop-class but web-based online applications (similar to how Google Gmail, gCal, etc. work), integrated with the same Gallery photo and video features of .Mac, and topped off with a web-accessible iDisk, all available not only to Windows users but Mac users as well (even Linux/Unix/etc. users via Web standard browsers), with the same special multiple-Mac sync and Back to My Mac bonuses for Apple faithful, and you have one tremendously powerful offering fully on par with the best of Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft. (Albeit at the same $99 price!)
Still curious about how it looks and how it drives? Check out Apple’s online Guided Tour.
I’m a .Mac user, so I’ll be getting MobileMe for sure. What about you?
(1) In iTunes, these DRM protected songs cant be burned to mp3 CD disc, however, you can burn them to audio CD, and then use an audio ripper to rip the tracks from the CD. It may be a waste of CD discs when you have plenty of songs which need to be converted.
(2) Use the program named Noteburner . It has won the award of top DRM removing tool and the third place of audio converter by Top Ten Reviews, please refer to Audio Converter by Top Ten Review. Noteburner will install a virtual CD burner on your computer, what you need to do is just to set it as default CD burner in iTunes. Open iTunes, operate by Edit –> Preference –> Advanced –> burning, and set Noteburn Virtual CD_RW as your CD burner. If you want to preserve the tags information, including artist, song title, album name, track number etc, you need to check the option include CD text. Not only m4p files can be converted, but also audio book in m4p format or AA format can be converted to mp3 in iTunes with Noteburner virtual CD burner.
So you can finish all the jobs as the first method within this software and save many CD discs, and it is more convenient than carrying heavy discs..
Noteburner can also remove the DRM protection of wma audio files. In this case, you need to use Noteburner with Windows media player, and what you need to do is the same as in iTunes.
If you need MAC OS version, please visit Tune4MAC website
(3) Use the program named Notecable . This program can also convert DRM protected iTunes songs and wma audio files. It works as a virtual sound card recording audio streams in background. The advantage of Notecable is that its very easy to use. Click add button to add the files you need to convert, click settings button to choose output format, bitrate, output folder, then click convert button to start conversion. If you want convert at a faster speed, you can click settings button and adjust the convert acceleration bar.
(4) Use the program named Tunebite. It records the sounds with a real audio device, however, you need to import lame.exe to convert the files to mp3 files.
(1) Download Any DVD Converter Professional from this website and install it. Below is the interface of the program.
DVD and the video formats below can be converted by this program.
If you want to convert any video files and DVD to movies for iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune, mp4 players and mobile phones on MAC OS X, Please download Any Video Converter For Mac .
(2) Click Add Video buttons to browse the video clips from your local machine. You can also simply drag-and-drop the video files to the program. If you insert a DVD disc to your DVD driver, the contents of the DVD will be automatically added to the program.
If you want to download Youtube videos and convert them, you can click youtube button to add the youtube video URL. Oh you can copy a Youtube video URL and right-click on the middle panel of the program to paste the link, oh use Ctrl+V. Google video is also supported.
(3) Choose an output format. In the upper right of the program, you can find a profile list. Mp4 output for iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune and mobile phone is available. Also MPEG-1, MPEG-2, WMV, AVI, FLV, mobile phone 3GP output formats are available. If you want to extract audio from video files, just choose mp3 as output format. And FLV output format means that you can share any video on Youtube website. If you need to make a DVD disc from videos, choose DVD Video NTSC/PAL Movie as output, then use a free program named DVDstyler to burn them to a DVD disc.
(4) Usually, default settings are good enough and its recommended. However, you can customize settings completely as you like. Video codec, video size, video bit rate, video frame rate, audio codec, audio bit rate, all of these can be customized. You can even input a value as you like except the device only accepts a certain video size. You can also specify any part of the video you need to convert by specifying the start time and stop time. For DVD, you can specify the chapters, audio language, subtitle and angle ask you like. If you want a silent movie, just simply set Disable Audio option to yes. Audio channel 1 and 2 are mono and stereo.
(5) Before conversion, if you want to preview movie, just select the movie you want to preview and click the play button. There is a little red mark that you can use to go backward or forward. Also you can use it to trim the movie with the first and second button. Double-click on the preview window, the window will magnify and double-click again, it will be back to normal state.
(6) There are also some more options for more detailed settings. Click options button, or click menu edit –> options, you can find five tabs.
General tab: Here you can set output folder or open the output folder, specify process priority. If you have a batch of movies that need to be converted, shutdown computer when encoding finished option is convenient.
Audio tab: Here you can set output audio volume, AAC parameters and mp3 parameters.
Video tab: Here you can set video preview driver, encode filters. And video resize option is available, you can set video to fit the width or the height, or expand to video size if there is black bar of output movie.
Online Video tab: Here you can login Youtube account.
DVD tab: If you dont want to separate the DVD as titles, here is an option for you.
(7) If you want to convert some video clips and merge them into a file, please press the Ctrl or Shift button to choose the files you need to merge, then right-click on them and choose Merge Output. The first part of the output will be highlight, and the other files which will be merged will be displayed in gray and will be merged in order. If you want to change the orders of the files, please drag and drop the file in the list to change the order. If you want to cancel the merge operation, please choose the file and click Unmerge Output.
(8) Now, click encode button to start the converting. Source Files item shows videos added to the program. You can directly reach a certain output format by clicking the format in Converted list. And the downloaded Youtube or Google online videos are also easy to find. You can also directly click the Output Folder button to open the output folder where the converted files locate in.
Live in the USA and want an iPhone 3G? Better get up early! We already told you how AT&T stores would be opening up at 8am sharp, and now Apple Stores will be following their lead. (And if you’re in NYC and want to get it at the giant glass cube flagship, the line-up has already started, so hurry up and get your spot behind the hippies!)
As to what you’ll pay for an iPhone 3G, we’ve already covered how taking the contract price and then canceling may well be cheaper than trying to buy it unsubsidized, but now there’s word that even if you don’t qualify for the new or upgrade price, there may just be some dirty tricks a way around it (provided you don’t mind playing fast and loose with the rules, and have a friend with an iPhone SIM card and the will to let you active with it…)
Either way, make sure you’re iReady, figure out what you’re going to do with your old iPhone 2G, and get ready for Friday!