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Aug 18 2010

Dial back your iPhone 3G or 3GS to a previous iOS

As mentioned before, iOS 4.0 on the 3G iPhone is not awesome—it’s slow, over heated, quickly drains the battery and is generally unstable. And though Apple is apparently aware of the problems and is working on fixing the situation, the rest of us need to get stuff done in the meantime.

My friend, Mike Bjorndal ( @mbjorndal ) pointed me to this iHackintosh article that allowed me to put my iPhone in DFU mode, restore an older firmware and boot back out of DFU mode again. After restoring my apps and settings in iTunes, I was back in business with a faster 3G iPhone experience running an older firmware.

Keep in mind, many of the apps you may be running now might require iOS 4.x and will be inaccessible from an older version of the OS. I take no responsibility for any lost data. Backup and then backup again…and then reconsider doing this hack.

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Aug 4 2010

Your iPhone and your iPad team up to help you take sneaky reconnaissance photos

EZ Cam iPhone disconnected 318x477 Your iPhone and your iPad team up to help you take sneaky reconnaissance photos

EZ Cam is a sneaky little app for the iPhone and iPad1 … and when I say “for the iPhone and iPad,” I mean it because you’ll need both.

MobAc Design came up with this $2.99 US app (EZ Cam Lite also available) that brings Remote Camera Sharing to the iDevices. You simply launch the app and make a wireless connection between any two devices using Bluetooth, WiFi, or 3G. From there, both devices can see a camera’s-eye-view in real time. Once your target is in sight, snap a picture using the controls on the iPad and the photo is taken on the iPhone and instantly transferred to the iPad for viewing.

EZ Cam iPad Stanford quad disconnected Your iPhone and your iPad team up to help you take sneaky reconnaissance photos

Imagine, since this is a Bluetooth, WiFi or 3G connection being made between the devices, you can be in a totally different place than the iPhone, lying in wait with your iPad and be in full control of the camera… which is going to come in handy when you need to take that quick picture of the guy who finds your iPhone laying around all by itself and takes it for himself.

I wonder if Gary Powell was testing EZ Cam when he left that prototype iPhone 4 unattended.

  1. or iPod touch [↩]

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Mar 27 2009

25 iPhone 3G How-Tos

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While I’m temporarily distracted with other things, have a look at this great list of the 25 (Most Wanted) Tips For IPhone 3G.

I found the item on “How To Switch Punctuation Keys To Alphabet Keys Quickly” to be very useful.

[ Via Digg ]

While your flexing your iPhone muscles, did you know that you can Use iPhone headphones as a remote for Keynote?

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